Long time no ocean

Woo, it's been a while since the last post.. :q I've been kinda busy...

So much has happened in these few months... I made my thesis, went to Mexico (to meet my honeybun<3), graduated, got a job for the summer as "a teacher", started in an actual job as an animator, then got asked back to school to teach again.. and here I am.. Being busy as a bee by working my ass off in two places.. :q Just to get some money to go back to Mex again.. :3

About my thesis.. Can't remember if I've mentioned it earlier.. but it was about animating big cats.. You can find it here: https://publications.theseus.fi/handle/10024/33082

Sorry peeps.. only in Finnish for now.. but I suppose the pictures (animation sheets and such) will tell more than any word in that text.. xP Hopefully I will translate it (or the just the best parts) into English soon so it might be helpful for some others as well and not just those who can understand Finnish.. :P

Also there're the example animations of the movements I studied, they might be interesting for someone too... (You need to download the files.)

And here's a little something just for fun:

I was just testing Toon Boom.. And man.. I love doing 2D! <3___<3 I wish I had more time to do it...

Also my short film Lunchtime (see my last post) will be presented in Animatricks animation festival in Helsinki in October. http://www.animatricks.net/2011/index.php?page=uudet-kotimaiset-ii

The film will take part in competition.. and the first prize is 1000€.

As I said, atm I working on two jobs.. as a teacher in my old school (teaching about storyboards and stuff at the moment, and about animation later..)... Also I work at Anima Vitae, a Finnish animation studio, where I work as a junior animator on a tv-series. And which is quite fun, much more fun than teaching for I'm really am not a teacher.. xP I only said yes because they asked me, and also 'cause I need money.. :q In other hand is not too bad to do two jobs.. bad thing is that I'm just insanely tired all the time.. and I work so long days that I don't really have any freetime.. only few hours in the night before going to sleep.. :q

And just for fun.. here're some more tigers.. :3 Made for my own tiger.. ;3

Lunchtime

It's finally here! My short film! Made with two of my classmates last summer.. and a while after that.. :q

Feedback is welcomed!

Lunchtime, an animated short film from Team Lunchtime on Vimeo.

New year, new plans... and stuff.

Hmh.. it's seems it's a new year. I have no idea where the last 3 months went.. wherever they went, they went too fast.

I'm so behind my schedule.. if I ever had one. Well, I did have one, but I kinda forgot it at some point when I realized I can't keep up on it.. So.. I think I should make a new one.. just to get things done. And I have plenty of things to do. Or at least one major thing called thesis.

It's pretty much the last day of the holiday.. tomorrow I'll be heading back to Vantaa and my flat..

On monday I'll return to school.. to have some actual classes after a long while of not having any.. which made me kinda lazy... And I think I also need to change a little my sleep pattern, I don't think it will work anymore going to sleep at 6am and waking up at 6pm.. At least not everyday.. :q

You might wonder what happened to Lunchtime the short film... well, it's kind of finished.. except for the final edit of the sounds.. It seems you can't really trust people who promise to do something for you or your friend.. So, we need to figure out what to do with the final edit of the sounds if the person who promised to do it won't be doing it.. and it seems he won't be doing it..

But while you wait for the final film here's the Lunchtime website I did on the only compulsory class I had last fall: http://users.metropolia.fi/~kaisalep/lunchtime/

A little sneak peek for the curious ones.

And here's a little random drawing for you so this post won't be just text. Here on other day I just felt like drawing something.. and this is what came out:

Dreaming Past Lunchtime

Long time no update.. How can it be October already!? o___O
Oh well.. Time flies when you're having good time, eh?

We're just about to finish the short film.. Can't remember if I mentioned the name yet.. but it's called 'Lunchtime'. Ironic though.. I've been missing the lunch for weeks now since I've woken up around 2pm and that's when they stop serving lunch at school.. :q Anyway, all the scenes are finally rendered, only the title and credits are still missing. The sound problem has been solved too... We were going to do the sound fx ourselves but very quickly we realized that we really suck at it.. But luckily a hero appeared on my path and he's going to do the sound effects. \o/


And other things.. Here's some art for you.. or not for you.. it's actually a birthday gift to my beloved one..

It's based on a dream I had some time ago.. I love my dreams. They are so amazing sometimes..

Memory sketching.

Test rendering can be very boring from time to time.. so I did some memory sketching while waiting for some frames to be rendered. This time I flew digitally. Photoshop CS5 is pretty cool btw.

These small hours

You know that feeling when you just have to draw a tiger? I have that feeling pretty often. Like today.. I was going to do just a quickly colored sketch but accidentally it turned out to be a 5 hour digital painting..
I tried to make it look like that moment after the thunderstorm.. You know, the moment when the dark clouds are clearing and the sun comes out. And the trees are greener that the greenest green you've ever seen and the setting sun colors everything orange. And the air smells so freaking good. I love those moments.

I don't know how well I caught that moment, but I'm pretty happy with the outcome anyway.

And here's the original sketch:

Zoo sketching

I went to Korkeasaari or Helsinki Zoo today. I'm probably gonna go there some day soon again since my annual ticket is going to expire next week..

Anyways, I had a good time. I used a black marker and colored some of the sketches with water colors which gave the pictures nice touch..
Here's some of the sketches, featuring Guanaco (one of my favorite animals to draw btw.), Domestic bactrian camel, Amur tiger, Amur leopard, Asiatic lion, Goitered gazelle and Snowy owl.