New animation "Only one who works here" Work In Progress part 01.

I've decided to post animation sequences here as well as drawings (and maybe knitwork). The animation things I'm working on will all be only things that I make in my spare time for practice.

There will be sound with this one, but its not timed yet, which is why it's silent for now. This is just really quick layout / first touches of blocking the animation in. I basically have only just set up the environment and chosen which camera I want to have.
I did shoot reference for it, but I will not post it online. Maybe when the entire shot is done I'll post it in a progression shot.

Animation Showreel 2016

Character Animation Showreel!

My new showreel! Hopefully things will start going now. I graduated about two weeks ago. Tomorrow my boyfriend and I will be heading to America for a month, ending our trip in Vancouver, Canada. We'll be staying there for a year to go to work! Exciting!

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Update. Progress

A lot has happened since the last time I made an actual post on here. I am now almost graduated (I will be in exactly one month) and be an official "Bachelor of Arts" / visual effects artist. About two weeks after my graduation I will be moving to Vancouver, Canada. I will be living and hopefully working there for at least a year.
Because of my graduation film I haven't been able to draw as much as I'd like. Aside from that, when I had spare time I tried to practice 3D character animation in Maya, rigging, modelling and sculpting in ZBrush the most. This is why I've just uploaded a couple of sculpts I made. I am trying to put together a showreel, which I will publish in the beginning of July.
I have already updated the layout of my website, and uploaded my work on there aswell. This is why the blog has a new layout right now, so it matches my portfoliosite again.
Will try to make more drawings and keep it posted~!

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Old village

When I was in Valence I started making this as a practice. It's gonna be a short animation. Just set it up to practice almost everything. A bit of modeling (scenes as well as characters), working with surface shaders, lighting, rigging etc. By now I thnk the town is kinda done. I'm currently working on the character -----

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During the Internship at TeamTO

I've really been neglecting my blog the last couple of months, so I thought it'd be a good time to revive it a bit. Planning to start posting drawings on this one, and maybe notes and stuff if I've got some interesting ones. But for now;

In the last post I made I was telling about getting an internship at TeamTO. By now the internship is almost done (just a little less than a month left) and it has been great! The work is incredibly cool, the environment the best and the people are great. And I learned so much during this internship (starting May 6th).

In the beginning I had a lot of lessons and really got to know a lot more about character animation itself. Since July I've been working as an animator on Babar and the Adventures of Badou.

I will have about a month left to fully enjoy working here in this great team. I'm going back to The Netherlands on September 28th. And on October 1st school will be starting again. My final year at The Netherlands Film and Television Academy!

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Internship TeamTO

In January I got a final agreement for my internship. This summer (from May until October) I will be an character animation intern at TeamTo in Bourg-les-Valence, France.
I am really excited about this and can't wait to start overthere. I will be living at Le Valency and got an appartment of my own. I really wanted to work at a studio in France, because France is about the best country in animation in Europe.
When I start at TeamTo (by the 6th of May) I will first of all have to practice my animation skills a lot more (shame on me~) and do some bouncing balls and cycle exercises. When they find my ready I will start to practice on some shots from the series and maybe the feature on which they are working. At the end of my internship I should be able to work there on my own shots. Yay!

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Science Center NEMO

I've been busy lately with making an assigment / short animation for Science Center NEMO.
I have finished it on January 7th and they used it immediatally the day after :) Yay.

It had to be a short animation (20 - 30 seconds) with the theme "horror / suspense" for an audience of children age 8 to 10. It will be used in a couple of different countries as a schoolassigment. The children will make a "soundbox" with which they can make soundtracks. They will get to watch the animation and have to make a soundtrack for it.

NEMO was happy with the result. I think it could have been much better, but I had way too little time to make it they way I wanted it to be. So with the tight deadline and everything, I think it's pretty much okay.

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New Showreel (2012)

I've been busy creating my latest showreel, trying to get a scholarship and getting an internship for next May till October. Because I had a good letter of motivation I got my scholarship, hooray! But I need to find an internship before the 8th of February in order to still be able to officially get it.

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