So, finally my semester ends this week and I can bring all my university work to a close.
All in all it was fun but a got a bunchload of stuff to do the last days.

This is my contribution to a film-class (“Grundlagen Bewegtbild”) I took part this semester. The main theme was “windows” and each student had to do two short-films/animations. As the first video was done for an art-installation and included only some still-shots I’ll just show the second film of mine here.
We got totally free rain to do what we want on this one so I tried myself at some experimental-animation.
I build a little green-screen-set in my room and shot the stopmotion-elements on it. Afterwards I composed everything in After Effects.

I had pretty fun doing this little animation as I never tried my hands on these techniques and so I had to teach it all by myself.
Enjoy:

The music was done by my friend Syno.

Sometimes you just have to stay in bed!

So I had some busy days last weeks. But my second semester is now finally over and I can enjoy my vacation!
The last assignment at the university was to create a 30second animation with aftereffects.
We should animate a landscape so that the viewer gets the feeling that he/she sits in a train. I thought that a landscape rolling by might be a bit boring so I tried to put some narrative story into this little 30 seconds animation.
It was a lot of fun and I guess this won’t be my last animation.
Because of the fact that this is my first real animation (besides some animated logo stuff and some animation tests) I really like to hear some feedback! So critique and comments are welcome!

some character study:

cheers.

…created this little record-nerd just to do something besides work ;)

(You ain’t got flash? here’s the character as .jpg)