This assignment was fun! Still struggling with TV Paint (the first assignment in TV Paint, the flying bird, was SO hard for me!) but I did better this time.

The task was: there is a frog, a fly comes in, what happens next? Everyone was super creative! It was lots of fun watching all the clips together.

Assignment: Walk Cycle & Attitude Walk

We had these subjects with Alberto Campos, he's such a fun person and gave us a lot of creative freedom. Working with Pink Panther was surprisingly difficult!

Walk number one:




And for the attitude walk we were encouraged to show our progression from live-action reference (i.e. ourselves) to the final thing and set it to music. My final is still very rough.

Introduction to Photoshop

We had a brief two-day introduction to using Photoshop. To this end we had to design a monster in an environment to colour in PS. Mostly I just messed around and tried out different functions, being a complete PS noob. In hindsight I see a lot of design issues (besides my obvious technical shortcomings) but well, first try and all that. Still like my monster!

Inbetweening: Aisling

We got a professional scene from the great "The Secret of Kells" to inbetween. This is my result, I'm fairly happy with it.

Assignment: Drawing for Animation

"Drawing for Animation" with Frederik Villumsen was great, his approach to animation and flow really helped me a lot. We had to animate Mickey doing magic and failing. In hindsight I played it too safe with this animation, but I still quite like the calmer attitude.

 

Design I

Design I with Lawrence was tough tough tough (who knew arranging three boxes and a line on a piece of paper could drive you to your limits like that?) but eye-opening.

 

"Arrange three boxes and one line as dynamically as possible, only right angles." Failed, of course. Still, Lawrence said at least I had the balls to put in a huge box at the top.

 

 The taste of dark chocolate - my "poetic association" was spruce tree sap on dry moss.

 

Imagery for the jazz album "Kind of blue" by Miles Davis.

 

 

"Hamlet", first scene: the ghost appears. I associate death with outer space and stars, so I chose not to make the ghost white, but to have cold space visible through him, trailing stars.

Construction & Perspective: Acting Exercise

After working on constructing a simple character by the example of a Mickey Mouse model sheet we were given the task to illustrate this little gem by Ollie Johnson in three poses:

A man desperately in love with a girl far away carefully mails a letter in which he has poured his heart out.
 

 



Construction & Perspective: Prehistoric Composition

One of my favourite assignments so far, we had to do eight thumbnails with the theme "Prehistoric," focusing on composition. It did not have to be a cohesive story but there should be a consistent character present in all the thumbnails. I chose my protagonist to be my favourite dinosaur, the parasauropholus.

Next we had to pick one of our thumbnails and rework it in a bigger size, paying even more attention to clear construction and composition.



Construction & Perspective: Goose Sketches

First assignment of the third week, "Construction and Perspective" with Magnus Møller. Task: stop this clip of a pencil test randomly 10 times and draw the pose, focusing on line of action, proportions and solid construction.



Introduction Week Film

This is the film I made in collaboration with three other students during our first two weeks, "Introduction to Digital Filmmaking" with Sunnit Parekh-Gaihede. We had to work with an audio clip that was given to us and chose to work with paper cut-out stop-motion animation.

 



Furthermore, here's some of the artwork done to determine the ultimate design of our main character.