RESTLESS LEG MANIAC

Damn, I still haven't uploaded my finished movie. But acctually I am not in a big hurry to do so as I told myself to step back for some days and don't sit in front of the screen for to long ;-)

I draw a new cartoon (by hand) and colored it on PC... OK once again screen, but coloring works quite fast. The work whith PC involved took less than an hour.

It's one of those cartoons for this medical magazin I work for so the topic is an illness called "the restless leg syndrom".
My initial ideas were also not this bad, but during my birthday party with a lot of beer and wine involved I came up with this idea.

I really like the character I created for this one - he looks like freaks shoould look somewho ;-) My first attempt was with an english tagline that was "YEAH, YEAH... MOVE YOUR LEGS!!!" but I think the people who read the magazine would prefer a german line so I changed it to "TRETEN, TRETEN...JA...JAHHH!!!" what basically means the same. (literally:"Step, step... yes...yesss!!!")

Oh it was so fun to draw it!

I really like word plays... so here is one I found lately.

I've never red the books of Marquis de Sade because they are a bit too violent and sex orientated. (Only three or four pages of reading was enough) but I like the idea of connecting him with salade and a nice french dressing ;-)

June

Damn... Now it's already june. Time passes sooooooo quickly.

In one week I planned to hand in my short movie - that means on the 9th of june.
I can't say that I have done nothing but I definitifely can say that I need to do much more.
Sometimes I wish I am a kind of 20 japanese workoholic mangaka & animators but even with a slightly split personality I never managed to become more than one physical person.

Here's a nice Screenshot ;-)

BLA BLA BLA...ish... ahh my brain hurts like a bread filled with chillies!

BUUURRRPPHHHHH...AHHHHHH... yeah it's over.

Neoangin

remember... evolution is easy with your shoes on!

There's a robot beneath the fluff

I found a blog with very cool Images of toy robots.
Ot shows the toys in a whole in one picture and the undeneath robot structure in an other picture. Some of the toys look really sceary without their fluffy Skin...

http://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.mattkirkland.com/ursum.html

SILLY BILLY - ENVELOPES

The Rig for the fish was surpisingly easy to do compared with the cat. No legs,no shoulder, no other funny stuff just a head with some fins and tailish things.

It took only a day for all the bones, IKs, helper objects control shapes and the parameter wiring - hahahappy!

OK, it needs still some work on the envelopes but hey I am not a wizzard or something like this and I need to sleep, to eat and sometimes my body should move its muscles to not loose all abilities of movement.
But sooner or later I will create my own 3d body in 3dMax or Maya - the GOD edition of course - then I'll load my mind in to the new body and done. HAHAHA - I already mentioned that I gradually develop a nice little lunacy - Oh I like it very much!!! The world is great yeahhh! Screeny screeny boom boom ;-)

Björk - Wanderlust

for all who own red/blue 3d Glasses... Björks new Video can be seen in 3d!

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2008/04/bjork_wanderlust_3d_video

Theoretically it should be quite easy to do.
I think for a 3d Shot there have to be two cameras in the scene that are nearly on the same place (as it is with human eyes)...

but then comes the tricky stuff I can only guess. Either the images from one cam is renderd out more blue and the other more red or the effect comes through adjusting/ adding colorchannels in the postproduction... Unfortunatly I haven't at the moment the time to make huge experiments.

my chinese flatmates food

AS my flatmates not clean up their food very often - let's say once a week - I tried to deal creatively with this problem. My education was very pacifistic and diplomatic so I didn't want to shout at them but give a little visual hint that I think our flat is so dirty that the food gathers together to strange living beings...



I think this will not be the last of my chinese food pictures - as I live together with them till the end of the 3rd term. So look forward to more ;-)