Commercial Project

Our spot for Dyrenes Beskyttelse (the Danish Animal Welfare Society). We chose to focus on the consumer's choice. Made over the course of 5 weeks and animated in TVPaint.

Made by:
Me
Glenn Lange
Kenneth Ladekjær
Anne-Marie Laursen
Pernille Sihm
Tanja Hass Nielsen

11 Second Club

The Angry Visitor (11 Second Club Competition) from Atli Hafsteinsson on Vimeo.

I spent around 10 days on this for the November competition for the 11 Second Club.
Finished Nr. 135 out of 295

1st Year Final Exam: Dad watches TV

The end result of this year, a week-long animation test in TV Paint. We were given a rough storyboard and the result is the following. The dad from Family Dog sits down to watch his favourite TV program, only to find that he sat down on the dog, reacting accordingly.

Exam, 1st year, 2nd semester from Atli Hafsteinsson on Vimeo.

Eat UP

The short movie "Eat UP" I did with Kenneth Ladekjær and Glenn August. I'm very proud of this film.

Our starting points were the emotion competitiveness and the random word "synaesthesia". The style was John Kricfalusi (Ren & Stimpy). The rest came completely from our own heads.

I animated most of the wolf scenes. Kenneth did most of the scenes with the little man as well as the cheerleader scene. Glenn then painted all the backgrounds by hand and did the morph scene.

If you are epileptic, be advised before viewing! Otherwise, enjoy.

Week 14: Dance animation: Hyacinth Hippo doesn't stop

Christian Kuntz taught us dance animation for this week, where we could choose between six characters and six songs. This is Hyacinth Hippo (Fantasia's "Dance of the Hours") dancing to Michael Jackson's "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough":



I was very happy with how this exercise came out, much more so than the last one. We had a break before this week and I used that to practise a lot of drawing, to get more three-dimensionality, and I got some good critique that it's showing.

Week 12: Dialogue in TV Paint: "I'm good"

Our last week with Fabian Erlinghauser from Cartoon Saloon, who taught us for this fifth straight week. This was our first two character exercise. We had a voice track where a man tries to get a woman's attention and she turns down his offer, softly. I chose the gorillas Kerchak and Kala from Tarzan. He's trying to get in her good books after a fight, but she's not in the mood.

Week 11: Dialogue in TV Paint: Everything's OK

This week, we got our first taste of dialogue (or monologue as it were). We could choose from two voice clips and four characters.

Here is the Sultan from Aladdin, trying to convince his subjects that everything is okay (when clearly it isn't). I was quite happy with this one, though I need more work on the lip-synch:

Week 10: Non Dialogue in TV Paint: Roger's date is late

This time, the acting had to be quite subtle: a character's date is late, and he/she has already had to wait awhile and so is starting to get worried. I chose Roger from 101 Dalmatians.

Week 9: Non Dialogue in TV Paint: Baloo's temptation

Our assignment this week was a character being tempted by money lying on the ground, but deciding against it. We had a choice of ten characters to work with.

My choice was Baloo. This was a very fun exercise to work on. It took all week and parts of the weekend, and I'm quite happy with it.

His arm is a bit funny towards the end, and I didn't manage to clean it all up. I think I made too many rough drawings without cleaning up. However, I am pleased with the overall animation, especially how he doesn't stop in his poses but moves organically.

Week 8 - TV Paint introduction

This was our first week of not only working with the animation program TV Paint, but Wacom tablets as well. I think it's a nice way of animating, and we spent this week getting to know this new way of working.

Here is Scooby-Doo turning his head (I'm very happy with this one):


The character Jock from the Lady and the Tramp, also turning his head:


And finally Hogarth from the Iron Giant, doing a take:

Week 5: Midway test featuring the Pink Panther

The first semester officially ended with this, our first test, a week-long assignment featuring the Pink Panther. This is what I am able to do after one semester at the Animation Workshop.





If that's too hard to read, here's the same animation, only without the background.

Week 3: Inbetweening w/ Uri Kranot

Uri Kranot came back for this week and taught us inbetweening. We inbetweened this short scene from Balto featuring Boris the goose. I was a bit worried that, not having really animated for a couple of weeks, this would turn out hard. But no, it went quite well.

Week 2: Clean-up w/Lee Huxtable

Lee Huxtable gave us this short scene from "American Tail 2" to work with, that of Cat R. Waul falling down and exclaiming "Humans!".

Week 49: Drunken Goofy w/ Meelis Arulepp

Now, this was a very fun exercise to work on. It was great to work with Meelis again, and this was our fourth straight week of animating, so we were fairly confident at this point.

Week 47-48: Animating w/ the Danish Filmschool

These two weeks, we had the pleasure of working with directors from the Danish Film School, working on their final projects. Me and the other three people in my group worked with a nice guy called Troels on his Blacknisseiflm about the black metal elf in Santa's Workshop who wants to be able to make good toys, not menacing ones ('cause he'll get fired if he keeps donig that). This was the first time we animated without a teacher being on hand to help us, and it was a healthy experience. Please note that the following is not in story order.

This scene was the product of the first week. The elf's doll (his travel partner of sorts) is about to slip off his back.



These two scenes came the week after. Here, the elf is sad that the drawing he made is that of an evil toy, not a good one.



Here, the elf is showing his evil toy to Santa, thinking it's good work.

Week 46: Goofy lifting weight w/ Meelis Arulepp

We had Meelis from Estonia twice, animating Goofy. This week, we animated him lifting a heavy ball. This was a fun exercise and it was great to work with Meelis, a very inspiring guy. I was rather please with this one. Sure wish I'd have got the chance to clean it up a little, but Meelis wanted us to work rough.

Week 40-41: Animation walks w/Anders Nessum & Slaven Reese

For our first animation walk exercises, our assignment for the two weeks was the Pink Panther.

This first exercise was a simple side-step:




Here he is angry, slamming a table (upon reflection, it could've used some ease-outs):




Here is our first proper walk:




Then finally, this exercise took all of week 41, a personality walk. I chose a confident attitude:

Weeks 37-39: Basic animation w/ Uri Kranot & Slaven Reese

The following are my final assignments for each of the three weeks we were introduced to the principles of animation:

The frog & the fly:


A ball with character (plus tail):


And finally the flour sack, based on an animatic we were supplied with: