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Second Character

Now that I have made the main character for the film in 3D I thought I might as well get the other guy in too. Here I could take the first one and just tweak some proportions and details to match u...

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Patreon Video - Episode 27 - Texturing the Character

Sooo, lets keep looking into the process of creating my 3D characters. Last time we focused on pure modeling, so here I wanna give you a overview to how you can pretty simply texture the character ...

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Patreon Video - Episode 26 - Character Modeling

Stoked to share the first video in a series of episodes about my 3D character. Here we are mainly looking at the process of modeling the base shape for the character from scratch. I think seeing th...

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3D Version of my Character!

I spent most of yesterday pushing polygons around and modelling this 3D version of my main character for Obsession (my film). I'm really pleased with the result of how close to my drawings and desi...

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Patreon Video - Episode 25 - Hardware

First video of 2021! 

This time we are talking about what Hardware I use. I often get a lot of questions about what tablet I use, what specs I have for my PC etc so I thought I would jus...

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Patreon Video - Episode 24 - Photo References

Hope you are all well! 

Crazy how fast this year went. Strange year for sure, and hopefully we have a less chaotic one coming up.

Anyway! Here is a new video!
This time I talk a...

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Slap to the top-hold!

The countless attempts one goes through to get that one send-go! 

These 3 shots will be followed by a few similar fast cuts of our main character falling into the crash pads. I might nee...

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Critiquing my old Animation

This video will be dropping soon on YouTube but I wanted to let you guys have early access to it first. 

This was really fun to make, looking back on an old Animated short film I made in...

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Patreon Video - Episode 23 - Preproduction Rambling

I made a video a while back for YouTube where I spoke about my preproduction process when it comes to making animated films on my own. In a previous post I asked what you guys wanted to see for the...

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Patreon Video - Episode 22 - Photoshop to After Effects

I have a few reasons for animating in Photoshop. One is I just really like the software as a painting and illustration tool, but it also works very well in my After Effects pipeline. 

I ...

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Patreon Video - Episode 21 - Clean Linework

In this real time video I work on another shot for the film. I had already done the rough animation for this shot but thought it could be interesting to see how I draw the detailed character on top...

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Patreon Video - Episode 20 - Wind Lines

Hey! In this video we take a look in After effects on how you can create tapered lines, and in this case to show wind direction in a stylized way. It used to be quite tricky to get a line to taper ...

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Animating climbing moves

Hi guys!

As we saw in the two most recent Patreon videos, I was working on the wide shot of the climber pulling on to the rock.  This shot is the first shot showing any climbing in the f...

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Patreon Video - Episode 19 - Clean up in Realtime

Was not sure if this video contained enough to actually publish, but on the other hand I think its better to put stuff out than to hold back? Or you let me know. Maybe some of you find this interes...

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Patreon Video - Episode 18 - Rough Animation in Real Time

Here comes quite a long video for you. As animation is incredibly time consuming I thought that maybe the best way to see another artists process is to actually watch it in real time.  

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Patreon Video - Episode 17 - 5 methods for Compositing 2D

Glad so many of you guys gave suggestions on what you wanted to see. Here comes a first video looking at some common comp techniques I use to make my 2D shots come to life.

We can definitely ...

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Suggestions for new video?

Hey! Wanted to hear from you guys what you would want to see me tackle in upcoming Patreon videos. Please drop any suggestions in the comments below or you can also send me a private message.
W...

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Patreon Video - Episode 16 - Particles

This time we are looking at Particles!
I have been using the AE plugin called Particular for many many years and its one of the only plugins I would say is an absolutely ''need to have''.
I ...

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Keeping things consistent

Oh boy I have a lot of rocks to paint for this film. But the good news is that it's quite enjoyable. It just takes time. There are a few town shots in the film, but 90% is located in the wild, so h...

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Patreon Video - Episode 15 - Creating a River

I got some requests about creating water from you guys  and also to expand on what I showed in the YouTube Video about the small creek I created a while back.
Now I needed a shot for the f...

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Patreon Video - Episode 14 - Painting B-Roll for my Animation

Working on the short film again. Have gotten a few shots painted in the last few days. Been squeezing it in between client work and general life admin. Excited for how these shots are turning out.&...

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Patreon Video - Episode 13 - 2D FX Lightning

Wanted to follow up on the smoke and explosion video I did recently by showing how you can make some lightning 2D FX pretty easily. This mainly requires finding the right motion for these to look g...

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New YouTube video dropping soon..

I have been making a lot of videos about how I animate in Photoshop. I even made one called ''Animating in Photoshop - The basics''. But I feel like I never managed to cover every aspect of it with...

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2D FX Animations

Following up on the recent topic of 2D FX animations that I posted videos on both here and on YouTube I thought it could be cool to create a bunch of assets to start to build a library of these thi...

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Patreon Video - Episode 12 - 2D FX Animation

I just posted a video on YouTube showing a time-lapse with commentary of me animating a 2D explosion.  I'm really quite satisfied about how that that turned out. So I wanted to elaborate a bit...

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Patreon Video - Episode 11 - Basic Texturing

In this video I  wanted to show you guys something a bit more beginner friendly. Even though simple UV mapping is something quite fundamental, I think many might not know fully how to use it. ...

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Patreon video - Episode 10 - How I Paint Clouds

I have been working hard on a game trailer for a friends game company where I have had to paint a bunch of clouds backgrounds as the game is set in the skies, featuring airplanes. I thought it woul...

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Early Render of the Environment

Been working on and off on this shot in parallel with a commercial job I am currently on.  I think the environment is starting to come along nicely. Its quite noisy as I rendered it on a low s...

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Endless Texturing

Been doing some good progress on the shot. However populating the scene and texturing it takes a lot of time. Since I am not using photo textures for anything (we are aiming for a more stylised loo...

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Patreon video - Episode 09 - Modelling some Engines

Yo! This time we do some straight up modelling. Been populating the scene I was working on in the last video with some houses and I have also been working on the vehicle that Jana walks onboard. &n...

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