BUVOL ANIMATION

Meet our artists

Animation studio focused on creative author driven projects, development of original IPs and character design development.

We focus on crossover technologies
combining stopmotion,
2D and 3D animation.

We also offer services in
the motion control related cinematography and photogrametry.

Artists

Denisa Grimmová

Animation films director specialised in the puppet and cartoon animation, Prague film school FAMU g essful short films and worked as a designer on a puppet feature film “Fimfarum 3 (Le Jardinier qui voulait être Roi)”, what brought her Czech Lion (national film award) nomination. She is also a popular illustrator of children books and a painter.

Jan Bubeníček

Jan is a student from Bretislav Pojar’s ateliers at Prague Film School FAMU. He attended also workshops at Shintoku film festival, Kobe animation festival, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Yamagata film school and Tokyo University of Art and Design, where he attended as a tutor. His film “The Three Fuo” was selected to Kodak European talents in the Cannes film festival. His filmography includes successful short films as “Lewis’ Watch”, “The Three Fuo” and “The Pirate”. His animation feature length debut “Murderous Tales” was released in 2016 and received Slovak national award Igric. Jan has also extensive experience with CGI animation and VFX, he worked for several year as a head of 3D in Prague Emmy award winning studio Universal Production Partners.

Services

Animation – Stopmotion,
3D, 2D, hybrid

Motion control
shooting

Characters and brand
design development

Photogrametry

Equipment

Rental of shooting equipment for stopmotion,  live action shooting and still photography

 

Equipment located
at Barrandov studios package offer deal with the studio rental

Camera List
unit
Canon EOS-1DX Mk I 12
18.1 Megapixel full-frame CMOS sensor
Full sensor 24 x 36mm
5184 x 3456 large individual 6.95 µm pixels
1080: 30p (29.97) /24p (23.976) / 25p, 720: 60p (59.94) / 50p, 480: 60p (59.94) / 50p
H.264/MPEG-4 AVC High Profile
Dual DIGIC 5+ Image Processors
61-Point High Density Reticular AF including 41 cross-type AF points with f/4.0 lens support
3.2″ TFT LCD monitor with 1,040,000 dots
Super High-speed: Maximum 14 shots/sec
ISO 100-51200
Extension settable: ISO 50; 102,400 and 204,800
Video OUT terminal: NTSC/PAL selectable
mini-HDMI OUT terminal
Lenses – manual Nikon Nikkor
Nikon 105MM (Canon Mount) 1
Nikon 200MM (Canon Mount) 1
Nikon 20MM (Canon Mount) 1
Nikon 24MM (Canon Mount) 1
Nikon 28MM (Canon Mount) 3
Nikon 35MM (Canon Mount) 3
Nikon 55MM (Canon Mount) 5
Nikon 85MM (Canon Mount) 1
Lighting List
units
Brace Stand (Manfrotto CS111) 50
C-Stand 20″ 10
C-Stand 40″ 30
C-Stand 60″ 15
40″ Extension Arm (Long Arm) 35
20″ Extension Arm (Short Arm) 20
Grip Knuckles 55
Magic Arm 40
Super Clamp 80
Manfrotto Cast Base Stand (Short) 8
Manfrotto Cast Base Stand (Tall) 9
Sandbags 60
1K Fresnel Arri Location (T1) 4
2k Fresnel Arri Studio 6
300 Fresnel Arri 16
5K Fresnel Strand Studio 2
650 Fresnel Arri 12
Dedo (24v 150w) No Dimmer 8
Dedo optics 3
ETC Source 4 – 15/30 1
Black Drape 15
12×18 Net 12
12x 24 Net 6
18×24 Net 4
18×24 Black 3

Projects

Even Mice Belong in Heaven

Film by Denisa Grimmová & Jan Bubeníček

Dad Time Stories

Series by Denisa Grimmová & Jan Bubeníček

Get In Touch

Vladimír Lhoták
Producer

+420 777 080 353

vladimir@buvolanimation.cz

Buvol Studio
Dělnická 27
170 00 Praha 7
Czech Republic