Acting week

Massive upload for this weekend. This week's bonus upload is an animation i did as an excercise 2 weeks ago.
We had to do 5 secs animation of an orchestra conductor, based on a piece of classical music. I chose to animate Wagner.
Sorry to any music professionals out there if i killed the piece, as i don't have conducting knowledge.

My favourite project so far, so much fun!

Enjoy:

Acting from IllusionOfLife on Vimeo.

Croquis

Last Thursday's afternoon croquis session.

Penne prøve week

Do you know what penne prøve means? Me neither... But this was the official name of the last week's course.
We had 5 animation directors coming from the Danish Film School in Copenhagen. They had a 2 min animatic prepared each, we were split in 5 groups of 4-5 animators, and each one had to animate 5 secs from the animatic.

The story:
A girl is in crash with a guy who's throwing a party. She goes at the party with a gift, she gives the gift to the guy, but the guy seems to be uninterested in her presence. She ends up drinking.



Animation for short film from IllusionOfLife on Vimeo.

Maybe i can upload the animatic later, so you can get the whole picture.

Ps. We had an awesome guy who was the animation supervisor at The Secret of Kells, as a teacher for this week and the previous 1,5 weeks!!

Design week

This week we had a great teacher - Lawrence, teaching us composition. It was very interesting, enlightening, eye opening!

Here is one of the assignments, and an artwork I came up based to this assignment. In the assignment, we had to depict what we felt about chocolate, as a visual element.

Medusa

This is an assignment I have been working for a long time. A lot of corrections and adjustments had to be made, so I ran out of time to make it more smooth. I hope you enjoy it:


Medusa (The Rescuers) from IllusionOfLife on Vimeo.

Next week it's Design class, so different stuff coming.

Note:
I now have an official portfolio page, where I will be uploading my best works. Here it is:
http://dionysisdouliakas.blogspot.com/

Little John - Robin Hood

This was an assignment where we had to depict Little John from the Disney movie Robin Hood, as being sad and drinking at a bar. 5 secs should be the duration of the scene, with 5 keyframes at first. I only did the keyframes for this one, as I chose to further animate Medusa from another Disney movie, The Rescuers, as she is a very, very interesting character, animated by the great Milt Kahl!
Here are the keyframes for Little John.

This last week we had to inbetween a scene from Secret of Kells, but I don't think I can post it here, as there would be copyright infridgements I guess . This following week I'll be working on refining Medusa's animation, and hopefully I can bring it close to being smooth.

Mr. Floursack

As i promised, this is a previous assignment from the first 3 weeks of Introduction to Animation.


Floursack from IllusionOfLife on Vimeo.


As you may have observed, I added a banner for the blog, and sligthly changed the look of it. I hope you like it!

I have more things to add, which will be done during the weekend probably

A thousand faces & Sketchcrawl

To people out there that may be following my blog, I apologize for the lack of updates, but there is zero free time. This week it is autumn holidays for Denmark, so time for relaxation and work also!

Yesterday it was the 29th worldwide Sketchcrawl, and we went downtown at Viborg, in the sunny weather to sketch.
First, I have some faces that i did in a period of several weeks, and then a compilation of sketches from yesterday.

Hopefully, this week I will also upload animation stuff, after I have polished them.

Froggy

These 3 weeks it is about the basics of animation. So, we did bouncing balls of different weight, a ball with tail, and we also had a bigger assignment where we had to do a 10 sec animation with a frog and a fly. Here it goes. I hope you will enjoy it!:


Frog and fly from IllusionOfLife on Vimeo.


Next big assignment is a 8 sec animation of a miserable ball with a tail.

Pink - collaboration short film

This is our first project at The Animation Workshop, a 4 people collaboration, two from the CGA (Computer Graphic Art) line and two from my line - CA (Character Animation). It was a great experience, and I got to know a lot of people from the CGA line.

The story is about a father whose son likes pink colors, and he asks a pink bike as a birthday present. He worries how people will take his son's difference, even though the father has accepted it. At the birthday party, something interesting happens...

Pink from IllusionOfLife on Vimeo.


Character design by Adrian Walt and Camilla Gunborg Pedersen
(The awesome) Background design by Adrian Walt and Asdis (can't remember her surname)
Animation by me (first father, and last, scene) and Camilla Gunborg Pedersen




From now and and for 3 weeks, we will be learning the basics of animation, so maybe i'll be posting something interesting.