Praasen Prisen - Praasen Award 2024
Danish Children and Youth Film Clubs – DaBUF honored on Saturday 13 April 2024 Thomas Borch Nielsen with the Praas Award. An award which, in addition to the honour, offers an illustration made by animation director, storyboard artist and animator Lowe Haak.
The Praas Award, which has been awarded for more than 40 years, is given to a person or institution that has done meritorious work in producing or communicating visual stories for children and young people. It must be said that Thomas Borch Nielsen has and continues to do so! You can't help but admire this year's Praas. Not only for productions he is behind. But also for so stubbornly sticking to films that we at DaBUF love - and love to show to our members.
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New Visions, New Technologies
Nice Ninja always seek for new ways to express the vision in a story. We like to experiment with the latest technology to find new ways to unfold the production in a strong and interesting way while keeping the expenses low.
The feature film, “Captain Bimse” (2017) was a pioneer project in virtual production methods. We shoot the actors in front of a 360-degree greenscreen. We then created the environment in the game engine Unity, to have real time control over the visual story.
The goal was to create a magical world that surrounded an amazing adventure.
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"All is allowed", (2024) is a live action Muay Thai fight TV-series, where we used Mocap acting and Unreal for world building and animation, to connect live action and the game world, to give the audience the feeling of an authentic experience.
Animation is the heart of Nice Ninja
Animation is often an essential part of our productions.
It all started with the animated feature film Sunshine Barry and The Disco Worms.
A fun fact is that Thomas Borch Nielsen got the idea to the story after he picked up an earthworm that wrinkled like it was dancing to disco.
Sunshine Barry and the Disco Worms was the starting point of many more animated features, short stories and series to come.