Qvisten Animasjon

It is actually kind of awkward that I didn’t mention this Norwegian company earlier in the blog. But, better late than never I usually say.
Qvisten Animasjon AS is an animation company located in Oslo who is defiantly on the rise.
After looking into their homepage and portfolio I realized how much work they have actually done that’s been on TV without me being aware of it’s their work.
Of course during a commercial it’s normal that you don’t get to see who actually made it since the commercial itself is promoting another product and usually during commercial breaks it doesn’t come to my head “who made this”.
It’s very easy to get hung up on local companies/studios like Bug and get knowledge of them and then missing out on such a good studio as Qvisten Animasjon located in Oslo.

Qvisten Animasjon AS was established in 1994 and specialises in all kinds of animation.
In their portfolio you can find a huge list of commercials they’ve done as well as shorts, feature length films and TV series.

Back in 2006, Norway released their first feature length 3D animation film called “Slipp Jimmy Fri”(Free Jimmy) which was produced by a company called Storm Studio.
The film did have a very high budget and faced several problems during the production and did get financial problems since the budget became 3 times as much as the original one (total cost of approx 120 mill NOK).
Because of the problems the film’s premiere was also delayed by 1 year.
The film did actually win the “Amanda-prisen” but personally I think it was failure of a film with boring characters, poor story and a poor look in general.

The time after this there has been released a couple of other 3D films but most recently, Qvisten Animasjon premiered with their feature film called “Kurt Blir Grusom” (Kurt Turns Evil).
Of course if I was to compare with the bigger players in the industry like Pixar, Dreamworks etc. Norway does still have a way to go but, Kurt Blir Grusom is defiantly a step in the right direction.

Qvisten Animasjon is also currently working on a new feature film called “Pelle Politibil” which looks very promising.
That’s just one example that proves that the industry is indeed flourishing in Norway and Qvisten Animasjon is defiantly becoming a major player in the field.

If I was to work in Oslo, Qvisten Animasjon would be without doubt my first choice.

Sources:

• Qvisten Animasjon AS
• Wikipedia