Been 2 weeks now and ive been so busy with the damn movie project that ive barely managed to draw anything worth showing.
Have to come up with some serious punishment for myself :/
well, here we are, 2 days of premiere and after efects, 2h of filming, few hours of prop building and we got ourselves a movie (clip)
not exactly how i hoped it to turn out but time is short and the file got way big for my pc to handle.
the pace of the thing should be smoother/slower (could have been fixed by a separate camera man but had to do with just the tripod this time) transitions arent that smooth in places, the end gets kinda messy and some vfx is missing (damage to the car, supermutant, etc) but its the best i could come up with all the limitations.
Enjoy :)
Well well, another week went by, got a bit more done (most today :P)
Well, my sense of time is completely haywire but heres about week’s worth of drawing.
This time i threw away that damn book that lost its way somewhere and picked up this great dvd by david finch, it tough me a great deal how to get the proportions right and sketch down a figure
say hello to my newest project!
in order to make learning After Effects more fun, i decided to do a short video/movie to learn the stuff im interested in (matte painting, 3d integration, color fix, motion tracking, etc)
well, here we go again.. since i got rejected for the drawing skills, its time to start polishing them… drawing a little every day reading books and looking around…
But first of all, this little thingie (doesnt it make a nice impression on the post listing? ^^) copper + glass + pliers
for the drawings, click more or on the image to read on.
8 months have passed. im finally free to do as i please. It was all just one aweful experience, didn’t gain anything except valuing time more after seeing it wasted like that! could critizise and moan forever but since theres some laws against it that im too lazy to get familiar with, il just leave it at that and try to start up with my life instead….
so all i can give you is a few photos (which is also not allowed but whatever, dont see any harm in it…)
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As expected, i didnt get into Animwork… my hand drawings were way too weak. I had hoped that my digital stuff and potential for learning would compensate but i guess it was wishful thinking…
so for now, the plan is to work in Copenhagen for a year and gather up some funds for material fees and boost up my drawing skills with intensive training (seeing as ive never, ever learned any theory nor systematically tackled drawing) to apply again next year.
how to make your mood any more darker then the last free weekend….
due to some ill tidings the next weekend and one in the end were cancelled… so now il be stuck without leave for the next 5 weeks out of which 3 are in the forest for an event called “kevadtorm” … ugh… dirty, cold, max 4-5h of sleep per night, crappy food, etc. cant wait to be over and done with this frikin carnival
sooo, finaly had the test and the interview over skype… has pretty much crushed all my hopes.
while i knew that my hand drawing skills werent that good, i was hoping that the digital part and the fast learning would compensate a bit since the education is 50/50 as they said but they didnt seem that enthusiastic… along with that, the test part went pretty bad. Since i had never drawn with a time limit, i messed up and the storyboard ended up being a mess.
Not really nice stuff to remind myself of but i figured i should post it here since i had desperately tried to find what to expect from the test prior to taking it but found only one brief mention of it… perhaps someone else will benefit next year.
The test was sent to my mail and had to be finished and sent back in 4h. we had to choose a genre (Romance, Action, Horror or Documentary) and draw a character, background, 12-15 panel storyboard and make up a story with the theme “a visit to the veterinarian”
i lost most of my time working on the backround(s)
little flashback from last winter… 2 old friends got back together for another video :)
See it in the end of the post!
So, I finally got this monster mailed.. started making it before last summer… 36 pages!
EDIT: New had a new try next year: http://blog.koivistik.com/?p=365 also unsuccessful
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So far ive spent all my weekends off the army on the hill :)
heres a little glimpse of the last one..
hopefully il also get somone to operate the camera and get in front of it a few times myself… but thats pretty tricky :/
enjoy!
all the best for the new year, hope youre doing better then me ^^ all i go was a few weeks of for this winter vacation… probably the best one so far :) heres a little climpse of it… the weather is just gorgeous and the snow is thick as hell.
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well, the basic training of 3months is over now.
i was enlisted in Kuperjanov batalion, “miinipilduja patarei” (mortar/bombing squad or smth)
Well, i was against coming since the beginning and i must say, it met all my expectations. Ok, i see the point, a country needs an army but this is just waste of time for the guys who get stuck there…. the study time must be like 10% out of all our time, most of the time is used on cleaning, useless standing for no reason and traditions.
Every time i think on the time lost on this and how i could have advanced my own skills with it, a deep depression sweeps me off my feet.
I just cant get over the fact that im wasting a whole year of my life like this. Oh well, if thats how things are, i guess i have to just get through it and be happy when its over knowing that i wont have to go through it again.
Well, the autumn is here, the weather is crap and ive just packed my gear for the next 8 months…
Time to waste a year of my life in the trenches! :/ oh well, wish me good luck ^^
il be stuck there for the first 3 months, i’ll leave my dslr home and theres limited internet access but perhaps il try to write smth…
So goodbye everyone, and good luck withyour ventures, what ever youre doing… you’ll be progressing much more then me! ^^
kuperjanov awaits me 28/09/09
I finally finished the monster… 34 pages of pure agony ^^
This is a portfolio i intent to apply to animation workshop with in 2010. [link] / CG Artist line
Made it now since i wont have a chance in the next 8 months due to this damn army duty :/
well… enjoy, lots of new stuff up there:
low quality 4mb: (download button on the left)
high quality 30mb)
went and got myself a new board to replace the old one i jumped in half, also dug up some images of a pair of badass goggles i bought from greece… hopefully i can use them in winter (if they dont fog up)
