Mad Scientist

 Painting inspired by a photo of Nikola Tesla.

Box

11 from Kristian on Vimeo.

This was my submission to the 11 secondclub animation competition in december. I thought it was a funny audio clip (and I had vacation) so i wanted to give it a try. And I ended on a 3rd place (: 

 Soldering together the armature.

A clayman coming to life. The yellow things are a new product i wanted to try called Sugru. It's a self setting rubber, and I used it to create areas I can hold while animating. It worked really good!

My pro set up in the corner of our living room.

Research Base

Happy new year!!!

A painting I did during vacation of a small research ship watching the nature from a pointy top. 

And a rough sketch

Ogre!

Hola! I wanted to practice a little skin coloring on this confused ogre in Photoshop.

First I did a fast line sketch, and then I made a black & white shading for the values, thinking the key light came from above right. At this stage I felt he missed something. So I gave him a mustache. But then he looked like a pirate, so I added some tusks to make him more ogreish.

Then I used the fantastic color layer and painted in the base skin color. For the lighting I mostly used the soft light layer, and painted a warm key light,  a cool fill light and a cooler rim light.  I added in some more color variations for the skin. Especially where the skin was thin and blood would shine trough and there would be some sub surface scattering (ear,nose etc.). This was done with a lot of layers on top of each other, thinking of what was underneath the actually skin. The rest was adding details like veins, hair, highlights.

Fuzzy

Sculpy

sculpy from Kristian on Vimeo.

Small animation

Found an old puppet at home and made a little animation in my tiny room :)

Finnished! and more

We are finnished with our exam film Warp, and here's a little poster to celebrate! The film will premiere at the AnimationVolda festival (http://www.animationvolda.com/)  in september.
Currently I have started my internship at Qvisten Animation working on their new and very exciting stop motion feature "Solan og Ludvig: Jul i Flåklypa".  

I have also started working on my online portfolio http://kklportfolio.blogspot.com/

Sayonara!

Scrap Ship

Animation test

A small animation test I did of the clockmaster from our bachelor short.

Rag Guru

Stop Motion Puppet Finished!

 This is the finished Clockmaster puppet I've made for our Bachelor film Warp! The face has replaceable mouths and eyebrows for some fun animating. The hands and shoes are cast in rubber silicon. We decided to sculpt the heads for our puppets in Super Sculpey Firm to save time and money. 

Check out: http://warpfilm.blogspot.com/ for the Apprentice puppet and some process pictures:)

Clockmaster turnaround from kristian theman on Vimeo.

Markers and pencils.

Stop Motion Bachelor Project: Warp

I'm currently working on my bachelor movie Warp. The story is about a Clockmaster and his young apprentice. They run a big clocktower that move time itself forward! The movie will be made in Stop Motion animation technique.

Here are some concept pictures that I've made:

A Maquette of the Clockmaster

Ball & socket joint armature for the Clockmaster

We ordered the joint parts from John Wright modelmaking and soldered them together our self.
We are trying to make the heads with rapid prototyping. First model the heads on the computer in Maya, and then we will be printing them out in different parts so we can use them as replaceable parts when we animate. The parts will look something like this:

=D

Link to our production blog: http://warpfilm.blogspot.com/

Inspired by the Terran Marauder unit in Starcraft.

Dr.Palarie

Showreel 2011 update

Showreel 2011 from kristian theman on Vimeo.

Animation showreel 2011

LoSt

Crooked Town

Speedpainting!

Yesterday I started a speedpainting project. I will paint as often as possible, and my goal is to paint them under one hour. Yhea!

The Traveller

Stupid rain..

The Mighty Mistmaker