The Gangster

Side Characters

Character Designs for the bachelor film I'm directing- Grandma's Hero
It's always fun with side characters, you take less stuff into consideration and can just go crazy

Path of Creation

This is a project from last semester. We were making a commercial for Viborg Animation Festival (VAF), learning to work with a client. This short represents the spirit of creation, when you leave your fears behind and enjoy the process.

I've been the character designer and animation lead on the project. Here is some of the 'Making Of' from my part, including some of the guide I made to how to draw the character Sushi, an animation test, and my animation scenes.

 

 

My animation scenes:

Some more concept:

Grandma's Hero

This is concept for a story idea that me and mister Corentin Monnier are working on this days.

The Last Riding

I have an idea for a little story, this will be one of the pages if I pull it off.

Cheers!

Da Forest Ghost

An illustration made in Maya.

Yes, I could have done it much faster in Photoshop :P

Character Design

This is from the last assignment of this week of Character Design with Julia Bracegirdle.

We were asked to design characters for a story called "Taste" by Roald Dahl.

 The story takes place in rich peoples house in England of the 50's (in my case it's the 60's..) over a fancy dinner.

Richard Pratt is a revolting snobbish wine taster in his 50's.

Mike Schofield is trying to look more rich and important then he really is, also in his 50's.

Louise Schofield is Mike's 'not so smart' daughter, 18 years old.

Mike ends up betting with Richard over the hand of his daughter.

I tryed to get out of my style by using different techniques that I learned this week.

Character Design With Photo Collage

Dam this week was awesome...

I was looking forward for Character Design week, and I learned even more then I expected.

We had Julia Bracegirdle as our character design teacher and her unconventional ways of approaching character design were very helpful for me. Her approach keeps me creative and lets me play around with the characters and get into results that I did not think of, and get some 'happy accidents'.

This is one of the assignments from this week, we were asked to make two characters that will fit 'Dr. Frankenstein's Experimental Pet Shop'

My goal for this week was to experiment with different ways of designing characters, get out of my usual  style and develop my own ways of approaching character design.

More to come in the next post.

Layout for 'Bonnie and Clyde'

Bonnie and Clyde- Layout from ozeri ben on Vimeo.

In the past two weeks we have been working with layout, with the teaching of Uri Kranot. Not an easy subject for me since I'm not very experienced with backgrounds. So it's great that I got some more experience with it, it really opened up my mind and eyes to how interesting environments can be and how much it can influence the mood of the scene.

This is the last assignment from the last week of Layout and After Effects. 

We were supposed to make layout for the story of Bonnie and Clyde. The scene is supposed to be the finishing scene of the movie, right after they get shot by the policemen's ambush.

The fun part is that we had a lot of freedom so we kind of got to be the directors, and not only get a storyboard and copy it. So this way I got to experiment with  how everything works together (composition, camera movement, camera shots, set design, and sound) to help me give the mood that I was aiming for.

 

Little Red Riding Hood

This is from a color week with Lawrence Marvit, which was again mind-blowing. 

I could definitely render it more and play some more with the lightning, but that's what I got right now.  

Hope to get some more experience with colors in the future.

Fairy City In Modern Society

Sometimes the concept is just an excuse to do a drawing.
This is my piece from the last assignment of this week, the concept- Fairy City.

This week we came back from the Christmas holiday straight into intensive week of Design 2, with Lawrence Marvit.
Sometimes you get skills slowly step-by-step, and sometimes you just get stuck and suddenly it just hits you- this week was like that.
I was limited by my rendering skills, until the very last moment when everything got into place. This week will be remembered as a turn point for me into the world of environment painting. Yes the stuff around the character are important.
Thanks bad-ass teacher and awesome classmates.
I had a great time this week and I will defiantly continue with concept art.

"Make me a drawing that I would wanna watch the fucking movie"- Lawrence Marvit.

The Magical Collaborative Comics

This week we decided to start a collaborative comics project. This means every time someone will post a continue to the comics and eventually without planning ahead we will develop a story.

This is the first page of the comics that I posted this week.

The comics is being posted in our Bachelor year crazy blog BECAUSE MAGIC

The Scared Scary Monster

A monster week, special for Halloween.

We had two days of intro to Photoshop, and we were asked to make a monster in its natural environment.

 I added some of the thumbnails and sketches too.

Work in progress- The Sad Dolls Stand

Work in progress, playing with Photoshop.
Walking the streets of Viborg I saw this guy with a sad handmade dolls stand.

My interpretation to Hamlet's first scene. Last assignment after a week of Design with Lawrence Marvit.
The ghost of the dead king appears in front of the castle guards.

"
MARCELLUS: Peace, break thee off; look, where it comes again! 

BERNARDO: In the same figure, like the king that's dead. "... 

..."HORATIO: What art thou that usurp'st this time of night, together with that fair and warlike form in which the majesty of buried Denmark did sometimes march? by heaven I charge thee, speak! " 

MJ

The Unwritten Stories

Trying a new style of drawing