Bear park animated feature

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BEAR PARK is an animated feature for kids aged 6-9 years. A hearty sports comedy about the importance of friendship and fair play, Bear Park offers its viewers a wild ride of cross-country skiing shenanigans, but also addresses deeper topics like loneliness and parents' divorce from a child's perspective. The film will be produced with a distinctive hybrid technique combining hand-crafted stop motion sets and props and dynamic digital 2D character animation. The action proposed includes the rest of the film's development. OBJECTIVES - Film script is finished and production ready - The script has been tested with an animatic version - The visual development of the film is production ready - The animation technique has been tested and is ready for production - The production planning, including schedules, crew and casting plans, financing plan, budget breakdowns, is ready for production - The marketing and distribution plans are in place - The partners necessary for gap financing have been found ACTIVITIES Story development - Script editing towards final production script - Storyboard and 1st draft animatic Sound design development - Temp audio track for animatic with temp dialogue, music and SFX Visual development and research work - Preliminary visual style guide for characters, props and FX - Testing the 3D previsualization technique Project planning - Crew plan - Detailed budget breakdown - Updated financing plan - Updated distribution and marketing plan - Finding a 2nd co-producer: Gap financing the production - Finding a world sales agent: Gap financing the production - Securing funding for the production from Finland, Czechia and Eurimages The development is carried out as a collaborative effort among Finnish animation studio Pyjama Films and Czech production company 13k and will involve some 20 animation and film industry professionals from the two countries.