sketch dump and new blog colours

As you might have noticed i've change the colours on my blog. I felt it was time for something new.
Other than that i just wanted to upload some random sketches..

Project Q - matte painting and test renders

Finally the Deer has been rigged and is now in the process of being animated. Can't wait to see what Ditte comes up with. ( http://dittemariefrandsen.blogspot.com/ )
I have been working on the matte painting for the scene and seems to be going in the direction i want so that's great.

Project Q - textured

Just a quick test render of my crystal deer with texture.
I haven't really worked on the shaders so the look might change in the end but this is basically how i want it.

Modeling with Armando Sepulveda del Toro - part 2

We are now in the 3rd and final week of modeling of our creatures. Last week we worked alone but had a 4th year student helping us in the mornings. I worked slower than i thought i would but i'm slowly getting there!

This week i have been sculpting the last details and today i started on texturing. I've only worked on the body so far so tomorrow i shall start on the crystal parts :) If i have the time i would like to refine the shape of the crystals and make them a bit less symmertric.

Modeling with Armando Sepulveda del Toro - part 1

This week we started modeling our Quadrupeds. Our teacher is Armando Sepulveda del Toro http://www.asepulveda.com/ and he is fantastic at teaching. It is really great to learn new tricks and how the topology should be for the best results.
Next week i shall start on the crystals and teeth plus all the small details.

Back in school and Project Q

We are back from our christmas holiday and have started the next project were we are going to make a 4 legged animal/creature.

We worked on the designs with an animation buddy and that was really great to try. I got so many useful inputs.
The teachers we had were Florian Satzinger and Willie Real. Don't forget to check out their blogs! http://williereal.blogspot.com/ and http://paperwalker.blogspot.com/


Here is the Design that Ditte and i came up with. It's a crystal backed deer. The crystals glow when the animal is going to attack and has nasty sharp teeth with a black tongue.

Trailer Project - finnished!

We have finally finnished our project! I hoped that i could have updated my blog weekly but suddenly all my energy was spent on the project. However now we are finally done and i have time to update my blog :)

After the character modeling we had environment modeling with Jericho Green. It was a lot of hard work since we had so much to model. It was great to learn a new things and we had a great week.

When all the modeling was done it was time for the rigging. We had Nico Sangrejka and Nicolai Slotshuus. I would never had thought that i would like rigging that much but they made it understandable and fun! I can't thank them enough :)

At last we had the final 3 weeks with texturing, lighting and compositing. For this we had Max Böhm. It was actually very stressfull and i spent all my time at the school. It's always the last part of a project that's the most busy. Luckily Max was really fun and he gave a great mood in the class. Eventhough a lot of us was under time pressure.

Jules ét Jim - Trailer Project from Anne-Sofie Tholander on Vimeo.

and again thank you all for making this happen!

Jim - turnaround from Anne-Sofie Tholander on Vimeo.

Props from Anne-Sofie Tholander on Vimeo.

CG artists:

Nikki Starostka
Martin Hjelholt Brun Pedersen
Me (Anne-Sofie Tholander)

Animation:
Benny Søhave Sørensen
Kenneth Ladekjær
Stine Agerskov Frandsen

Special thanks to our teachers:

Uwe Heidschötter (character design)
Christian Puille (storyboard)
Cyrille Caron (cameras and layout)
James Stone (character modeling)
Jericho Green (environment modeling)
Nico Sangrejka and Nicolai Slothuss (rigging)
Max Böhm (texturing, lighting, render and comping)

Also thanks to:
Anja Perl (coordinator)
Lana T. Nikolic (coordinator for the animators)
Alex Williams (tha animators teacher)
Magnus Møller (supporting animation teacher)