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 …

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. …

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. …

FINALLY SOME PROGRESSION!

Originally posted on the MA Character animation course blog, published February 28th 2016. Thankfully, this week was much, much more productive than the last. First of all, my film now has a new title: Philip Hunt from Studio AKA where in on Wednesday and Friday this week to give individual tutorials on our animatics before …