Dance Animation

So this was a two week course. We had to animate a character dancing to a short piece of music. The cool thing was that we could choose any character. Some people had a lot of fun with this. I wound up created my own character, Eggshell. Had a lot of fun with him - might have to use him again for something else :D

The dance:

The dance with background:

A fun couple of weeks indeed.

Jonas bm

Animation Jam!!

!! indeed :D

The Animation Jam went for two weeks and we worked in groups of roughly 3 people (one group had 4). We took a short film from concept to finished product. It was quite the rollercoaster and certainly not the most laid back course we've had. I think it came out pretty good, though.

Made in collaboration with Natalia Marcos and Sirid Garff. Special thanks to Dionysis Douliakas for doing the rap.

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Layouts for Animation

Been a while.

After two weeks of taking it easy with some dialogue animation, we put animation aside to work on layout. We were given storyboards for a sequence from 'The Emperor's New Groove' that never made it into the film. We got two scenes/shots each to make layouts for. In my part, the story is that Kuzco put on a little 'play', showing the destruction of Pacha's village.

All in all, a good, challenging week and a nice change of pace. Had the most fun with the bottom one.

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You See? - Dialogue

We had two weeks for this assigment, and we were encouraged to take it easy, relax and have fun with it. We had the choice between four sound bytes, and I chose one lifted from 'Plan 9 from Outer Space', which I have sadly yet to see.

I really enjoyed the two weeks. The teacher was great (Mike Polvani) - the stories he could tell :D

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Character Design

A while ago we had two weeks of character design, which was really cool and fun. We started out with a warmup exercise, designing two characters foir an imagined ad campaign involving lightbulbs.

Then we got to work on a character design for a project we're doing with the CG class. The project is spread out over the year. We'll get to animating in a month or so.

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Birds Flying, Cows Invading

Somehow I keep forgetting to update this blog. These assignments are from some weeks ago. A short introduction to After Effects and Photoshop. A fun, challenging week.

First up, draw and color a superhero in Photoshop. I thought up my own hero, so there :D

Next putting a bird from a previous course into a world.

And lastly, the most fun assignment, I reckon, simply entitled: 'Close Encounter'. More of an enCOWnter, heh heh - you'll get it in a minute :D

And that was that week.

Jonas bm

The Blind Date

This assignment's a bit old now, but here it is: Roger waiting for a blind date.

Jonas bm