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The trailer is here! 🐸🌱 Our graduation film „polliwog” (2024, German original title: “kaulquappe”) tells the story of ten year old Marlene, who is struggling with her early pubescent, changing body on on a forest home trip with her classmates. She feels all alone with her troubles - until she meets an oddly developed tadpole whom she is weirdly identifying with. “polliwog” seeks to provide some comfort and soothe the endless discomfort and awkwardness of early puberty. Thank you so much to my wonderful, wonderful team, who made the production possible, to my producer @maxpollmann_, my amazing lead animator and partner @benjamin.wahl and thank you @maepauli for giving Marlene her beautiful voice. And thank you to all the mentors who helped along our journey: Thank you @robertkondo for being such a clear thinker and for giving us your time and expertise, thank you @keeponrem for being there with your artistic input and empathy, thank you for inspiring conversations @philipalso @tal.kantor @ruthlingford. And thank you Andreas Hykade. And of course: THANK YOU to our film school, who provided us with the time, space, tools and the mentorings mentioned above @animationsinstitut 💚💚💚 Festival News tba! CREDITS
written and directed by Julia SKALA
produced by Max POLLMANN and Julia SKALA
starring Paulina LARSON as Marlene
trailer editors Benjamin WAHL & Revan SARIKAYA
animatic editor Revan SARIKAYA
co-writer Theresa WORM
animation lead Benjamin WAHL
animation Benjamin WAHL, Alina SCHUSTER, Lydia SCHÜTTENGRUBER, Karla RIEBARTSCH, Mikael JACOBSEN, Gina STEPHAN, Julia SKALA, Melanie SCHNAIDT, Adina BARTH, Jeanne BRESSAND, Louis HARTMANN, Kei SABITBEK.
additional Clean-Up and coloring Adina BARTH, Paul KLEY, Amy BRUCHNER
art direction Julia SKALA
layouts Esther BRECHLIN, Gregor WITTICH, Julia SKALA
background painting Cristina NARATA, Esther BRECHLIN, Julia SKALA
compositing lead Andra BERILA compositing Haiyang LIU, Eileen KAMMER, Leo NEUMANN, Caroline KEULERTZ.
film score Clemens GUTJAHR
sound design Simon WASSERFALL, Marc UHLHERR color grading Tobias ECKERLIN (c) Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg 2024 @filmakademie_bw

🐸 KAULQUAPPE - or: the one about accepting yourself 🥰 On a trip with her classmates, ten year old Marlene is struggling with her early pubescent, changing body. When the other kids start making fun of an oddly developed tadpole at the forest home museum, Marlene finds herself identifying with it and decides to set it free. 🍃 Meet @JuliaSkala, Benjaminwahl and @andraberila at the exhibition of their diploma project and find out what makes KAULQUAPPE (POLLIWOG) special to them! #animation #2danimation #womeninanimation #handdrawnanimation #animationsinstitut

It was a pleasure to be a part of @wouahou.wouahou alternative christmas market yesterday 🎄 thank you to @mayha for organizing the shared container, thank you to everyone who stopped by and thank you to @benjamin.wahl for being my helping elf! 💖 #illustrator #christmas #xmas #artmarket #marienplatz #wouahou #christmascards #illustration #booth #visiblewomen #artist

UPDATE 15.12.24, um 20h: NOCH 3 Tüten(Boxen) übrigs!☃️🔥 Die Boxen gibt es nur auf @wouahou.wouahou bis 3.Advent morgen!🔥 ----- Was ist ARTventstüten? „24 gemeinsamen ARTventstüten“ – ein exklusives Kollaborationsprojekt von mir und 5 talentierten Lokalkünstlerinnen aus Stuttgart. @funkyeverafter @hieronyma.art @juliacskala @art.grishinanna @shoproyagems PS: Ein paar Türen stecken "Secret items"von anderen Künstler:innen. 💖😜 ----- NUR bei WOUaHOU in diesem Winter! 🌞☃️🎄💖👯 ----- Was könnte drin sein? Design-Objekt, Schmuck, Zeichenwork-Shop-Gutschein, Brosche, Prints, Postkarte, Auskleber, usw.... 🌞 Mehr Infos und Updates gibt’s auf Instagram: @mayha #wouahou #wouahouwinterdorf #madeinstuttgart #supportartists #supportlocal #0711kunst #0711 #0711art #0711community #marienplatz #stuttgartkünstler #stuttgartillustrator #wintermarkt #weihnachtsmarkt #weihnachtsgeschenke #weihnachtstüten #weihnachtsbasteln #adventkunst #artventstüte #artventsbeutel #neujahrsgeschenk #stuttgartsüd #winterinstuttgart

💛 🐸🌱 I am so happy and proud that our graduation short film „kaulquappe“ won the award of the animation category yesterday night, along with @raja.stopmotion ! Thank you to our whole, talented team, to the supportive audience, friends and family who came hype us up and to @spektrumfilm for sponsoring the award. We had a fantastic time @filmz_mainz ✨ #kaulquappe #kaulquappeshortfilm #animation #polliwog #award #filmzmainz #animationinstitut #filmakademie #womeninanimation @animationsinstitut

Great news! At the world premier of „polliwog“ („kaulquappe“) yesterday at @cinemirafilmfest Kids edition, it awarded as the Best Animated Short Film. 💛🐿 Such a great and encouraging way to start our festival run! Thank you to our whole team, this award is for all of us 🙏🐸🙏 thank you @cinemirafilmfest for this special evening and for the beautiful trophy 🏆 (c) Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg 2024 @filmakademie_bw @animationsinstitut

🍃🐸 It is time to spill the tea! „polliwog“ (kaulquappe) will have it’s world premiere tomorrow at @cinemirafilmfest in Budapest and will then continue to be screened at @hello.primanima next week. The best part: I will be attending both festivals in person! Im November, polliwog will continue its journey to @filmz_mainz and @liafanimation. Thank you to these great festivals for screening our tadpole tale 🌱 And as always, thanks to the whole team!! CREDITS
written and directed by Julia SKALA
produced by Max POLLMANN and Julia SKALA
starring Paulina LARSON as Marlene
trailer editors Benjamin WAHL & Revan SARIKAYA
animatic editor Revan SARIKAYA
co-writer Theresa WORM
animation lead Benjamin WAHL
animation Benjamin WAHL, Alina SCHUSTER, Lydia SCHÜTTENGRUBER, Karla RIEBARTSCH, Mikael JACOBSEN, Gina STEPHAN, Julia SKALA, Melanie SCHNAIDT, Adina BARTH, Jeanne BRESSAND, Louis HARTMANN, Kei SABITBEK.
additional Clean-Up and coloring Adina BARTH, Paul KLEY, Amy BRUCHNER
art direction Julia SKALA
layouts Esther BRECHLIN, Gregor WITTICH, Julia SKALA
background painting Cristina NARATA, Esther BRECHLIN, Julia SKALA
compositing lead Andra BERILA compositing Haiyang LIU, Eileen KAMMER, Leo NEUMANN, Caroline KEULERTZ.
film score Clemens GUTJAHR
sound design Simon WASSERFALL, Marc UHLHERR color grading Tobias ECKERLIN (c) Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg 2024 @filmakademie_bw

Laugengebäck 🥨 hello, I illustrated a brand new, rather Swabian still life depicting the cultural goods “Butterbrezel” and “Laugencroissant” which, to me, is still the ideal symbol of l’amitié franco-alllemande. 💖 Buy it now as a postcard print this weekend at @popupimschloss

[Anzeige] »Ich bin Julia Skala, freischaffende Illustratorin und Animationsfilmemacherin. Im April habe ich meinen Diplomabschluss am Animationsinstitut der Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg gemacht und konnte die Stadt Ludwigsburg über die letzten fünf Jahre kennen und schätzen lernen. So durfte ich auch in enger Zusammenarbeit mit @Hallo.Ludwigsburg drei Travelposter zu Ludwigsburg und Bietigheim-Bissingen gestalten.  Mit meinen Illustrationen und meiner darin enthaltenen Liebe zu knalligen Farben möchte ich eben nicht nur Magazine und Bildschirme schmücken, sondern gerne auch das ein oder andere Zuhause. An meinem Stand gibt es deshalb signierte Kunstdrucke meiner Illustrationen, illustrierte Saisonkalender zum nachhaltigen Einkaufen und poppige Ohrringe, mit denen ihr selbst optisch zum Kunstwerk werdet. Mehr zu mir und meiner Arbeit findet ihr auf www.juliaskala.com.« 🔗 Speicher dir den Post ab, um @juliacskala beim #popupimschloss Designmarkt & Streetfood zu besuchen. Du findest sie indoor im »Festinbau« – Eingang links von der Schlosswache. 🏰 @schlossludwigsburg 📅 28. – 29. September 2024 🕓 Sa. 12 – 20 Uhr | So. 11 – 18 Uhr 📌 Eintritt frei! 🌱 Veranstaltet von @hallo.ludwigsburg und als »Green Event BW« geplant — und das als erstes Event dieser Art im Schloss Ludwigsburg! Dabei richten wir uns nach Kriterien der baden-württembergischen Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie @jedetatzaehlt. 🤝 Mit fröhlicher Unterstützung von @immobilien_rienhardt und @brillen.mosqua.ludwigsburg sowie dem @ludwigsburgerwochenblatt als Medienpartner. Unsere Veranstaltung wird zudem von der Wirtschaftsförderung der Stadt @ludwigsburg.de gefördert. #kunstfürzuhause #illustrationartistsofinstagram #animationsfilm #halloludwigsburg #stuttgartart #soists

Hello everybody! I am happy to announce that I am working for and with @manicmonday.tv now! 💖 As a 2d Artist, I am supporting the team behind @kiana_naghshineh’s new short film with concepts, clean-up, backgrounds and so on. In case we haven’t met - I am Julia, an illustrator, designer and director for animation with a strong love for color and characters and graduated from @animationsinstitut @filmakademie_bw in the spring! 🎨🌿💚 The trailer for my diploma project “polliwog” is dropping tomorrow, stay tuned!! 🐸🌱 Photo credit: @verakayh 😍😍😍

childhood week day 07: whisper 🌙 Psssst…. Did you hear? As you might have seen in my story, the kind team of @childhoodweekevent @xppen and @beatrice.blue have selected one of my childhood week pieces as their first prize 🥹😍🥳🥳🥳 I am over the moon, thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! This means that I am getting an XP Pen Tablet, which I cannot wait to try out, and will be greatly appreciated as a freshly graduated, emerging freelance artist. Thank you all for your support and for (I think) enjoying this series of childhood memories, it has been a pleasure to participate! @childhoodweekevent @xppen #xpchildhood #childhoodweek #sweets #cake #childrenillustration #childrensbookillustration #kidlitart #childhoodweek2024day07 #illustration #procreate #digitalart #sleepover #memories #childhood #cute #strawberry #birthday #girls #kids #bingewatching #goodnight #childhoodweek2024

childhood week day 06: golden ☀️ The only time I ever had a true sun tan was when I was bodysurfing with my brother as a kid. @childhoodweekevent @xppen #xpchildhood #childhoodweek #sweets #cake #childrenillustration #childrensbookillustration #kidlitart #childhoodweek2024day06 #illustration #procreate #digitalart #vacation #memories #childhood #cute #water #bodysurf #ocean #kids #siblings #childhoodweek2024