Ik ben verhuisd!

Hey guys,

Voor de mensen die het nog niet wisten. Ik ben verhuist naar tumblr.

http://thijskoole.tumblr.com/

En zal dus niet meer posten op deze blog.

CHEERS
Thijs

CMYK MAX

CMYK color drawing thing what not. Surreal art is what I'm going for ;).

Mug shot

To practice girls and to draw more in general. Here is some new art. Hope to draw some more in the future!

Statera - HD final

Hello guys,

I finally got around rendering the Statera short in HD so without further ado i present to you the finished movie!



Statera also got an honorable mention at the HKU mixed media festival. Which is a festival for all utrecht school of arts media related projects. Its not very big but I'm still happy with my honorable mention. 

Statera - animated short pre-production

At the end of the first year came our biggest assignment yet. To make an animated short of 1 minute or more (not alot more. to protect the students from getting into way to much work). I've had the idea for my own short a long time now and wanted to make it for its abstract and weird Aesthetics/design.

The basic idea was to have two planets floating in orbit ( where on the one planet there would live a race of sophisticated gentleman complete with top hat and tea cup and the other planet would live a race of anarchy driven creatures. And somewhere in the middle they would meet/get into conflict. It was clear that i had to work some kind of plot in all this but this was where the idea started.

So i started to write a script, made some sketches, a style tryout and a moving storyboard. This is how it looked like.

So i had some mixed feedback. especially with the little red guys. One teacher thought it was about colonizing and another thought that the hat was a brainwashing machine (though it was suppose to be a symbol for the sophisticated side) And a third thought i was comparing people with animals (the red guys being the animals). I didn't want my short to be about those things and that was never the way it was suppose to about. So i made a second moving storyboard.

The short made more sense now but people were still taking a lot of mixed things out of it and even though i wanted for people to have their own interpretation, this was going to far. So i sat down and addressed the problems.

I made the red guys more like humanoid and dialed the amount of people on both planets down a little. I also changed the story and events alot. First made really smal thumbs in order to get every thing on one line with the plot.

And after being satisfied with that i made the third moving storyboard!

And by the time i finished this it was high time to start animating so i went with it.Next time i will post the final animated short in full HD.

Thijs out-

The Maya experience

We only got a few lessons in animating with Autodesk Maya so i haven't really got to grasp it yet. I always criticize 3D animators for putting more effort in their modeling then animation (and how can you call yourself an animator then?) But my own 3D work isn't much to boast about either. I do wish to get better at it but animating in Maya so far has only been problem solving instead of actually animating.

Anyway the 2 video's here are the only maya animation assignments that we had. One was to animate a cube and make a little story out of it (very little story) and the second was to take a sport, analyse the movement and animate a pre existing Autodesk Maya model. 

Hopefully i can get a better grasp of 3D animation next semester. Even if its not my main focus for i am a 2D animator at heart.

Self study

I did some short animations to practice a few key elements. A simple way of animating water, a double kick movement, facial animation and an extreme turn.

Its always fun to animate random events and i hope to do some more in the future.