tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57053200445274302402024-03-05T17:24:28.433+01:00The Spoof Formerly Known As MeDEVELOPMENTS IN MY PORTFOLIOTiddohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557249996813478129noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705320044527430240.post-14763898805934751122009-10-24T13:35:00.005+02:002009-10-24T14:49:15.731+02:00Stabmixer. Handblender.Sweet and ever so patient hopefuls,<br /><br />Today would make a great day for yet another post,<br />and today's post will be more or less in harmony with last post.<br />Isn't that wonderful? Coherence is an admirable goal right?<br /><br />This post is dedicated to a leader I made for a children's tv show<br />together with <a href="http://kaninche.blogspot.com/">Conchita Mulder</a> and Marlyn Spaaij, called <span style="font-style: italic;">Raaf Mixer</span>.<br />We got this job through a previous one I did with Marlyn and<br /><a href="http://sandra-gaat.blogspot.com/">Sandra Verkaart</a>.<br />The latter whom's great film <span style="font-style: italic;">C'est le ton qui fait la musique</span> screens<br />on HAFF's student program the 6th and 8th of november.<br /><br />Conchita was on fire with her ink, designing amongst other things<br />those great trees and I believe the entire background if my<br />memory doesn't fail me. It's been a while.<br />I do remember me using crayons to create moving holds<br />to use as textures for all the character's torso's. And the parrot.<br /><br />The stream coming from the didgeridoo was done on paper,<br />as well as in TVPaint, using the TVP renders as masks<br />in After Effects for the stuff done on paper.<br />All character animation was done in TVPaint,<br />colors were rendered separate for masking purposes.<br />Then in After Effects we placed the photos of the actors' faces<br />on top op the headless characters.<br />The heads were given moving hold textures as well,<br />which were mere round shapes roughly drawn with pencils.<br />I mostly make my textures somewhat round,<br />for it tends to give the character's look literally more depth.<br /><br />Working for directors Alieke en Sia was a pleasure,<br />we also met quite some people involved in the series.<br />We didn't meet the people doing the music and sound though,<br />who did a great job with the happy-go-lucky sing-song soundtrack.<br />Typography was done by <a href="http://www.jongehazen.nl/">De Jonge Hazen</a>, a social design initiative.<br />This job later on proved to be popular enough to attract another job,<br />but that's another post. (I suspect more coherence.)<br /><br />Animation credits:<br />Conchita: Olga / The Didge-Stream<br />Me: Raaf<br />Marlyn: Everything else<br /><br />This project was quite intense:<br />With Marlyn living in with Conchita and me for nearly a week,<br />designing/animating/compositing against the clock.<br />But all in all it was great fun doing it.<br /><br />Oh. And before I forget: <span style="font-style: italic;">Raaf Mixer</span> was derived from the word<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">staafmixer,</span> which is a blender.<br />Conchita and I have one whom's package says in German:<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">stabmixer</span> and in English: <span style="font-style: italic;">handblender</span>.<br />I think both are quite funny.<br /><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwsDbbWYISXZd4c3gU0XgjZBI5zlo-HDeufZWzXYYyazriSDYYg37zTlr8m3Af7GTTCYNIov1KMMQggoOz0SA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Tiddohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557249996813478129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705320044527430240.post-32749370230157536822009-10-19T22:33:00.007+02:002009-10-19T23:21:45.090+02:00This title unimaginatively refers to both recent life and old work.<span style="font-family:georgia;">Hopefuls,</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">I should be terribly sorry,<br />yet somehow I'm not.<br />The <a href="http://kaninche.blogspot.com/">sweetest girl in the world</a> is in <a href="http://tanzaniaanskaninchen.blogspot.com/">Tanzania right now</a>,<br />so I've been keeping myself busy lately as to not be reminded.<br />“Reminded of what?” you might ask —and rightfully so—<br />and on this very topic —an emotionally strong one at that—<br />I will enlighten you this awfully late blog.<br /><br />Today's topic is <span style="font-style: italic;">loneliness</span>. Yes.<br />Cooking for myself is a far cry from cooking for her<br />and our bed has morphed into a boring place.<br />Now, I'm not sure about the morphing part,<br />nonetheless: it's become a boring place.<br />As has our home.<br /><br />Luckily work provides some distraction,<br />of which I got plenty, yet is as you might imagine:<br />Just. Not. The same.<br /><br />It's fun as well, the work.<br />But I cannot provide you with any recent developments.<br />At least, not yet.<br />But of course I've got this big, big pile of animations<br />from which I'd be delighted to pick you some goodies.<br /><br />Now only to make this theme work...<br />So I mentioned </span><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-style: italic;">loneliness</span>, animation has this romantic<br />image of the animator working day and night<br />(emphasis on the '<span style="font-style: italic;">night</span>'-part) on films in the attic.<br />But this one I made together with a classmate,<br />Marlyn Spaaij, who has no website whatsoever.<br />But we made this for a Dutch tv-show<br />touching the subject of melanism,<br />animating to a pre-existing soundtrack.<br /><br />My contributions list as follows:<br /><br />• Paper texture<br />• Bambi's birth (not the mother though)<br />• The jaguar (including texture - animated to follow it's stretch)<br /></span><span style="font-family:georgia;">• The 2D animated 3D'ish building<br />• The butterfly<br />• The sound design<br /><br /><br /></span><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzJB5E3rcQq7maYoXknsSLzSL8otMqP4ewykb9vwse2AaUB_jI3MNCdtELZ3jvu_0U-F1x93iL1BHr1vALKVw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Tiddohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557249996813478129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705320044527430240.post-44335236014029015842009-09-07T20:16:00.003+02:002009-09-07T20:41:20.880+02:00The catacombs.<span style="font-family: georgia;">Dearest of hopefuls,<br /><br />Making backups it struck me I could upload some<br />older stuff I animated in my first year as an animation student.<br />So I dug into the trusty dusty old external harddisk,<br />and found this little typographic animation I did.<br />We were assigned to make a purely typographical animation,<br />and have it promote the Holland Animation Film Festival.<br />So this was never actually used by the fine folks at HAFF,<br />but to me it was a great assignment nonetheless.<br /><br />I mean: Typography AND animation! Instant happiness i'd say.<br /><br />The music is 'Roses & Teeth for Ludwig Wittgenstein' by Matmos,<br />taken from their wonderfully exciting 2006 album<br />'The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast'.<br />I edited it down to a more applicable size.<br />Remember kids, this was in my first year as an animator,<br />so the video might not be as exciting as the audio.<br /><br /><br /></span><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyn07kjeUAMM16QfSi5f3eiEMW6EeaJZIQQ5pDuHWthKc59GvaXEkkCr_XyyJ-79y_P1b4uw1Da0q3Adk5oSQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Tiddohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557249996813478129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705320044527430240.post-90355062377914205152009-08-29T14:53:00.004+02:002009-08-29T15:33:47.370+02:00The Chase.<span style="font-family:georgia;">For a school assignment I was free to pursue any goal<br />and make whatever I felt important to add to my portfolio.<br />As long as it was animation.<br /><br />So I thought of an animation with a character being chased<br />by the camera and thus the viewer.<br /><br />The first fourteen-or-so seconds are okay I guess,<br />but after that I just wanted to finish it,<br />or rather my teacher wanted it finished.<br />I rushed and it's obvious I did.<br /><br />I'm sorry dear hopefuls, I'm sorry to disappoint.<br />I know how you feel, I really do:<br />clicking your way through all these 0's & 1's...<br />And for what? For this shitstain-wallpaper?<br />Is this for real? Is it all just one big joke?<br /><br />No, I know what it is:<br />It's just a miserable waste of potential,<br />a shattered dream, a big, bad, bullshit bag of<br />nothing but nothingness itself.<br /><br />But what did you expect?<br />I'm a mere spoof in a half-recycled world<br />that is both creator and consumer of nothing.<br />Of course I'm joking, but I'm not.<br />There's quite some superficial obviousness in there,<br />but some more or less interesting ideas as well.<br />We could actually talk about it sometime,<br />over a glass of wine and on a night of long lasting.<br /><br /><br /><br /></span><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzJy9dsFN0bPXW0oWjiSpNFuU7Sp3TL8akOwUPIWCVVIQChWZUnsFVG37ZQi6fyCzWGnh50W4AqdYStXajPyQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Tiddohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557249996813478129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705320044527430240.post-6156340668373052532009-08-29T14:15:00.007+02:002009-08-29T14:47:28.315+02:00Sketchbook Pt. VI, arguably VII.<span style="font-family:georgia;">Dear hopefuls,<br /><br />Today seems to be good enough a day to share some<br />more of my sketches in the old sketchbook.<br />So please do sit back relaxed,<br />or on the edge of your seat for that matter.<br />Or just don't, I mean, I don't want to be oppressive,<br />you can do as you please, for it's the internet!<br />You have absolute free will and as for me:<br />who might I be to tell you to do anything </span><span style="font-family:georgia;">anyway?!<br />Can you believe it?<br />The nerve...<br /><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE4Xi0jBKuIJI_O4b0PuRPjmIbUHTxQhd34HRQhxq1n52CYLQBy40oWzDtgDWUTlNbPKW3Z3opVuiasuT88OfQSHurYEgOut8dofoflQliMtyycv0j5Tux4QV1IoB55hEY6uE2KzCyHMjp/s1600-h/Sketchbook031.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 165px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE4Xi0jBKuIJI_O4b0PuRPjmIbUHTxQhd34HRQhxq1n52CYLQBy40oWzDtgDWUTlNbPKW3Z3opVuiasuT88OfQSHurYEgOut8dofoflQliMtyycv0j5Tux4QV1IoB55hEY6uE2KzCyHMjp/s320/Sketchbook031.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375360762507210962" border="0" /></a> Doesn't he just look like<br />some sex offender?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbNZ0ZJ4b1kE96Y8reGPYK822vF59VUdESCvkIwN4iF_cLtj_JCmJ6-2VewcQxm4xnFocrfuQ5ipHdPaUE9YVZjtFoFAbF0sQ0C5RhUgHxW9LScgMSdsAvuS-I2LOBILWqc5L4yuqNAu3K/s1600-h/Sketchbook032.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 232px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbNZ0ZJ4b1kE96Y8reGPYK822vF59VUdESCvkIwN4iF_cLtj_JCmJ6-2VewcQxm4xnFocrfuQ5ipHdPaUE9YVZjtFoFAbF0sQ0C5RhUgHxW9LScgMSdsAvuS-I2LOBILWqc5L4yuqNAu3K/s320/Sketchbook032.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375361226478431090" border="0" /></a> This one —I figure—<br />speaks very much<br />for itself.<br /><br />Don't you agree?<br /><br />No, it's just a stream<br />of consciousness,<br />happy go lucky<br />sketching as I go along.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWbas5Ewc1-_7Jo_Ghx1MEPAs-LsUZohGJxu53C6wolYOmxUkV00xt_JbaVdVlBoNdJyCfF0kPBg8_IQUVKwX-mMRN2g1uAIJAAYmgVsEEW2HC5ew6q88wRrue4VDUL8fXi8xud-8UaEXr/s1600-h/Sketchbook033.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 222px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWbas5Ewc1-_7Jo_Ghx1MEPAs-LsUZohGJxu53C6wolYOmxUkV00xt_JbaVdVlBoNdJyCfF0kPBg8_IQUVKwX-mMRN2g1uAIJAAYmgVsEEW2HC5ew6q88wRrue4VDUL8fXi8xud-8UaEXr/s320/Sketchbook033.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375362752890272162" border="0" /></a>This one reads:<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">”DIRIGENTJE</span> <span style="font-style: italic;"> VENTJE”</span>,<br />roughly meaning:<br />'conductor lad'.<br />Though more cute.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_sITpoUxOSYuP2mVl6fZ6iXx0P1wxqfMhlAVugo2IzvaJ2ykIxs7VFNUBRSq0VBzRYrJpV4WLBaVXquskYp95kyzlBjy4C1bGRkzRfiXA3t_ZvN7Ci8hmN18eG7fYtr_eN1UUkFKcaLFK/s1600-h/Sketchbook034.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 206px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_sITpoUxOSYuP2mVl6fZ6iXx0P1wxqfMhlAVugo2IzvaJ2ykIxs7VFNUBRSq0VBzRYrJpV4WLBaVXquskYp95kyzlBjy4C1bGRkzRfiXA3t_ZvN7Ci8hmN18eG7fYtr_eN1UUkFKcaLFK/s320/Sketchbook034.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375364943709967954" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Aren't they<br />adorable?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL_2GrYBAWJ5DLQnpAxUZsdhysV-zfHL4z_g8txM5OrWsDdribQ45NQ9nOlQXZ9Xm5SwBrgv91gLiJ4QG8_s2Cxddtp2zAzMe8ljGPzqQE9eO77HoHp6KQIN5N0660VUueZsV3Z1I5EMU6/s1600-h/Sketchbook035.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 229px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL_2GrYBAWJ5DLQnpAxUZsdhysV-zfHL4z_g8txM5OrWsDdribQ45NQ9nOlQXZ9Xm5SwBrgv91gLiJ4QG8_s2Cxddtp2zAzMe8ljGPzqQE9eO77HoHp6KQIN5N0660VUueZsV3Z1I5EMU6/s320/Sketchbook035.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375365356877960658" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Menthol Belinda's,<br />seriously: just Google<br />if you don't know.Tiddohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557249996813478129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705320044527430240.post-40907328087626400132009-08-17T11:35:00.015+02:002009-08-29T14:51:21.249+02:00Sketchbook Pt. V (or VI, if you will).If things go as planned, internet and me will be reunited once more.<br />Until then I'll keep it as brief as I can be.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmcbLYJysXq3QLHbayPlGG8Trat4YvJ8h3xsuGEE-vk-n_W5X9UGzWCF7WG-C1P3Pgyjrzj491_jm3Yo3on71VkF7ZWYPe91QhW1hTIbdSzByh8bIqbfRNkkdeZVTDWy56275GYnIZHIzj/s1600-h/Sketchbook028.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 237px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmcbLYJysXq3QLHbayPlGG8Trat4YvJ8h3xsuGEE-vk-n_W5X9UGzWCF7WG-C1P3Pgyjrzj491_jm3Yo3on71VkF7ZWYPe91QhW1hTIbdSzByh8bIqbfRNkkdeZVTDWy56275GYnIZHIzj/s320/Sketchbook028.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370867842554704882" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv7RClUZJRszHDmqMiU54T_Yw9viQAEmNKBHBonSoxjVCEp5m5mf3Dj2nzFANn_0EKjnOFVGjuM9Hkw5fOO0qn4rncHzXq0ecZ0MQQLD2Z062fgTz-ZVImGVm-Xxavau3Gi8wP5hDi6vEV/s1600-h/Sketchbook029.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 140px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv7RClUZJRszHDmqMiU54T_Yw9viQAEmNKBHBonSoxjVCEp5m5mf3Dj2nzFANn_0EKjnOFVGjuM9Hkw5fOO0qn4rncHzXq0ecZ0MQQLD2Z062fgTz-ZVImGVm-Xxavau3Gi8wP5hDi6vEV/s320/Sketchbook029.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370868241289526322" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSIJEmnsu-b6jlIoeWPjnO7Mw3lo1HczPXhKnOQAqxe_6Y6XMFvt0ccyQnR636GYmKlxpmZpgDC3NlAzcDSym6D9hH5nneZkU13gxCch19qbJT2UxWV16kKibT4317xCgbbFU-jIWUec0h/s1600-h/Sketchbook030.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 218px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSIJEmnsu-b6jlIoeWPjnO7Mw3lo1HczPXhKnOQAqxe_6Y6XMFvt0ccyQnR636GYmKlxpmZpgDC3NlAzcDSym6D9hH5nneZkU13gxCch19qbJT2UxWV16kKibT4317xCgbbFU-jIWUec0h/s320/Sketchbook030.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370868390585855458" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">“I mean.”</span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;">“Yes.”</span><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGh3M_aLR701H9bNQP_5PBKgkv5wnV3b3n1ZpiJBsyfPRHgQkLtOrRUNj1G9r5bUmCYvX3eaMPglLrXOw1liBeMzoXZ5FNuZi_p20892lf5doSp4piSrEOBsQTgcBlZiEBwcjUoGWVndMU/s1600-h/Sketchbook026.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 222px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGh3M_aLR701H9bNQP_5PBKgkv5wnV3b3n1ZpiJBsyfPRHgQkLtOrRUNj1G9r5bUmCYvX3eaMPglLrXOw1liBeMzoXZ5FNuZi_p20892lf5doSp4piSrEOBsQTgcBlZiEBwcjUoGWVndMU/s320/Sketchbook026.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370867390401979314" border="0" /></a>Tiddohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557249996813478129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705320044527430240.post-91325197174177621652009-08-13T14:04:00.006+02:002009-08-13T15:59:45.505+02:00Moving On.<span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">It's been a long time since my last post,</span> <span style="font-family:georgia;">and I'm not going to apologize for it.</span> <span style="font-family:georgia;">Now if you insist on receiving an apology</span> <span style="font-family:georgia;">you could of course drop me a line.</span> <span style="font-family:georgia;">Not that it'll make much of a difference,</span> <span style="font-family:georgia;">but at least it generates interactivity.</span> <span style="font-family:georgia;">The last couple of weeks I spent my time</span> <span style="font-family:georgia;">moving to another house and now I'm</span> <span style="font-family:georgia;">waiting for Internet to be installed.</span> <span style="font-family:georgia;">Which apparently takes the pre-B.C.</span> <span style="font-family:georgia;">period of 4 to 5 weeks.</span> <span style="font-family:georgia;">Paying this small visit to the web</span> <span style="font-family:georgia;">I'd like to add some more sketches.</span> <span style="font-family:georgia;">Personally I like the last one best...</span> <span style="font-family:georgia;">This scene I imagine to be colored softly</span> <span style="font-family:georgia;">and somewhat de-saturated.</span> <span style="font-family:georgia;">It's all extreme slo-mo and we hear some</span> <span style="font-family:georgia;">melancholy piano tranquillity. No foley.</span> <span style="font-family:georgia;">Stay hopeful.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDiW5cnWUFoxbAhOcQMJ7bPviIWGIZNqzG-mkyg9AzoKvDRa693ECuLvD9XBA6JZ1CJ7LmEhOVGqihm2S_lseBeALluXe863O5JO6Js7OX7pPU1LmyDJSTpuuAizBkZ7ahyphenhyphenAz2xfDiEmyJ/s1600-h/Sketchbook023.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDiW5cnWUFoxbAhOcQMJ7bPviIWGIZNqzG-mkyg9AzoKvDRa693ECuLvD9XBA6JZ1CJ7LmEhOVGqihm2S_lseBeALluXe863O5JO6Js7OX7pPU1LmyDJSTpuuAizBkZ7ahyphenhyphenAz2xfDiEmyJ/s320/Sketchbook023.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369434186955359042" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl26_IehJGbZOLc4zVJeq0Ab7A2hc_TMhBpV633UMm2M5JuA7HD28Pi0jUHfefWi8RlOUs6KsuOB32YMsIurQwFgWXadalG259G1XeoNiqXoc6-YEhpZR0dBCypzjRebjNRRtIln3Lo903/s1600-h/Sketchbook021.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 185px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl26_IehJGbZOLc4zVJeq0Ab7A2hc_TMhBpV633UMm2M5JuA7HD28Pi0jUHfefWi8RlOUs6KsuOB32YMsIurQwFgWXadalG259G1XeoNiqXoc6-YEhpZR0dBCypzjRebjNRRtIln3Lo903/s320/Sketchbook021.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369432714884728642" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNmufrwitAXKjtICU2OJmwzxlhma3Kx8_yw1Fmo-2MLQ82AMP06RUPMU9Ah4vK4fcVwpbm_uR4QgY2uGULs-QBhl7JwfbnOPcCW0cohl_miDqOoHFEIC_BvqMaArGdILQWquT8nr2jDcsh/s1600-h/Sketchbook024.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNmufrwitAXKjtICU2OJmwzxlhma3Kx8_yw1Fmo-2MLQ82AMP06RUPMU9Ah4vK4fcVwpbm_uR4QgY2uGULs-QBhl7JwfbnOPcCW0cohl_miDqOoHFEIC_BvqMaArGdILQWquT8nr2jDcsh/s320/Sketchbook024.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369434472376952498" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmveptFo7O_Oc28YIr38hsWaBSi-6cThm9odwr5uyBqT4FLjSampGCpb7J23TwNDG5ELS8VMcKUxkwJncJNeLh9AJunMbh4pZ5B5U-A-G9poD8gPMcDOowrHxRP5gn9nqxqW_11IoZqsu5/s1600-h/Sketchbook022.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 157px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmveptFo7O_Oc28YIr38hsWaBSi-6cThm9odwr5uyBqT4FLjSampGCpb7J23TwNDG5ELS8VMcKUxkwJncJNeLh9AJunMbh4pZ5B5U-A-G9poD8gPMcDOowrHxRP5gn9nqxqW_11IoZqsu5/s320/Sketchbook022.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369433476615463970" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCLB_xSdnqRa-4rdV-fgTKWWHii3Om-_O-qAYXXXOqJtaJ1_Ml4FRyVdTBvsFxHs6negu3CAtRSayBS_6Bp8MWNbmiAL-GSQulpCEbRhJ58gGKGyJF0Kao4DAJVBWuxvX8nAgVYmFCrXBy/s1600-h/Sketchbook025.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 170px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCLB_xSdnqRa-4rdV-fgTKWWHii3Om-_O-qAYXXXOqJtaJ1_Ml4FRyVdTBvsFxHs6negu3CAtRSayBS_6Bp8MWNbmiAL-GSQulpCEbRhJ58gGKGyJF0Kao4DAJVBWuxvX8nAgVYmFCrXBy/s320/Sketchbook025.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369442267381604786" border="0" /></a>Tiddohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557249996813478129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705320044527430240.post-17719721941751816312009-07-11T14:30:00.013+02:002009-07-11T16:22:58.032+02:00The Big Make-Over.<span style="font-family:georgia;">Dear hopefuls,<br /><br />This time I'd better come through with the good stuff,<br />as promised before. And you know what? I just might.<br /><br />This animation is painted on paper and made for a school assignment<br />called the Remake, which was exactly that, expecting us<br />—hungry students— to remake (and —no pun intended— reanimate)<br />the work of an artist who's work we admired.<br /><br />My pick was Georg Baselitz, for more reasons than I am willing to type<br />about right now. Since my work tends to be quite fragile I'm always<br />looking for ways to be more bold in my expressions and Baselitz<br />seemed to me the appropriate vehicle to get there.<br />Apart from that I'm always looking for ways to make my characters<br />more stylized, without them becoming too cartoonish or childish.<br />In my opinion Baselitz is really great at this.<br /><br />Naturally I couldn't leave it at that, so I added several other studies:<br /><br />To not scale anything digitally, but just draw and paint it smaller if<br />needed. Personally, I hate outlines that become thicker or thinner when<br />anything animated moves closer or further away respectively.<br /><br />To animate a transition from one scene to another and make it a part<br />of the narrative (instead of just using a standard cut/wipe/dissolve).<br />When I scanned the animation and put it on a timeline it turned out<br />the narrative part didn't work out as well as I had meant it to be:<br />I had two scenes, one indoors with a man in the foreground and a<br />jacket in the background which the man puts on. Plus one outdoors<br />at night with a house set against a minimal background.<br /><br />A door opens, lighting the landscape, but the door is on the side of<br />the house we don't see, leaving us to just see the light coming out of it.<br />But since the painted animation makes for such a strong <span style="font-style: italic;">moving hold</span>,<br />one doesn't notice this light at all and what we see is a man putting on<br />a jacket whilst morphing to another image.<br /><br />It's sad, isn't it? But at least we can learn something from these terrible<br />flaws, don't we, hopefuls?<br />Enjoy. And laugh at me laying bare my pity attempts at making<br />something that legitimizes my existence.<br />But know that while you're laughing, I'm learning,<br />and one day all these lessons will fall into place.<br />Then I might make something you want to see, but I won't let you,<br />because you laughed. Sweet revenge.<br /><br /><br /></span><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxw0mmOuIO68cx1dXwt2ssUSKM4eTEPXz_gmmEE6WoK2ucD089x9gKkKYljAd8l9M3uebmyQVsh8hO9di2dqg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Tiddohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557249996813478129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705320044527430240.post-25189976222756588692009-07-06T16:55:00.008+02:002009-07-11T16:24:15.564+02:00Walkcycle!<span style="font-family:georgia;">Okay, so this is fairly old.<br />It's done on paper (!), which I like, and again this could have been<br />better, but there was just not enough room for improvement.<br />Lame excuse, I know, but next time I'll remember these flaws and<br />do it better. I promise.<br /><br />I should make more walkcycles I guess, it's good practice.<br /><br />My notes on this one:<br /><br />• The head needs some more attention, period;<br />• The upper half of his torso needs some more anticipation;<br />• His hands need to turn more;<br />• His right arm has one frame of inconsistent length, making it morph.<br /><br />Apart from it being on paper, it's on triples as well,<br />whereas I mostly animate on doubles, thus revealing the economic me.<br /><br />That's it for now, next post I'll add my painted animation.<br /><br /><br /></span><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwCE77q2PA_FqLSytqNrRipsE5-TK8yEq7f5NDbIts1rEUbznevy1QdSBKrqoXaowVyKd3GNe4zWoZlBNY-pg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Tiddohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557249996813478129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705320044527430240.post-13304945034175936792009-07-05T00:48:00.006+02:002009-07-11T16:23:59.536+02:00Sour Milk.<span style="font-family:georgia;">Now I can't go to bed and not upload my animation of the cat I mentioned in my previous post. The assignment was to find or make a 10 second audio fragment to animate upon. I chose a piece of dialogue from <span style="font-style: italic;">Lock, Stock</span> and animated these bad-ass wiseguy </span>cats. It's <span style="font-family:georgia;">lipsync was the main goal, but my personal agenda was especially drawn to the possibilities 2D offers that 3D can't and the problems that present themselves animating these lines that do not bow before realism.<br /><br /></span><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dw2MTKsR_bU5EaoP6Mz6JxHxkTdhSbtJsWIQDL_-mkgbZNm9pXxLsCW3vUR56Tb93x7zWIWJ9O9tPwsmXBYZA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Tiddohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557249996813478129noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705320044527430240.post-23312521215768805972009-07-05T00:16:00.015+02:002009-08-17T11:36:48.711+02:00Sketchbook Pt. IV<span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">After this one I'll post some animation again,<br />mainly because these sketches contains a reincarnation of a cat I animated.</span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggoKyUNp9-b3rDUgu97D4OeP0nJCZwYHTUyH3S6woZ8qsoCr6TUUhPHt8T4F48cgt4hb1LOKSd3RFmA8Jsyq07XxSDJ99HJpY9naEze1qxEfmYtmLPm40Hgiu2ZTlH2rXhp1FDKiv-LAb5/s1600-h/Sketchbook019.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 210px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggoKyUNp9-b3rDUgu97D4OeP0nJCZwYHTUyH3S6woZ8qsoCr6TUUhPHt8T4F48cgt4hb1LOKSd3RFmA8Jsyq07XxSDJ99HJpY9naEze1qxEfmYtmLPm40Hgiu2ZTlH2rXhp1FDKiv-LAb5/s320/Sketchbook019.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354734024616155858" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitKMjMt67BPITc0ym6owROW95nnd6-agKMrjg4aGLIAk_l2BjExVyT3-_EHqz3klPwVFTp1HZOICU_4nUY39b9ktE72cz6YA3ARpXlUbIHk3eSQH0gNC_aNymXtVpP5fPH3CLBbBtrdafK/s1600-h/Sketchbook020.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 222px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitKMjMt67BPITc0ym6owROW95nnd6-agKMrjg4aGLIAk_l2BjExVyT3-_EHqz3klPwVFTp1HZOICU_4nUY39b9ktE72cz6YA3ARpXlUbIHk3eSQH0gNC_aNymXtVpP5fPH3CLBbBtrdafK/s320/Sketchbook020.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354734034513320738" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Conchita drew a quick line for this one, and I had to finish and make something out of it.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />This little birdy here just begs for improvement, and I will, but not yet. I like the idea and want to animate it when ready.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYOtjAC-dEXDAH-PPsWTGOlj6eYCeZ7tINLhES1Vg1xryytKueKD_4PEIXgQ-Y3m80xeUwuK5yNgSNUdVHshouqUham89alemDaOiICYvC1p_SatBh11upluh7RXop5kXlq3btR0V0uIsw/s1600-h/Sketchbook018.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 279px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYOtjAC-dEXDAH-PPsWTGOlj6eYCeZ7tINLhES1Vg1xryytKueKD_4PEIXgQ-Y3m80xeUwuK5yNgSNUdVHshouqUham89alemDaOiICYvC1p_SatBh11upluh7RXop5kXlq3btR0V0uIsw/s320/Sketchbook018.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354734023683469138" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqjqjJO0fxfEZtrE9BVDClRS-evHeO66k8cIr8-yFWeg1-8Pj1sKWqHf5ylu3GltNaIcVcSaVex6_LeKTAtwXUSCdpGFzrfiX5XGOpSQijcgYQeQcPeS6N38kfLoR1cUAXJe6HvCVB6jQ_/s1600-h/Sketchbook017.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 243px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqjqjJO0fxfEZtrE9BVDClRS-evHeO66k8cIr8-yFWeg1-8Pj1sKWqHf5ylu3GltNaIcVcSaVex6_LeKTAtwXUSCdpGFzrfiX5XGOpSQijcgYQeQcPeS6N38kfLoR1cUAXJe6HvCVB6jQ_/s320/Sketchbook017.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354734015057393490" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJr9bfZm61hqD-MT2dWM5aMpxccpQ3cqLHTMXAxhO9zM5QPo-Dk3Fyy5qi6Lv1bg_izP8bhJ9xupyHsMneo2D6P3N7qKBDR7LZyA2Di7K6DrWT6w-o7jYbcUUDeffhZnMH-kXYPwQvkjab/s1600-h/Sketchbook016.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 228px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJr9bfZm61hqD-MT2dWM5aMpxccpQ3cqLHTMXAxhO9zM5QPo-Dk3Fyy5qi6Lv1bg_izP8bhJ9xupyHsMneo2D6P3N7qKBDR7LZyA2Di7K6DrWT6w-o7jYbcUUDeffhZnMH-kXYPwQvkjab/s320/Sketchbook016.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354734010539548322" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />So, here it is:<br />The cat that — like Cordell Barker's — just keeps on coming back. Nine lives would be nice I guess, though the nine deaths that inherently come paired with them would kill me.<br />Pun intended. Sorry for that. It's in my genes. Or my upbringing. Or both.<br /></span></span>Tiddohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557249996813478129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705320044527430240.post-66277296117673024492009-07-04T23:05:00.014+02:002009-07-11T16:24:59.903+02:00Sketchbook Pt. III<span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">As the spoiler of a title already suggested:<br />Here are some more sketches.</span></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0AqYz6VanKcpmp_7GcGoW-ac6RKk6g8BoMYfelcWv5PnBr5NzJXcNvzRneezAKDV39gfDn5a9sOxGfyZjaxeL1MKtqxDMhP4ENmZnqWsOVluSG9cHONJuEDT0fwyfW-Gv2GL8k1XHBcBY/s1600-h/Sketchbook014.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 210px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0AqYz6VanKcpmp_7GcGoW-ac6RKk6g8BoMYfelcWv5PnBr5NzJXcNvzRneezAKDV39gfDn5a9sOxGfyZjaxeL1MKtqxDMhP4ENmZnqWsOVluSG9cHONJuEDT0fwyfW-Gv2GL8k1XHBcBY/s320/Sketchbook014.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354714580195459202" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9tFiTW6Vlr3aIKw5G_lf695gwdThswWs8OtoBtw_D_7Jed48dQv5GAen3HGIIBEW6ls0hlWlmuDDuZ5vemxeC7GBkdlckqUNL71PxrBQQchNuJGX_-MYK5Q0yykiHkHrvRU5h0-drJUR0/s1600-h/Sketchbook013.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 223px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9tFiTW6Vlr3aIKw5G_lf695gwdThswWs8OtoBtw_D_7Jed48dQv5GAen3HGIIBEW6ls0hlWlmuDDuZ5vemxeC7GBkdlckqUNL71PxrBQQchNuJGX_-MYK5Q0yykiHkHrvRU5h0-drJUR0/s320/Sketchbook013.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354714580933249378" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEY6yGcIeEbGnV8ziQwFE1OCmxIWfsGaxhAkOUWIvdGIAbkvHG-wH-mgHYoRx5AxbdO69M1WB8rB2ehnRCMc6uzou6fX8Bg3FXrOlSZQ5c-bWcfqwIA4_42d4NcKA-K0cwYZ_YlMXGTWVH/s1600-h/Sketchbook012.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEY6yGcIeEbGnV8ziQwFE1OCmxIWfsGaxhAkOUWIvdGIAbkvHG-wH-mgHYoRx5AxbdO69M1WB8rB2ehnRCMc6uzou6fX8Bg3FXrOlSZQ5c-bWcfqwIA4_42d4NcKA-K0cwYZ_YlMXGTWVH/s320/Sketchbook012.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354714578440338530" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijtGcvERJ1dKathGt61X-KVUWczluM1l8ZXjk_RfaDFdUEa3R0ekByif9YQdi8NkKUxG79EKbm8LVcG-ZpP9QmFFTqOob-DhD3bCgYZ2TzNK5QI-akJTpHSwmX-x4sjSgb-thG76hg9zbM/s1600-h/Sketchbook011.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 209px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijtGcvERJ1dKathGt61X-KVUWczluM1l8ZXjk_RfaDFdUEa3R0ekByif9YQdi8NkKUxG79EKbm8LVcG-ZpP9QmFFTqOob-DhD3bCgYZ2TzNK5QI-akJTpHSwmX-x4sjSgb-thG76hg9zbM/s320/Sketchbook011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354714567956671490" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_sY2wn5gujctTIlRiZCcn6nxb8xyN7RaI1S6lauM4To0q0cKHibqkCWrZCzLUYTI5R2KepMDzY3bbukWAjn1TUIdhKerFOFmgpJYYvTcF7EYt-rX7HGkP4M5zRcQFW9t-O1_p2CU7d94V/s1600-h/Sketchbook015.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 249px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_sY2wn5gujctTIlRiZCcn6nxb8xyN7RaI1S6lauM4To0q0cKHibqkCWrZCzLUYTI5R2KepMDzY3bbukWAjn1TUIdhKerFOFmgpJYYvTcF7EYt-rX7HGkP4M5zRcQFW9t-O1_p2CU7d94V/s320/Sketchbook015.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354714584154983858" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />“The gynecologist had to hold back when he stared into the deepest of the bent-over construction worker's gash.”<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />“At least you<br />understand me!”</span>Tiddohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557249996813478129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705320044527430240.post-62557778386766150882009-07-04T22:40:00.014+02:002009-07-11T16:25:15.436+02:00Sketchbook Pt. II<span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">I still have quite some scanning to do,<br />but here is the second installment in what is intended as an ongoing series.</span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhULbJwDekmuuGTi229kOUT_UwB4rkByyVApgC-Xj2sCIA6pBz9TsXM55rLEYSX4Wp-DT1Qv7y3u3gS3QV261jILkIrvePzEL2UK4DnDWDVikBCqHJawiWg3U6-yc1K9o5Djo-b-L3yOTaS/s1600-h/Sketchbook010.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 231px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhULbJwDekmuuGTi229kOUT_UwB4rkByyVApgC-Xj2sCIA6pBz9TsXM55rLEYSX4Wp-DT1Qv7y3u3gS3QV261jILkIrvePzEL2UK4DnDWDVikBCqHJawiWg3U6-yc1K9o5Djo-b-L3yOTaS/s320/Sketchbook010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354709204429476354" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:georgia;">This one reads:</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">“Jonah came without a toothpick”</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjerRkWEgDJzm25Kpqr8BZZuEp9rLKozTZA6omSS-JXLZE2cyQXV16MC05yPInACSs2klc-haUxZ1exqsDHM-a_O-2cLTxqlGgoswfxC-42KB1cGeNTS27tCaTCtlFGR3UJumIk0OZWL0wO/s1600-h/Sketchbook007.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 222px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjerRkWEgDJzm25Kpqr8BZZuEp9rLKozTZA6omSS-JXLZE2cyQXV16MC05yPInACSs2klc-haUxZ1exqsDHM-a_O-2cLTxqlGgoswfxC-42KB1cGeNTS27tCaTCtlFGR3UJumIk0OZWL0wO/s320/Sketchbook007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354709194568173890" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right; font-family: georgia;">Oh boy,<br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">if only I had a boat...</span><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIZWV9lJHOOf0bgjR8eBtxpv-AUg8pEAnI55g4ezPYll7AsQG1el6vJD8HMOBplpJRhIH4qAs-jitTB9sG2Vrp5hEuaaYuPdPHvgzfF0szwcxGFhIW5y5-0TVPK62s-dHyKcskQRfnoaU1/s1600-h/Sketchbook006.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 218px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIZWV9lJHOOf0bgjR8eBtxpv-AUg8pEAnI55g4ezPYll7AsQG1el6vJD8HMOBplpJRhIH4qAs-jitTB9sG2Vrp5hEuaaYuPdPHvgzfF0szwcxGFhIW5y5-0TVPK62s-dHyKcskQRfnoaU1/s320/Sketchbook006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354709191216049746" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKXX_THeNtp2m9_WwHCXTNgWHTKvvCiDCgUWHOltQigyW4c8FjDhizCywWyXs7WozrUbxsQhNMZFOA9LZhr3KLBaCtnxxfu7px8erjkcP45heQ4n911Toh6JyLlVqooHIIzhsTcQpsxFG7/s1600-h/Sketchbook009.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 215px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKXX_THeNtp2m9_WwHCXTNgWHTKvvCiDCgUWHOltQigyW4c8FjDhizCywWyXs7WozrUbxsQhNMZFOA9LZhr3KLBaCtnxxfu7px8erjkcP45heQ4n911Toh6JyLlVqooHIIzhsTcQpsxFG7/s320/Sketchbook009.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354709202347941970" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZBNF7heU0RAuoPXnwgzmjlwQKpdHOgSwhO4IpHVZSwHa0s-RVdN1wdIh4h5mrAFuYKy0MpKXQAWfzvfzzsnQ5critqDLxylI6Bbqh6rxB2PLKQ-4Azic-tkIGWSxbAPloUe1h3e648iJH/s1600-h/Sketchbook008.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 218px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZBNF7heU0RAuoPXnwgzmjlwQKpdHOgSwhO4IpHVZSwHa0s-RVdN1wdIh4h5mrAFuYKy0MpKXQAWfzvfzzsnQ5critqDLxylI6Bbqh6rxB2PLKQ-4Azic-tkIGWSxbAPloUe1h3e648iJH/s320/Sketchbook008.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354709197366934770" border="0" /></a>Tiddohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557249996813478129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705320044527430240.post-4924038545451238682009-07-04T22:04:00.010+02:002009-07-11T16:25:37.071+02:00Sketchbook Pt. I<span style="font-family:georgia;">Sweet, beloved and dear hopefully loyal readers to be,</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Today I figured it a great day to provide you with some sketches,</span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">as we all know how important frequently drawing is if one desires improvement.</span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Now you may decide whether I can live up to my desires, because improvement is what I seek, although I'm not sure how conscious an effort I make drawing in my sketchbook.</span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Most of all I guess I just sketch whatever is on my mind or catches my eyes.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">What is your main reason for sketching?</span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Is it practice?</span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Is it an addiction?</span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">A basic need?</span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">A reminder?</span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">All of the above?</span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Something entirely else?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Would you consider it an important activity?</span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">I know I do. And of course I should practice more.</span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">And there's tons of other stuff I'd want or should do more,</span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">but I simply can't and have to focus on just a few things.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Association of the day:</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">“Look, I've never had a dream in my life<br />Because a dream is what you wanna do, but still haven't pursued<br />I knew what I wanted and did it till it was done<br />So i've been the dream that I wanted to be since day one...”<br /> <br />— Aesop Rock, No Regrets</span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4YnlpF8j1cCG3ZJInJ2Fq7Rw-AfwEh5enlnGaNGzcaZRqBnNJGgupDYjLLi1py3WaOgNUEtPE9jVIymFQh13sKjbC_bqQkqS7Ht1Fagnvx7sArj8yrTtc8SWWsq5_zRwpI9Xa5GZUi4dX/s1600-h/Sketchbook004.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 222px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4YnlpF8j1cCG3ZJInJ2Fq7Rw-AfwEh5enlnGaNGzcaZRqBnNJGgupDYjLLi1py3WaOgNUEtPE9jVIymFQh13sKjbC_bqQkqS7Ht1Fagnvx7sArj8yrTtc8SWWsq5_zRwpI9Xa5GZUi4dX/s320/Sketchbook004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354704740580625330" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTB5WR9pMIxKEKe84MkNKZ_q0Ou8ijz38Og1RERLV0W9L6WEG42FM0Z89ER8MqFL5kT3OO0WMrwuel9QoaSc4FhYtYqQtRqOr-CwtBdsoyuG6RiXfKselfEdsucPTCyF2ODEsFlQcLdw4-/s1600-h/Sketchbook003.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTB5WR9pMIxKEKe84MkNKZ_q0Ou8ijz38Og1RERLV0W9L6WEG42FM0Z89ER8MqFL5kT3OO0WMrwuel9QoaSc4FhYtYqQtRqOr-CwtBdsoyuG6RiXfKselfEdsucPTCyF2ODEsFlQcLdw4-/s320/Sketchbook003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354704738436323538" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgshc69JG7esGaewHfPXIsF25SFXGZveq2qCYVUXjDKZFl-marCQis-6JKInLChFg5QYjW2Fahmb4dF0IUyjpp6PG86Q6l6pt4plnGvrmotxSSqNJibNu749HwJUot74RKJxeY6Vza99fIM/s1600-h/Sketchbook002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgshc69JG7esGaewHfPXIsF25SFXGZveq2qCYVUXjDKZFl-marCQis-6JKInLChFg5QYjW2Fahmb4dF0IUyjpp6PG86Q6l6pt4plnGvrmotxSSqNJibNu749HwJUot74RKJxeY6Vza99fIM/s320/Sketchbook002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354704732151676178" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyhbYmmdZZ-BOpGEmkQ9eOxh09Ia9osxskGV5ixq3U3zwLI3cJP6MTHcSR1w82edP003tNhwsDdbnIPWvnuUV7Mm-3l7HWUCEpBbEMb6BK764uEWyPOSoCRQxoXI5myGZ1Gq0DEwZoyQoe/s1600-h/Sketchbook005.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 238px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyhbYmmdZZ-BOpGEmkQ9eOxh09Ia9osxskGV5ixq3U3zwLI3cJP6MTHcSR1w82edP003tNhwsDdbnIPWvnuUV7Mm-3l7HWUCEpBbEMb6BK764uEWyPOSoCRQxoXI5myGZ1Gq0DEwZoyQoe/s320/Sketchbook005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354704741122795362" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIPUq9_tlRTIrDMdMlyyVuu6MjQGg9nGoXnZdJ3GKFfKRNuyo1Ujfy47sN_y1OOaHLR5N6CcYQadnRZMfYEPO7ddmLBbAlrcW8aCFEfs8NUiUwLc1l4hlJvPpPQPmBYuGVjkHyso88-CNr/s1600-h/Sketchbook001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 218px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIPUq9_tlRTIrDMdMlyyVuu6MjQGg9nGoXnZdJ3GKFfKRNuyo1Ujfy47sN_y1OOaHLR5N6CcYQadnRZMfYEPO7ddmLBbAlrcW8aCFEfs8NUiUwLc1l4hlJvPpPQPmBYuGVjkHyso88-CNr/s320/Sketchbook001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354704726453045938" border="0" /></a>Tiddohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557249996813478129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705320044527430240.post-20794289248751344682009-06-19T07:42:00.006+02:002009-07-11T16:26:12.236+02:00The Lift<span style="font-family:georgia;">There's still quite some room for improvement, and I'm dying to do some shading. But since both would include a lot of work and I don't have the time to do so —plus this school assignment doesn't require me to put in even more work— I'd rather spend it on some other project.<br /><br /></span><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dygRWY5PgxJFwho1v3mXCB5bh_mWFb58cRSayZbQWlnU3FgGGZ6oUGZW8HEEXVm-JVN_g0_wZTHCxqRsvLitQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Tiddohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557249996813478129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705320044527430240.post-36150302206946969602009-05-31T14:25:00.006+02:002009-07-11T16:27:04.392+02:00Grouptherapy.<span style="font-family:georgia;">The current half</span><span style="font-family:georgia;"> of the third year in my Bachelor of Animation curriculum consists of a group assignment for an external organization. I'm not sure exactly how vivid I can kick it, so I won't give you the skinny. In fact: I'll only give you </span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >— my sweet, beloved and dear hopefully loyal reader to be — </span><span style="font-family:georgia;"> some eyecandy.</span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Conchita (check out her blog </span><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://kaninche.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-style: italic;">Knien!</span></a><span style="font-family:georgia;">) and I worked on the textures, Jasper (blogless to my knowledge) got his CG on and I drew the bricks that make up the round square. Apart from that I digitally hand-drew the metamorphosis-mask. Then I gave this scene back to CG Jasper, who is finishing the compositing, adding animated objects to make the whole thing more convincing.</span><br /><br /><embed style="font-family: georgia;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://s572.photobucket.com/flash/player.swf?file=http://vid572.photobucket.com/albums/ss170/oxfamanimatoren/OXFAM-MorfScene6-Test.flv" height="361" width="448"></embed>Tiddohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557249996813478129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705320044527430240.post-52207144424846988222009-05-30T23:54:00.009+02:002009-07-03T15:13:15.310+02:00It's me! Is it not?<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >At long last the time has come for me to participate in the circus of shameless self-promotion that we like to call <span style="font-style: italic;">blogging</span>.</span><br /><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >So what can you — hopefully loyal reader to be — expect on this ever so small corner of the internet?</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >Process and Progress. The first being a logical result of me blogging, the latter being more an aspiration of some sorts.</span><br /><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >An ambiguously semi-official portfolio, if you will.</span><br /><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >So no overtly pretentious and wordy blogs that mystify the core of the world I struggle to vividly portray as if they were thick layers of impenetrable crust. No deviations of the route carefully mapped out, my quest to the future, a journey on which I will take you — dear hopefully loyal reader to be — in a straight-and-vertical-yet-dynamic , majestic, graphic line!</span><br /><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >In search of the new me, my future me, my better me, my me'er me, I now ask you — my beloved and dear hopefully loyal reader to be — to join me on this very pilgrimage! It might be a rough ride, it might not always be pretty, but at least we can take comfort in the fact that we're not on our own.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >'Cause that would be silly.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >Images coming soon. Really. I promise.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >Regards,</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >TSFKAM</span><br /></div>Tiddohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07557249996813478129noreply@blogger.com1