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'''sitelen soweli''' is a two-minute animated film in [ | {{WorkInfobox | ||
| title = Sitelen soweli | |||
| type = Film | |||
| status = Released | |||
| year = 2025 | |||
| image = Sitelensowelithumb.png | |||
| language = Toki pona | |||
| license = CC-0 | |||
}} | |||
'''sitelen soweli''' is a two-minute animated film in [https://tokipona.org/ toki pona]. It features [https://sona.pona.la/wiki/sitelen_pona sitelen pona] glyphs as its main characters. | |||
It premiered on YouTube and at a small in-person toki pona event on the 28th of March 2025. | It premiered on YouTube and at a small in-person toki pona event on the 28th of March 2025. | ||
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== Development == | == Development == | ||
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The first ideas for the film started brewing in a [https://drawpile.net/ Drawpile] session with my friends from [https://sona.pona.la/wiki/Communities#Telegram kulupijaso]. | |||
[[File:Filmtokipona.png|none|thumb|Snapshot of the Drawpile board in question.]] | |||
After that came a storyboard, with a voiceover from me ([[User:Drakonic|akesi wakon]]). | |||
[[File:Tokiponastoryboard.mp4|none|thumb|The storyboard.]] | |||
It was pretty smooth sailing so far. I reached out to jan Kekan San for a voiceover and some linguistic guidance. But things got tricky at the animation stage of the project. I couldn't decide on a visual style for the film... | |||
The original plan was to animate the whole thing in Adobe Animate. | |||
[[File:Sitelen soweli.mp4|none|thumb]] | |||
I didn't like how it looked... So I started over. | |||
[[File:Sitelen soweli2.mp4|none|thumb|Animation test in the new style.]] | |||
I animated in Krita, using a brush with no antialiasing and on a 480x270px canvas. After exporting the frames, I ran this command to resize them: | |||
<code>for i in *.png; do magick "$i" -interpolate nearest-neighbor -interpolative-resize 400% "${i%.*}.png"; done</code> | |||
One more final change: I found that I liked the film better without solid colors, just lines. And that's how the final version came to be! | |||
For some compositing and final editing I used After Effects and Davinci Resolve. | |||
== External links == | |||
=== Streaming/Download === | |||
* [https://archive.org/details/sitelen-soweli-final sitelen soweli on archive.org] | |||
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWFyg_I2AXY&t=25s sitelen soweli on Youtube] | |||
* [https://dalek.zone/w/hYzHcSHrtVpQiCYaD4Qwtx sitelen soweli on Peertube (via dalek.zone)] | |||
=== Interactive Quiz === | |||
* https://classquiz.de/view/36a49de3-1ab5-4ee6-aae6-aaec902861b9 | |||
[[Category:Films]] | |||
Latest revision as of 06:13, 9 July 2026
| Type | Film |
| Status | Released |
| Year | 2025 |
| Language | Toki pona |
| License | CC-0 |
sitelen soweli is a two-minute animated film in toki pona. It features sitelen pona glyphs as its main characters.
It premiered on YouTube and at a small in-person toki pona event on the 28th of March 2025.
It is a work licensed under the Creative Commons 0 license.
Synopsis
Soweli, feeling bad because of its loneliness, sets out to find a friend. Along the way it meets Waso and Kala, but they don't get along well... Eventually, though, Soweli finds Jan. They are perfect for eachother!
Development
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This section contains first-person notes about the project, from DRAKONIC. |
The first ideas for the film started brewing in a Drawpile session with my friends from kulupijaso.
After that came a storyboard, with a voiceover from me (akesi wakon).
It was pretty smooth sailing so far. I reached out to jan Kekan San for a voiceover and some linguistic guidance. But things got tricky at the animation stage of the project. I couldn't decide on a visual style for the film...
The original plan was to animate the whole thing in Adobe Animate.
I didn't like how it looked... So I started over.
I animated in Krita, using a brush with no antialiasing and on a 480x270px canvas. After exporting the frames, I ran this command to resize them:
for i in *.png; do magick "$i" -interpolate nearest-neighbor -interpolative-resize 400% "${i%.*}.png"; done
One more final change: I found that I liked the film better without solid colors, just lines. And that's how the final version came to be!
For some compositing and final editing I used After Effects and Davinci Resolve.