Conclusion of the interview
Elodie (TVPaint): Now more personal questions :-) I've only seen the Danish trailer and I personally think 'Ow, that rocks ! I can't wait to see it !'
But you. How did you feel when seeing “The Apple and the worm” entirely for the first time ? And what was the public's reaction ?
Mads Juul (Copenhagen Bombay):I saw 'the Apple and the Worm' for the first time in a theater filled with children here a month ago, and it was fantastic. The children laughed and lived themselves into the film. You try to do your best when making a movie, but is your best any good? When you've worked so long on a movie you become totally blind, you have heard the jokes a 100 times, is the editing good is the timing of the jokes good? It took Hanna-Barbera a couple of years to learn to make the frying-pan hit at the right frame and I've probably not quite well got it yet. But to see the film with children was really touching. At a point during the movie, a little boy in front of me stood up in his seat and said with a trembling voice to his school-teacher next to him 'oh this is so much fun!'.
I think I got a little tear in my eye.
Elodie: That's so sweet ! I understand a little what you feel. I've never really made animation (only my end of studies project and some works only for me), but I've done drama during 7 years and... I remember how pleasant it was when we heard public's laughs, after one long year of rehearsals !
And now the movie is over, do you have other projects in mind ? A long feature film, a series, a short movie...
Mads Juul: I just started work as a storyboarder / Editor of an animated TV sitcom in the same format as the Simpsons / Family Guy / South Park. Very exiting project where I really get to train my drawing skills and learn when to make the frying-pan hit at the right time. We are storyboarding In TVPaint Animation and Editing in Adobe Premiere at the same time creating the final animatic. I really think it is a good and dynamic way of working. Instead of dividing up the work between a storyboarder and an editor. Its for the next 1 ½ year so that's great. I hope I will have time to make drawing and comics in my spare time. It is possible to follow if I succeed at my personal blog. I think the future looks very Promising.
Elodie: Thank you Mads a lot for sharing your knowledge and you story with us. I hope you've taken as many pleasure to answer me as I had to read you =)
Mads Juul: It's been a pleasure to do this interview with you. It's nice to share some of the thoughts and experiences I have had doing the work on “the Apple and The Worm”.
Go to : About Mads Juul (Part 1)