Crysis run

Using the rig of the dude from the game CRYSIS, i animated him running along, doing a "monkeyvault", falling, tuck n roll landing and then a "speedvault".
No progress this time as it only took two days to animate :)

Shamurai showdown

I animated a samurai character hacking at a dummy and then stylishly re-sheething his sword.
The constraining was a NIGHTMARE on this one...
So i got away with tons of swapping between differently constrained swords and hiding/ unhiding them.

The most challenging animation -wise was to get the fingerplacement on the re-sheething correctly. And it IS correct. But i still think im gonna need a bit of motion blur to really make that move look nice.
And i should document the progress next time too. Took me several weeks, this one :P

sticks and stones..

Yo. So i made a new animatian...
The trick here waas to show the difference of weight on the ballls.
Also to make the girl move in a feminine way, and the man in a msaculine way.

Crime pays

I was watching `Broken Arrow` the other day. And i noticed something weird about the musical score...
Here is a compilation thing from Broken Arrow. Notice the music...



Broken Arrow came out in 1996 and Hans Zimmer made the original score.

Here is a clip from Scream, another movie that came out in 1996.
This is where police dude Dewey meets Gale Weathers aka Monica...



Original score for the movie Scream was made by Marco Beltrami. What the hell Marco?!
You blatantly stole the music from Broken Arrow!
The question is why? WHY, Marco?!

Dewey and Monica (David Arquette and Courtney Cox) met during the filming of Scream (supposedly).
Maybe they had something to do with it?
Maybe they were all in the editing booth together and when putting the score on that scene where they meet, Dewey and monica were like "we want the music from Broken Arrow on there because its our favorite movie, even though it only came out this year and might not atually be released at this point..."

Whatever the reason, Marco Beltrami decided to steal from Hans Zimmer who has scored awesome movies like Lion King and Inception.
However, you would THINK that after such THEIVERY your career would be over and out.
But no.... just have a look at mr. Beltramis upcoming titles...

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001937/

And THAT is proof that in Hollywood, crime DOES pay!!
And that i have too much spare time..

Oil riggers

I had a go at some basic compositing in After Effects. I figured its about time to expand the ol' repertoire of skills!
I shot the view from my parents' living room window with my brand spanking new Canon EOS 600d, which i absolutely love! Ive gone through 3-4 video cameras the last 10 years and this one, even though its not actually a video camera at all, kicks all of their asses! For my use anyway....

The Camera:
http://www.canon.no/For_Home/Product_Finder/Cameras/Digital_SLR/EOS_600D/

Anyway, i put footage from it in After Effects, put some oil rigs in there, threw on some clouds and some color correction... badaBING.


I really should have used better pictures of oil rigs because i wanted to keep making this composite better, but i thought id just leave it and make the next one better instead. But before that i need to animate something...

Newer showreel

New animation

Here is a new animation i made for my showreel. I posted it on some forums to get feedback, and i think its looking good now.
Blue guy tries to get past red guys with guns... aaaand action!

Showreel new

New showreel woohoo!
The last showreel was a bit too intense and had a lot of badly animated clips.
So i got rid of all the bad ones and toned down the intensity, and voila!

Heavy

Just started animating the 'Heavy' character from Team Fortress 2.
Put him in sort of a 'mid battle' scenario where his arms are numb from tranq darts (i have no idea if that would happen in the game).



It mainly inspired by Jim Carrey in Ace Ventura 2. In this scene right here:



It probably doesnt make much sense at this stage, but it will, man. it will.

Showreel!

After some setbacks (youtube wouldnt let me use Beastie Boys music), i have finally uploaded my Animation showreel!
It will probably stay like this for a while, but hopefully i will animate like crazy over summer so that i can put together an even BETTER showreel to upload closer to fall.

Here it is... again. Enjoy!

Untitled from Oddne Madsen on Vimeo.

Angry cat

So here is my final animation. Not much to add really, but i have to say it went ten times better than expected!

It could definitely use some more work. I might just go over the whole thing with a sharpie or something to really bring it out, and also to add a bit of detail to the character. The lipsyncing could also need improvement, but that badger will have to wait until next animation!

So that is my last project for my Digital Animation degree.

I probably wont post anything anytime soon, so until next time... you stay classy, San Diego :)

Twoooo Deeeeee

Innovation project time!
For mine i a making a 2d animation on paper. And i am using a sound clip from the film
"The boondock saints".
The quote goes: "why dont you make like a tree... and get the fuck out of here"
The character in the film has some sort of proverb-tourettes-syndrome where he mixes sayings so they dont make sense. funny....

I was not quite sure how to start this process, so first i filled in a dopesheet with all the mouthshapes on all the frames.
Then i ministoryboarded all the key poses, and wrote down framenumbers for them. Also duration of each specifc movement.
Then it was basically just going from key pose to key pose. hopefully.
So thats what i did today. I only have two more days of actual animation and one day of writinng about it.
After scanning the frames and playing it back, even without the sound, it is clear that i need to get better at keeping the sizes the same. My character morphs like a crazy person!

Here is the result of today. Tomorrow`s will be better!

MAKING two futuristic plasma blaster GUNS!

Charlie asked me to help him make some cg stuff for his Final Major Project for his Film course.
I figured i could model the gun in the film, that would later be tracked and comped into live action footage, much like Pete and I did last year for our Post production/ VFX project illustrated hmya:



I also took on the job of making the physical gun to which the cg one would be tracked.
But i thought i`d make it more interesting this time.
The plan was to make a box on a handle (like before), and another box which could be stretched out from the main "box" so that if both boxes were tracked, the motion of the little box could be tracked to different parts of the CG gun, potentially creating a transformable gun that moves perfectly with the movement of the little box.... a bit hard to explain...

Here is the physical gun in progress:













I used an Irwin Quick Grip (!??!) which had the movable parts i needed, ultra professionally constructed a wooden box over each part, then slapped some bright mellow yellow construction paper on top to make it look like a smooth unicolored box(es).
Charlie then put millions and millions of little tracking points on for pete to have more than enough to track from.

Then i made the CG GUNS:
(click for SIZE)



Some say they look like fish, i say Supersoakers, and Roy says jetskiis. But Charlie liked them, so it doesnt matter. I made them fairly quickly and definitely would add more detail if i had more time.

Bear

Now check out this little dude!




It probably better doesnt make much sense now, but when you see it in my showreel with the actual music... if you can see the music... youll get it :)

Scene 3 is finished!

So i finished my animation for scene 03 of The Last Trophy. Most of the clips i would like to improve a LOT and the rest i would like to improve a bit.
But This is the last day of Major project, so apart from the few i will be adding to my showreel, this is it for improving the shots.

Here are the shots!

Blogging from the mother country

Yoyo. I finally have time to post some of my animation work for "The Last Trophy".


I just finished my first scene. THE first scene in the film, so the characters need too look good. Here are some of the shots.

The Dance is finished!

Rotoscoping. Takes. Time....
And thats all i have to say about that.

Dance!

For my involvement in the "Inbetween" project, jake has asked me to animate a couple dancing.
The male character is going to be big and strong looking. The woman short and fat.

I had a hard time visualising a dance in my head that looked good, had good poses and timing.
I looked at alot of waltz tutorials on youtube to get the basics of footmovement for a classic dancestyle. I decided to do the dance in maya with two rigs that looks a bit like the characters.
Then when i have an ok dance, ill draw over each frame to make the characters look like they are supposed to.

Here is the dance i made so far.

Running better

Just improved the run cycle a little.

Monkeys are horses

I was wrong!!!!!! monkeys doesnt run like cats and dogs at all! they bounce off the ground the same way a horse does....
And the same way us humans do actually. Try it. Try running on all four and you will see.
So i had to do a new run cycle. And this way is much harder to animate.
Here is my first attempt: