Projects of Doom!

2009-11-06T00:26:00.005+01:00

Thought I had a good inspiration source for my DC3 module project. The old runes of the norse people, the Futhark. Each rune got some sort of meaning or symbolism. Also it's an alphabet, which is what the whole assignemt is supposed to be about (or vaugely connected to, from what I hear from the teachers).

UCS	Transliteration	IPA	Proto-Germanic name	Meaning
ᚠ	f	/f/	*fehu	"wealth, cattle"
ᚢ	u	/u(ː)/	?*ūruz	"aurochs" (or *ûram "water/slag"?)
ᚦ	þ	/θ/, /ð/	?*þurisaz	"the god Thor, giant"
ᚨ	a	/a(ː)/	*ansuz	"one of the Æsir (gods)"
ᚱ	r	/r/	*raidō	"ride, journey"
ᚲ	k	/k/	?*kaunan	"ulcer"? (or *kenaz "torch"?)
ᚷ	g	/g/	*gebō	"gift"
ᚹ	w	/w/	*wunjō	"joy"
ᚺ ᚻ	h	/h/	*hagalaz	"hail" (the precipitation)
ᚾ	n	/n/	*naudiz	"need"
ᛁ	i	/i(ː)/	*īsaz	"ice"
ᛃ	j	/j/	*jēra-	"year, good year, harvest"
ᛇ	ï (or æ)	/æː/(?)	ī(h)waz/ei(h)waz	"yew-tree"
ᛈ	p	/p/	?*perþ-	meaning unclear, perhaps "pear-tree".
ᛉ	z	/z/	?*algiz	unclear, possibly "elk".
ᛊ	s	/s/	*sōwilō	"Sun"
ᛏ	t	/t/	tīwaz/teiwaz	"the god Tiwaz"
ᛒ	b	/b/	*berkanan	"birch"
ᛖ	e	/e(ː)/	*ehwaz	"horse"
ᛗ	m	/m/	*mannaz	"Man"
ᛚ	l	/l/	*laguz	"water, lake" (or possibly *laukaz "leek")
ᛜ ᛝ	ŋ	/ŋ/	*ingwaz	"the god Ingwaz"
ᛟ	o	/o(ː)/	ōþila-/ōþala-	"heritage, estate, possession"
ᛞ	d	/d/	*dagaz	"day"

(Copypasted of Wikipedia, so the images gets the boot. I'm mostly putting it here so I can find it whenever.)

But given a second look, it's actually quite hard to put some visual ideas down to each. And so many damn trees! o_o

Also, there needs to be some secondary research here. I mean... Ulcer? Realy? But hey, I don't need to be compleatly accurate. And I'm shure as hell won't call Yngvi Ingwaz, or Tyr Tiwas.

Anywhooo... I'm falling a bit behind on this one as well. Work work.

2009-11-03T15:26:00.002+01:00

RESEARCH!
I've been a bit sick and fallen behind on pretty much everything, but now I think that I've at least found out what the hell I want to research in my Studiopractice and Business course.

I think I really want to research what oppertunities there are for animators in Norway, and alternativly, Canada. I don't really know too well the companies and groups that do/need animation in Norway. The major game developer is of course FunCom, but they're not the only ones methinks. There are of course quite a few companies that do mostly comercials and other stuff, like Toxic etc. But I don't have a good overview of these companies, who they are, what they do and what they need.

Alternativly, there's Canada. I don't really know why. My family have had some connections to that country, for various reasons. But I have noticed that several animation companies and even designers I come across are in Canada (Corus Entertainment Inc, the makers of Ruby Gloom. Nitrogen Studios, who did the cinematics for God of War). It's also not to far away from the US, where we've got Disney and Pixar :). I just don't think I want to be living there. I find a nation so obsessed with guns and war a bit unnerving. Still, it's close enough to take a flight to ComiCon etc., stuff I always have wanted to visit.

I don't really see myself staying in England. The people are nice, but dunno...

I think I'll forgo the research towards directing and stuff. I'll probably do more of that in private, for my own little shorts and stuff. It's more of a hobby methinks.

..gotta run to CCA.

S.W.O.T

2009-10-26T21:36:00.006+01:00

New site ain't up yet, so I put this here for now.

SWOT!
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Abilities!

S(trength): Creative, team-player, realistic

W(eaknesses): Introvert, sometimes unfocused

O(pportunities): digging in to a good bit of work and honing my focus (like a ninja!)

T(hreats): swineflu? spontanious combustion? Tyler Durden? (dunno what to write here)

Skills!

S(trength): Animation, Cinematography

W(eaknesses): rendering, advanced rigging, other "technical stuff". Lack experience.

O(pportunities): learning different software packages, getting experience

T(hreats): going blind, breaking my hands

Interests!

S(trength): Interested in films, animations and games.

W(eaknesses): Don't like "the technical stuff".

O(pportunities): Meet people from the industry, people with experience and people with the same interests (Animex, SAS, various companies around here).

T(hreats): going blind

Values! (motivations)

S(trength): Watching animations, feedback from my peers, coca-cola

W(eaknesses): poor base ideas, indifferent people (apathy spawns apathy)

O(pportunities): Working with people in CCA, live close to my peers and easly ask for feedback

T(hreats): Self doubt :(

Personal Qualities!

S(trength): Honest, calm, team-player

W(eaknesses): honest, unfocused, unconfident

O(pportunities): personal projects is good for practicing focus

T(hreats): failing everything! misserably!

Preferred Lifestyle! (This is where I'm a bit lost, 'cus is dunno)

S(trength): To work in a company as an animator for film, tv-series or games. To make personal shortfilms that might be sent to festivals. Perhaps be a film director for an animated film some day.

W(eaknesses): Feel I need some sort of job security

O(pportunities): Getting a degree here might help me get a foot into the industry.

T(hreats): The economy. Mandatory military service. Explosions.

2009-10-21T22:35:00.003+02:00

STARTING NEW WEBSITE!

so, just about every course I have wants me to make me a productionblog. And this blog was already getting a wee bit messy.

So I'm currently trying to buy projectsofdoom.com (which was a plan I had to begin with).

One.com however, isn't making it easy for me. But a friend of mine (Simen) have been using their services for a while, and they seem mostly okey.

It'll give me the oppertunity to make a bit more structured system for the many blogs, and also give me a future base for a portfolio, and for the webcomic I still haven't given up on.

Happy surfing

2009-10-15T23:38:00.002+02:00

Haven't used this much colour sence kindergarden, I think.

2009-10-12T21:34:00.005+02:00

S.ROSE.VOL2!

OHMYGOOOOOOOOOOD!
(this is my impersitanion of Troll 2 with good acting, but you can't tell)

http://www.slgcomic.com/PRESS-RELEASE-Serenity-Rose-Volume-2_df_500.html

must. have. the. AWESOME!

a while ago I rambled about not finding my favorite comicbook. That comicbook is Vol.1. This is Vol.2 and I WANTS IT!

To be fair, The entire Vol.2 (as far as I know) is published online for free. Which is awesome. I've been following it's process with big googly fanboy-eyes ever sence it started (by lucky coinkidink, I frequented his website in that timeperiod. My teacher had the class find art by people we admired).

But sometimes you need the awesome in your lap when you want to read some printed format. Aaron Alexovich is a great artist, whom with exeptional storytelling and a keen eye for details, have captured my eyeballs. (Mostly because my heart have already been captured by a certain socioligy student :3). The dude did conceptart and other stuff for Invader Zim, and his personal stuff is, in my opinion, even more awesome!

If you haven't read the Serenity Rose comics, I highly recomend you begin right now. Preferably by buying Vol.1 after reading the first part of it for free at his website; http://www.heartshapedskull.com/(All art is used under the "I'm-promoting-your-stuff-please-dont-sue" agreement. Aaron Alexovich; if you don't want me to use you art in my psychotic fan-boy rant, just tell me :) )

2009-10-12T20:45:00.005+02:00

"bring along examples of your character work to the practicalsessions"... "please upload your work onto a BLOG, vimeo, youtube or similar"....

now where the hell have I put these things?

damn youtube cuts this one about a second at the end
Can't find anything else...

...uhmm, does this one qualify for character animation? one of my first animations with a rig :P

my gods, it's horrible -_-' :P

2009-10-11T19:45:00.004+02:00

FYI, stars are a bitch to draw.

Think I'll start with the colour from here. Dunno really what kind of coulours I'll use for the dragon... The chinese horoscope-thingie says my lucky colours are black (yeah, I know, but it says so) gold (kickass), and green (wtf?). With the background I've chosen, and intend to keep, I can't make a black dragon. green is meh, but I'll use gold for the eyes.

I might have to revisit the highlights on the head, right now the wing drags much attention away from it.

Also, it turned quite humanoid at some point... but me likes it!

2009-10-07T02:42:00.003+02:00

I desperatly need to update here. Not only to work against the habit of not posting, but because I want to. Now I'm sick, so small updates are better.

"Draw a coloured 2D image representing your European star sign or Chinese year sign"

Of course, I'm not done yet, but you get the picture. Needs to be done by friday.

Oh, and I'm in England now.

2009-09-10T13:28:00.004+02:00

Already I have found someone asking "What's the greatest game of the decade?!"
My reply is simple:

Portal

In a decade of gaming ruled by the physics-engines, stands a small, well written, well excecuted, well F**KING TESTED game that created more hype and viral fallout than much else that have spawned these last 10 years. All this was achieved WITHOUT A SINGLE QUICK-TIME EVENT.

True, we still have a good 3 months left (if you start with 2k) before the celtic calendar throws in the towel.
And there have been much good gaming to be had in my lifetime, but in the end, each and every one of us will have some memories for what made each game awesome. My most awesome gaming experience since Zelda:OoT, is Portal. There will be a lot back and forth what is the greatest game of the decade. Morrowind and Oblivion, Rome: Total War, Halo, Super Mario Galaxy, BioShock, WarCraft3, Zelda: Twilight Princess, GTA VI and NeverwinterNights. There are a lot of fantastic games, of different genres, of different times, themes and styles.

I will live to be very old, without forgetting any one of these great games. But I will still twitch a little, whenever I see a birthday cake...

What is your game of the decade?

2009-09-06T21:13:00.001+02:00

I know, the perspective is horribly wrong on the left shoulder. What's really sad is that I did the top scetch less than a year ago -_-'

2009-09-06T14:46:00.002+02:00

I've bearly put pen to paper the past weeks -_-' shame on me!

I was at GranittRock on friday, it was awesome. Saw Satyricon, or most of them anyways. I never saw the drummer, he was well hidden behind the smokemachine (I think I saw a cymbal move at some point). Also heard some happy-techno-rock-thingie. It was nice, though a bit unrefined. But the reason my girlfriend pull me with her (I'm not really a stand-in-a-shouting-crowd person), was Kaizers Orchestra. Who knew gipsy-rock could be so awesome? Also, dude in gassmask playing piano praying-mantis style was fun.

I can't imagine how horrible it must be to play through a show with that over your head, but it looked cool. I made a mess of the colour, and I had too much fun with my PS tools, but at least I did something. :)

I recomend listening to some of their music. They're a fantastic live-band, but their songs are a lot of fun as recordings too. And like most bands, the lyrics are a bit more comprehensible without the shouting crowd surrounding you.

Det står et bord midt på golvet
på bordet en revolver
på den står det Made in HongKong

:)

2009-07-29T00:35:00.003+02:00

so yeah, I moved the two buildings in the background, and where the main characters are sitting on the fountain/statue. you can't see everything here yet, but I think it'll be good.

The statue wing (yes, it's a bitch to draw, and I need some of a second one) takes a lot of focus now. But I'm gonna lower the contrast a bit on it before I start colouring and shading (dear god, what have I've gotten myself into), and the colour will be gray. So the end result shouldn't be as chaotic and absorbing as it is now. I hope it will pull the eye from the almost empty sky in the finnished result, though. And the characters should be framed nice under both statue and church.

Large plans, we'll see if anything turns out the way I hope. I think it's worth a shot.

2009-07-25T16:42:00.002+02:00

I was bored.

2009-07-24T18:11:00.004+02:00

So here's my webcomic!

Can't read it? Too bad. You're not supposed to. (serriously, if you can read this, tell me)

9 pieces broken down to 6 or 7 parts. As I might have mentioned, I did this for pacing. There's really not much story in this, and nothing written in stone. It's just the main plotpoints, places where I want certain development in story or characters, and some of the nifty details I want included in the story. Also, you might notice some underlined text right next to the "Chapter numbers". It's the main theme, message or feel I want for that part of the story.

The only thing I suspect you guys can read, is the 5th line in part 9. A bit corny, I know, but it's a fantasy story. Although not an fantasy epic, I still want a decent finale.

Right now I'm trying to convert an old scetch of mine, from the same project, into a finnished piece.

FYI: convertion have not begun yet. this is pretty much the original scetch. Its only objective was to figure out just how much background detail I wanted in the comic. As you can see, I'm aiming high. (And here are the characters: http://www.simensasylum.com/ithos/the3.jpg )

I love the angle, never been the kind of artist that worries to much about correct perspective. But that only makes a lot of stuff more hard to draw. I'm gonna try not to worry too much about anatomy (I'll have to develop a personal standard for this project anyways). I'm still a bit uncertain about the composition. Should I move the fountain a bit? The church? I'm really found of my 2:3 canvas, but should I make it wider so that the fountain ends up more between the buildings?

Bah, I'll never get it right anyways. I'm a angsty, angsty artist. I just have to do my best.

2009-07-09T23:31:00.002+02:00

IT'S A GOOD DAY TO DIIIEE!!!

2009-07-09T15:59:00.005+02:00

And lo! He returned to the dark corners of the internets!

Yes, I'm home. Managed to survive my trip to denmark. Got home early this morning.
Been browsing the internets after that. And animooting.

http://www.simensasylum.com/ithos/warlockwalkfin.swf

It's supposed to be 400x300ish but it will show whatever the size your browser is. make it smaller for smoother run and less vomitworthy visuals.

So I really, REALLY need to learn the ToonBoom software properly. Need to find my tweening tools. As you can see I made an halfassed attempt to do the floortiles and torchholder-thingies on my own. What a mess. A workheavy, uneeded and ugly mess.

Character is my good ol' OC, "The Little Warlock" (who is still female, despite the title...)Old drawring is oooooold =^_^=
I have missed drawing something with her. True, after drawing her 20 times in a row now, it dampens the urge, but I think I'm gonna use her a bit during animationpractice, so you'll probably see more.

2009-07-03T19:28:00.002+02:00

I'm in Denmark. The hotel computer is really old, and slower than darwinistic evolution. Gotta love the sounds of old keyboard-keys tho. Creates some nostalgia and brings back memories of old PC games. Miles away from my Wacom, and no scanner in sight, there's no scetches for you anytime soon. Haven't drawn anything on the trip anyways. Drawring and reading while driving is generally a bad idea. Only scribbled down some notes on my comic-project. I'm trying to set the pacing of the plot before writing it. Should apprehend long and angsty storyarcs, and make editing the plot later, easier. Or that's the theory, anyways.

Thus far, it's been mostly radiolistening, daydreaming, stopping here and there to be tourist or doing some reading. I got hold of the fat book collecting the Rainbow Six serries (or most of them methinks). So far, it seems alright. Got a Warhammer 40k novel and plenty of paper to draw on, should the spooks get boring.

Sweedish Radio Bandit was awesome. Or at least, from the Norwegian boarder and to Göteborg. They played some good stuff, ACDC, Metallica, some old classics of Guns & Roses, Iron Maiden, the good rock from the 80's, and a less whimpy title from Nickleback that renewed my view of the artist. I even heard some Disturbed before the signal gave out. Once in Göteborg however, Bandit radiowaves was changed with the local flavour of the same company. They still called themselves Bandit, but was clearly hit by a pussyfication-ray at some point. Angsty emo-rock, female artist who call their music rock because of daddy-issiues or because no other genre will claim them, mixes of the two and downhill from there. True, still no rap and such nonsense, but despite Dream Evils lyrics in "No Way", rock and roll DID die. Or at least, it felt like it. "Fairytale" by Rybakk is NOT, under ANY curcomstances, Rock. My father claim we have a Bandit radio-channel at home too, but from what I can remember from Norwegian radio, they must have the Göteborg-syndrome.

Finaly got some much needed e-mails from Teesside, regarding accomodation. Should have a chance to fiddle a bit with that stuph while I'm here. Tomorrow, perhaps. Sooner than later.

I miss my girlfriend. All the way over in Thailand, she be. Danish beach-girls and blond sweedish jailbait just isn't a fraction as interesting when you got someone you like. Miss you a lot, kitteh.

Will write more later-ish.
Happy surfing.

2009-06-29T18:55:00.002+02:00

"Would you like a shave, sir? Closest shave you ever had..."
Me as Sweeny Todd. Just saw the movie. I do love a happy ending =^_^=

2009-06-28T00:53:00.002+02:00

so the whole "scetch-a-day" thing got fux0rd. whatever. Now I just draw.
draw draw draw

I'm playing a lot of Dawn of War II now. It's awesome. Unlike most RTS-games it doesn't focus on buildings. It's more focused on fighting the right enemy with the right weapon, although it will get better at this. in competetive gaming right now, it's a bit of a grief-favoring tech-race. but I usually don't play PVP anyways, and there's a large patch coming soon this summer. still, even now, it's not your average "chose the right buildorder=win" RTS. units have very spesific roles, and things got counters.

I highly recommend it.

happy surfing

2009-06-27T17:55:00.000+02:00

2009-06-22T15:34:00.007+02:00

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/499082
I can't this out of my of my head, so I kept humming while I was watering the plants. My neighbors probably think I'm insane. I'm cool with that.

Yesterday, I had a Buffy;TheVampireSlayer-marathon with my sister. All friggin day. So no scetch then. Also I already were behind with one, so I have 2 more to do today.

First I'm going to work out, though. So I'll update this later today.

EDIT#1;

I think this might be the cutest comic I've ever drawn. When I play Pyro in TF2, I sometimes come down with what I call "Medic Syndrome". An unhealthy urge to support one single teammate. This isn't really the best tactic, you should support all your teammates to gain advantige. And yet, usually Medics tend to prioretize heavys, and in my case, I usually find a single engie somewhere and, well... I think it's like parental instinct or something. I find myself protecting this single engie and its contraptions from enemys and spies, without a care for if the other teammates might need me.

also, I think I've covered most of the worst ways to render fire...

EDIT#2;

pisspoor rendering of the TF2-tan sniper. Lets pretend I managed to upload this 4 minutes earlier, huh?

one to do, but might not be much updating today, I'm expecting company. But first, I sleep.

Happy surfing

2009-06-20T19:14:00.002+02:00

more man than you'll ever hope to be!
I kept laughing as I drew this. The funny thing is, the explotion is actually too small :P (for composition)

more thunders in the sky today, and other stuff, but I think I'll draw more today :)

2009-06-19T22:16:00.003+02:00

thunderstorm had me plug out the computer the later half of the day. And instead of scetching oldschool on paper :P I snuggled up in the most comfy chear in the house and read my favorite comicbook. now I'm heading out for movie-night with the guys, Promise 2 scetches for tomorrow :)

Andreas; You do realize that your scetches-to-do are just piling up? :P It'll only get worse...

2009-06-18T16:28:00.001+02:00

mixing up some colours, it's a horrible pose to draw.

2009-06-17T21:35:00.002+02:00

some actuall colour! and a kitteh! =^_^=

My fellow students packed up and left today. Right now, most of them are in downtown oslo and getting drunk I reccon. Personaly, I'm dropping by school tomorrow, getting some final things done.

happy surfing

2009-06-16T22:13:00.002+02:00

I've seen her do this. Twice. I really wanted to hug her both times.

Was going to make something moar interesting, but this comic have been stuck in my creative system for weeks now. Alsø, Andreas have joined my "Scetch-a-day". Still encouraging anyone else to joine. :)

2009-06-15T12:16:00.005+02:00

I usually don't applaud failure or projects that just fade in the industry, but I'm rather found of the original.

The film is done, the short makingof is done, only got the selfasessment thingie left, due wednesday...

it kinda leaves my blog open for new exiting things.... and because I haven't been particulary productive as of late (which usually happens in the timeperiod after I'm done with something large), I've decided to reboot a couple of projects of mine. First of all I'm gonna pick up the pace with writing the story for my future webcomic. I might even post some stuff here. I'm a bit shy about my work, but maybe, just maybe, I'll get some usefull feedback, and it'll improve the project.

Second, I need to get around the whole 2D animation process. Or rather, I need to learn the damn software, so hopefully a couple of flash animations and stuff will pop up here soon.

Last, and from my perspective maybe the most important and huge thingie.... I need to draw more. First thing to kick off the improductivity will be the "scetch-a-day" routine. I will post SOMETHING here. Every day. I make no promises about quality, and I might post several pieces some days to give me a couple of days off, but basicly. SOMETING. EVERY. GOD. DAMN. DAY! Or shame on me! Practice makes perfect, and scetching a little bit every day will not only improve my drawings a tad, but it'll also force start my creativity.

Oh, and the comic above is todays thingie. I intend to draw more today, but I dunno if I'll post it here.

I encurage all my friends to do the same thing, and I hope that we can suply eachother with feedback and comments to get the ball rolling. Regardless of what you do, thanks for your support.

Happy surfing :)

EDIT; here's a doodle.

doesn't even qualify as a scetch, I didn't put any thought into it, and thus nothing is correct in it. Still, it proves that listening to ACDC all day affect what you draw :P

2009-06-04T15:58:00.002+02:00

it be done

2009-05-21T11:21:00.003+02:00

So we're done with animation. And Michael is finishing off the renders and comp. And some VFX. What we have left now is to finish things off. Which include adding sound. An area we have no experience in. We really don't have time to go into making a "sound picture" for our film, and we haven't had any education on the matter either. So we're pretty much just finding a respectable library of free sound so that the movie doesn't become silent. The sound 'supposed to be a subtle touch anyways. It's needed to give the movie a full effect, it's aqward if it isn't there.

Close to the finnishline now.

2009-05-14T10:31:00.002+02:00

I'm not pulling my own weight right now.

I think I'm coming down with something. Maybe it's the swine-flu. I dunno. All I know is that I spent yesterday, working for less than 10% of the time and 60% just staring into the 3DsMax viewports trying to do something usefull (rest of the time spent hoarding up caffeinated-shugary goodness of coke and mocking about, hoping that some energy would manifest in me).

It's not just lack of enthusiasm. When I got home I was so tired I could bearly string together a thought more complex than "Me hungry, eat now. Then sleep." I went to bed before 9, got up an hour later than I usually do, and I still feel like there's a big wad of cotton where my brainbit 'suposed to be.

I want to apologize to my team. They're as always doing an excelent job, and that feels a lot less awesome when you're not contributing as much as you should. And we're so damned close to finnishing too. I'm still gonna work on what I've got in my lap right now. Speed not withstanding. Hopefully I'll bounce back quicklike. Again, sorry.

Damn you swine-flu, DAMN YOU TO HELL!

2009-05-09T14:07:00.000+02:00

I need to animate.

but. WHAT. THE. HELL?!?!?

2009-04-28T12:14:00.006+02:00

I'm never gonna get this blogthing right, am I?.... -_-'

anyway, our renders (after Michael has worked his composit magic) is looking like the awesome visual porn it should. I've requested of Michael to harvest out this frame from the render:

and make a wallpaper out of it.

But we all got stuff to do, so that can wait. Andreas says that it kinda looks like GRID

Anyways, I'm animating right now. The work flow of having your group members approve of your animation before it gets properly rendered, has got more than one positive effect. We'd of course give feedback to each other regardless, but the sense of approval is motivating to me. It's like saying "Your work is decent. Way to go." And I think that means a lot. You do not only seek to please your inner eye, but meet the standards of the people around you. And you achieve it. It's awesome. We're still hauling ass to make the deadline, and the standards might be ever so slightly lowered, but it's a lot easier with this little push.

That's all I have to say for now. I'm about to grab lunch, and then I'll make K9 into a ballerina dancer. I'm (too) slowly compiling some topics for a new videoblog-thingie, and you'd think it would be the easiest thing in the world just to rant, but it takes some work. It'l be done when it's done.

2009-04-21T17:01:00.004+02:00

Long time, no update... bad bad habits needs weedwacking.

Sooo... The vacation is well and over. Last week we wrapped up most final tidbits that needed fixing before we could begin animation. Some rigging, some modeling, some texturing and a LOT of troubleshooting (which haunts us continually, as if the software got nothing better to do that make it hard on us).

The sheep got a much needed redesign, and v2.0 was surprisingly more charismatic. Goes to show that practice makes perfect.

D'aaaawww, ain't he just adorable.
Some consideration of texturing the ears the same as the bunny is in the air.

Anyways, TODAY we finally started animating. Yeah, we're behind schedule. According to the original schedule we made some months ago, we're 3 weeks or so behind :P. But the group (myself no exception) remains optimistic. It's gonna be a crunch, but hey! We're animators! Working under deadlinepressures is what we live for.

It's just hard to kickstart the damn process.

On a diffrent note, people seem'd to enjoy my videoblog-thingie to some degree. So I will make more of those. Dunno when, but I'm hoping to have one done this weekend.

Videoblog Thingie #1

2009-04-08T16:38:00.003+02:00

so.... experimenting with media is a good thing, right?

Links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollen_allergy#Hay_fever

http://www.ashleywitter.com/

http://www.drunkduck.com/No_Shutup/

2009-03-29T15:04:00.002+02:00

me and Andreas cut all the clips together yesterday (except on shot, we put in a placeholder until the last shot was rendered). It went well all things considered, and we've got some ideas to improve the film as a whole already.

When we got to the point of adding music, we first considered to not have any sound at all. We haven't found a lot of fitting music, and what little we had was sparse. It only distracted from the movie itself, when it was only music from time to time. But then we found a excelent track called Shetland. Andreas just put it in, and the track was pretty much timed right to all the action imideatly. the awesomeness is hard to describe.

Now Michael is doing the final rendering and such, and everything should be ready for tomorrow.

We also realized that our movie is quite long 0_0

2009-03-26T20:18:00.002+01:00

still not updating enough. even though I really should, as I was told we'll need links to blogposts related to previz work in the delivery come monday.

right now I'm puking up one shot after another to make the previz deadline. It's strained and unfunny (<--might not be safe). In theory I could do all major actionposes, time it right and be off, happily knowing what to do when real animation pushes up.
Thruth is a harsh mistress however, and when working on these shots, it's impossible to feel the animation. I don't know what small actions will break up the poses, cause diffrent timing and change the general of empathy. And I shure as hell don't have time (or desire) to sit and plan these things out.

the way I'm doing it now is simple; put the storyboard in motion and colours, so that it shows the individual situations and jokes of each shot, and take a leap of faith in the direction of timing, so that the previz won't be boring. Let's face it, if the previz is reasonably amusing, we're on to something. If not, we're off. I'm not claiming that "real" animation will turn the story from a crudly drawn penis in a bathroom stall to the roof of the sistine chapel. I am well aware that a previz shows the story as much as anything. But it won't look like a roadkill in July. We'll just have to take the critique on monday with a pinch of salt and realism.

although it might not look like it right now, I have a lot of faith in the story. I just can't whait 'till I get to do it properly.

Maybe I'll update with some pics tomorrow. We'll be finishing the last shots then, and we'll cut it all together on saturday.

Oh yeah, I have but a single link in this post. I strongly DISADVISE to browse through encyclopedia dramatica. For people who're very naive to what freedom of speech really is, it might be permanently scarring... strike that. It is permanently scarring to all people who doesn't realize that noone cares about your opinions, morals or mental health. You have been warned. Maybe way too late, but that's how the internets work.

2009-03-24T15:43:00.003+01:00

Most bugs and issiues have been solved over the weekend and today I was able to begin properly on previz work. Right down and dirty with it. It feels good to get some of it done, although I'll admit it, it was a hard haul. I'm haven't gotten into überdelicious animationmood just yet (also, it's previz, not awesome animating). Between that and some pollen allergies thats starting early this year, I'm pretty spent for today. 7 or 8 shots, cannae remember. no pictures for you today, it'll have to whait for another day. The first half-quality renders are looking pretty sweet tho.

If we keep this up (and we will =^_^=) we should be on steady course.

(I have a lot of different pollen allergies, so I've learned to deal. Still, winter is the only time I can feel free from it's horrid grasp)

2009-03-19T21:37:00.003+01:00

It might be ignorance talking, but I swear that ToonBoom is way harder to work with than Flash...

http://www.simensasylum.com/ithos/rawr.swf
(rightclick 'n save if the link won't work)

Once again I'm not pleased with this blogs userfriendliness in terms of embedding videos and sich. The YouTube-file worked swell, but thats because they have a link with embedding code for copypasta ready... no Idea how to put in flash files....

2009-03-19T12:56:00.004+01:00

Aaaaaand the problems were solved. Jamie figured how bones, skin and riggs in general doesn't take lightly to files with different unit setups. That out of the way, and all characters (crud, well, most of them, we'll have to fix the rest) set to the metric system, things are starting to look mighty nice.

Did some more animation test with the bunny. I have a tendancy to get a bit self-critical about my animation, but Jamie says that this looks just fine.

(I'm giving embeded videos a shot, even though the blog setup isn't particulary videofriendly)
And hey! It worked!

Now I'm going to to prep our environment.

2009-03-18T14:24:00.000+01:00

we seem to have some issiues about merging files with different models and bones

2009-03-18T12:01:00.002+01:00

The artist within me is restless today. Hear it raaaaaaaawwwrrrr! Had some activities involving storyboards today, and I got creative and "helpfully" came up with two alternate endings to Dopplers animation film.

Anyways, we're starting up with the previz and hitting the first few issues of filesizes and renders. I know it will be sorted out, I just hope it won't be a lasting problem. We need to get going.

As of now, me and Jamie are doing some animation tests. I really want to make some decent animation on the rabbit. Currently I'm considering to re-rigg a bit, add something like a IK to keep the legs from sliding while I move the whole thing. I am perfectly able (harr de harr, I'm novice, if not noobie at animation) to counteranimate every repositioning of the COM, but I'd rather not, as it is rather time-consuming. A l0t of curve-editor work, otherwise it creates a horrible mess of keyframes in the timeline.

Two of our group members are currently incapassitated, due to the sickness and other things. But they'll pull through, and I do believe we'll make the previz deadline. So goodspeed to Andreas and Michael.

And now for something compleatly different! I have recently been able to try out the Touhou serries. And it's just as insanly difficoult as it looks. I have yet to finnish storymode on easy difficoulty.

2009-03-17T10:26:00.013+01:00

I had gotten so good at updating, and then swoooosh.... tuesday, the week after. What the hell?

This week we're starting on previz. We still have some modellin, textures etc. to do, but we have to move forth. We's got a deadline for the previz and we have a lot of shots. Still we have a lot of stuph done and the previz will look mighty snazzy methinks.

I guess I'm just bored with just writing aboot the project. I'll start writing about less project related matters, just too keep me going. This way I'll always have something to write about, and if I always write at least a little bit about the project, I get constant update. Problem solved. Needs to be done, large part of the grade.

Just remembered; yesterday me and Andreas joked about switching a crashing sattelite we have in our story, with the Deathstar for laughs, and make it far more epic. It won't happen tho' as it is too corny, not fitting for the story and too much work. Speaking of fitting the story...

I regulary watch "Unskippabl e" on The Escapist, and their commetary on Onimusha 3 was hilarious. I've never played Onimusha (maybe the first, can't remember), but as I watched, it dawned on me how incredibly retarded the setting was. Of course, the Unskippable crew did their work on pointing out its flaws, but you could always say "Hey, it's a video-game. It's not real!". What dawned on me was the question of how this

got past some storywriter as a very good idea. It's flying murder-stingrays of doom! IN FRANCE! FRAAAAAANNNNCEEEE!!!!

I do realize it's a great way to introduce your second main character, a famous french actor. All props to the guy who got Jean Reno (correctly modeled even, he really looks like Jean Reno) to star in a videogame.

Jean reno with a sword that's on fire ups the awesome-factor quite a bit, BUT WHY FRANCE?! WHY SKELETON-SAMURAIS AND GIANT BUGS, IN FRANCE?!

The gamedirector has at some point not only approved this idea for production, but really thought it was a good idea.

It's rediciously funny, but somehow I don't think those who've worked on the Onimusha serries thought that their games should be this flaky. Japanese games like these (and after checking wikipedia, the other Onimusha games) are usually based around serrious settings. Oh yes, the crazy japanese have a lot of wierd humour. But after seeing a lot of this humour, I think I can go out limb and say that this was a descission made serriously.

Wow, now I've ranted alot. But hey, I made a blogpost. Long post short, I highly recomend "Unskippable", and I don't much approve of the setting made for Onmimusha 3. Props for Jean Reno awesomeness, but still. Damn!

Hopefully I'll update just about everyday from now on (except weekends methinks).
Now, to work!

2009-03-10T13:12:00.003+01:00

And suddenly we popped into next week.... this week... whatever : )

As you can see, I've modeled our retarded sheep. It's a bit on the render-heavy side though. Me and Michael (who once again graced my modeled character with some textures and fluff) pondered slightly on the idea of rendering it in a separate layer with mental-ray, as opposed to V-ray. The group has yet to decide on render, but personal it seems to me that it gives decent results. Well see what we'll do.

I had something else to write, but now I forgot. BAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!

2009-03-05T11:35:00.007+01:00

Bunny is now done. Model, texture, rig, skin and all.

Aaaand because I'm an ass, here's some LOLart

Messing with the works of people far more skilled than you'll ever be is always fun =^_^=

2009-03-04T12:39:00.008+01:00

Today I finished the Marvelous BunnySlayer!

Michael helped me a lot. Both at texturing and some modeling. As far as textures go, I'm not really any good. Fortunately, Michael knows his way around V-ray, which gives shiny renders. Managed to keep away from turbosmooth, which always makes me happy. Personaly I think it feels like a crutch, and far too many around here are way too accustomed to just slap TurboSmooth on everything to make it look good. It usually works, but still....

Somewhat based on the machete to the TF2 Sniper.
I love the design of TF2, but not exactly what I wanted for this.

The plan now is to continiue the work on the bunny.

Still need some texture. For this pic it just got some rather render-heavy V-ray displacement noise map thingie (Michaels attempt at introducing me to V-ray), and something needs to be done there. Note that on Bunny I've used TurboSmooth :P I use it quite often, I just don't like it.

2009-03-03T14:48:00.005+01:00

Today we talked a lot about "floaters" (aka. the noroff class equivalent to freelancers). Our group, GreenSpill, is still a bit unsure about exactly what kind of work we would give them at the moment. But we'll just let it sink in for now, while we're working. Something will pop up soon enough that needs fixing and additional manpower.

The bunny is chugging along, I've gotten to the point where I'm unsure about what needs fixin'... most likely texture, but I still consider it to be in the modelling phase.

=^_^=

I think I'll put in on hold for now, start working on a knife instead. I (and everyone lese on the group) want something a bit more menacing than a knife. At the same time, I don't want the bastard child of DevilMayCry and FinalFantasy swordculture :P

Maybe I'll finaly get a shiny looking render for my portofolio. I have a history of poor renders, not realy my strongpoint.

2009-03-02T09:46:00.008+01:00

Started modeling of the bunny we need for several of the shots. Was hoping to use the old Golden Rabbit from SuperMario64 as good reference, but apparently my imagination and nostalgia added some awesomeness to the memory of the model. The actual rabbit didn't look that well when I looked it up on Google.

Alsø, THIS isn't exactly what we're going for. So I'm basically using some sketches I have drawn and some of the storyboard shots as reference and free handing anything else.
It's been far too long since I modeled anything major in Max, and it was never one of my strong points. Combining that with software issues (with my TOTALLY legal copy of 3DsMax), progress is slow. But progress is progress non the less. I'm hoping there won't be too many problems with rigging and texturing due to poor modeling.

I've also realized I sorely need to get into the habit of blogging. It's a major part of credit in this project and it is kinda fun when you get into it. Maybe I'll add some random posts now and again, stuff that isn't strictly project related.
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WARNING; NOT REALLY RELATED TO THE PROJECT:

Aside from software issues, I finally had a chance to finish an experimental drawing of mine this weekend. Nothing extremely Escher, I just attempted to follow the extremely generic guidelines of extremely generic anime and manga. Note; wiki says that Anime is very a varied genre, something I'm very awear of. But still there is a major group that follows the same pathern... just writing this down so I don't get lynched by knowitalls. (Note; I'm being very carefull with the links :P There's a lot of great artists I don't want to call "generic" even though they tend to be :) )

Anyway, I came to the conclution that I don't really prefer to draw like that. I'll have to experiment a little more to find "my" style. Quite happy with the result non the less. But I won't post the pic here though, it's not really siutable for this blog D: But there will be fabiulous prizes to those who can find my second blog, where I post stuff under a different alias :P
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Now, BACK TO WORK!
Motto of the day; If you're still proud of what you did yesterday, you haven't done enough today!

2009-02-23T09:20:00.004+01:00

The freshness(I'm better nao)! And after that, we changed the entire story! Me and Andreas spoke early last Monday, and came to the conclusion that change was needed. Some hours later, GreenSpill had a emergency meeting, where we sat around like this:
No particularly delicious solution on how to salvage "Synergy" came up. So instead we made an entirely new story, that we have more hopes for.
We also made an entire first draft storyboard. Hopefully we'll make equally large progress this week, with animatic and stuph. Starting from square one more than a month into the project is a setback indeed, but I really think this is gonna pan out well.

And I hope we'll get started with some actual 3D soon enough. We've got moar stuph to model, and plenty of animation in this story as well.

2009-02-11T12:23:00.003+01:00

Sick kitteh is sick...

Started out with a headaeche through the entire Saturday. Figgured I was sick with the sniffles Sunday. Didn't get any better, so called in sick with Michael, said I thought I'd be fresh for Monday. Didn't pan out the way I hoped, flat out in bed that day too. Called my dad Tuesday evening, told him I couldn't show up for schedueld event, due to fever. The event was his 50th birthday, just the closest in the clan gathered around some tea and cake... So yeah, I'm sick allright.

I am feeling better today, but I was feeling better yesterday before the fever kicked in too. Also I'm really swooshy in my head and unshure weather I should prepear for vomit.

Written 2 paragraphs, and I'm already tired. Feel bad about letting GreenSpill soak in hard work, but I'm just not up for it. I'm gonna logg on to MSN real quick-like, hoping to see Michael, Andreas or Jamie, so I can deliever a swift statusreport. Then I'm going back to the trice-damned couch to lie down and stare at the cieling. Maybe break the rutine around 4, sit in a chear and stare at the wall instead.

Sick sucks...

2009-02-02T15:22:00.003+01:00

Today, we got almost 20 storyboardshots up on the wall. Very scetchy 1rst draft, but still. Feels like we've actually achieved something in a days work. Now we can scoot along!

Also, we discussed further about the giant robo-dude. Sat down with Andreas and tossed ideas around. Andreas is really good at drawring. I always end up with cat-looking thingies.
Scetchies!
Now I'll scoot home! Scoot scoot!

2009-01-29T11:21:00.005+01:00

2009-01-27T11:35:00.008+01:00

honestly, I think we should do a bike looking like this: simple, sexy, futuristic... I think there'll be some disagreement though, not everyone like the heavy looking stuff. I'm just worried we'll end up with something generic looking more like this:

Im just tired of looking at them.

how the temple should look is still in the shadows of our minds. Personally I'd like to come to some sort of agreement on a floorplan, just to figgure out where people are shot by shot, when we start storyboarding.

problem with such planning, is that most temples is buildt with a thought for actuall function and application. Short: they're boringlooking and empty. Have to look into game concepts to find something that looks awesome..... and reasonably easy to create in 3D.

2009-01-26T13:26:00.000+01:00

Aaaaaaaand Monday! Back to work!

2009-01-25T20:24:00.002+01:00

I went to the local library and borrowed a book yesterday. Finnished it a couple of hours ago. Long time sence I've read a good book. Too much anime and webcomics can do strange things to your mind. Strange, strange things.

In short, it's been a refreashing weekend.

2009-01-22T14:16:00.002+01:00

It is!

2009-01-22T11:16:00.000+01:00

Vrooooom!

2009-01-21T21:01:00.000+01:00

Swooosh!

2009-01-21T20:45:00.003+01:00

Jamie said he wanted a robot with gorilla-like anatomy (large arms, etc)
just scetched this out to suggest body/arms/head/neck/feet ratio.
It's of course too simple to go into the movie. But like I said, size-scetch.

2009-01-21T20:20:00.000+01:00

Finnished dah paperwork today. Much due to the tireless Michael. Tomorrow we'll be prepearing for the presentation on Monday. We're going to get a lot done tomorrow, rather than whaiting 'til the last minute, 'cus Jamie is traveling to China to spend some time with his illegitimate children (this version of the story might not be 100% accurate). Tempus fugit, but I hope to scetch something up before I call it a night, so that I can bring something tomorrow. Unlike the rest of GreenSpill, I actually sleep at night.

2009-01-21T15:31:00.000+01:00

Group finished most of the paperwork stuph today, I helped with budget and time estimate.

On a completely unrelated note, my spine hurts today.

2009-01-20T20:39:00.000+01:00

the dead project recieved a helping push, from an e-mail by the teatch today. But sence the project is already dead, and both me and Vargfar/Martin have moved on, the project remains dead.

Thanks for trying, teatch. Apprecheate it. : )

2009-01-20T12:52:00.001+01:00

sooooo, I joined greenspill productions instead. Much nice, skilled people.
also, idea seems like fun

scetch

2009-01-20T11:53:00.001+01:00

The project just collapsed onto itself.

2009-01-19T12:22:00.000+01:00

Spoke to one of my friends regarding potential sounds in the story. I might want some electric guitar work done as the voice of Sharkgrinn Bob (Martin named the monster that today, I like it).

as it is now, me and Martin (the other group member) are just writing a more defined treatment for the story, and such. Neither of us are fans of the whole "treatment" thing. Shure, I understand that it is a quick way to read film ideas, but it's also almost a process as comfortable as an electric drill to the skull.
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THE STORY TREATMENT!!!
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SHARK GRIN BOB the hall monitor is walking down a hallway in a residential building. He hears a tinny melody and claps his hands over his ears. After checking a couple doors without success, he enters an apartment and is met by a SMALL GIRL with a MUSIC BOX. Robot remains litter the floor, and the girl is wearing a robot head as a hat.

Shark Grin Bob closes the music box and leaves. As he closes the door behind him, he hears the music box again. He returns into the room and stomps on the music box, breaking it. He snarls at the girl and leaves.
The girl picks up the music box and starts repairing it.
CUT TO HALLWAY.
Shark Grin Bob is at the end of the hallway when he hears the music box again. He turns and stomps back, entering the room and slamming the door behind him. He grabs the repaired music box and jumps up and down on it while yelling loudly.
He turns to leave and is skewered by several long black spikes.
CUT TO BLACK.

The music box, now consisting of several body parts plays a melody. The girl wears Shark Grin Bob's skull as a hat and is nodding and smiling to the music.
An eye falls out of the skull, she eats it.

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Other than that, I've gone through some "story analysis" texty thingie, as suggested by Remi (sub teach, nice guy).

? BEGINNING: SETTING-UP THE PREDICAMENT.

What does your lead character want?

Listen to music =^_^=

What do they need?

A music-box :o

What do they have to do to get what they want?

Loot corpses :3

? MIDDLE: CONFLICT - ACTIONS and REACTIONS.

The lead character struggles to get what they want and usually fails at the end of this middle section; however, through failure they begin to understand their true needs.

Main character tries to make music play, despite being thwarted by a monster repeatedly.

? END: FINAL STRUGGLE, RESOLUTION & AFTERMATH .

The emotional ending where the lead character discovers what they really need, whether they get what they wanted or not.

As a final solution, she kills the monster and uses his bodyparts to make a music box (both eliminating its threat of destroying the instruments, as well as creating a new one)

Set-Up, Conflict, Resolution

Screen stories are all about questions and answers - questions and answers.

At the story level you must ask:

? What is my story really about?

Cute, bloody murder

? What do I want to say?

Peekaboo!

? What is the story’s big hook?

? What makes it cinematic (or televisual)?

Its cinematic in the way that it takes the viewer for a ride through a conflict between two very different forces.

? Why is it way better than anything else I’ve seen?

It’s horrible and cute at the same time! =^_^= also, it makes the viewer believe that the monster is the main character of the story, but it’s actually the girl.

? Would I pay to see it?

….maybe

At the character level you must ask:

Complication:

Setup

? Who is my lead character?

The girl.

? What do they want?

To play music

? How can I show what they want?

By playing music, even though the monster clearly hates it

? What do they need to learn about the world or themselves in order to get what they want?

Murder solves conflicts

? How can I demonstrate visually what they need?

By having her repeatedly making music boxes, and having them play the same song.

Increasing Conflict

? Who opposes them?

The monster Shark Grin Bob.

? How do they attack the lead character and expose their weaknesses?

By making the music box stop playing

? Why is the lead character resistant to change, reluctant to confront their

weakness?

Irrelevant

? How does the level of conflict increase?

It gets more and more destructive

? What makes the conflict personal?

She loves music. He hates music.

? Does the conflict become obsessive and force even friends to start deserting the

lead character? (if not it should!)

SHE DOESN’T HAVE ANY FRIENDS! HAHAHAHHAH!.... also, too many characters, that’d be.

? How is the lead character finally forced to confront their weakness and

contemplate internal change?

Story doesn’t tell a tale of change. But she needs more spare parts, so she disassembles him!

Unravelling:

Resolution

? Why does the lead character come back for one last attempt to defeat their

opponent?

She’s out of material to make music boxes

? Do they still want what they did at the beginning, or are they beginning to

understand that they will never win unless they change their goal or their attitude

to life?

She stays the same

? What moral choices that they have to make in the final struggle will finally

externalize their inner struggle between what they want and what they need?

Murder is a means to an end.

? How does the lead character close the divide between what they want and what

they need in the climax and resolution of the movie?

Murder!

The more you write the more you realise that before you write a word of dialogue

1. Introduce your lead character and setting

? Who is s/he and where is s/he? She’s a little, cute girl who sits in a wicked world and listens to her music-box play.

? What is his or her life like? She sits by herself and listens to music

? Who is with him/her? Not a single soul

2. What does s/he want? - The lead character finds out or reveals that s/he

wants something, or discovers s/he has a problem that must be solved.

Shark Grin Bob tries to stop her music box

3. What does s/he need to learn? – The character needs to learn

something to make them a better human being. This is usually similar to what

they want, but crucially different from it. She murders. She’s done it before (shown at the beginning of the film, explained at the end), and it does not seem like she has any compunctions against it.

4. Initial actions - The character then sets out to solve his/her problem or get

what s/he wants. Because they don’t understand that what they want is not

what they need, the lead character finds that instead of getting what they want

they are in a world of trouble. She tries to keep her music box running, even though Bob keeps breaking it.

5. First Major setback - Unfortunately your lead character also needs to

learn something about life and because of this they are about to find

themselves in more trouble than they have ever encountered. The story isn’t long enough to clearly show this part of storytelling.

6. Actions & Set-backs - Because s/he is not aware of what it is s/he really

needs, s/he will usually go about getting what s/he wants the wrong way. This

will bring him/her into conflict with other people (both enemies and friends)

who don’t like what s/he is doing - or the way s/he is going about it. The result

is a series of actions and setbacks throughout the middle of the story. Bob keeps wrecking her music-box. She fixes it, he breaks it. Murder, murder, murder, murder, murder, murder! =^_^=

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The girl being the main character is debatable of course, it just feels right in my head.

Today was no fun. Lotsa paperwork stuph needs to be done by next monday. +other stuff, group name, present full idea, logo thingie...
and still need some solution to the whole "not being mandatory (and necessary) number of people" problem.....
I'm not feeling highly motivated right now

2009-01-15T18:49:00.000+01:00

SETBACK

project is now back to 2 people, less than mandatory... this needs fixing

2009-01-15T13:15:00.001+01:00

PROGRESS!
(click for larger pics)

...very basic setup of story. Nothing written in stone yet, but seems like I have a potential group for this project. With 3 people, which is mandatory.

yes, indeed, progress

2009-01-13T19:28:00.000+01:00

Sat down with people today, reviewing what we have so far. Just to see if we might end up in a group based on the ideas we have. Some other people seems to have decided groups last year, so some snags with the whole grouping thing is to be expected. At least I like the people I talked to today.

Unfortunatly, we didn't really like eachothers ideas enough to dedicate ourselves to them. So we quickly ended up with a little brainstorming session, to se if we could come up with something everyone would be willing to work with. We are, after all, going to be working on this for the next 5-ish months. And we want something we can be proud of too. The brainstorming session turned up little but off colour jokes/ sexual and desturbing jokes. (I kept score, think we got up to 12 pretty quick)

Tossing ideas for moody, artsy stuff made me throw a treatment I wrote last year on the table. Thought it be good for inspiration, or kicks and giggles at least. Turns out they like the damn thing. Exept the ending, but I suck at endings, and we quickly came up with a better one. Now they truly believe we should make this. Although I write it a lot, I'm somewhat a sceptic when it comes to making movies about more "serrious" stuff. It's a lot of empathy calling, colour and a lot of stuff I have a problem putting down in a visual media. Also, I dunno if working on it for months is my greatest desire at the moment.

Nevertheless, my treatment is in the hand of a classmate of mine. He's going to run through it for a better ending, and perhaps transform it to more middleground of treatment and synopsis. Not that it was a textbook treatment to begin with. Meanwhile, I was supposed to come up with alternatives, more solid than concepts (as we have plenty of those). All I've managed to do, was draw a doodle comic. It was a fine breather from complete lack of output sence newyears. But I doubt it will do much good.

(CLICK FOR LARGE)

I've always wanted to do something with the grim reaper, but tea-party doesn't exactly scream good story. Indeed, it screams another bloody concept. (Still, I love how Grimmy turned out in "part" 4 and how the soldier hunches down by the table in the last one =^_^=)

hope to get something passing through my head over the next few hours. Used to have one of my yearly ideas to fall back on, something my classmates agreed with. Now they seemed rather optimistic about my mystery treatment.

Time will tell
if this ends well...

2009-01-12T18:18:00.000+01:00

this semester at Noroff, we're going to make a short 3D film... We, as in group work. Group, as in people from my class.

We are also going to update our progress in blogs, instead of making a over 9000 thousand page report at the end of the semester... or we're making a "making of" at the end, and blogging is instead of monthly reports, I can't remember. Don't think the difference matters much at this stage, we have yet to form groups. It's mandatory to start blogging at some point anyways.

Right now we all sit on a few ideas we'd like to see made during the next passing months. But because I have no idea what my group will be, what they desire to create, or even WANT to create, there will probebly not be any decent updates here before next week. maybe some rants, who knows...

SO, here begins the blog with an honest to god attempt to make short, animated films. Gods help us all...