Playblast exam

The guideline: Having pleased man waiting at the bus stop.
After 3 seconds a bird takes a crap on his head. Show the reaction when he discovers the crap, then have him angrily searching the heavens for the source. Use 7 seconds.

Wish I had more seconds to work with for longer pauses or letting something more intresting to happen in the animation.

Menstrual Cycles

Menstrual Cycles

Another dialog scene with the Norman rig



Here's the unrendered version of it. Maybe it's just me (since this is the version im looking at when animating) but the acting and animation felt slightly different when I rendered it out compared to my playblast.

Caricature in a box

Another caricaturist who I decided to draw inside a cute little box.

Caricatures

Here's two celebrities:

I thought this was a tough one.   I had to turn down my first try at it because I coulden't see too much likeness in it. I also wasn't too fond of the first reference image I chose.  Click here for first attempt

I don't really know how famous she is internationaly, but I think moslty only norwegian people are familiar with the artist Marit Larsen.
Also a hard one, because there's hardly any distortions on her features

main reference used:   Click here

A friend of mine

Two random caricaturists from drawingboard.org

2D Animation. Self study

For 2 weeks now we had self study at school. I chose to try out some old school 2D animation again since it's been a while since I did it last time. First week was quite fun, 2nd week got boring after a while with all the days of cleanup work. But I'm glad I atleast managed to finish this in time. (click image to watch)



Early stuff (click image to watch):

Rough animation:



Touch up animation:



software:

Animation: PAP 4.0 (Wacom Cintiq)
Cleanup, colors, shadow masking: Macromedia Flash MX 2004
Background layout: Adobe Photoshop CS2

Life drawings

Here's a couple of quick life drawings.
Some of theese were made at school where we had nude models and an actor, while others were drawn at meetings and stuff..

Creature of the week #132

This week's creature of the week on conceptart.org

Sound Creature. Creature of the week - #131

Decided to give a try at the weekly creature design activity at conceptart.org

This week had  quite an intresting twist where you had to create it from a given soundfile: Listen to the sound here

 
 
This large amphibian produces loud mysterious sounds that can be heard from the swamps with the help of it's heavily build chest and air sacks.  It's used for attracting members of the opposite sex, as well as alluring smaller creatures to eat.

Visually, it also attracts smaller creatures with the thin "tentacles" attached on the shoulders with firefly looking lights towards the tip. 
They are easy to detect, even when the swamps are densely packed with fog. It also fools smaller creatures by laying down into the water while only keeping the "fireflies" above it. This makes the huge creature appear smaller then it really is.

The Overreaction

The task was to animate someone at a busstop or resturant scene, let something happen and show the characters change in emotion.

3x update

Haven't updated this blog since last year now, so I guess it's time to get started again.

Here's an animation exercise from last week. The task was to make someone interact with a box. Didn't have much time to work with it, so an extra day with fixing and polishing would have been -kewl.




Here's something from last year. It's a 20 sec Tv ident for Nicelodeon. I had around one and a half week to do the animation, the rest of the work was done by the danish company KMA




Then a couple of quick sketches I made during the last two months.

(handverk)

(Nintendo)


(Frankenstein/Monster)


(30 sec - 2 min sketches)


(A quickie from Norway when I didn't have acces to the wacom tablet)

Steampunk. myths and legends

Here's my entry for the Steampunk competition at cgtalk.com



Here's the story behind it:

This image tells the steampunk version of the battle between two creatures from Greek mythology. Pegasus, the flying horse with wings. And Chimera, a monster equipped with the head of a lion, goat and a dragon. According to the legends Chimera was defeated by Pegasus, but I wanted this image to show a more dramatic moment where Pegasus who is usually assumed with flying and grace is now pushed down the image with all it's weight, while Chimera is the superior one placed higher above in the middle of the attack.

as a little side story I wanted to include the "sad/fun" situation on the poor steam punk Edderchoppers "spiders". Machines manufactured with a constant "smile" where their main task consists of pulling carried. Smiley faces were made on them to make them appear as friendly and to make people happy, even though the majority complained that they were rather creepy looking instead. Numerous of Edderchoppers are getting destroyed during the battle. They are all terrified and overwhelm by agony. But from the look on their face, they seem to be doing just fine! =)



To see my process, thumbnails and other ideas before I ended up with the finished image, click here

test 2008

Here's this weeks exercise. Fun to use some of the stretchy features on "max man" for a change.

or right click "save as"

Quick sketches

Here's some 10-20 min sketches I did at a daily sketch thread from a norwegian forum called storedyret.com. Usually each thread has their it's own headline.

(the blue cat in one of the drawings were not made by me.
It was copied and pasted from a brilliant norwegian artist named Olve Askim )

Mmmmm...

This week we had a try at dialogue.

Click here to watch or right click "save as" (quicktime.mov 2.9 MB)

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facial animation and render

The first half of this school week was facial animation. The other half was rendering lessons.

Watch the animation here:

Click to watch or right click "save as" (quicktime)

(the animation could need some more polishing though)

Tommy Lee Jones

Rigging week over

The rigging week is (finaly!) over so here's what I 've managed to finish out of it so far.4 min video were I move through some of the rig controllers below:

CLICK HERE TO WATCH VIDEO (quicktime 13 MB)