Data Nerd

Watched "Revenge of the Nerds" yesterday. Got inspired to make this...

Think i am going to make it in 3d and animate it...
be continued...

Killing Rendertime

Made this while waiting for the renders to finish. My first watercolor painting! Planing to make an animation of it. Not sure if i am going to use this character or watercolor yet...

Spray

Finally decided the title of my short! A little bit forced, but it is simple and dont give away too much of the story. Here is the design of the title:) Tried out some different A's...

To keep the aesthetics of the short I traced the title on to paper and filled it in with a marker.

Major Work in Progress

Here is some work in progress from my major I am doing for my Bachelor in animation. Some raw photos and a walkcycle i have put together.

ELEMENTS

WALKCYCLE

Facial Expressions

I attended a facial animation webinar that Autodesk had today. Learned a lot in just 20 minutes. Note to self, check out Dr. Paul Ekman paulekman.com. A scientist of expressions. You can take training on the website that is called F.A.C.E Training.
He got three different products.
SETT: Subtle Expression Training Tool $39.
METT: Micro Expression Training Tool $20.
METT2: Micro Expression Training Tool $69.

There is also a series on fox that is based on Paul Ekman's discoveries called "Lie to me". And Ekman has a blog that analyses parts in the series Ekman Blog: Lie to me
You can learn a lot about human expressions from this guy.

If you really want to learn about expressions you should also buy "Charles Darwin: The expression of the emotions in man and animals". If you get the third edition of the book. Paul Ekman has the introduction, afterword and commentaries that updates the book to the more modern world...

Introduction

This is my creative blog... I'm Håvard Forland Isaksen and are an animator that like to create stuff. I will be posting stuff about animation, work in progress, breakdowns, behind the scenes and creative work. Hopefully you can enjoy my work and learn something at the same time. Cheers