Music Recommendation - Dirty Projectors & Bjork

This music is great and the video too. They're called the Dirty Projectors. I can't really find a genre box to put them in, but who cares what kind they are when it sounds this awesome. They also done some really nice collaborations with David Byrne and Bjork, go find them on YouTube and Myspace

Dirty Projectors MySpace

...and how can I mention Bjork without pulling this one out again...

The Animation Task Force - Halloween is over...

We done a blog where you can follow the group of adventurous animators and find the results of these weekend sessions.

Here's a little screen grab from one of my scenes



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Animation Task Force

Sketchbook - Inky Station Wait

Got stuck at Odense train station last week...

A Modern Jesus

...is apparently very well animated :D

My guess is it's done by some French students, Gobélin or SUPINFOCOM, otherwise let me know if you got some info about it...Anyways even if it's done by experienced professionals I find it very smooth and impressive.

the Animation Task Force - First Session (31. Okt - 2. Nov)

So we formed a little group of people planning to do some animation jam session in Copenhagen. The plan is to do a short movie over an weekend, and the story for this first session (31. okt - 2. Nov.) is "boy wake up and needs to pee, but his afraid of the dark and with good reason".

Here's a sketch I dropped in the forum discussion


the boy's design is by John

If you want to get involved in this animation weekend, then contact Mads Juul directly or through the event on facebook

DRAW!

This post is mostly aimed towards people in and around Copenhagen looking for animation/commercial drawing courses or wanting to teach such a course.

Met my friend Zdenko in the train today and I hadn't seen him for a long while. He's a fellow animator and artist, great one too. Well...conversation comes to the obligatory question of "what are you working on" and Zdenko had a pretty interesting answer. He has been putting together an drawing course for people in Copenhagen. Judging from what he said and the flyer he was throwing at me, this could become pretty interesting. He still had a lot to do, finding more guest teachers and similar things, but first classes would start in January. I bet it's gonna be good.

So I'd advice you to head over to he's site, go to contact and hit the email. whether you are interested in teaching or being taught.


Tegneskolen DRAW

Sketchbook Pages

A5, Pen


A5, Pen

Here's a bit from my sketchbook, thought I done to much none creative posts lately...better get back to doing more of the sketch bits and less of the brain bits.

Æblet og Ormen

Here's another trailer, or viral ad to be specific, for Æblet og Ormen (Danish for Apple and Worm)

Exactitudes - Art Project

I find that it's a given fact with most my fellow animators that they're good at analyzing people and also a bit of personality fetishists. Humans is amazing beings, weird people even better! So if you got the same fascination of people that I got, then you're gonna love this art project.

Exactitudes is photographs of people, grouped in 12 similar looks but still different personalities. When working with character design in animation we often tend to use stereotypes and caricature them, this is a really helpful study of human characters for this purpose. Go have a look.

Exactitudes

My real band

Well it's been awhile since I started playing the bass now. Not really receiving any proper teaching, but that hasn't been holding me back :)

Let me go back to the beginning...

The whole idea of playing the bass actually started as a promise in the local bar after work and plenty of beers later than that. Mads, my supervisor at that point, had some extra time in a rehearsal room he rents and after a discussion about musical taste we ended up forming a band. The band consists of two completely untrained amateurs, Lars (drums) and me (bass). Then there is Mads (lyric, guitar) who's the experienced one of us in the little trio.

Anyways for fun and because we don't believe in being shy about things you're trying to learn, we uploaded rehearsal recordings to Myspace. Warning we this is raw low-fi pratice...it's not some well produced pop tracks :P

The Band's Myspace



Band logo, the name means "The Real Band"

A real thriller...

Here's another example of my work for CN. This time it's storyboarding ideas for promos in small quick boards, this one was for Dan Brierley, he had the idea of doing a spoof on Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video with Billy & Mandy. Great idea and we had fun making it, by the way this was long before Michael Jackson died and I'm certain no harm or mocking of the dead was intended. This is a tribute if anything :)









Here's the finished promo on YouTube