Amnesty works to prevent human rights violations. To illustrate such horrific actions, and distance the viewers enough, so they still will be able to take action. We chose to mix live-action footage of sets and add motion-captured actors on top. The CG-models are well integrated, so even though we are watching stick-figures, the action and message clearly translates.
CREDITS
CLIENT: Amnesty International
AGENCY: Kikkut
PRODUCTION COMPANIES: BaconOSL & Qvisten Animation
YEAR: 2015
TECHNIQUE: Live action, CGI
No consent, no happily-ever-after
DESCRIPTION
The info film was published by Amnesty International Norway on March 12th 2018.
What the f**k is the prince up to? A new law conscerning sexual consent in Norway, was coming up for a vote in the spring of 2018. Amnesty International wanted a animated campaign to illustrate the need to change the law and attitudes towards the issue.
CREDITS
PRODUCER: Fredrik Kiøsterud
DIRECTOR: Rasmus A. Sivertsen
YEAR: 2018
TECHNIQUE: 2D/classical animation, cut out
The film premiered on the 1st of May 2009 (Norway).
Guri and Gursjan are two lonely punk rockers in the big city. They both try their best to be rebels, but that’s not easy when the world around them wants everyone to be the same. At the very least, it would be nice if they could meet and stop being lonely. But how?
CREDITS
Co-produced with Tordenfilm.
ORIGINAL TITLE: Guri Gursjen & Gursjan Gru
PRODUCER: Eric Vogel (Tordenfilm)
DIRECTOR: Johanne Ellisiv Anda, Eirik Aure
ANIMATION PRODUCER: Egle Servaite Asland (QA)
TECHNIQUE: Cut-Out in 3D with added VFX
The band and the music of D.A.D is close to a religion for Qvisten. Or at least for the two founding fathers, Ove and Fredrik. Through the years this worship have steadily spilled into nooks and crannies of the Qvisten organism.
Qvisten managed to get sort of a relationship to the band with some “persistant gentle stalking” so obviously every dream came through when it finally paid off and we got to make a music video for our heros.
CREDITS
TITLE: Scare Yourself – by D.A.D.
PRODUCERS: Ove Heiborg & Fredrik Kiøsterud
DIRECTOR: Torleif Hoppe
YEAR: 2005
TECHNIQUE: Live action, VFX
The film premiered the 6th of October 2017 (Norway).
After receiving an emergency call from Big Harbor during a fierce storm, Elias, a young rescue boat, pulls off a brave rescue mission and is hailed the hero of the hour. He is thrilled to be headhunted by the harbor and sets out to start his new life, leaving all his friends behind. However, life at Big Harbor is not all it’s cracked up to be and Elias soon discovers that a local gang is mining an illegal precious metal that has the power to alter the weather. Elias realizes that what he most needs to expose the mining operation is the help of his old friends.
CREDITS
Co-produced with Animando and Steamheads Studios ORIGINAL TITLE: Elias og Storegaps hemmelighet
ENGLISH TITLE: Anchors Up
PRODUCER: Sigurd Slåttebrekk (Animando) and Ove Heiborg (QA)
DIRECTORS: Simen Alsvik and Will Ashurst
SCREENPLAY: Karsten Fullu and Simen Alsvik
BASED ON: Characters by Alf Knutsen
TECHNIQUE: CGI
The first of Black Debbath’s music contributions to our first feature film, Kurt blir grusom/Kurt turns evil. They have become quite the Qvisten friends through the years and played at our premiere parties and contributed to the soundtrack of our feature Kutoppen/Cattle Hill as well.
CREDITS
TITLE: Gaffeltruck Driving Man
PRODUCER: Ove Heiborg
DIRECTOR: Rasmus A. Sivertsen
YEAR: 2008
TECHNIQUE: Live action/CGI
Together with Rolf Løvland and Secret Garden, we’ve produced an animated music video for the first song on their album “Storyteller”.
The video was published on Secret Gardens SoMe on the 26th of April 2019.
Plotline: A belated seed hurries to catch up with it’s brethren, but instead creates it’s own unique journey towards fulfillment.
CREDITS
TITLE: The Pilot – Storyteller – by Secret Garden
PRODUCERS: Arnfinn Moseng & Ove Heiborg
DIRECTOR: William Ashurst
CLIENT: Universal Music Norway
YEAR: 2019
TECHNIQUE: Digital Painting, Drawn Animation and Motion-Graphics
Ove Heiborg and the renowned photographer Marcel Leliënhof are old friends, and hatched the idea of making an exhibiton and a calendar inspired by the Mexican tradition Día de los Muertos/The day of the dead.
CREDITS
PRODUCER: Ove Heiborg
PHOTOGRAPHY: Marcel Leliënhof
MAKE-UP & STYLING: Cathrine Aas
DESIGN: Thomas Eklo Skaara
YEAR: 2013
The task was to give McDonald’s attention for their use of products from Norwegian farmers, but quite many producers are communicating the same thing… We decided to hand-make marionettes, and accompany them with music by Ronan Keating, to show the love between the Norwegian farmers and McDonald’s.
CREDITS
PRODUCER: Irene Sødal Dietrichson
DIRECTOR: Petter Jahre
PUPPETEER: Ricky Syers
CLIENT: McDonald’s
AGENCY: Nord DDB
YEAR: 2014
TECHNIQUE: Puppeteering
Being big fans of rock and metal, it was another feather in the cap for Qvisten to be able to make a music video for the Norwegian black metal veterans in Satyricon.
The live footage was shot at Blaafarveværket, a historic, old cobolt mine in Modum, Norway.
CREDITS
PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS: Ove Heiborg & Fredrik Kiøsterud
CLIENT: Satyricon
YEAR: 2008
TECHNIQUE: Live action, VFX
Sol Heilo, member of Katzenjammer – an all-female Norwegian quartet whose musical style is rooted in both pop/rock and country-folk, contributed on the soundtrack of our first Kutoppen feature with the song “Le bare”.
CREDITS
TITLE: Le bare
YEAR: 2018
TECHNIQUE: Live action, CGI
