workshop | timemachine

tamtam | evolution

I worked on the tamtamassignment and tried to go a step further with the sketches my docent found decent. After trying out a LOT (check out the sketch below to see what I mean, that's one page of like 20) I came up with this. I am now still working on colors and such.







how I got there:





aaaaand a colorsample

Sketches | Twentse Welle

Still working hard on that twentse welle animation. Here a couple of sketches for your delight...


Plant elements for the upcoming park scene







decorational swans for the Schwanensee





a first attempt to picture LeFabricants family

with wife and son



the kids, 1st attempt



and 2nd



this was supposed to be MadameFabricant, but unfortunately she turned out to be evil witch wife from hell according from the look she's giving. Don't like that slight Manga-touch in the sketch either.

what criticism on criticism can look like

not by me, but I think he's got a point.

from rags to riches

here's a before and after look at my storyboard and the scene I finished so far. Just move the mouse over the frames to see what it looks like in the animation.

twentsewelle | sneak peak le fabricant

Here's a very, VERY first glimpse at the animation I am working on for the Twentse Welle. Consider it far from half way done and then divide that by fourteen, that's pretty much what the progress is all about right now.

chainreaction_01

The copper ball is a button :) this is an animation, just click on the copper ball...

eye, captain!

these are animations by the way - click the balls to see what happens.

tamtam in motion

We are supposed to create an animated logo for "tamtam", an international news agency and "numbers", which just might be anything, e.g. accountancy, theatre or whatever.

I am still busy with the numbers animation, but at least I can already show what I have got so far for the news agency. I kept it black and white for a couple of reasons; connection to the print media (and newspapers), tradition, a very subtle hint at the lead letters of a typesetter (in connection with the rotating blocks) to name a few.

type used is "courier new bold"

affiche | nationale reisopera

twentse welle blog launched

twentse welle blog: www.four--rooms.blogspot.com

further information here

twentse welle | navigation draft

i know the sound suxx, I still just couldn't help myself ^^

flash | neverending animation

Isaac Newton would be proud...

Finally figured out how to use a realistic physics system.

Twentse Welle 1918-1945 II

These are the other Twentse Welle movies that Anika, Jan and I did. First of all it's our tourguide (we kinda called him Alfred, no big reason, just the first name that popped into our minds)



The second one is the dynamic moodboard we created in a couple of looong nights. We are trying to represent the farmers, the workers and the industrial bosses from 1918 until 1940 plus the phase of the second world war.



night.

big fat handicap

as some of you have already noticed, I've been acting a little weird lately. Little explanation to that:

First of all, my hard disk surprised me with a little thing called "physical damage and loss of data". Well, not all data, I managed to get some of the files I need back from the dead.

So I wandered off, trying to get me another hard disk. Most of you guys know how big picturefiles and videos can get, so I figured "Get half a terrabyte, that should be enough for now."

So I did. 500GB samsung thing, got loads of prices for speed, volume and quality per se. Installed it. Didn't work. Got me thinking again... "There are two cables man. A datacable and one for electricity. No jumpers. What is wrong with you?! A six-year-old should be able to do this..." (SATA-II really is foolproof)

Surrendered. Took everything to the IT-specialist of choice. Got a little embarrassed (as I seemed to be unable to connect a cable the only way it fits).

Got everything back later that day, needed to work on a lot of things. They told me the halfgig is defect (was from the start), that's why it didn't work. While the guys were checking the system they found another problem that turned out to be waaaay worse than the ones I was already dealing with.

The northbridge (if you don't know what it is, don't bother. It's some computerthingy that handles dataflow) was down to 20% due to heat problems. Can't repair it. Gotta exchange it. But no can do. The northbridge is more or less part of the mainboard, exchanging it would be SO much more work than just getting a new mainboard. New mainboard, ergo new CPU and RAM. Oh, and a couple of better fans. The old ones kinda sound like an airbus.

Stuff's been ordered now and is on the way (going for a doublecore 5000+, 2 gb ddr2, heatpipetechnology). Computer's gonna be reassambled next week. Looking forward to it, as I am pretty sure that operation will reveal the next problems I'll have.

Anyway, that's why I've been pissed lately (costs me an arm and a leg plus time that I hardly have) and why I am still going to be pissed for the next couple of days. It's probably all gonna be fine in a week or so, until then I'll just hang on and go for pen and paper work.

Uh, positive side effect I should probably mention: spent way more time with the Mrs. and finally managed to read through that Flash-book I got. Wish I could see how much I understood, but without a computer at hand THAT'S F***ING IMPOSSIBLE.

have a blast,

sand

Twentse Welle 1918-1945

Anika, Jan and I worked out an architectural solution for the Twente exhibition. To see the room build up piece by piece, you just have to click the "invisible button" in the lower right corner. But beware: Don't push that button while the movie is playing, otherwise you're gonna have to click through it frame by frame until you reach the next sequence of the video. I've made the button invisible for presentational reasons.

twentse welle | mijn grootvader arriveert op waterloostation

Grandfather's probably dreaming the rail trip away while his little granddaughter cannot wait to meet him at waterloo station.

quick work, might still need some fine tuning. but when time's up, time's up.

three versions of jazzalude

i found a little time to put all my jazzalude attempts into one flash file. check it out!

ferns

still not really done. i've had severe problems yesterday when suddenly the program told me that each picture would take about 2 1/2 hours. I had to turn off some of the gimmicks like raytrace shadows and reflections plus one complete scene that had to be skipped due to software troubles (stopped rendering after about 200 frames -.-)

here's ferns. i wish i had more time :)

interdisciplinary | pencil sketches

MOTION GRAPHICS DESIGN

animation design | ferns







animation design | dialogue (old version)



GRAPHIC DESIGN & TECHNIQUES | CROSS MEDIA DESIGN

dynamic moodboard | leiber & stoller








dynamic moodboard | vivienne westwood's camouflage



ILLUSTRATION DESIGN

sketches for the nrc-assignment





VIDEO- & INTERACTIVE DESIGN

animation design | they take care of me









my lil' petting zoo

mindmapping | sketches & animation

Here you can see the theoretical thoughts behind my idea of a mindmappingmachine. Basically, you enter a word that you want to go mindmapping for. Different factors like the time you need to type your input, the rhythm you do that in and the average time you need to deliver the input. From these factors 3-dimensional canvas is created, on which you are supposed to draw by travelling through the mindmap itself.



Furthermore the stroke is determined by your travelspeed, the time you need for your decisions, the word and what it consists of (letters, wordtype, syllables) and a number of other factors such as described here.



The "product" of this process are a couple of signs, drawn upon an invisible canvas. I think (but I'll have to think more about this to make this statement sure) this way you could even encipher messages.
Anyway, you can see a small example of this at the bottom. The user interface is not implemented yet, you can only see the compass in the lower left corner.



The interface consists of speed control, pre- and reviews, settings and options, a compass and an info box. All of these can be turned off (in order to get a "pure" feeling of the mapping process itself) and the size and opacity of each one is optional as well. A userfriendly interface if you will so.



In the settings menu each and every variable can be set. Tolerances, color and keys, rotation and so on and so forth. This way (and in combination with the "handbreak" and "the foot on the hose", features I describe further in the text) you can always reconsider and change the process while you are still in it.

Leiber_und_Stoller | new version

I started all over on the Leiber&Stoller Moodboard. You can see the results



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more progress | Ferns