Hello!

My name is Christina S. Nerland and I just finished the MA Character Animation course on Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design in London.

Leave a print is now an award winning film!

I'm back from Zagreb where my graduation film Leave a print was nominated in the children's competition. I had no expectations of winning before leaving and got even less when I saw my contestants cause the quality of the children's films were incredible high in this festival. But out of nowhere I did win! I …

Going to Animafest Zagreb

I haven't been talking much about what has been happening with my graduation film, Leave a print, lately. Well, it's been accepted into four festivals so far. One in Russia, one on Bulgaria, one in the US and one in Croatia, Animafest Zagreb. The worlds second longest running animation festival! I didn't realise the accomplishment …

Life drawing 11th May

So here is the drawing from this week's session. I'm considering trying to draw next weeks drawing much smaller to see if that will affect my sense of proportions or time for details. Cause after messing up another long pose I had a few seconds left to make  smaller version of just the gesture which …

Life drawing 4th May

From here there is going to be a bit fewer drawings as I come straight from work which finished at 6.30 pm and I don't arrive at uni unit 7 pm so I miss out on an hour 30 sec poses 1 min poses 2 min poses 3 min poses 5 min poses

Life drawing 27th April

After a nice Easter at home I eventually came back to London and started in a new job, I'm now back at Nexus. Working on 2D animations for this app called Headspace. Anyway, I've been to life drawing for the last three weeks I've just not had time to upload any of the drawings. Days …

Colour sketches

I few weeks back I bought myself a small sketchbook (A6 size) for the price of 80p. When it's that cheap it goes without saying that the sketchbook itself isn't very good. The paper is recycled, very thin and not white, but rather a greying colour that comes with recycled paper. It's of the same …

Personal projects

Since I haven't had any luck getting studio work in a while I mainly spend my days doing smaller freelance projects, applying for work and small personal projects. I want to try and come up with a new film I can work on as a bigger personal project, but for now I can't really focus …

Life drawing 9th March

Had a fairly good session of life drawing this week. Next week will be the last life drawing night for four weeks so I'm trying to find a good alternative that woun't cost me too much as I get rusty very quickly. 1 min pose 2 min poses 3 min poses 4 min poses Two …

Life drawings 2nd March

Had a good day at life drawing yesterday. It was mostly short poses from 4 min down to just 30 seconds. Although I put the 30 sec ones first we did start on 4 min and went with shorter and shorter poses from there. I think that helps cause to start off with 30 sec …

Life drawing 23rd February

Another week of life drawing. It's almost the end of the term now, so soon it will be a long pause in "live" life drawing unless I get a job so I can pay for sessions outside uni. We had Adrian in this evening, which by now you should know is my favourite model because …