Hagen's blog

White Slaves

2010-08-28T09:13:00.000-07:00

During the last coupple of months I've been storyboarding and directing 18 minutes of animation on "White Slaves". A dokumentary series created by Lisbeth Jessen for Danish TV. Read more here.

Very cool to work on animation for adults for once. Check out the last episode of the series tomorrow Sunday 29th of Sept. at DR 2. 21.50

Here is a few boards and some of the final artwork. Film clips will follow soon.

Credits:

Artwork: Kim Hagen, Alexander Rostov.

Animation: Mark Film

Priser til Ramasjang musikvideo

2010-08-23T05:19:00.000-07:00

Herligt når ens arbejde vinder priser. Nedenstående citeret fra DR.dk:
Det kørte i smør for brødrene Price ved prisfest 20. aug. 2010 22.40 Nyt fra DR

Første priser til Ramasjang
For første gang havde programmer på DRs tre nye tv-kanaler også muligheden for at blande sig i dysten om priserne, og det gjorde DR Ramasjang da også. ’Osman & Jeppe’ på DRs børnekanal – produceret af Made In Valby - hentede prisen som ’Bedste børne- og ungdomsprogram’. Og hele lanceringstraileren for DR Ramasjang – nemlig musikvideoen, hvor landet Ramasjang bliver præsenteret med alle sine elskede figurer og værter fra DR Børn: fra Bamse og Pipungerne til nørderne og Barda, blev årets ’Bedste tv-trailer’. Den er blevet til i et samarbejde mellem reklamebureauet ’& Co’, Radarfilm og DR Markedsføring.

Se mere her: Ramasjang, The making of... , Tv prisen 2010

Carlos Casino, more storyboard...

2010-07-27T23:24:00.000-07:00

Currently i am working on the 3D feature film Carlos Casino at Nice Ninja. A funky very funny film directed by Jan Rahbek (who directed Space Monkies)
All storyboard work is divided between me and Dan Harder. Lots of fun work ahead.

Storyboarding Ronal Barbaren

2010-07-27T23:21:00.000-07:00

Update: Here is the new teaser:

Recently I just finished bording on "Ronal Barabaren" an epic lowbudget fantasy film at Einstien Film, directed by Thorbjørn Christoffersen og Kresten Vestbjerg Andersen. A lot of fun and craziness. Its not everyday you get to storyboard huge fantasy battles.

Tegnekursus Jan - Apr 2010

2009-12-08T01:31:00.001-08:00

Update vedr undervisning.

Jeg tager endnu en undervisnings sæson på Truemax. 12 uger tegnekursus med opstart 4 Januar. Der er stadig pladser tilbage.

Igen er der fokus på at etablere et solidt fundament af basis færdigheder inden for tegning for derefter at arbejde med teknikker inden for visuel fortælleteknik rettet mod animation, film, illustration og tegneserier.

Basis tegning:
Skitse og rentegnings teknikker, Formforståelse, Linieføring, Kroquis / Krop og anatomi studier, Basis perspektiv, Basis konstruktion, Skraveringsteknikker, Gråtoner, Lys og skygge.

Avanceret tegning:

Billedkomposition, Skuespil, Kropsudtryk, Design og variation af form.

Visuel fortælleteknik:

Toontegning, Karakterdesign, Bevægelse og dynamik, Introduktion til animations principperne, Ide/ koncept udvikling, Storyboard m.m.

Læs mere her: Truemax Drawingclass

Evt spørsmål kan rettes til Kim Hagen på email: hagen@illustration.dk

Her under er billeder fra elev tegnesessions i biografen samt fra ekskursioner til Glyptoteket hvor vi studerer anatomi mm.

Building site.

2009-12-07T14:43:00.000-08:00

Last weeks assignment from KomunikationsKompaniet.
A huge poster for the climate conference in copenhagen.

Seasons greatings from DPA microphones

2009-12-06T09:15:00.000-08:00

This years christmas card for DPA microphones.

Ramasjang - The making of..

2009-12-03T12:24:00.000-08:00

Over the summer a small team at Radar film put together the music video for Ramasjang, directed by Daniel Silwerfeldt.
Huge ambitions on a small budget. We got the assignment from &Co who gave us a lot of creative freedom to interpet the video as we saw fit.

I was artdirector and storyboard artist on this one and came up with most of the visual ideas for the video. Besides some props and the actors, the scenes consists entirely of mattepaints and 3D. A fun project.

The live action shoot took alot of very carefull planning. Check below to see 3 versions of the video. The almost final board, the rough footage from the greenscreen studio and the final result.

Ramasjang Storyboard v3 from Kim Hagen on Vimeo.

Ramasjang green screen from Kim Hagen on Vimeo.

Ramasjang from Kim Hagen on Vimeo.

TB spotlight interview

2009-08-27T01:54:00.001-07:00

Check interview med undertegnede på Tegnebordet.dk

TB spotlight præsenterer en udvalgt kunstner, som vi gerne vil sætte særlig fokus på. Det kan være interessante brugere som på en eller anden måde har gjort sig bemærket ved at de har lavet noget interessant som andre brugere har lagt mærke til - eller bare er rigtig dygtige til det de laver og derfor kan være til inspiration for andre TB'ere.

Denne gang er valget faldet på Kim Hagen.

Interview med
Kim Hagen
Af Anita Sølver

Football mascot for EFB

2009-05-27T07:57:00.000-07:00

Todays assignment was to create a football zebra mascot for EFBs kids club.
Not too cute but still apealing, as well as cunning and tough.
Here is the finished result and some the stuff from the sketch face, getting the design right.

..from "The farytale about happines."

2009-05-13T13:52:00.000-07:00

I illustrated this farytale some weeks ago. Fun work.

Men at work

2009-05-13T13:50:00.000-07:00

Kogp. storyboard

2009-01-18T15:39:00.000-08:00

A pitch storyboard for a comercial. Client Klausen & Partners.

Novo Nordisk

2009-01-18T14:25:00.000-08:00

A fun assignment. I had to illustrate some semi abstract work approach concepts.

Prase to the discoworms

2008-10-11T22:17:00.000-07:00

The Discoworms opend in most danish cinemas this weekend. I did most of the storyboards and designs on this movie and am quite happey with the way this production turned out, particuarly because its very entertaining. It has recicved amazing reviews. Here are few quotes:

Read some of the Danish reviews here:
Berlingske
Ekstrabladet
Urban
Jyske vestkysten

and here is a link to a short "making off" spot from the Troldspejlet, with me showing of.
(kilck on bagom filmen 1)

Gamecover

2008-10-06T08:36:00.000-07:00

A new game from Serius Games Interactive, Latin America is in the shops....
I created the cover for this one.

Offbeat character design

2008-04-21T15:05:00.000-07:00

Eksperimenting with offbeat character design, based on my 6 year old daughters simple drawings. An exersise from one of my lectures.

Disco Worms

2008-02-06T07:27:00.000-08:00

The last year Ive worked as head of story board at Radarfilm on their 3D movie Sunshine Barry and the Disco Worms!

Here is the latest trailer:

Here is what barry looked like in early tests:

Windsinger Illustrations

2008-01-29T06:51:00.000-08:00

Illustrations for Windsinger by William Nicholson.

Animals...

2007-11-17T05:08:00.001-08:00

From resent book illustration assignments for Alinea.

The Galathea ekspedition

2007-05-19T22:58:00.000-07:00

Artwork: kim Hagen Colour: Tommy Kinnerup

Getting a high grade

2007-05-09T01:28:00.000-07:00

Cartoon for Århus university, concerning modern students and teacheres.

Diagram icons

2007-03-19T07:38:00.000-07:00

Here is something different. I did these for my upstairs nabour Benedicthe Achen who wrote a book on coaching. It was actually more fun to do than expected. More of this sort of stuff here.

Palestine

2007-03-15T01:58:00.000-07:00

Just finished a bunch of work for Serius Games and their "Palestine" PC-game.
I created all graphic interface design ass well as lay out, graphic design and coverart for the game cover.

More info here: http://www.globalconflicts.eu/

Ill post more of this later....

..on the couch.

2006-12-18T14:16:00.000-08:00

Just finished this inside joke for Århus Universety magazine.

Trolls

2006-11-27T13:34:00.000-08:00

Just finished these christmas crawiling trolls. For Lise Aagaards "troldkugler". www.trollbeads.com

Book illustration

2006-11-27T13:15:00.000-08:00

Here is quick test illustration for Alinea.
Its for a fantasy triology written by a very good friend Anette Elgaard . An upcomming writer of both fiction and lifestyle books.

More to come later....

Barda

2006-05-05T04:15:00.000-07:00

Yes! Barda is now on DVD.
Over a 3 month period i created 10 animated battle sequenses for the Barda tv series from easyfilm. It is very limited animation but great fun to do. If you want to see more look here.
http://hagenspot-sketch.blogspot.com/

H.C.A Boardgame

2006-03-31T23:30:00.000-08:00

A very ambitious H.C Andersen boardgame in development at MP strategy consulting. I took on the assignment to create a look for the game that could work with a related 2D animation film project as well. I put together group of very talented artists and here is what we came up with.

Artwork by Krisrian Kunz and Teddy Christiansen.

Artwork by Bille, and colour Teddy Christiansen.

Asterix and the Vikings. EFX

2006-01-01T05:11:00.000-08:00

Handouts for the EFX animators.
Click here to see more.
www.hagenblogefx.blogspot.com

Storyboard on Asterix and Vikings.

2005-12-01T03:25:00.000-08:00

A hand drawn animated feature with some real acting and splendid draftsmanship, how about that!!!

Here are a few Storyboard panels from Asterix. Towards the end of the story period it was Ignacio Ferreras, Warren Leonhart and me, who did most of the boards. It was quite rushed, we had about 6 months for the entire feature. Very frustrating and a lot of fun.
We dodeled the boards and got some great artists like Dan Harder and Christian Kunst to clean them up. Very privileged.

Click on the picture to see slide show of the one of the boards. Its a montage sequence showing Asterix and Opelix training training the wimp Justforkix.

X-hale

2004-04-16T09:39:00.000-07:00

A short break from the Asterix project gave me time to do some fun illustrations and some webdesign on the anti smooking project “X-hale”for The Danish Cancer Society.

http://www.xhale.dk/

Artwork: Kim Hagen/ Colour: Teddy Christiansen

Storyboard Trollstory

2004-02-20T00:00:00.000-08:00

I did Storyboard on Trollstory some years ago. One of the most interesting projects I’ve worked on, a film with so much potential. Unfortunately it never made it to the big screen. Do not confuse it with the TV series of the same name.

The story is about a boy that thinks he’s a troll but realizes towards the middle that he is actually human. Sort of Mowgly meets Lords of the Rings.

Here is a slideshow of some of the boards I did for the film.
Click on the picture.

and here is more a few sequences later.
Click on the picture.

Help I am a Fish! EFX

2004-02-01T05:02:00.000-08:00

Here are a few samples of my EFX work on "Help I am a fish".

Click here to see more: http://hagenblogefx02.blogspot.com/

Previously

2004-01-28T18:04:00.000-08:00

Here is a short overview of what I’ve been up to the last couple of years…

2001 - 2003

At A-film I worked on Help iam fish, supervising special effects and moved over to do development work on Trollstory ( a great, very promising project that never got financed. )

I joined A films new Game dpt. where I co directed two computergames with Eskil Møhl: Zone 5 and Rich In Paradice. http://www.richinparadise.dk/
Later I went to work on a game based on the Swedish Golith franchise, developing concept and gameplay. An ambitious project involving several platforms, both a console game and a TV game. Jan Solheim did the designs. http://www.afilm.dk/games/goliat/goliat.html

Drawings by Jan Solheim copyright Afilm
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I took a break from Afilm and joined the newly formed game company Kudos. Here I did development work on the console game “Jerusalem” ( another great, very promising project that never got financed. )

Later I returned to Afilm to do what I enjoy the most – storyboard.
I did bords for the CGI feature Ugly Duckling, and moved on to do boards on Asterix and the Vikings.

Here I worked with Warren and Ignacio who where a great source of inspiration and fun to work with.