Cartoon Saloon

I was initially going to post artwork, as i mentioned in my previous post, but i got some awesome news from Ireland, three days ago.
Got accepted as an intern at this cool studio called Cartoon Saloon and i'll be starting in July!! I'll probably-hopefully- be working on this beautiful feature film those guys are producing, called Song of The Sea .

So hyped, can't wait to start and get to know all the great talent working for the film already!! Woohooo!!!

Gotta say that i owe a lot to my amazing school, The Animation Workshop, and the beautiful former students that have been at Saloon, that kept it real for us!


For my friends in Greece and abroad: I'll be accepting visits in Kilkenny during the summer 8-D

My new addiction

...is Breaking Bad.
I'm always reluctant to try watching new tv series. But after i start, i can't stop. Happened with Game of Thrones, Fringe, Deadwood, Walking Dead.

In case you don't recognize the girl on the right, that's Kim Kardashian. She's in Greece these days by the way. At the magic island of Santorini, which i haven't managed to visit yet...

Hope you enjoy! 

Gonna update with my life lately in the next post. It will also come these days. 

Cheers

Croquis + travel sketches

Came back to Greece for the Easter break in Denmark. Here are some sketches from my looooong trip (last image as  you can guess)

Should be working instead

Yeah...

Sacheen Littlefeather

Here's a small story that inspired me to draw this page, yesterday:

Marlon Brando won an Oscar for his performance in Godfather in 1973. Instead of appearing at the ceremony himself to receive the award, Sacheen Littlefeather represented him and instead of accepting the Oscar, she gave a small speech. This way Brando protested against the treatment of Native Americans by the film industry.

Whether or not this is the real reason behind his not accepting the Oscar, what this girl (who was/is actually a civil rights activist) did can only be admired. Imagine a Native American giving a speech in front of an audience full of whites...

I used traditional media (pencils and markers) and had some (not so) happy accidents with Brando's face. Came out too...burnt :D

Side note: I always heard that Brando was a great actor, but i never got to see films from his young age. Here's a great piece of acting that i discovered recently from The Wild One. I don't remember seeing anything like it before:

Greece i miss you...

HVID

Υο! Been a long time since i last posted anything animation wise..

This is a project i worked for a month in October, at the Film School in Copenhagen together with animation direction students. I apologize for the lack of subtitles, but i'll make an attempt to explain what it is about:

Timeframe: Around 1920's. An expedition is set to explore the Arctic. (If i remember correctly) after an accident on the ship, the captain (blue guy) and a sailor (red guy) are the only survivors. They have very little food left. The captain is trying to manipulate the sailor into serving his interests, but in the end things get out of hand...

The bodies are motion captured, and we had to animate the faces and the hands. In one of the last shots, i had to do the body animation as well, since the motion capture data was lost. I think i will upload my shots on vimeo soon and put subtitles on those.

Hope you enjoy, even without subtitles!

Holiday sketches n' stuff

Happy New Year and all that jazz...!!!

I know it's been some time again since my last post, and it's only my laziness to blame, to put stuff together in photoshop and upload them.

Been thinking some stuff regarding:

Color: I realized that i should figure out the color of the light source and have that in every color i apply on the sketch, so that the painting looks consistent and not like patches of color put together. The shadows are another chapter on their own, that i have to practice on.

Sketching humans: For some time now, i've been trying to draw moments instead of doing elaborate studies of details. Next time i sketch people, i'll try to put a name on every pose i draw.

I hope you have fun with those:

I'm feeling blues

(The one and only) Nina Simone and Lianne La Havas.

I was inspired by this awesome dude to do those.

The second one doesn't really look like her, but she was the inspiration for the sketch anyways. You can listen to these while you look at the sketches:

Feast yer eyes!

Been years since i last uploaded anything here...

So, prepare for a massive update! 

Here's a little info on what i've been up to: during summer, i was mostly practicing drawing and going back to some basic animation excercises to prepare for the 3rd and bachelor film year. And this time is now! I'm back to Denmark and i'm working on a film called Borislav. There are some super talented people in my team, and this project has a lot of potential, so stay tuned!!

Currently we're in the phase of figuring out details about the story, and having superfun playing with character design and visual style!

By the way, you might have noticed a change in the layout. That's because i got sick of the previous banner!! I have a new sketch for a new banner, but i have to get myself to do the coloring.

Here's some stuff i've done centuries ago, in chronological order from the newest to oldest. Actually, that's not true, i'm starting with the...uhm...sexiest!:

Da Commercial Project

This is a group project we did over a period of 5 weeks for an organization inside the danish summer rock festival "Roskilde".
We were 3 animators, and we had around 1 and a half week for the animation. I did the animation of the guy walking in the first shot, for which i'm not very proud of, to be honest.
I was the production manager/animator for the project.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the projects here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/greenfootsteps?feature=results_main