The first thing that striked me, when I met Sonja Rohleder, is her beauty. She has a delicate face with pale skin and dark red hair. I met her at an opening and we decided to meet for the talk.
Sonja Rohleder is an animation artist. She studied in Berlin and today creates within a team, animation films for private companies, in fields such as advertising and/or other commercial works.
She has her own projects, as well, that are shown in festivals. She is currently working on a funded project. She likes to start creating her characters with a simple paper and pencil, and from there give a structure, bring in the movements and postures with sofware.
Her influences are mainly Japanese because of their incredible sens of details and a certain style of story telling. Of course she admires also the U.S. productions, such as PIXAR, their works have induced monumental technical improvements and have pushed animation sofware developement. Today animation artists must keep up with new technologies and tools, and Sonja says it is a big part of her work, so discovering and learning how to use them, is an obligation to produce works of good quality.
She finds inspiration in every day life, searching through her experience to share a message or a feeling. Her creative process leads her to build characters from her imagination and environment, giving them a soul and spirit. She mixes all sorts of different techniques, combining film and animation tricks together. She must always determine which are the best techniques to use for a project.
Many precise rules are set to achieve this goal. Bringing life to a fictive character is a long, step by step, procedure. It comes little by little, with focus and alot of concentration. The animation artist refines constantly his works, like a carpenter would chizzle the wood. Only with patience can one get close to a feeling of real life. The movements, for instance, she explains, must follow certain very precise mathematical rules, always moving inside a curve...
Most of her works are viewable online, I would recommend you to take time and have a look.
Sonja Rohleder is an artist full of mistery and charm, I will visit her studio soon and tell you more...
The studio, where the talk took place, was terribly cold. But we forgot about the temperature listening to eachother for a while. It was a good talk.
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