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: