Sneak Peek at Rok Predin's New Film

Trunk Animation’s director Rok Predin has been working like a demon since the New Year creating his fabulous new film “One of a Kind”. The trailer gives a first peak at the sumptuous rich palette, style and feel of this upcoming short. It also features just one of the staggering 73 characters featured in the film. It has been great fun noticing the increasing amount of highlighter ink covering the printed pages stuck to the wall beside Rok, as they mark the progression of each character from concept to completion. Even though there are many pages to go, Rok is confident of a late spring release.

'One of a Kind' Trailer from Trunk Animation on Vimeo.

The subject of the film contains a grand evolved theme that, like his short “Back in the Day”, will resonate with all of us. For the first time in a Rok Predin short a narrator has been used to tell the story. The narration is provided by.....well that’s a secret for now but Rok was chuffed when they agreed to get involved. However, we can tell you that the Ivor Novello award winning composer Daniel Pemberton, who has just finished working on Ridley Scott’s latest feature ‘The Counselor’, is creating the wonderful score. Whilst as always the amazing Barnaby Templer and Fonic will be looking after the audio post production.

As so many distinct characters are involved in the film it creates a host of challenges for Rok, who notes “The main challenge is to find an efficient way to animate multiple characters and retain their diversity without making custom rigs for each of them". Working with a small team he is overcoming this and other challenges by pushing his skill set to the max. Using Photoshop, Cinema 4D and After Effects Rok is constructing a multitude of costumes, textures, hairstyles and accessories for his characters all which bear the visual handwriting of their creator.