Interview in 3D World Magazine

Slug Invasion and interview in 3D World Magazine!! Enjoy the reading!

Friday Animation Fun: Slug Invasion

Making of "Slug Invasion" (and a bit of "LOAD")

Here is the making of my bachelor film.

Slug Invasion

My bachelor film is now out for the public eyes to see! Have a good one!

Slug Invasion from The Animation Workshop on Vimeo.

a couple more drawings

yep..

More drawings

While I'm at it, why not upload some year old stuff aswell. =D

Dusting off my wacom

Been a while since I last used my wacom and Photoshop, so this is a quick one.

Matchmoving at The Danish Film School

Me and my friend Casper Michelsen ( http://casper-michelsen.blogspot.com/ ) played around with some matchmoving at the danish film school. Just had some fun after work hours!

Matchmoving from Casper Michelsen on Vimeo.

Slug invasion

Slug Invasion Blog

At the end of the second year I prepared one of my ideas for the bachelor film project for the third year. Initially I had some ideas that I worked on, but I ended up doing just one pitch completely different than the other ideas I worked on. I hurried to make some beatboards for my pitch, to visualize my story for the class and the panel. To my surprise, the 10 minute drawings made a good impact on the crowd, and laughter filled the room for every picture I switched to.

Here is the “one-sheet” where the idea should be presented with the story plot, synopsis, technical stuff and more drawings for the judges to read.




Here are the drawings I drew (in a way too short time period!) a couple of days before the pitch:



















Over the summer I worked on my idea and developed it a bit further. An actionmatic was made to set the mood of the whole idea and spice up my pitch. It was a great success and added a lot to my previous pitch.



The panel and the students liked my project, and are now in the making! I took the role as the Director of the project and am working with 5 CG artists (computer graphic artists) and 3 other animators to make my idea into a 5 minute film. Take a look at the ”Slug Invasion”
blog!

2010 January to June

Been a year since last update, and now it’s time to show you people out there what I’ve been doing all this time.
After the midway test I worked a lot on a bachelor project for the 07 year, “Last Fall”. I animated 9 scenes in total for the film. The project is now done and can be seen on the Animation Workshop site.

http://www.animwork.dk/en/bachelor_films_2011.asp

It’s recommended to watch the film first so you won’t get any spoilers. My shots are shown on the following link:



While doing animation for the bachelor project, I did only a few assignments we were given. One of the projects was the quadruped project. Animators and CG’s worked together to make a four-legged creature, and we were responsible for rig testing and animating.



Here is a dialogue scene. Voice taken from Warcraft 3.



March 2010, I was a part of “The Danish Academy for Digital Interactive Entertainment” (DADIU – in Danish) game project for a month. Here students from all over Denmark gathered to make small indie games. Directors, projectmanagers, animators, computer graphic artists, designers, programmers, sound designers, game mechanics and level designers gathered into 6 groups to make games. I was in one of the smallest groups (10 people) and I was the only animator in that group. I started out doing concept art after the directions from the director, Troels Cederholm. I continued to help out the CGartist (Blake Overgaard) modeling simple pieces for the levels and UV’mapped and textured some. Rigs were tested, animations were made and added into our game enging, Unity.
It was a great project to work on, and the people were very nice and did all they could to get the best result. And result we got! The game entered PAX10 (Penny Arcade Expo 2010) in September.

http://www.planeweaver.com/


And of course the 5 days exam:

Midwaytest

Well... here it is, the midwaytest! A new rig for you guys to watch. It has a few advatages from the other rigs we have tried, but also negative things. I like Hogan better, but maby it will change if I try out this a little bit more.

Enjoy!

Photoshop drawing.

A drawing about a game im playing called "Face of Mankind", a free to play MMO-FPS! Its supposed to be a "In-game advertisment" for our faction, Colonization and Mining Guild.

Action scene

Two weeks assignment. Got lots of inspiration from parkour / action scenes / chase scenes / acrobatics / computer game videos.

The last part is unfinished, because that was not a part of the assignment. I focused more on the actual "action" instead of the acting. so thats why the poor quality animation.

Boxlift - Hogan

One and a half weeks assignmet of Hogan lifting a box.

2nd year animation - intro

There we go, another update! This is what ive been dooing all this year.

First year animation

Alright, since people have been asking about this so much, here is some of my animation from the first year at The Animation Workshop. No music or anything fancy, just plain and simple animation (+ some drawings)


EDIT: Horrible quality on the video for some reason, I will try to fix this when I have som spare time.

.. and another one

Another sketch..

Animation will come sooner or later.. but first

Just a sketch I did yesterday.

Just to get things started

I had some time to do a quick drawing a coupple of hours ago. Just a quick Photoshop sketch of an Assassin or something.

Starting with a blank page

Starting up with a blog is just like drawing.. having a blank piece of paper, and you have no clue what to draw on it. So I will just write some randoms stuff here, and things will emerge sooner or later.