More from this week. assignment was to make a chase scene with interesting layouts. Christoffer Andersen and I did this together, we had a day and a half to finish it- Which is why it is not that pretty. But fun, and I think it works.
This week we were taught, once again, by Lawrence Marvit. This time Layout was the subject. This castle was our first assignment. we had to make a background for the first act in Hamlet, pinnochio style. Fully rendered and everything. this is the lineart, later I'll upload the rendered version + the rest of what we did this week.
I finally got to colour these drawings. It is all just no-purpose-at-all-sketches from my sketchbook, but I like them anyway. I am not good at using watercolour yet, but I'll get there (hopefully.) I am glad that I have started drawing again. last semestre I felt I had completely abandoned it, which is a shame. I really enjoy drawing while listening to inspiring music.
Five days of work. We could once again choose between some characters and bits of music. I think some parts of this animation works, though th overall thing is a bit weak. I meant it to be that girly.
A couple of monsters I felt like drawing. Partially because i felt like colouring in some drawings - that seems to be my major inspirations at the moment. I kind of like these though.
this weeks assignment. We had a couple af different characters to choose between, but I figured these two, kerchak and Kala from Tarzan, Disney, would do the most for me. Unfortunatly, I do not think I did very well. Anyway, this is it.
we could choose between some characters, and this is what I ended up witk. We could also choose between two different pieces of sound "there never was much hope... only a fools hope", Gandalf, LOTR and this one - probably from one of the American Pie films. I went for a not so pose to posey animation. And I think I succeeded in it. also, I am quite surprised at how I had already added opposing acting and such in my keys. all in all, I'm happy about this work.
The animation my group did during the animation jam week. I thank our director Priit Tender. The group consisted of: Drude Mangaard Christoffer Andersen Niels Dolmer Samantha Torres Jeppe Døcker Jonas Kirkegaard Carmen Hannibal Mikkel Friborg Simon Bresling Lasse Rasmussen Jody Ghani Dennis Jensen Søren Nørbæk And Myself, Stine Frandsen
The Animation Workshop, www.animwork.dk
Priit gave us the designs, and a basic storyline. We did the storyboarding, the animation, most of the jokes, editing and sound. The sound could be a bit better, but due to timepressure, it was not possible to make it better.
This weeks work - or four days of work, actually. We had to choose another character than last week, something different. And Bernard is quite cool. Assignment: character will be sitting at a table, waiting for someone. You must use 120 frames (5 sec.), ´neither more nor less. I wanted to do something subtle, and I think I managed to do so.
This week we just had fun, trying out the program TVpaint. Very fun. We had a couple of assignments, such as head turns and takes. Nice getting started at real animation classes again. :)
My midyear test, a "how is the exam going to be"-test. We had a week to make a 120 frame long animation featuring the pink panther. He would be lying on the ground, confused, then get angry, get up, run towards the door and try to open it. This is a version both with and without background. Enjoy.
finally, with background. I might do a better version at some point, just to make it prettier. Thanks to Christoffer Andersen, who helped me with some of the programs. :)
We had some directors from the Danish film school over for a couple of weeks in the fall 2009. this is one of the shots I did for Maremi Watanabe, the director of my group.
I finally figured out how to transfer the coloured drawings into a program in which I could time it properly again. I still need to figure out how to do the background though.
I wanted to do an easy animation, getting ready for my midyear exam. As I didn't know what else to do, I did a jellyfish. I am going to colour it in as well. :)