Time to move!

http://piasdatter.blogspot.dk/

I have made a new and improved blog! Still a bit empty, but I shall make an effort to fill it up with stuff that I do. On a more regular basis.
The adventures of the student life at the animation workshop will continue on the new blog where my 3'rd year and biggest adventure will be documented a little more regularly, The Bachelor Film!

I enlisted to the project known as Borislav, it even have it's very own blog: http://aboutborislav.blogspot.dk/
And it is a great and exciting project.


That's all.

And here's another old project, one that I really did enjoy.

THE PROJECT QUADRUPED!

 An animator and a CG Artist worked together on a design for a quadruped, in our case; an undead steampunk chetah, creatively named Cheetpunk, and then the CG Artist would do everything but the animation which the animator (I) ofcause did.

 I was very happy with working with my CG Artist colleague Mille. She did a hell of a job :D


 

I really am neglecting this place. I've been too busy and tired to remember to update. So there's a few of the pieces I've made these last 6 months that i kinda liked coming up shortly. For starters, here's a dialogue exercise: Going for a bit of Noir. Hi-jack my fiance for shooting reference for this ;)

Trailer project

The CGA's finished the projects! and they are amazing.
I helped animating on this one. Especially the four legged spider man. quadrupeds are fun :D

Hello again!

gosh, why can't I change the email for this blog?

Anyways, we're back in school, have been for some weeks, and we're learning Maya. It's time for this blog to get back on track.

I have here a small video of some of our assignments, featuring pixar's Luxo Lamp, the floursack and Hogan! Enjoy!

the end of the year

So it's time for yet another update. This one will contain my pictures from colour class and my first year exam.

At the moment we are having an introduction to Maya, the results from this will be my last update from the school year, so tune in again on Wednesday for Maya by n00b pictures.

For colour class we had Tod Polson as teacher. Cool guy, talented and a good teacher too. Mind you most of our class was really distracted at this time by some pre-exam stress stuff, but he managed to knock some knowledge into our preoccupied heads. Now THAT'S skills.
Secondly, I never liked paint much and for this week we would only use paint... i genuinely suck at it. But I actually feel that I've got some better control over blending the colours. Guess I should keep practising with paint...
oh well I managed to make this throughout the week..

And sooo.
For the exam, we encounter a familiar face, DANNY THE CAT from cats don't dance, yeeey! We had him for our midterm test too, so we know the character, which is a plus, the minus is we're a bit tired of him, but what the f.. for old times sake then :D
He should stumble into the frame in a hurry, out of breath, catch his breath, answer the phone, realise the caller hung up and then look at the phone angrily.

Escape project - the end

With Darko Belevski as supervisor we ended the Escape Project. It's been running for almost half a year and in the end we get 5 days to animate 5 seconds, doing clean up and color, while the CG Artists were making our backgrounds and editing it all together in the weekend. But we did it with a lot and coffee and some long nights of fun. And more coffee.
Did i mention the coffee?

Remember the character design we were doing with julia that I posted in an earlier post? Well now he moves!



I wish we had ten seconds though. I hope they correct that next year.
Anyways it was lots of fun to do this project and Thanks to my CGA pal Niels Peter :) we did awesome.

Dance Animation with Darko Belevski

And so we embarked on an epic journey into the land of dance animation. I play Dragon Age a lot, so of cause I would take this opportunity to animate a dancing Fenris. (If you have played Dragon Age 2 and payed attention to the party banter you will probably recognize this joke)



My only regret is that it is so short. the rest is okay I think. Lots of stuff to correct but you can always improve something. For now this rules all right. But ask me again in a 2 weeks time.

Ring My Bell the movie

the premiere of the animation jam is over, i wished you were there, it was awesome.

I present to you, the result of group 3's two weeks at the animation Jam



Ring My Bell

Ring My Bell from edith bach on Vimeo.

Happy easter

here my awesome team mates
http://www.o-loken.blogspot.com/
http://clara-fb.blogspot.com/

Ring My Bell

COMING SOON! STAY TUNED!

Massive Update

I am sorry that I am so bad at updating. I now have several people poking my side to remember to update.

So. To catch up, we have been doing some layouts. This was a very nice week as we were doing the layouts for a deleted scene from the emperors new groove, which is frankly a terribly funny and nice movie.

And we had a very nice teacher too, a Marec Fritzinger, who opened our eyes to the wonders of layouting. (I don't think that is a actual word but i'll let the stay anyways.)

 Right so. The first layout i did was the jungle, that went pretty well and i rather like this drawing.

 The value drawring is pretty neat too. Lets see if i can't find it.

woop there we go. Sweet huh!?

Well as neat as i think that is, just as horrible is this. I failed and totally forgot that it had to match the style. My bad. Sorry group.

BEFORE the week of layouts, we were doing dialogue animation with Mike Polvani. Super sweet guy, who basicly taught us that dialogue if funny sh*t. Those are my words ofcause, and im sorry for the language.

Yes. So in the two weeks of dialogue animation i got to do this.

Dialogue from edith bach on Vimeo.

And again, this was a couple of weeks I really enjoyed. Thanks Mike :) ... uh yeah, and school, thank you school.

Even before the two weeks of dialogue animation, we're sort of going backwards in time here, we had the week of NON-DIALOGUE, with some guys we already knew. Melis Arulepp and Laura B. Schødt. Wonderful people the school gets us as teachers :)

Basically, what they made us do was: pick a character, Bernard from the rescuers, Alice from Alice in wonderland or Robert from 101 Dalmatians (I went with Bernard, always liked those movies. And he was the only animal.) Then put him on a blind date and make him wait!

Cruel. I mean, they already ruined his would be marriage to the fair Bianca so he can go on a date and then he have to wait. I'd like to think the date never even shows up, that would just end the circle. Perfect.

And so that what i did. See?

Non dialogue from edith bach on Vimeo.

And i dont think i've shown this either. Danny the cat jumping over a hole in the sidewalk. This is our Midway test :)

Midway test from edith bach on Vimeo.

timely update

About time there was an update.

First i'll show of this sweet little thing, we were going to a concert with the national, but they were having dinner at the same restaurant as us. That called for some doodle time, and my brother got them to sign them.

 

These last couple of weeks we have been designing our charactors for the escape project, more of that project to come. The designing of the charactor is us animators job in this project so we got to it.

First we played around with some happy accidents. Collage helped me a lot, and i turned a perfectly fine (and defenceless) violin into this poor lizard thing. He will spend the rest of his life being scared out of his mind.

Next step was making a Maquette. I want more of that, clay is fun!

Played with some volume, thought this was awesome and better..

..but it wasn't so i returned to the proportions of the collage, and made the construction sheet from that.

Had to do some test animations after here, and shot some reference. I should ask people to play a scared lizard some more.

Enter the makings of a turn-a-round (visual below) some a pose-sheets and a lot of notes.

And finally an example of the style the poor thing will be made in.

Design class

So designclass with Lawrence part two. This was hard. I have little to no skills in this class.
So here are two of the assignments.

 This first one i really liked. We were playing with values. And yes, thats a duck.

This last one is not good... yet. I need to learn how to render.
And the detials almost killed me just by making the line.

I will beat you, rendering! I shall be the winner!
... some other day.












trust me I am gonna finish this sooner or later!

Clean Up

Like everything else at this school (or everything about animation for that matter) i like the process of clean up, its just that I rarely do clean up drawings, and my clean lines are often really rough. I am not crazy for clean up, but it's nice to sit and draw. I just prefer sketches, and can you really blame me? Sketches are awesome, matter of fact! Lucky for me our teacher, this week it's Slaven, don't want really clean lines. Life savior!

Anyways, back on track, it doesn't help that the character is Balto from, yeah you guessed it, Balto. Through that movie that dog changes design 5 billion times, just in our reference sheets he changes. So the task is to make it consistent and not necessarily make it look like Balto.

here is what i have so far, i slowed it down a bit in the last part, else you cant really see whats going on.

balto clean up from edith bach on Vimeo.

It is what it is. The animation we got was pretty ruff, and i think i did pretty okay, there's still some details to be fixed, and right now i can't see if the lines really are consistent or not, but i suspect they can be worked on still.

Penne-prøve

A little late update on last weeks penne-prøve.
5 students from the danish film school came here with animatics. Our class got divided into groups and we were given to a film school student, also called "our director" because that was their job, our job was to make the director happy.

My group, group 4, got a really nice director person by the name Claudia, really sweet and really good to work with. We started out with spending a whole day drawing the character, a day well spend i must say. At the end of the first day we all drew the character the same way and divided the scenes between us.

Our story was "uglerede", a owl moves into her new apartment after a breakup, and she is very sad about the situation.

These are my scenes.

scene 38, where she wipes away a tear:

uglerede sc 38 from edith bach on Vimeo.

and scene 45 where she kisses a heart shaped photograph before tossing it out the window:

uglerede sc 45 from edith bach on Vimeo.

all in all it was a good week for my group, we really were a team. We communicated well inbetween the animators and the director, and the director knew what she wanted while she still were large enough to take suggestions from us. I'd really like to work with her again actually.

All this was overlooked by our most skilled teacher Fabian Erlinghäuser, who works for Cartoon Saloon. We wish he comes back again sometime.

Ruff Hug

acting class: interaction hug from edith bach on Vimeo.

Rough animation of Kala from Tarzan hugging Hogarth from Iron Giant. OK you can't see that it is Hogarth but he is so difficult to draw and i didn't want to spend too much time making him look right before I'd got the animation right.

England, summer of 2010

Last summer I went to London, met some interesting people..

Who had some interesting idea's ..

Some wanted a tattoo

And I got this annoying song in my head for days. My buddy and I did NOT approve..

Obviously.

But all in all a pretty awesome trip. I'm going back there.

Random glimpse into the past is caused  by my findings of the sketchbook. It was hiding you see.

Inbetweening Ashling

Ashling Inbetweening from edith bach on Vimeo.

Inbetweening week one.
We were given the extremes and breakdowns for this wonderful scene from the movie "Secrets of Kells", which you really should see if you haven't. It's an experience for the senses .. well for me anyways.
Back on track, the assignment was to inbetween this scene, and it fast became really clear that this was a hard one, so i prioritized making at least one inbetween between each keyframe, but making them right.

I've spend soooo much time on each drawing, I'm usually faster. Guess it's because I had to think a lot, which I'm not too familiar with while drawing. I got really into this. I really enjoyed it because it was almost hypnotizing, but at the same time it was really draining. And there's still a lot of mistakes, but certainly less than there would be than if I went for finishing instead of getting it right. I'm pretty satisfied with how this went. I got to try some new things <3

Fallen angel.

Vacation have been busy, unfortunately not much animation have been made this week. I went to "middelaldercenteret" on Falster, a center that gives the visitors a tour in the everyday life in the year 1400. GREAT place to sketch, even though i was fast to take in the stories of dead horses with three legs, ghosts, little men in hills that hate iron and werewolves. I liked this sketch very much, and ended up finishing it and correct some stuff in photoshop.

sad little john

sad little john from edith bach on Vimeo.

the "sad little john" i did as a straight-ahead. The fruit of a week with an artblock.
I was very sad to be useless a mere week before the vacation, especially with the rest of the class so productive and two great teachers, Mike Nguyen and Frederik.

I feel that i was very lucky with this.