Claudia Kleinheinz

An Amazing Weekend

13:56

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 wanting to become an animator) and tons of other cool stuff.

Check out his blog and be prepared to see hundrets of great drawings! http://haraldsiepermann.blogspot.com/

I learned so much and I'm so inspired that I spend the whole evening drawing. Saturday he even went to a pub whith us and I'm afraid that I've annoyed him by I continuously asking him questions till about midnight ;D But I just couldn't let that chance go by to learn as much as I can from such a talented person.

The sketches I post here are a bit older, I want to refine the drawings that I'm doing right now a bit more before I upload them. I also want to show the blocking I did for last week's assignment (a person walking up a few stairs).

Please don't hesitate to give me any comment you can think of- I got reminded how much there is to learn!

Humbly, Claudia :)

PS: Some of the sketches below were inspired by the work of Chris Sanders, another more than amazing artist.

new term - less time

12:25

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 the feedback I'll get from him.

Here are some sketches. The first two I did today when I was sitting in an Austrian "Heurigen" (a restaurant where local farmers and winegrowers sell the food and wine they made). Sitting in the warm sun, drinking a nice glass of red wine and enjoying the last warm days- it was great :)

I hope I'll have enough time to continue sketching on a regular basis- maybe even taking some life drawing classes, but I guess there's a lot of work waiting for me this term. We'll see how it turns out, see you all soon,
Claudi

break and sleep :)

15:03

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 up my progress reel I did for AM and also some sketches I did last week (the only creative thing I did)... But now I'm back, filled to the top with fresh energy from Austrians mountains, so expect to see more in the near future :D

Have a great time, Claudi

PS: I just updated my progress reel. It should have a better quality now (at least regarding image quality ;D )

Animals and Animation

04:17

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 chickens, bunnies and cows. What was great was a kid standing in front of the chicken incubator and said to her mom:" The eggs are being boiled in there and after that the baby chicken hatch ;D So sweet!!

just some drawings....

13:04

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 think!

Last week I started blocking my personality walk for Animation Mentor and this week I'll spline and refine it. I decided to go for a fred astaire musical kind of a walk and I'll post it as soon as I revised my blocking. Would be great to get some feedback then, especially before I start splining it. And I've made a mental note to start sketching everywhere I go (I just have to get rid of my shyness and the panic that my "models" will get mad with me when they realise that I'm drawing them) ;)

animals and more

14:20

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 constantly... maybe I shouldn't start with a cheetha.... a turtle might be more suited ;) The other sketches were an assignment I did for the Stephen Silver course. We were supposed to first take the photo and draw what we saw, then put photo and drawing aside and draw it again from memory, using different shapes but keeping what makes the character. Which is the same concept as the one I'm trying to incorporate in my zoo sketching. Hope that makes sense in a way (if not- it's late and I'm a bit tired ;) )

Sketches and Speedpainting

07:14

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 about 30 minutes of painting in photoshop for each. I didn't want to make it an exact copy of the movie still ( I had it open next to it as a reference) but to analyse the image structure in general. Another thing I want to talk about today is the book "Drawn to Life: 10 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes: The Walt Stanchfield Lectures" which comes in two volumes and was/ is such an eye opener for me. I got my copy a few weeks ago and just keep reading. Its a unique mixture of drawing instructions, philosophical snippets, art history and so much more. I can't recommend it enough, check it out, it's more than amazing. That said, I hope you all had a great weekend, take care, Claudia