This title unimaginatively refers to both recent life and old work.

Hopefuls,

I should be terribly sorry,
yet somehow I'm not.
The sweetest girl in the world is in Tanzania right now,
so I've been keeping myself busy lately as to not be reminded.
“Reminded of what?” you might ask —and rightfully so—
and on this very topic —an emotionally strong one at that—
I will enlighten you this awfully late blog.

Today's topic is loneliness. Yes.
Cooking for myself is a far cry from cooking for her
and our bed has morphed into a boring place.
Now, I'm not sure about the morphing part,
nonetheless: it's become a boring place.
As has our home.

Luckily work provides some distraction,
of which I got plenty, yet is as you might imagine:
Just. Not. The same.

It's fun as well, the work.
But I cannot provide you with any recent developments.
At least, not yet.
But of course I've got this big, big pile of animations
from which I'd be delighted to pick you some goodies.

Now only to make this theme work...
So I mentioned loneliness, animation has this romantic
image of the animator working day and night
(emphasis on the 'night'-part) on films in the attic.
But this one I made together with a classmate,
Marlyn Spaaij, who has no website whatsoever.
But we made this for a Dutch tv-show
touching the subject of melanism,
animating to a pre-existing soundtrack.

My contributions list as follows:

• Paper texture
• Bambi's birth (not the mother though)
• The jaguar (including texture - animated to follow it's stretch)
• The 2D animated 3D'ish building
• The butterfly
• The sound design

Sour Milk.

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 Lock, Stock and animated these bad-ass wiseguy cats. It's 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.

The Lift

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.

Grouptherapy.

The current half 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 — my sweet, beloved and dear hopefully loyal reader to be — some eyecandy.
Conchita (check out her blog Knien!) 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.