Basketball Shoot Animation Test

Basketball Shoot Animation Test from ozeri ben on Vimeo.

An animation test I did to practice body mechanics and a 2D quality in 3D.

Gaia The Cat

Gaia The Cat from ozeri ben on Vimeo.

A little animation I made this week, inspired by a little cat called Gaia who caught a cold. 

Shot Progression from Grandma's Hero

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:

Sushi Animation Test

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This is an animation test for a commercial project at school, her name is Sushi.

Rusty The Butterfly Predator

Rusty The Butterfly Predator from ozeri ben on Vimeo.

Meet `Rusty`

'Rusty' Walk Cycle (Enhanced) from ozeri ben on Vimeo.

We've created a monster!

'Rusty' is a butterfly eating predator, designed by me and my mate Morten Lassen.

After Morten finished connecting organs and limbs, my turn came to bring it to life.

This walk cycle is a test before starting a scene with Rusty, soon to come...

Here is a bit of the concept and range of movement from the first stages of the project:

Interaction Animation

Interaction Animation from ozeri ben on Vimeo.

That was a school assignment, and I used some time of my summer holidays to spice it up.

We were given Hogarth ("The Iron Giant") and the Sultan ("Aladdin") and the scene was a hug scene. 

We had the inspiring Sydney Padua as our mentor.

Cheers

Vive l'Animation!

Mister Stan from ozeri ben on Vimeo.

L'animation de Ben from a week of production with the students of La Poudrière.

They needed us to make some cool animations, that will help them pitch their ideas for a TV series.

This project is called Mister Stan, and it's a kind of an adaptation from the French book “OUST ou l’insupportable monsieur Stan”.

Only the animation and cleanup is by me.

Sant'e!  

Flash Animation

Intro to Flash from ozeri ben on Vimeo.

Flash is not my favorite animation tool, but at least we get to see the animation fully colored and cleaned and I had some fun trying to play with it's limitations. 

So I used this opportunity to test a character that I designed a while ago, you can see the post on this link.

Then I had to design a character answering to this sentence: "A 52 years old Canadian woman, unemployed, looking super tired, wearing a leather jacket".

And I made her walk:

Intro to Flash - Walk Cycle from ozeri ben on Vimeo.

Intro to Flash - Walk Cycle Pattern from ozeri ben on Vimeo.

PLAYER TWO

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It's finally on the web! This is our film from the Short-Short Film project.

Thanks to my group mates: Mathias Damgaard Holm, Bjørn Højlund Rasmussen, Casper Christensen, Kristine Kjaersgaard Hansen, Melanie Giessler, Sofie Emilie Kaas-Larsen.

This project was a 4 week group project of a full production of a short film for kinds audience (read more on this post).

Cheers!

Dialogue Animation with Roxanne from 'A Goofy Movie'

Dialogue Animation with Roxanne from 'A Goofy Movie' from ozeri ben on Vimeo.

Those two weeks we've been working on a dialogue animation for the first time.

We had Christian Kuntz as a teacher, and we had number of audio clips to choose from and various characters, I chose Roxanne from A Goffy Movie because of great childhood memories from this film.

 It is very challenging to fit the animation to the sound clip, and to make the acting as believable and interesting as possible. I also had a hard time making the character preform as a girl, I couldn't use only myself as a reference, so the first thing I did was asking my awesome classmate Juliette to act the scene, and her great acting skills helped me a lot in finding some ideas for the movement. 

Mid Year Test

Pink Panther Baseball Catch from ozeri ben on Vimeo.

We had a mid year test, three days to make an animation from the given guidelines. My test is to animate, awesome..

so the guidelines were pretty strict- the pink panther, 3 seconds, and following the storyboard which is: the pink panther waits for the ball, jumps, catches it, and falls back holding the ball.

Dace Animation- The Drum-matic Girl

Drum-matic Girl from ozeri ben on Vimeo.

Here is my animation from the second week with Mike Nguyen.

We could design our own character and make them dance. I designed my own character, lots of fun.

I made it kind of Straight-Ahead, trying out a way of animating that Mike recommended of: Pose-to-Pose with short distance between the poses. It's very fun to animate this way, and easier to feel the character. It also makes you improvise a lot on the way and not be so strict with your plan.

Non Dialogue Acting Animation- Blind Date

Blind Date Scene from ozeri ben on Vimeo.

For the past 2 weeks we had master Mike Nguyen to teach us the ways of 'The Force', and also Animation.

It has been very inspiring to work with Mike, and the whole idea behind Animation became a lot more clear to me. 

The assignment was a non-dialogue acting, in which the character waits for a blind date, and we needed to express his emotion. We were given the option to choose between a few Disney characters, I chose Roger from 101 Dalmatians, because I really like his performance in the film. 

" Animation is simple like life, and therefore- beautiful " - Mike Nguyen

Some old animations

Found some old animations from my studies in Frame by Frame Animation.

jump animation from ozeri ben on Vimeo.

robot and ball from ozeri ben on Vimeo.

Some older stuff

Visiting back home on the Hannukah-Charistmas vacation I picked up some old stuff that I made last year studying in Frame by Frame Animation.

Those are some action poses, I remember that the hard part was trying to make it as dynamic as possible from every angle and keep a clear silhouette:

Here are some emotion poses 

The Frog and Fly

The Frog and Fly from ozeri ben on Vimeo.

This week we have been working with TV Paint (Animation Program) for the first time, together with Rune Ryberg as our teacher.

We had 3 days, a frog, and a fly.

It's always hard the first time using a new program and new working methods, and I also find it hard leaving the pencil and paper. So I decided to have fun and make it crazy, hope it shows :)

Danny The Conductor

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This week we got to animate Danny The Cat from 'Cats Don't Dance'.

We were given some 5 seconds soundtracks to choose from, and animate Danny conducting to the rhythm.

lots of fun!

Walking With The Pink Panther

The Pink Panter - Stealth Walk from ozeri ben on Vimeo.

After having two fun days of Mime acting with Robert Bennett,

this week and a half we've had great time experimenting with walks on the Pink Panther with Alberto Campos.

Alberto Campos: Animating a walk is like caricatures- first you study the person's look/walk, and then you can exaggerate it.

Robert Bennett- The hips tell everything.

Here is the work in process:

The Pink Panter - Stealth Walk Work Process from ozeri ben on Vimeo.



Here is a normal walk:

The Pink Panter - Normal Walk from ozeri ben on Vimeo.