Stuf @ Ranj, The Great Flu

Leader/Trailer for The Great Flu
The Great Flu is a online serious health game in wich the player has to manage a worldwide outbreak of a new influenza virus, before it turns into a pandemic.
Play the game at: www.thegreatflu.com

Video-clip, Building of the main character

A very short photo report of the process of building my stop-motion character.

I started by making a full scale drawing of the puppet, on which I based my armature. I made a aluminium wire armature (armature is the skeleton of a stop-motion puppet) and glued this into a piece of upholstery foam which I had cut into the (very) rough shape of the puppet. When the was dry I continued shaping the upholstery foam until I was happy with it.

This is the armature with the foam for the body glued on and most of it already cut into shape.




Next I covered the upholstery foam with liquid latex to create a smoother skin.




I then painted it and shaped the head out of plasticine (a modelling clay often used in animation to make stop-motion animations).



Close-up of the head

The Dreamside, Video-clip Storyboard

Finally it's done, I finished the Storyboard for the Sternenkind video-clip, and I'm quite happy with it.

Sternenkind Video-clip

Even more sketches and designs (and some of the old ones cleaned up and rearranged), and some colour impressions, for the Sternenkind Video-clip.

I, Didn't make the video this time, but I did do (among other things) the character and object animation in the game.

GRIP is a serious health game for children with diabetes and their parents. GRIP is linked to an interactive web-based self management application for diabetes patients. Children experience which activities and foods are affecting their blood sugar level. By connecting personalized information from the electronic patient file (EPS) to a game, children learn to make decisions and develop skills based on their current health situation.

Some more sketches and designs for the Sternenkind (a song by The Dreamside) Video-clip.
http://www.dreamside.nl/
http://www.myspace.com/dreamside

Sketches

The Dreamside Video-clip

I'm going to design and produce a video-clip for the band The Dreamside.
http://www.dreamside.nl/
http://www.myspace.com/dreamside

It's for a song called Sternenkind from their upcoming album.

And these are some of the very first sketches and moodboard.

Moodboard




sketches

Let's start with the older stuff, that's usually how a blog works, the old stuf at the bottom and the newer stuff at the top.
This is the result of one of two animations assignments, an open assignment and a leader for Holland Animated Film Festival, and I needed to complete to graduate, this is what i made for the open assignment.
It's traditional animation (drawing frame by frame) glued together in Adobe After Effects.

Watch and Enjoy

Shifting Wood

Animated typography (Living typography) for The band Shifting Wood, used in a performance.

SleutelBeeld (KeyImage)

Graphic elements animated in Adobe After Effects. Made for an Assignment at the WDKA. A leader for a fictional tv-program about Video Art.