Tuesday, 19 February 2013

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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Saturday, 19 January 2013

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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Thursday, 13 December 2012

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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Friday, 26 October 2012

Lipsync

One of the two assignments at Gobelins Summer School was a lipsync / acting assignment.
This is what I made of it, I guess.. Well, it's never really done.




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Update from the last couple of weeks

School has started again for about two months. We already have autumn break, but honestly, I'm okay with that. I'm working on setting up a showreel and I really welcome the time off. We don't really have time off anyways, because they gave us a big homework assingment in Houdini FX. Which is kinda cool, but not really my piece of cake.

I just kinda finished my lipsync animation and will start at something new any moment. I'm gonna include parts of Spirit of Necropolis (which I worked at during an internship) and maybe a shot from the commercial we worked at at school. I don't really know what else to include, but I need to be finished by the end of next week.

The first few weeks of school we worked at a commercial for Bionade. It won't be on television (fake assignment), but it was really cool to work at and turned out nice. I like working on commercials a lot better than I expected. It was a lot of fun and I like the tight deadlines.

On October 29th the children's serie The Tumblies will be on television. I worked a bit on it when I was at my internship last summer at NMtrix Studio. I'm really curious about it.
This week it was in premiere this week at Cinekid Festival.


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