![]() ![]() ![]() I thank the whole team of Liels un Mazs for being so supportive. It would be impossible to finish the animation without my producer Saskia von Virág and animator Stefan Holaus. At the beginning, while working on the story, I got a lot of support from my university mentors, especially Ted Sieger, Jochen Ehmann and Paolo Friz. I would like to invite people not to compare, but to simply enjoy them each in their own way.ĭuring this whole journey, I was never alone. Perhaps some hardcore fans of the animated version (I don’t know if they exist though) could be disappointed to see that the picture book is so different. I also added a couple of side stories for the background characters. A kiosk is a perfect subject (or object) for that. And to slightly compensate for the lack of voices, music and movement, I tried to use the advantages of the book format – readers have more time to look at each ‘frame’ – so there are more side characters and details. In the end I painted everything new, using the film as reference for the character and background design. I knew that if I needed a new background, it would be very hard to paint exactly like I had done six years ago, and I didn’t want it to have that cut-out look. I didn’t even use the existing material, like the characters and backgrounds that had already been painted for the digital cut-out technique used for the animation. ![]() Yes, if you want it to look like a lazy copy of the film, only without sound and movement.įor a while, I forgot about the animation and focused on the story itself… How to transform a film into a book? The easiest way would be to make the key screenshots and explain the missing parts with some text. Meanwhile, I think I just needed some more time to find the motivation to work on a story that ‘I had already told’ again. The considering took another three years I was always busy doing other projects – like making a baby and becoming a mother. Not before Roger Thorp from Thames & Hudson and Alīse Nigale from Liels un Mazs told me that it would be an idea worth considering. I had never really thought about making a book of ‘The Kiosk’. But most importantly, I had found the freedom to do the things that I love. Just like Olga, I was travelling around with ‘The Kiosk’ and I was totally happy. I was travelling with it to film festivals all around the world, and I realised that not only the beginning of the story was about me, but the end of it too. The shape of the kiosk was inspired by a real art deco style kiosk in Riga, which lately has been mostly standing unused.Īfter three years, the seven minute animation was finally finished. However, the action in the film and even more in the book happens in Riga, Latvia, where I am from. I worked on the animation in Switzerland, where I am still living. Well, that kiosk was not as small as Olga’s kiosk it was more like a little shop, where I was sitting in a corner and observing situations and sketching the people that came there. I did interviews with a few kiosk sellers and even spent a day in one. To collect some ideas for the side characters and Olga’s life in the kiosk, I also did some research. You can move on and start a journey to your happy place exactly as you are. Sometimes people ask me why she didn’t lose weight to get out? Because it would be very boring and the story is not about being fat it’s about being stuck. First, I thought a lot about the character: Why is she stuck there and what does she actually want? To find a romantic love or maybe to change profession and become an opera singer? Finally, I came to a simple conclusion: As she is literary stuck, then all she dreams about is freedom. It’s called ‘Busy Freelancer at Work’.ĭuring my studies in Lucerne, I worked on the development of the story for ‘The Kiosk’. You can read it in full on my website, but here’s a few pages. I finally left the job and applied for a Masters at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts – a program called Animage (Animation and Illustration).Īctually, I drew a comic about all this. This idea didn’t leave me alone and I had to figure out a way – how to make it. I had a decent job in an office, earned more money than I ever had before, and everything was kind of okay, except that I had a feeling that I was in the wrong place and that I had stopped growing. It was a time in my life when I felt like a potato. The idea of a lady who is literally stuck at her workplace came to me an even longer time ago. ![]()
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