Since this blog is now being linked with my portfolio I have realised I need to keep it a bit more professional. So if there is anyone here reading for sneaky cat pictures or personal updates then you can check out my Instagram account instead.
I am currently working on this site trying to find a good way to present my work to work on all the various screen types as well as keeping it professional and hopefully still a bit playful. So be aware that there can suddenly be changes and sometimes some non successful ones in the process of testing out what could work.
Recently I have been sitting a lot with learning python and scripting small tools for work so I am thinking about adding an additional page with some of my discoveries to help other new to scripting in Maya or for myself. I searched a lot trying to find the commands for the new rendersetup since there isn’t any documentation over it, so been trying to write up my discoveries on the way, I will try to tidy up in my notes a bit before posting it here though. Anyway since I have been sitting so much with python and scripting for the last year there has been a lack of personal projects unfortunately. Scripts are not as visually interesting at least not at my current level, but we are getting there.
Oh dear a year since last update again. Well at least now I have to try to update this site more. The site where I have had my portfolio for the last 6 years was taken down during new years so I figured I would try to gather the platforms a bit and try to make my new portfolio here. It is still a bit of a work in progress as I am fixing the descriptions on the projects and trying to search up the commercials that have been released through the year. I have almost forgotten what I have made by the time it realises, I recognise it when I see it, but it can be tricky to search them up at times. Oh, and the reason why I find them online instead of picking them up for work is because the confidentiality agreement means that it would take much longer time before my work place are allowed to release anything to me.
Anyway, here is some of the videos I have worked on this year and an older one I had apparently forgotten. Hopefully more will show up soon, when I can find them:P
I am starting here with the latest one I could find Lego Advents Calendar. There is actually 4 different versions of this one the other ones are with City, Harry Potter and Friends, but unfortunately I couldn’t find those. This one I stumbled across purely coincidentally on facebook, which was a bit extra fun to see a commercial I have helped make actually be advertised to me on there. Anyway for these ones since it was so simple animations with motion paths we created them in house so I helped animate some of them and as normal now I shaded the products. I also lighted and rendered a couple of them, even though we mostly tried to use the same light setup, it did need some tweaking for each one.
Another interesting experience last year was that I got to visit the filming set for one of the commercials with some live action elements as well. Unfortunately I can’t find the finished commercial, but still fun to see how they actually light and work in real life. So if anyone stumbles across a spiderman commercial with Hydroman from the Lego set called Hydroman Attacks tell me:)
Next project I wanted to talk about was from early in 2019 it was a ninjago project. This ended up being quite a big project particularly since my supervisor left in the middle, so more responsibility fell on me to step up more. So for both the desert commercials I ended up lighting and rendering in addition to shading all the products and exporting animation for the fx team. I also created and shaded some of the background props.
The following one I could unfortunately not find the english version of but well the animation is the same:)
So before Ninjago we had some Creator commercials again. Honestly even though they are fairly simple, I kind of like the creator projects due to how different they are and how forgiving the more cartoony style can be. Anyway the first one here is the first proper project I was solely responsible for. The environment also comes from Lego though but generally we need to adjust it quite a bit to work with the animation and changed the shaders to Redshift. But the planet I had to make myself, super advanced modelling and texturing job. The products are as always shaded by me and this commercial lighting and rendering was also done by me.
The next one here I was assissting my supervisor with again. But she was really busy at the time so I basically took over also the lighting. So I shaded environment and products, adjusted and fixed lighting and rendered it.
Lastely I stumbled across an old superhero movie I had completely forgot to post. Honestly it is not among one of my favorites. However, it definitly is a prodution I have learnt a lot from. Most of the environment we had from before, but everything needed to be reshaded to redshift shaders, and the diamond store needed to be created. It is always a bit interesting to see how little we end up seeing from the set in the end, because this was a big city with a lot of houses that I had to make the houses and pavements to proxies, but I am hoping everyone enjoys the lovely funitures I made for the inside of the jewellery store.
And to round off with a small personal update. I bought this an additional fluffball, he is a big ball of energy running around in the apartment, but Lilo and I still love him even though we both find him a bit annoying at times. I were feeling a bit guilty that Lilo was so much home alone while I was in work so now there is two of them and she has someone to play with:). but it did make it a bit more of a hassle to go home on christmas holiday with the two of them, but we managed:) and Miko (keeping up with Disney names) only tipped over the christmas tree once, before we ties it to the roof with some wireXD. Isn’t he cute??:3
I am as bad as keeping this blog up as normal:P but the latest project we worked on has finally been released so here is the new Lego City movies I worked on before christmas with Gimmick VFX. As normal I have been responsible for shading the products, and most of the environment modelling and texturing. There was a lot of issues this time with a tight deadline and some fucks up. But we/ I can just learn from it and move forward. We managed to complete it in the end and the customers were satisfied:)
Of other news that has occupied my time lately at the start of the year, January 1st actually I picked up a kitten. I have named here Lilo she is a norwegian forest cat. This is my first time getting a pet after leaving my parents house and first time having a cat at all, I am more used to dogs actually so there is a lot to get used to. But she is very nice and cuddly:) I chose a breed cat for several reasons, but main reason being then I have a professional breeders to lean upon for questions I knew she would be fully health checked and have her vaccinations etc. Plus here in Copenhagen the kittens from animal shelters sell out so quickly. I know I could have gone for an older cat and in many ways that would be easier but I kind of wanted to try to train her to walk in a harness as I live in an apartment and be able to travel with me to Norway:) Here you can see a small slideshow of how adorable she is:
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I could go on and on about how absolutely adorable she isXD, but honestly it was probably a bit to early for me to get a pet as I am really not that stable yet. However, I don’t have any regrets it will work out in some way:) XD
So been a fairly expensive month and my apartment is slowly filling up with cat stuff, but hopefully I have gotten most of it sorted now and the biggest expenses are out of the way:) I would actually really love a second one so she wouldn’t be so much alone and had someone to play with as I have realised I am not a very good replacement for a kitten, but maybe in 6 months timeXD
Alright here comes a very overdue update. Over the summer I worked as a waitress in a restaurant by our family cottage in Tønsberg. Very useful experience as a quick way of loosing weight and learning to deal with stress. After the summer however, I did manage to get an internship within 3D in september. So I moved into my brothers flat in Copenhagen for a 3 months internship. Not sure how he felt about his older sister suddenly moving in and leeching off his internet, but I was not kicked out:).
During my internship in Copenhagen at Gimmick VFX I learnt probably more than any of my years as a student, or at least more tailored towards the tasks within the company. I worked with much more of an realistic style than I had done before and with more focus on the pipeline for everything to be easier for the next steps in the process. Especially when different people were involved. My main task became to assign new gamma corrected shaders to products from Lego and help make backgrounds for their product movies. Most of this has not been released yet but here is at least two I helped out on. For the first one I helped with the background as well as assigning new shaders.
For the next one I only helped with the assigning new shaders to the products. It is quite cool to see the results of the work being released and shown online.:)
This internship actually ended in December, but I was asked to stay on as a Junior Generalist for a 6 month contract. So at the moment I am still in Copenhagen and the future will be interesting to see where I end up later:).
I will try to post when some of the other projects I have worked on are released, I am more involved in the process on some of the later ones than the early ones so it is even more exciting.:3
Hoping that by starting this blog I can get the inspiration to draw and work on art things. Hopefully this can be an environment it will be easy for me too post everything from simple sketches to 3D work. I am not the best artist but I am trying to learn so be nice and plz come with suggestions for improvement:)
