Class 3 - Week 2

Class 3 - Blown Away - First Pass v.2 from Lasse Eriksen Bjørseth on Vimeo.

Here is my result after week two in class 3 at Animation Mentor.This is my first pass of blocking on the pantomime assignment.

The idea is:
A guy is sitting at his desk and reading a book, its a bit hot, so he deside to turn on his fan. But it want turn it self on... after some struggling it suddenly gets turned on with a super power that blows him out of his chair...

Progress reel class 2 - Animation Mentor

Here is my class2 progress reel :-)

A new year... with a new post

Its 2009!!! Happy new year to everyone!
Since it's a new year, im going to try to be more active with the posting. Im done with class 2 at Animatin Mentor, had a fantastic mentor (Keith Sintay), and a bunch of nice classmates.
Class 3 is starting up later today, really looking forward to start up again after the Christmas break. Wondering witch mentor I get :-)

Its been almost two weeks of from work and Animation Mentor. Used the time with my two kids and my girlfriend, and a lot of Christmas food :-) Also watched a couple of Keith Lango's videos, and read some of his articles:

• About Arc's
• Overlap
  

Class 1 - week 12 - Progress reel

Then class 1 is done.. here is my progress reel. Showing what I have done.. not so happy with the overlapping assignments.. have to improve that. But at least im showing progress :-)
Would like to say thanks to my classmates and my mentor for 3 great months.. class 2... here I come!

Week 11 - Class 1.... soon class 2, crazy

Here is my result for the week11 assignment. Polished my marching walk from last week.



With the Vanilla walk, I really struggled with the "after blocking mode", when I entered spline mode. Everything looked really messy, and was floating all over the place.
This week I have read a couple of articles and watched Keith Lango's videos about this stage in the animation process, and learned a lot.
So this week I added much more information in to my blocking stage, than last time. And it looked so much better, and I only had to clean up my curves.
So you have to take your time to add enough information in to your blocking. Do not stress!

Soon it's class 2, this was the last assignment in class1. If I look back, I have learned so much.
I also see a dramatic improvement in my drawings. Since we are sketching out poses every week, I have got stronger poses, and cleaner lines. That's so nice to see.

We are going to have a break between the terms, but i'm planning to do a new walk in the break, so would probably upload it here.
Wonder what type of walk I should do? Starts to get really fun now!!!

Week 10 - Class1 - Walk with personality

Hey, been quite hectic here. Been sick, and had a long weekend in Iceland, so again, sorry for the lack of updates.
But here is my blocking of my week 10 walk, walk with personality.
Marching marching.. lalala..
This week (week 11) im going to polish this walk.. so hope to upload it here on Sunday :)
Soon summer term is over, the time just flies away.. going super fast!

Soooooon class2 :-)

Class 1 - Week 8 - Walk blocking

Hey all.. sorry for the lack of updates lately. My daughter had her first birthday, so has been quite hectic here. But super fun! She also started in kindergarten today :-) This year has just gone super fast!

Back to Animation Mentor. Week 8 was about Walks. Finally! I have been looking forward to walks for a long time now :-)
This week we blocked out our walk, next week we are going to polish it :-)

Class1 - Week6 Pendulum

My assignment for this week... pendulum - overlapping actions :)

Class 1 Week 5 - Obstacle Course...

Then the assignment for week5 is done. Obstacle course.. starting to more and more fun now :-)
Also a Stu pose.

Class 1 Week 4 - Animation Mentor

More bouncing :-) This time a light and a heavy ball :-)

Class 1 Week 3 - Animation Mentor

Here is my bouncing ball & "excitement" pose for week 3. I feel it is a bit slow, so I will probably do some refining on it this week, but will first see what my mentor has to say :-)

Week 4, here I come!

Week 2 - Animation Mentor

Here is my pose for week2 at Animation Mentor. Looking forward to get some feedback from my mentor.
I went to a golf course and a shopping mall to sketch my poses.
So fun to finally do stuff. Soon week 3 already! :-)

Class1 - Animation Mentor

Yeah! It has started.. can't believe it!
So much to check out! So much inspiring information. I'm going to stay up all night!
And my birthday is tomorrow, so this was a nice birthday present :-)

My mentor for class 1 is Raquel Coelho. She has worked at studios like Blue Sky Studios, PDI/Dreamworks, Wild Brain and Tippet Studio. Isn't that some cool studios to have worked for? Yeah, it is!

I'm going to post more regular, so will keep you updated on my way to become a animator!

Cya soon!

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Animation Mentor - Here I Come!!!

Moving to a new apartment!
Been long time since I posted something here. Been moving to my new apartment, so much packing and unpacking. Didn't knew we had so much stuff!

Animation Mentor
Finally got the answer from Animation Mentor, I'm in! So coooool. Can't wait. So since I don't have so much animation experience yet, I'm going to start practicing so I have some work under my fingers before I start there.

I got a seat in the Summer 2008 class. So this is going to be 18 super exciting months with hard work!

I have for a long time wanted to go there, but since Lånekassa (Norwegian financial support for education) didn't supported Animation Mentor, I had to save for it myself.

So after some hard saving, I'm finally there!

I'm going to keep you updated here on my blog.