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 …

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 …

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…

December is upon us and it's so great. I've always loved Christmas, the only day of the year better than Christmas is 17th of May, Norway's constitution day. I love the lights, the music and the general feeling. Since I was around 15-16 I've also liked to give better than to receive. I can barely …

Finishing up

It's been a busy, but good week. Not only was I finishing up at Lupus, but I also finally got to actually complete my graduation film Leave a print, knowing that this marks an end, I'll never change it again. It feels weird, that movie completely took over my life for six months and has …

What I listen to while drawing/animating

In Richard Williams' legendary animation book The Animator's Survival Kit a whole page is dedicated to the reaction he got from Disney animator and legend Milt Kahl when he asked if he  (Kahl) ever listened to classical music while animating. This is the reaction he got: I highly agree with this when it comes to animating. …

Dance of a broken heart – ENO

I don't remember if I ever uploaded a link to our finished ENO project, but I though I would do it now/again as we are nominated at the SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers) Student Film Festival in Los Angeles. This is not the only festival, but it's surely the biggest one of …

LEAVE A PRINT – A COMPARISON

Originally posted on the MA Character animation course blog, published June 10th 2016. ere is a comparison from the first animatic I made, which was 1 minute and 30 seconds! Pay attention, it’s so quick it’s making me dizzy! https://vimeo.com/170166079 Password: Animatic And the movie I handed in today. Thank goodness it’s been some major …

LEAVE A PRINT – RESEARCH

Originally posted on the MA Character animation course blog, published June 10th 2016. So then it’s over. Although the film is not finished. After a very unfortunate experience with an evil computer yesterday the film I intended to hand in was gone in the matter of minutes. I do have everything backed up, so that’s …

BACKGROUNDS AND CLEAN UP

Originally posted on the MA Character animation course blog, published May 29th 2016. After finishing my rough animation last week I started the task of finishing up all the backgrounds for the movie. Something I really hoped wouldn’t be a very time consuming task, and luckily, for once I managed to schedule it just right …

ANIMATION, PRESENTATION, SOUND RECORDING AND COMPOSITION

Originally posted on the MA Character animation course blog, published May 21st 2016. A lot has happened during the last two weeks so here is a long blog post! Last Friday we had our rough crit. I had originally planed to have all the rough animation by that time, but that didn’t happen because Berlin. …