Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh …

My laptop, the only one strong enough to do backgrounds for my short failed me, my graphics card is in an infinite loop in other words it’s an 1800 euro laptop now turned into a piece of metal with shiny lights. I was smart enough to have made backups of some of my files but not all, so what was already a tight deadline just became ridicilously unreachable so I’m anry as hell, and as a result my short is gonna look allot worse IF I’m able to finish it. Now I have to finish these backgrounds, color my scenes and composite them all on my tiny 12 inch laptop. Great !

Hi everyone, again like always my appologies for not blogging allot. I’m very busy right now so.

Anyway this is a gig Andreas was working on, he did the design and the client wanted to know what it would look like in 3D. It doesn’t have the graphical quality Andreas gave it, but after 5 days work what could you expect. Nevertheless it was fun bringing out old Softimage and doing 3D again. It kinda makes me appreciate 2D more lol.

Now back to cleaning up my old scenes

Ciao

Aaaaaaah, my short is nearly finished.

I still have to do the colors and the backgrounds, First I am gonna recut it again, cause some things weren’t very clear. Anyway that’s for later, I’ll post it when it’s done. I don’t like showing people half done things.

I had to change my mindset, cause I was getting annoyed with all the work still needed to be done so I animated Franquin, I always wanted to do this, and one day I’ll make something more interesting than a walkcycle, something worthy of his amazing talent, but for now I’m pleased with this test. I also needed interesting material for my demoreel so what better execise than animating the best comic book artist ever

Ciao

Mathieu Vierendeel

A character design for my next short. Still very much WIP but I like the mouth area.

Hmmmmmmm, back to work

A test for a future project

Been doing long hours on my short, it’s fun to do some life drawing for a change. I’m getting better but it still needs ALLOT of work.

Not much to add

Thought I’dd show you guys what I’ve been up to lately. Apart from animating ( wich is going 2 slow I think), I’ve been developing my backgrounds. Here are some color boards for some of my scenes.

These are practicly all the same colors, but after the last one the mood of the story changes and they all become more saturated red, but not the photoshop kind of saturated red

Gouache on paper, around 2 to 3 inches wide ( and lots of fun )

Ciao

Weirdest thing happend today.

I decided to go out, clear my mind. I went in to a second hand bookstore and strolled around for an hour or two, checking out art books and film books etc.

I actually found this book called ” Chuck Amuck by Chuck Jones” now I had thought of buying on Amazon but it would cost me around 30 euros and I already owned a DVD about C. Jones so I didn’t bother.

I looked at the price and it said 15 euros, so I bought it. But when I was at home I flipped through all the pages and the first page I flipped showed me this :

Now imagine that not only was this the the first print (in perfect condition ).

IT’S ALSO SIGNED

WOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO
Lucky me right, imagine the odds, anyway this is a great book with some amazing drawings in it as well, thought I’d show you guys some of my favourites :