u19 Winner: u12 Honorary Mention
An extraterrestrial creature lands on Earth. Here it finds food, a place to sleep, and is welcomed with open arms. What it does not know, however, is that there is an armed man lying in wait, with horrible plans for the extraterrestrial.
Laurin has made many animated Lego films together with his elder brother Niklas, and has also acted in some of his sister’s short films. Laurin and Amelie wanted to make a special animated film for YOUKI 2018 and decided to build their own sets using whatever they could find at home. This took the most time, but after two weeks of intensive work building models, they were able to begin with the photography for Der Gobi kommt (Gobi comes). Within two days their carport was turned into a photo studio and over 2000 photos were shot. Then the editing of the film began, using an old version of Pinnacle. Subsequent photography was then no longer possible, however, as the stage sets had already been dismantled. Because the synchronization proved to be very difficult, Laurin decided to switch to a “foreign language,” and to make the entire film with subtitles.
