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He there, I hope you all had a nice, relaxed and joyful Christmas together with your most beloved ones. I definitely had. No animation, no s...

12/29/2009
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He there, I hope you all had a nice, relaxed and joyful Christmas together with your most beloved ones. I definitely had. No animation, no sketching, no computer- just sleeping long, spending time with family, friends and nature and eating ;) But I have to admit that while doing all that, I already started thinking about my next...

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Hello everybody, hope you all had a smooth start into the Christmas season without letting yourself getting stressed out about shopping and ...

12/08/2009
Hello everybody, hope you all had a smooth start into the Christmas season without letting yourself getting stressed out about shopping and all that. I just spent some very nice days together with my family and feel a bit refreshed now. So now it's time to show what I've been working on the last few weeks and I...

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Sitting here at my desk, it's already really, really dark outside and I'm slowly getting in the mood for hot chocolate, cookies and ...

12/03/2009
Sitting here at my desk, it's already really, really dark outside and I'm slowly getting in the mood for hot chocolate, cookies and Christmas songs ;) The last two weeks I've been working on my new AM assignment and I think I'll upload the current draft version today or tomorrow to get some feedback. I'm reaching the point...

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....stays in Vegas! That's how the saying goes, so I can't really tell you anything about my trip there, can I?!? ;) Just as much: I...

11/22/2009
....stays in Vegas! That's how the saying goes, so I can't really tell you anything about my trip there, can I?!? ;) Just as much: I went there on a business trip and it was huge, amazing and crazy- an exaggeration of real life in which it is somehow related to animation. I spent 6 days there and...

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Hello everybody, this week was hectic. Fulltime-job, 3 freelance projects and Animation Mentor... didn't get too much sleep ;) I started...

11/08/2009
Hello everybody, this week was hectic. Fulltime-job, 3 freelance projects and Animation Mentor... didn't get too much sleep ;) I started splining the animation I posted last week and all the spirit of it got lost. I don't like splines. Really, I think they are mean ;) However, I managed to fix the worst parts of it and...

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Hello again, I haven't been posting for a while, but that doesn't mean that I haven't been busy. On the contrary ;) We've go...

11/01/2009
Hello again,I haven't been posting for a while, but that doesn't mean that I haven't been busy. On the contrary ;) We've got a new assignment for Animation Mentor and I decided to go for a mix of Parkour and ninja action. This was a huge bite to chew, but in the end I was quite happy with...

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Hey all, this week I'm writing brimful of impressions of the last weekend. I attended a character design Seminar last Saturday and Sund...

10/12/2009
Hey all,this week I'm writing brimful of impressions of the last weekend. I attended a character design Seminar last Saturday and Sunday given by Harald Siepermann. Honestly, this guy is amazing! He did character designs for Disney (Tarzan, Mulan, Brother Baer, Treasure Planet,...), worked on Who Framed Roger Rabbit (the movie that played a huge part in me...

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There we are, the new term at Animation Mentor has started and I already had my first Q&A with the new mentor Chad Stewart. He worked on...

10/03/2009
There we are, the new term at Animation Mentor has started and I already had my first Q&A with the new mentor Chad Stewart. He worked on Fantasia 2000, The Emeror's New Groove, Open Season,... and he is really, really nice! The Q&A was a lot of fun and I'm really looking forward to the next weeks and...

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Hello again, last week was break week at Animation Mentor and I also took some days off at work so I slept for hours (had to catch up a bit...

9/28/2009
Hello again, last week was break week at Animation Mentor and I also took some days off at work so I slept for hours (had to catch up a bit ;) ), spent time with my tiny nephew (3 month) and relaxed. So there is not too much I can show this week, but I decided to put...

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Here it is- the blocking as well as the splined draft of this weeks Animation Mentor Assignment. There is some sound as well, so turn the sp...

9/12/2009
Here it is- the blocking as well as the splined draft of this weeks Animation Mentor Assignment. There is some sound as well, so turn the speakers on ;)Also some more zoo drawings I did on Tuesday. As I didn't have much time I spend all my time at the animals closest to the entrance which were strange...

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Good evening, everybody :) I didn't have time to go to the zoo this week- Animation Mentor comined with a full-time job and a weekend tr...

9/07/2009
Good evening, everybody :)I didn't have time to go to the zoo this week- Animation Mentor comined with a full-time job and a weekend trip to the family living at the other end of the country was enough to tackle ;)However, I want to show some drawings I did a few weeks ago. Let me know what you...

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Hello everyone, I spent another evening at the zo o, doing some animal sketches again. I'm still trying not to focus on trying to do a b...

8/30/2009
Hello everyone, I spent another evening at the zoo, doing some animal sketches again. I'm still trying not to focus on trying to do a beautiful drawing but to capture the essence of an animal (or person). It's really hard to find what makes them unique and then get that into your drawing. And man, they are moving...

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Hey there, just to keep posting and make it some kind of a weekly routine I wanted to share a few quick sketches with you and also some spee...

8/23/2009
Hey there,just to keep posting and make it some kind of a weekly routine I wanted to share a few quick sketches with you and also some speedpaintings I did lately. I did these to improve my photoshop painting skills and also to sharpen my eyes for cinematography (camera angle, composition, colours,...). So this is the result after...

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Hey all, thanks a lot for all the encouraging comments! Highly appreciated they are. Last week I've been working on Tailor, another Ani...

8/19/2009
Hey all, thanks a lot for all the encouraging comments! Highly appreciated they are. Last week I've been working on Tailor, another Animation Mentor character, trying to improve my overlap animation and also to tell a little story. There are loads of things to improve, and I also exceeded the given frame range, but actually I'm not too...

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Hey all, I thought as this blog is called clouanimation it is time to actually put some animation on it ;) Unfortunately, I'M not allowe...

8/09/2009
Hey all,I thought as this blog is called clouanimation it is time to actually put some animation on it ;)Unfortunately, I'M not allowed to show the stuff that I'm recently doing at work (which is mainly 2D hand-drawn and flash stuff), so I decided to start by uploading this week's assignment I had to do for Animation Mentor....

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I went to the zoo again yesterday - which by the way turned out to be more difficult than I thought it would as I first missed my turn (you ...

8/05/2009
I went to the zoo again yesterday - which by the way turned out to be more difficult than I thought it would as I first missed my turn (you shouldn't talk to your mom on the phone while driving ;) ) and then had to walk for ages to get to the entrance. So in the end...

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Heeeeeree we gooooo.... I tried to have my own blog a few months (or years ;) ) ago, but I just didn't manage to keep it updated and po...

8/02/2009
Heeeeeree we gooooo.... I tried to have my own blog a few months (or years ;) ) ago, but I just didn't manage to keep it updated and post regularly. However, when I realised how much I myself look at other artist's blogs and how great they are to show artwork and get feedback, the blog bug bite...

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