Showreel for the 2nd semester

Well, I passed the test and here is my showreel to officially end my first year at the Animation Workshop.

Showreel 2010 from Atli Hafsteinsson on Vimeo.

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.