Hoofs on Skates / Kanopos ir pačiūžos / Kopita na drsalkah

Ignas Meilūnas (Kadrų Skyrius)
2024, Lithuania, 12'24''

In a winter wonderland two friends are having a blast ice-skating on a frozen lake when suddenly a strange and unfamiliar world cracks open underneath them. Now they must learn how to deal with this other kind without letting fear and preconceptions take over.

V zimski deželi se prijatelja zabavata z drsanjem na zamrznjenem jezeru, ko se pod njima nenadoma odpre čuden in neznan svet. Zdaj se morata naučiti, kako se spopasti s to drugo vrsto, ne da bi ju pri tem obvladovali strah in predsodki.

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Language: None
Technique: Puppet animation

Team

Script: Titas Laucius
Director of Photography, Gaffer: Simonas Glinskis, LAC
Production Designers: Dominas Pulokas, Ignas Meilūnas
Sound Designers: Julius Grigelionis, Marius Meilūnas
Animation: Anni Oja, Matthew Krasucki O'Dowd, Ignas Meilūnas
Animation assistant: Vilija Simutytė
Editor: Ignas Meilūnas
Storyboard Artist: Robertas Nevecka
Head of puppetry: Justė Vazgytė
Art department: Dominas Pulokas, Vilija Simutytė, Benediktas Launikonis, Rūta Norvydaitė, Dominykas Šavelis, Jonas Kentrus Aliukas
Image Postproduction Supervisor, Colorist: Justinas Vencius
Visual Effects Artists: Vytautas Kazlauskas, Egidijus Urbonas
Visual Effects Artist Assistant: Gabrielė Uždavinytė
Mastering: Justinas Vencius
DIT, Best Boy: Daniel Bartoševič
Foley Artist, Foley Editor: Dominyka Adomaitytė
Foley Mixer: Viera Marinová
Foley Studio: Soundsquare
Foley Studio Production: Jakub Sláma
Re-recording, Mixer: Vytis Puronas
VO Recordist: Julius Grigelionis
Voice Actors: Ignas Meilūnas, Julius Grigelionis
Distributor: MIYU Distribution
Accounting: Loreta Baranauskienė
Auditor: Larisa Dzengo
Producers: Justė Beniušytė, Ignas Meilūnas

Ignas Meilūnas (1985)

is Lithuanian animation director and producer. After years of working with different animation techniques Ignas settled on stop motion animation and usually works with short films for young audiences. His films have travelled and won awards in some of the biggest international film festivals worldwide. Ignas is a co-founder of Vilnius based animation studio "Kadrų  Skyrius". 

Filmography: 
Woods / Miškas (2015, short animation)
Mr. Night Has A Day Off / Pono Nakties laisvadienis (2016, short animation)
Matilda and the Spare Head / Matilda ir atsarginė galva (2020, short animation)
Hoofs on Skates / Kanopos ir pačiūžos (2024, short animation)