Well, I managed to feel a bit more home in Vienna, it was just a decision and a kind of cleaning up in my time table. And I showed all my previous years work to the guy who runs the studio and convinced him by this letting me use the studio without finishing the course before. I haven't worked much under a rostrum camera by now but last friday I did some experiments there. I had a DV camera, iStopMotion on my G4 Laptop and two 150W lamps there as hardware. Some heavy paper was sticked by some gaffer tape to the table.Then I started painting with acrylics without any planning what you would see in the video. I just wanted to know what I could do with this techique and how other people may have done their films with it. It was cool because I came into a kind of paint rush, I painted for about five hours. Acrylics normally dry very quickly but it was too slow when I had been in the 'zone' so I just used a hair dryer to dry the colours more quickly. I was painting and overpainting the scenery on doubles and here are the results, or, more precisely, the best results for that day:

I made a mistake which wasn't so important right now but may become important in a bigger production. I just fixed the paper on its corners with some tape. But if the paper becomes wet through the colours it will get waves and when it dries, and its fixed propperly, it will get plain again. Mine got waves but I was lucky. The waves in the paper hadn't been big enough to produce any serious shadows. For the next time I would use some heavy cardboard or maybe some thin wood, it would depend on what I want to do with it. Or, you could use the shadows for your storytelling if you like, depending on what you want to archieve. The other issue with this is that the paper produces kind of hills and valleys. If you use very wet colours they'd probably become the rivers in your paper landscapes and start to run down th hills and become lakes. It's a very progessive technique because there's no going-backwards.