Thursday, February 24, 2011

The making of a commercial short from Aardman

This is a "making of"-film from Aardman, a commercial for a swedish bank, "swedbank".

- It just looks so fun to work with stop motion, doesn't it? Real materials, dolls you can touch with your fingers....
(- sigh, ...back to my maya blocking, staring at the screen....) :-)

Sunday, February 20, 2011

The neverending frustration of a musician

Jeeeez - over a month since I last posted anything. Shame on me.

But - anyway....
Here is what I have been busy with lately. Right now I am in the middle of the "introduction to acting" class of animation mentor under the guidance of mentor Nicole Herr.

Here is the first assignment from this class; "Stewie vs. Bach"
If you ever have played an instrument you know how frustrating it can be at times :-)



As an extra bonus for those of you who are interested - here is the videoreference clip I used to study the scene.

Body language as presented by Desmond Morris

Desmond Morris, The Human animal, BBC series. Series in 6 parts, this is the third one "the language of the body". Good stuff for wanna-be-animators. :-)



part1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1IEfdsD5H0&feature=related
part2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLfbG8VTIyA&feature=related
part3: (this one) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDQklRKeF2g&feature=related
part4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa9XJA-czXI&feature=related
part5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeF7nOdqHfs&feature=related