UTF, The Rejecter

Have been assigned the character we have named the "rejecter". He is the person who tells jobseeking people to "go away, we have found our guy."
I do not htink we will go with the ganster type. I don't know where he came from...

Concept for a location UTF

Was thinking worker like houses - not too shabbe, as our character has been taking good care of his son, and priority one would have been making sure they were living in a safe house.
It is quite a feeble attempt, as I have never really been doing any BG work. But it's good enough to go here anyway. :)

UTF silhuettes

Some silhuettes for Frank.

More UTF development

Some faces for Frank... Some of the faces are based on designs by Niels Andersen Dolmer from my group.

soon our blog www.underthefoldfilm.blogspot.com will be up and running.

UTF developing Frank

Is still not sure about the style and design, but is trying out some different stuff, hoping to hit something right.

UTF; Frank concepts

More concept art for the father character Frank.

UTF; Picture

A concept sketch for the mother and Frank.

Under the Fold, more development

Had a look at the pipeline and naming convention today - I have been assigned of the flattering Pipeline Pippi role. I believe I might have it figured out for now, and turned to visual development again. These are the best sketches of the day.

Under the Fold sketches

Some quick sketches for our bach film, Under the Fold

watercolours, wuhu!

Yes, now they have colours as well. I think they are kind of fun; they sure have been fun to make.

random

I really like the guy eating a hotdog.

summertime is good times

what to say

jazz in Silkeborg

During the summer there is something called saturday jazz every saturday noon in Silkeborg. On a sunny saturday this summer a band called Jazz Five played, and I like their music. And they are great fun to draw.

show reel, WIP

Yep, this is what I believe will be my best work. It all needs to be worked over again. I'll be doing that during the summer holidays. The two shot assignment with the guys at the bar was my exam for second year.
I have found somethin strange. When I made a "render" of my exam playblast in premiere and turned it into a quicktime file, it played horribly. Then I made it another type of file, and it suddenly looked nice again. too bad we are going to be judged on the quicktime file...

commercial project; team Happy Pig

The last five weeks we, the BAC 09 at the Animation Workshop, have been producing six 20 sec commercials for the Danish Animal Welfare Society. The group I was in chose to do a spot on the danish pig production.

On this project I did the drawings for the set in the supermarket, some of the set for the outside world, and I animated the pig in the stable shot (both pig and heart).
It was a really nice project to be working on, and we had to find a lot of clever solutions to things - the transitions for example. And how to split up the scenes so that all of us animators would have something to do.

The group on this project:
Director: Carmen Hannibal (carmenhannibal.blogspot.com)
Production Manager: Thomas Mortensen (thomasvind.blogspot.com)
CG Supervisor: Nikki Starostka (n-starostka.blogspot.com)
Animation Supervisor: Nicolai Hansen (nicolaibrushansen.blogspot.com)
Art Director: Sara Olsen (saramaiolsen.blogspot.com)
Editor and Sound Designer: Simon Bresling
Pipeline Supervisor: Stine Frandsen (stineagerskovfrandsen.blogspot.com)
Generalist: Søren Gravesen (sorenfalske.blogspot.com)

SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Tina Engberg
Kay Delventhal
Peter Peake
Sean Ermey
Lana Tankosa Nicolic
Bettina Jensen
Anja Perl

My grandmother, WIP

Here it is again - I haven't had that much time to work on it, but it really has become better. It is quite nice to be working on something like this. I don't usually make portraits and it is a challenge.

commercial project - fields and barns

sketches for barns done by Carmen Hannibal CA09,trees and digital barns and textures done by Sara Olsen, fields, forest and comp by me.

sketches the 4th of may

A whole lot of sketches...

The supermarket

For commercial project. I was put on the design group, and set out to design the supermarket. This is how it ended up. can't wait for the final result. it is going to be projected onto 3D surfaces, and the animated character is 3D.

WIP, commercial project

We have started working on our commercials for an animal welfare society (dyrenes beskyttelse) - six groups of 8 people; cg artists and animators.
been trying to make some designs for supermarket props...

jellyfish

felt like drawing some jellyfish - plus practicing markers again.

quadroped; now rendered and all

Everything but animation done by Morten Bøhne
Animation still needs to be polished a bit, (especially the tail). But wanted you to see how it has turned out. I think it looks nice.

Another bunch of sketches

Today I went to the city again to sketch people. Plus a have been travelling a lot by train this weekend; got a few sketches from there as well (when I didn't work on my current animation assignment). I like sketching stuff, and it is nice to be doing it again. Spring has arrived, and that means a lot to me. My mood goes up and I feel the urge to be creative again.

Sketch Mess

Went to the city the other day with three other girls to sketch the unfortunate people of Viborg. My, I haven't done that for ages. but it was fun. and I plan on colouring some of the sketches with watercolour. Because it has been a while since I have been playing around with real colours and not just photoshop. And because Spring is here, and that should be a colourfull time. :)

My grandmother with my dad in her arms. WIP

Trying to make a portrait of my grandmother. The picture is hanging at my parent's house, and it always makes me happy to see that she has actually been someone else than my old grandmother; she has been young - something I am still not completely able to believe, even now. I just love the original picture. And I hope to do it justice at some point.

Fox

Just a quick sketch of a fox.

Hyena - Project Q

A three week animation. The first week was only spend on planning and rig testing, the two next weeks I animated in MAYA. Morten Bøhne made the model and rigged the thing as well. And matched a plane that fitted the camera and the picture. we were only given 5 seconds, but for my own sake I animated 7. I really wanted to make the walk. Hyenas really walk in this kind of gait. Like giraffes and a few other animals. I worried about this - I don't want people to think I can't make a four legged walk, but our teacher, Jean Ermey, told me not to worry. I went for a very realistic kind of animation, I believe I managed it. THough it still needs a bit of polish.

A crocodile

I just got my "art of kung fu panda" book and got a bit inspired by the wonderful drawings found in that book. drew the sketch for it in my sketchbook, but traced it in photoshop.

more Miyazaki; Porco Rosso

i did the line art when i had the cast on, which meant I had to redo the lines in photoshop. they were way too rough. i love the film Porco Rosso by Hayao Miyazaki. never have I experienced an animation feature with tha much... mood, feel, character. It is a greatly underestimated film. I do not feel that this drawing does it justice though.

howls moving castle

Here it is, agin. I spend an extra hour or two to add a bit more to the colouring. I am not any good with mking the light consistent or anything. But colours make me happy.

Action

Action from Stine Agerskov Frandsen on Vimeo.

assignment of the week - a 100 frame action shot. I got the cast off my hand bone is (supposedly) not broken anymore, and I am glad to find that I sure do work faster now.

midterm test; dialgue

Midterm test, second year: dialogue from Stine Agerskov Frandsen on Vimeo.

this year's test exam; a piece of dialogue, five days to make it. No props allowed. And I spend an entire afternoon at the emergency room getting my broken wrist wrapped up. I do have to work more on this, but I think I did well, considering.
Story of this piece: the character is looking at waitress, telling her that everything is good. then stares t her as she walks away, then turns towards his male friend.

Lighting and rendering

light and rendering from Stine Agerskov Frandsen on Vimeo.

we had a couple of days learning basic ligthing and rendersettings, and a bit of compositing. nice to see something rendered.

Howls moving castle, Sketch

A sketch I did of howls moving castle. I want to finish the colouring, but today I got my right hand and arm put into a gypsum bandage, which temporarily puts my drawings on a hold. Two weeks I have to wear this thing. Enjoy this drawing though. :)

Progression, acting

Acting without dialogue, progress reel from Stine Agerskov Frandsen on Vimeo.

the last couple of weeks we had to do an acting shot, chosing between "drinking the wrong drink" or "politician has the wrong speech". Our teacher was Michael Berenstein, and he had quite a different way of working than what we are used to. It has been really great exploring another workflow. I also tried out a different kind of animation. I am not really that fond of this animation, but I did learn quite a lot of stuff, which is important to me.

sketches, 18th of january 2011

Some rough sketches done in photoshop. I have grown quite fond of the little creature.

Further progress on project Q

More drawings + basic colour done by Morten Bøhne.

sketches

After drawing hyenas all day, I felt like doing something else. a lot of people are doing a more designed version of their quadroped, as we are allowed to go toony.

project Q, concept

Just a few concept sketches I did for our quadroped project. It's basically a hyena with a bat's "snout" and a pig/warthog's legs and feet. We wanted something very realistic, but with a touch of something else.