Sandra's blog

Quick animation

2012-02-05T05:20:00.000-08:00

Just fooling around in TVPaint

My character Chinin:

My other character Cillian:

And just some random loose jump.. I have to study body mechanics more :S

Tangled 2D

2012-01-31T12:12:00.000-08:00

This idea popped into my head, and I couldn't move on with other stuff before I got it done. I love Tangled as it is in 3D, but I looked at Jin Kim's awesome sketch, featuring an early version (Bastion) of Flynn Rider, which I'm pretty fond of.
I'd like to see what it would have looked like in a 2D production, and if you want something done you got to do it yourself I guess :)
So here's the process:
Here's the sketch I used by Jin Kim, found on his blog:

I did clean-up of the sketch, very cool way to learn how he works with lines and shapes.

Flat colors, Rapunzel based on the movie, and I tried to find colors that fit Bastion.

Went for the simple shading, mostly looked at Tarzan for reference.

And final: Found this background from Brother Bear, I couldn't find any that fit better. Added some texture and some tone. Hope you like it :)

Logo contest

2012-01-28T02:53:00.000-08:00

Did this for a logo contest, the explanation was pretty vague, so I wasn't sure what they wanted, and thus did not win. However I didn't think the piece was all that bad, so I guess I might as well put it up here.

Bella the dog

2012-01-14T13:06:00.000-08:00

Ok, this is silly, and done in 1/2 -1 hour or so.
Every time my parents dog Bella, wants to come inside the living room, she needs permission, and she knows that! Therefore she just stands in the door and looks at you until you let her in... and hey, who can say no to THAT face. Just wanted to something fun and silly, there's not much else to it :)

Goodbye 2011

2011-12-31T01:51:00.000-08:00

This will probably be my last update in 2011. Been a busy but awesome year, I have high hopes for the next year too. I'm going to animate on a short for the Danish film school and of course our own bachelor film, which means I get to practice both 2D and 3D. Also I need to find somewhere I can be an intern, I really hope I can find a good studio which will take me in. And all in all it's gonna be my last year at The Animation Workshop. Best years of my life for sure!

I wasn't sure what to draw yesterday so I did this more or less rendered mermaid :) I don't have thing for mermaids, but they're nice to draw sine they're pretty much one ling line of action!

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!

Furries

2011-12-29T01:47:00.000-08:00

Some drawings I did as birthday and Christmas present for a friend. There's a couple of months between the dates I did them.
I didn't look too closely at my first drawing of the character, therefore there are some differences on the second drawing.

Merry belated Christmas and a happy new year to everyone passing by :)

Merida of Brave

2011-12-11T04:00:00.000-08:00

A lot of art updates these days, most of it because I finally put myself together to post it, but also I think I'm in a good artistic period for the time. This one was scrapped at first, as I could get the water colors to do as I wanted them to, but when I wanted to experiment with colored pencils on Aquarelle I figured I could use this one, and then I ended up liking the result. Supposed to be Merida from the new Pixar feature - brave, but I'm afraid I've used a bit too saturated colors.

Christmas Christmas

2011-12-10T07:12:00.000-08:00

Christmas Dragon because why not :)

And the only good thing about snow - means you have to war a lot of hats and scarfs... and guess what, I love hats and scarfs :D Was nice to play around with the good old color pencils!

SketchDumps #1 & #2

2011-12-07T11:44:00.000-08:00

Just some stuff from the sketch book :)
Feel that I can finally upload stuff like this here, now that I've got another blog for the pro stuff!

Enjoy

Comic Party Cover

2011-11-20T07:24:00.000-08:00

So, before summer I got the job of making a cover for the Danish comic collection magazine Comic Party
I was supposed to draw their mascot in the theme "summer".

Blog going pro

2011-11-14T11:06:00.000-08:00

http://sandrana-reel.blogspot.com/

I've made another blog, in order to have something that was more organized for when I'm going to look for internships. However I'm still keeping this blog as it is, nice and messy for anything creative I feel like blogging :)
Still sticking to the blue/green color scheme, 'cause, well.. I like that.

Student film: Out Of the Ordinary part I

2011-10-09T06:39:00.000-07:00

An extract of some of the concept drawings I've made for my groups bachelor film: "Out Of the Ordinary". See more at http://outoftheordinaryshort.blogspot.com/

Learning danish

2011-09-24T03:41:00.000-07:00

This was made back on 1'st year, when we were being taught character desing by Julia Bracegirdle. The assignment was simply to create a shadow film in about a day, that had to be about learning danish. I do hope I don't insult anyone :)Oh yeah, The voices are: Danish person - me, english person - Aida Slamnjakovic

Work from Tumblehead part II

2011-08-27T11:12:00.000-07:00

More work from my summer job at Tumblehead (www.storyofanimation.blogspot.com)

Pipelinetest:

Rubberhose style walking cycle:

Work from Tumblehead part I

2011-08-27T02:38:00.000-07:00

I did some different work on tumblehead.com during the summer, from concept to animation. Here's some of the concept drawings I did. It ws really fun to work with the different styles needed, mostly the UPA style was used. Read and see more at www.StoryOfAnimation.blogspot.com

Two of the sequences shown in one drawing each:

Concept of the Bosses, the Producer and the Director:

Concept of the different styles the light bulb had to appear in:

Concept of the main character YOU:

Misc. Artwork

2011-08-13T09:58:00.000-07:00

I know I should probably do less fanart, but I just enjoy drawing other peoples characters so much :)

Envy from the awesome Full metal Alchemist anime/manga:

Totoro from the cute anime of same name:

An aquarelle of Rapunzel from one of my new favorite Disney movies Tangled:

And last but not least some cute Sushi badges I did for a Japanese convention I went to during this summer :)

Animation reel 4'th semester

2011-08-13T09:22:00.000-07:00

Plus some older stuff.

Enjoy

Blue Beetle to the rescue!

2011-07-17T13:24:00.000-07:00

Summer and free from school.

However, I was lucky enough to get to work for http://www.tumblehead.dk/ most of the summer, so the vacation will actually just be two weeks.

I'm working together with a talented bunch on a short film called "The story of animation" doing pre-production in July and animation in August. The process can be followed on this blog: http://storyofanimation.blogspot.com/

In the beginning of August I'm going to sit in Artist Alley at GenkiCon, a danish J-pop culture conference, I'm sure it's going to be fun!

I still get to do some of my own stuff, like this drawing of the DC super hero Blue Beetle coloured with aquarelle. Hope you like :)

Trailer project

2011-05-28T03:58:00.000-07:00

In the fall of 2010, my class and I was doing a trailer project with our CGA class, and this is the outcome:

I've animated these 3 scenes:

It was great finally getting to animate a villain character!

Nifty Lady and Deku Link

2011-05-14T01:16:00.000-07:00

I made an art-trade with a friend, so this pretty lady is her character. I might have made her a bit sexier than the original, but the age should be accurate.
I felt like trying something different with the outline and the colour choice, done in Photoshop.

An well, this one was a more spontanious art-trade with a class mate, featuring Link from the wonderfull "Legend of Zelda" games. It's just a sketch, but I liked it :)

Project Q - part III - Animation

2011-05-07T11:17:00.000-07:00

Eliot was quiete challanging to animate, as what he lacked in advanced controllers, he made up for with the very short legs ( which I could thank my own design for) and we had to try out different ways for him to move forward.

This is the final version of the animation, after Martin Hjelholt Brun Pedersen had been over it, he did a very nice job with the textures, he also did the sounds.

For fun I talked Martin into making a an "Silent Film" edition of the shot. He might fix it later and if so I'll be sure to update my link here.

Here are some animation tests I did for trying out the rig!

Untitled from Sandra N. Andersen on Vimeo.

Project Q - part II - Eliot The Magnificent!

2011-05-07T10:57:00.000-07:00

This is my "real" Quadruped, however I'm not too sure you can really call him that.

Martin (http://mhbp.blogspot.com/) and I had a hard time deciding what we wanted, and we started out with a creature looking like this:

As we wanted a bog heavy creature without fur, but after trying out a lot of designs we ended up with this:

Which we names "Eliot the Magnificent"! I did a colour test on him, which was changed slightly for the final design, and he lost the butterfly, as it looked a bit like a strange mouth.

Project Q - part I

2011-04-02T07:21:00.000-07:00

At our school we had a project called project Q (for Quadruped), where we, the animators and Computer Graphic Artists had to work together, we had to come up with a design in groups, and the CGA people took over for everything but the animation.

Unfortunaly one CGA person (The nice Ida Mårtensson ) was without an animator, so I took it upon me to do an animation on her creature, an adoreable giant tortous. Here's the result after she was finished with setting it up with the background, came out very nice!

Tim the Tortoise in Tibet from Ida Mårtensson on Vimeo.

This is, however, not my "real" Quadruped, which still needs some adjustments, but I will post "Eliot the Magnificent" and some Concept for him as soon as possible!

Super-time

2011-03-31T02:07:00.000-07:00

Some drawings I did some time ago, being in superhero mode (once again).
Nightwing in aquarelle:

And a young Robin done with colour pencils

A couple of guys

2011-03-26T03:25:00.000-07:00

Did this drawing for my dear classmate Aida, a character from a manga she is very fond of, I haven't read it myself, so I tried to keep his character from pictures I found.

This is another birthday drawing, but for once not for a classmate. It's her character and belongs to her(Fei Huang) Tried to use a more paint like colouring, I could use a lot of practise in photshop though :S

Majika

2011-03-03T07:06:00.000-08:00

More Photoshop/playing with character design. A character from the same story of mine as the previous post. I really like pin-ups, and wanted to make something like this for a while, so felt good to get it out of the system.
I like how the colours turned out.

Chinin and Cillian

2011-03-01T05:39:00.000-08:00

Some of my older characters in a rather flash-like design. I got inspired by browsing blogs, and after I did the sketches I fell like it would be fun to try out with some flat colour style.
Done in Photoshop though it may look like illustrator or something.

Show-reel 3'rd semester

2011-02-20T05:00:00.001-08:00

Unfortunately I've haven't updated much of the 3D animations I've been doing. however, I've collected basicly all my work from the 3'rd semester in this reel, and I guess it's clearly showing that my understandment of Maya has improved, as I had never used it before.

Untitled from Sandra N. Andersen on Vimeo.

Wrong speach

2011-02-16T11:10:00.000-08:00

We used 3 weeks on this, inclusive working with staging, lightning and rendering.

I like super heroes!

Untitled from Sandra N. Andersen on Vimeo.

Midway test - 2. year

2011-02-16T11:01:00.000-08:00

We had 1 week to do 6-7 second lip-sync animation.
I choose this clip as I thought it'd be funny! ... Because... I'm a woman... Yeah...

He is a villain who've just explained he's great plan, however one of his female minions has pointed out a big flaw in the plan, and this is his reply:

Untitled from Sandra N. Andersen on Vimeo.

Tattoo for my brother

2011-01-29T07:08:00.000-08:00

My brother asked me to design a tattoo for him, which I actually haven't done before.
The motive should be the Capricorn, which of course,he is.

Here is the drawing I did, he didn't want me to fill it...

And the result, the person making the tattoo added shadow.

Christmas and hopefully a wonderfull new year!

2011-01-02T13:22:00.000-08:00

I made those drawings for two of my friends for Christmas, unfortunately only one of them actually got finished before the 24th.

For Stine:

For Tine:

So, Christmas break means updates, and probably some cleaning on my blog.

Finally weekend!

2010-12-03T07:05:00.001-08:00

After two long hard but fun weeks with trailer project, it's finally weekend! I'm looking forward to post the trailer and my animations on my blog, but today I'll just give you a commision work I did for a friend! Suposed to be her as chibi, done with fine line marker for outline and aquarelle for colours!

3D - And then we added a new demension!

2010-10-13T09:46:00.000-07:00

On my school the second year character animators always learns 3D, and so did our class. I must admid that I was a bit nervous about it, having thoughts like: what if I can't really animate but only draw pretty drawings. But enough whining, doesn't get us anywhere!
3D is not as bad as I feared. It gives new problems and limmits, but also new possibilities and freedom.
For now I still prefer 2D, I believe that it contains some kind of personality that 3D still lacks, not just in the design, but also the acting and movement. But I know 3D's still a kid, and I can't wait to see what the future brings!

A lot of buttoms and things to learn, so we started out "easy" with some ball animations. This was as always a way to understand timing and spacing, and I must say that it felt a lot easier to understand that last year when the animation buissness was all new to me.

Untitled from Sandra N. Andersen on Vimeo.

Soon after we had to try and put some personality in the ball. My idea was that the ball was a prisoner trying to escape... however the prison did not get that intimidating... But modern prisons aren't so that's ok! I tried to play around for making walls and furniture by using blogs and polygons.

Untitled from Sandra N. Andersen on Vimeo.

2010-10-12T11:05:00.000-07:00

Two of my wonderfull classmates had birthday not so long ago, so I made them birthday drawings... because I care!
I have an urge for using aquarelle these days... I'm still not very good, but it's funny, so whatever :D I'm learning something for every drawing, but mostly I've learned that I must set of some time to study colours. Like how to mix colours to set the right mood and stuff like that...
The first one is my friend and his girlfriend(who is also an awesome friend!) on the bird from UP!, as they kept talking about it after seeing the movie :P It was nice trying to xopy colours with aquarelle, as I mostly just paint from my imagination. And he liked the drawing, so if nothing else, at least that was worth it.

The other one was a colour experiment, and it was interesting, but not completely successfull. But at least it turned out cute ;)

And I might put up another drawing soon, but next post's ought to be some of the 3D animations I've done since school start, I'll also write about my experience about it at that time!

Another little drawing

2010-09-04T05:36:00.000-07:00

I did this just for my own sake, is suposed to be two characters from my comic, they're reading in a spell book, thinking of it as a toy, none aware of the danger within, which is symbolised by the gloving hands (which actually belongs to a third character, but her design is not determined yet)
Done with aquarelle and coloured pencils, the composition is not exactly what I wanted, and I still have much to learn about colouring, but I like it for now :)

This was done rather fast, actually it's the boy character, or what he looks like later on in the story, he is a kind of Zombie. Made with tablet and PS.

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I'm gonna update some not so exciting ball 3D animations soon, because I decide what to post here ;)

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If you get the idea that I like blue, well... then you're right!

2010-08-21T14:05:00.000-07:00

Two more pictures, done at the danish Genki-con, in Copenhagen, the first one is suposed to be the two mascots of the cone, done with aquarelle, or how you spell it, was nice doing something by hand :)

And for the comic; There was some areas of the convention that were open to people who wanted to see what was going on, and it was very strange to see all these normal family people and elder people walking around among crazy cosplayers! But yeah, inspired me to do the comic :)

2010-08-15T13:28:00.000-07:00

For some reason I promised myself not to upload these before I'd been to a danish manga/anime convention called Genki-con. I had a great time, met some old friends I hadn't seen for a good while.
I tried to to practice the use of textures on these three, as I've been fascinated by the effects it gives to pictures for some time now. Also, I haven't given myself much time to clean and colour drawings over the last year, so it's was super nice doing it again!
The first drawing is from an anime called DRRR, very nice, if you're into the japaneese stuff :)
I tried to make a drawing that had motion in it instead of the usual pin-up like positions that I have a bad habbit of drawing!

The two other drawings are of the more famous couple Jack and Sally from Burtons "nightmare before christmas". Loved the movie since I was a little kid, and my mother was foolish enough to let me watch it! For some reason I haven't done much Burton fanart considered how much I love his characters! What a shame. The drawings where meant to go as a couple of course ;)

Other news: I'm really trying to pull myself together to continue an old comic of mine ( no, no link for you people yet.. unless you've seen it already...in that case... whatever!), so right now I'm brainstorming and trying to collect all the little notes and sketches I've made for it over time, I've realized I'd planned more than I thought! ...and some of the important passages has had no planning at all, gee :S

Beside of that, it's pretty nice to have summer break, even though I'm very exited to get back to school and learn 3D. I've promised myself to study and practice harder next semester! Poeple worry that I tear myself down... NONSENSE! Relaxation is for the dead!

And with this I bid you all a good night...

Exam and start of summer!

2010-06-22T06:51:00.000-07:00

So, I know that at least a few people wanted to see my exam, so here it is:

Untitled from Sandra N. Andersen on Vimeo.

We had to do a 4 sec. animation of "Bill sr." from "Familly dog". I've passed, so I can now look forward to next year, where I'm going to learn 3D animation. I'm sure it's gonna be great!

I haven't uploaded that much lately as I've worked with a french school, and learned to use flash. I can not upload my animations from that period due to copyright.

I'm planning to draw as much as I can during summer, so hopefully I'll get to put some old fashioned drawings up.
In Juli I'm going to be an intern on a short animated film called "Simon and Squid" which is about global warming.

However, right now I'm just enjoying life :)

Sketch

2010-05-17T11:56:00.000-07:00

Finally I did something in my sketchbook that I like. "Hiccup" form How to train your dragon, based on Nico Marlets wonderfull concept, as I'm not very fond of the final design.

Animation Jam

2010-05-07T13:15:00.000-07:00

In a group of 3, we did this movie over two weeks, from first idea to final product.
We had following subjects to work into our film:
Mood: lust
Random element: kiss
Style: Mike Judge (Beavis and Butt-head) and Phil Mulloy

What the SickleProbe didn't see from Sandra N. Andersen on Vimeo.

2010-04-25T11:35:00.000-07:00

Introduction to After Effect:

First assignment, make bad weather!

Rainy day from Sandra N. Andersen on Vimeo.

Second assignment, make something fly fast! (And thus I've explained the origin of gentlemen!)

Untitled from Sandra N. Andersen on Vimeo.

Layout

2010-04-25T05:08:00.000-07:00

Once again we was taught be the magnificent Lawrence Marvit.

1. assignment, make a layout for a scene from Hamlet, in Disneys Pinocchio style!

2. assigment, make layout based on a "Yogi bear" storyboard (c) HannaBarbera (coming later)

3. assignment, make layout for 4 scenes based on "roof chasing", we chose to base ours on the style from Samurai Jack (companion: Mikkel Mainz Elkjær)
As Mikkels hand was hurt, I drew all backgrounds, Anne T. Petersen, a friend, drew the character, based on Mikkels design, in order for me to make it in time.

Untitled from Sandra N. Andersen on Vimeo.

Dance animation

2010-04-10T07:42:00.000-07:00

I choose Milo from Disney's Atlantis and a sample of the song "Disco Inferno"
We had a week doing 10 seconds, which was pretty much compared to our usual 5 seconds.

milo's Disco from Sandra N. Andersen on Vimeo.

Pink Panther - Test-exam

2010-03-27T06:57:00.000-07:00

Pink Panther exam from Sandra N. Andersen on Vimeo.

Belated update of my test-exam project. I "passed" ;)

Dialogue

2010-03-27T06:53:00.000-07:00

Featuring character from "Iron Gaint"

The morning after... from Sandra N. Andersen on Vimeo.

Unfortunately I didn't have time to fully inbetween, and most of the animation is very rough, but the animation should be readable.
Suposed to be the morning after a one-night-stand ;)

2010-03-19T11:19:00.000-07:00

Sultan is srs! from Sandra N. Andersen on Vimeo.

First "lip sync" attempt, featuring Sultan from Aladdin(1992) (c) Disney, Soundtrack from "Lord of the rings" (2001)

Waiting

2010-03-14T11:59:00.001-07:00

Anne Marie Waiting from Sandra N. Andersen on Vimeo.

TV-paint animations

2010-03-14T11:58:00.000-07:00

Mister Swackhammers temptation from Sandra N. Andersen on Vimeo.

Hogarth Take from Sandra N. Andersen on Vimeo.

TV-paint

2010-03-14T11:54:00.001-07:00

Random Take

Take from Sandra N. Andersen on Vimeo.

Head turn Scottie

Scottie Headturn from Sandra N. Andersen on Vimeo.

Head turn with Scooby doo.

Scooby Headturn from Sandra N. Andersen on Vimeo.

My "first TV-paint animation", starring the pink panther and a black ball.

Panther and ball from Sandra N. Andersen on Vimeo.

Cheshire Cat

2010-03-07T07:51:00.000-08:00

Watched "Alice in wonderland" this friday. Awesome character designs, started on this drawing when I came home, felt good working with a real drawing between all the animation.
Design for this Chehsire Cat (c) Tim Burton & Co

2010-03-04T11:36:00.000-08:00

We had a film-jam in week 6, and I had the honour to work with Jamie Caliri, who is a talanted director.
Our movie is called "the Outsider" and is all painted on walls.

(c) The Animation Workshop and Jamie Caliri

Storyboarding

2010-01-31T09:04:00.000-08:00

Storyboard (Mastershots) based on the story "Taste" by Roald Dahl

Group: Carmen, Glenn, Josefine and I

"Zdenko Drawings"

2010-01-24T09:11:00.001-08:00

I had to make a weekly drawing for a period:

Start of 2010

2010-01-24T08:43:00.000-08:00

Character Design - "Taste":

Clean up:

MAJOR update part 2

2010-01-24T07:23:00.000-08:00

Composition:

Pentest with Danish Filmschool - "Kanelbullen":

Drunken walk:

Goofy lift:

MAJOR update part 1

2010-01-24T06:19:00.000-08:00

Storyboarding:

Based on the strory "The baby elephant" or "How the elephant got its trunk" (Group: Mikkel, Carmen, Benny and I)

Design:

Dark Chokolate

Strawberry Icecream

blogs

Perspective drawing:

Some construction drawings from first week:

Just getting started

2009-10-17T13:01:00.000-07:00

Well, I can begin this blog with telling that I have a great time on TAW, though it is pretty hard to follow up on everything sometimes.
We did construction and perspective drawing the first couple of weeks, and then we began animating balls and other basic stuff for 3 weeks.
The following videos are from those 3 weeks:

Golfball:

Frog and Fly:

Ball with attitude:

The flour sack:

The next two weeks we worked with walks, which was very difficult, we worked with the Pink Panther as our character, which I found amusing. Here are the results:

Pink Panther Sidewalk:

Pink Panther Table Slam:

Pink Panther Walk cycle:

Pink Panther Character walk: