Mermaid

My mind is in a state...

Thursday afternoon croquis.

Care for a little side talk? I've  you've been following me for quite a while, you will notice that the bottom left drawing from the first image, is not my regular style.
It was my last drawing on Thursday's session, and i was so tired, that i felt a bit dizzy. So, that was the result. Pretty interesting, wouldn't you say?

After effects plus bird cycle

Last week was quite relaxing. It was Photoshop + After Effects course. Cool teacher and generally a lot of fun!!

It was my first time trying After Effects, and i was quite surprised how easy is it to do fancy stuff, and in a short time.
One of the projects involved using a bird cycle from some weeks ago, and we did a small animation in AE with this cycle inside. I hope you enjoy it as much as i did by making it!

Non dialogue acting

This week we had to animate 5 seconds of non dialogue acting. We had to choose between 3 characters: Roger from 101 Dalmatians, Bernard from Rescuers, and Alice from Alice in Wonderland.

I chose to do subtle animation, with not so many things happening. And that was the difficult part, keeping the character alive while not so much is happening. I'm not sure if I achieved that. I'm also not happy with the last part...

Well, take a look if you please, and tell me :)

First semester showreel

This is a compilation of most of the animations i did during my first semester at The Animation Workshop. Feel free to commend!

First semester exam

This is the exam we did for the end of the semester. 3 days, 3 seconds of animation of Danny, the main character from the movie Cats Don't Dance, the same one from the Acting week.
I think i did a much better job this time, with him:

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.