Claudia Kleinheinz: Sketches

Post Annecy

11:58

Long time no post- but I've a great excuse: I spent an amazing week at the animation festival in Annecy. Met fantastic people, watched a...

6/17/2010

Long time no post- but I've a great excuse: I spent an amazing week at the animation festival in Annecy. Met fantastic people, watched amazing movies, relaxed in the sun and explored the beautiful city and enjoyed life as such :) I'm still working on my lipsync assignment and don't want to post it until I've put in the facial animation, but in the meantime I've some character design sketches that I want to share. I did them during the last few days without any real purpose other then playing around with shapes and trying to get some attitude in my poses. Looking forward to comments and critisism :) PS: When's the next festival- I'm addicted now :D

post-fmx

15:11

Hey all, I'm back again from the fmx and I found it really hard to adjust back to a normal daily life routine ;) We had such an amazing ...

5/25/2010

Hey all,
I'm back again from the fmx and I found it really hard to adjust back to a normal daily life routine ;) We had such an amazing time and being surrounded by so many animation enthuasiasts all day was such a great experience that I just can't wait for the next event like this to come. The talks and lectures were really amazing- I finally managed to attend Ed Hook's "Acting for Animators" workshop, but also the talk about "How to train your Dragon" by Simon Otto and "Anatomy for Character Design" by the fantastic Stuart Sumida were truly inspirational and revived all my animation spirits. Well I could go on and on about many more interesting talks and all the fantastic people I met, some for the first time, some I hadn't seen in ages, but to cut a long story short- it was a brilliant week and I can't wait for Annecy to come :D

Here a few sketches and a sneak peak of the shot I'm working on right now.
I'm looking forward to your thoughts and opinions :)

more life drawings

06:45

Today I want to post the results of the first life drawing session after the easter break. It's hard not to focus to much on getting a p...

4/10/2010

Today I want to post the results of the first life drawing session after the easter break. It's hard not to focus to much on getting a pretty image but instead to really try to understand the underlying structures and forces that define a pose. And also I realised that as soon as I try to get more gestural drawings where I emphasise the rythm and flow of the shapes I tend to loose the grip on proportions. Well, at least there are many reasons for continuing these classes ;D
The tree sketch was just a little experiment with water colors, but I kind of like it so I post it here as well.

Term 3 at Animation Mentor

07:46

Hey there, I can't believe it, half of my journey at Animation Mentor is over already. Term 3 ended a week ago and now it's time to ...

4/05/2010

Hey there, I can't believe it, half of my journey at Animation Mentor is over already. Term 3 ended a week ago and now it's time to share the outcome with you. Here are the 3 scenes I did during the last 12 weeks, cut together and edited using AfterEffects. Well, when I look at them I can see tons of mistakes and things that I would like to change, but I guess that's a good thing as it shows that I've learned new things and sharpened my eye. I'm keen to hear what you think about it, so let me know :)

This term I got another amazing mentor. His name is T.Dan Hofstedt and he has tons of experience working for companies like Disney, Don Bluth and many more. I can't wait to learn from him more about the magical art called animation- even if that means that in another 12 weeks I can't look at the stuff I'm showing today without cringing ;D

Pirates coming...

11:55

Hi everybody, here are the drawings I did during the last week. Again some life drawings where we focused on very quick poses this week (abo...

3/09/2010

Hi everybody,
here are the drawings I did during the last week. Again some life drawings where we focused on very quick poses this week (about 3 to 5 minutes) and also a few character designs I did. I really hope that you like them, but also don't hesitate to give me constructive critisism and point out the areas I should work on to improve my work. Have a great week and have fun,
cheers Claudi

sunny weather - sunny mood

15:05

For the last 5 months I've heard only vague rumors, but yesterday I saw it with my very own eyes: there actually IS something widely kno...

2/28/2010

For the last 5 months I've heard only vague rumors, but yesterday I saw it with my very own eyes: there actually IS something widely known as THE SUN. I had almost forgotten what a mood brightener it can be :) Had a great weekend animating, drawing and relaxing in the great spring weather. Here are some of the things I produced- hopefully the sun found its way into my work as well :D

Huge post

12:15

Hi everybody, this is going to be a huge post. I have life drawings, a speedpainting, sketchbook pages and my most recent animation assignma...

2/21/2010

Hi everybody,
this is going to be a huge post. I have life drawings, a speedpainting, sketchbook pages and my most recent animation assignmant to share. In this weeks life drawing class my tutor asked me to try and draw more loosely, thinking more in shapes than in lines and also to do some very quick and rough sketches. It's hard to leave the path you know, but it was fun and I hope somewhere down the line it will be rewarding as well ;) Right know I just see how much more I have to learn and practise to become really good at this. As always I'm looking forward to read your thoughts and opinions,
Claudi :)