Animation

Ok, that wasn’t actually planned, there’s a draft somewhere for a blog post about everything that happened in April, but I never really got to finish it because this beast here kept me busy for the … more →

Another month another 30+ blog posts but this month was hard, there were times I didn’t know WHAT to post, my mind was empty and there was nothing clever to squeeze out of it. But I’m not complaining … more →

Sooooo the last two days and the respective blog posts were a bit off and so was I, still not feeling good but I try to keep it together for this entry where I try to further explain my realization … more →

Something changed that weekend. You know, I was always interested in many creative things. Taking pictures, making movies, writing stories, making websites, drawing and even some drumming. But I … more →

A few years ago I started to play around with drawing on the iPad (back then without the precision of the Apple Pencil) and character Animation. It was a good learning experience but, as I mentioned … more →

I started to think about a different story for my sheep movie and currently, I’m headed in a direction that is very straightforward when it comes to the whole 3-act structure. There’s the inciting … more →

Well, I decided to rewrite my animated short because now after working with Blender I actually wanna do that short and I think my idea with the boy and the interface is just a bit too complicated to … more →

After watching some more video tutorials on Blender, I decided to start from scratch with the sheep and try to make it easier to manipulate the head. So I worked with mirroring for the eyes to … more →

I fiddled around with my sheep some more and learned how to increase the resolution of the 3D Objects to make it a lot smoother. I also made the legs shorter, looks better now and I wanted to improve … more →

Well, I started working with Blender, the free open-source 3D modeling software, and created a 3D Model from the sheep and then added some small animation and all this within 6 hours (more or less). … more →

After the storyboards, it was time to create my first story reel video with After Effects and later with Premiere Pro. It’s not perfect (black border all around the video) but it’s the first thing … more →

With a template from the professor, I redrew all the storyboards and made some things clearer. The next step now is to import those storyboards into Adobe Premiere and create a 2D animatic scene … more →