Back to Characteranimation

After a lot of compositing and greenscreenwork, I worked on a good oldfashioned 3D animation project. I was asked to create a mascotte for OBOMD, a dutch schoolorganisation. So I went back to the drawingdesk, and brainstormed all kinds of fluffy monsters. image

I had about two weeks to complete 3 short bumpers. I did all the 3D modeling in Luxology’s modo 601. As concepts for the animations came in, the list of objects I had to model slowly grew.

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The character animation was done by Carin Huurnink. All conceptdesign, modelling, texturing, fur, lighting and compositing was done by me.

The fur proved to be a challenge to get done in time, but after the first animation I settled on a faster and more predictable workflow. Having to push out these animations in a really short time learned me a great bunch of fur tricks. image

I look forward do to some more characterwork like this. image

Broadcast Yim&Yoyo

Today the short film Yim & Yoyo aired on national television channel Nederland 3. The film, one in a series of 6 shorts called Nu of Nooit! for Zapp, KRO and Mediafonds, premiered in Amsterdam last Sunday in theater EYE.

It was an honor to have participated in the making of this short(as the on set VFX supervisor, see this earlier post for pictures), and hope to someday work with the crew on other projects in the future.

Update:

You can now watch the show here.

Dubsteptrooper

A new project I’m working on right now is called Dubsteptrooper. A few very talented friends of mine started this Star Wars fan project, and I joined Giso Spijkerman(director) and Koen Leerink(producer) as part of the main crew to work on compositing and shading/texturing. It’s going to be an all blue screen short movie, so all digital sets. Watching the films again for reference is a lot of fun. You start to realize how little the movies actually show you of the sets, so a many things have to come from our own imagination. We’re still just in preproduction, but here are some WIP images from me.

A WIP of the cockpit of an Emperial Walker I’m working on.

A test render I did of a hangar with Emperial Walkers.

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