Panoramas from my trips around the world

I am here finally updating some new content. I recently have been travelling a lot with my camera and these are some of the places I visited and photographed. Some of them range 30m wide in full size.

https://picasaweb.google.com/105602314976697135909/Panoramas

My matte painting reel

Milton Andersen Matte painting reel from Milton Andersen on Vimeo.

Bossa nova

My modelling reel is finally online! (But not with the final music)



I have been working hard on it during this one year of Vancouver Film School.
I will soon upload more breakdowns here on the blog.

Don Ramón

This is a stop-motion turntable test of a sculpture I did at school of a character from planet of the apes. It was baptized as "Don Ramón" as a homage to the mexican actor Ramon Valdez, who was always making jokes about being compared to an ape.
The guys on the back are Hangil lee and Moisés Flores.

Breakdowns in Ascending & descending

Here is a small making of on how I did it:


And here is a view from the opposite side, so you can understand how the real mesh was built:

Escher's waterfall

This work is part of a short I'm working in, called "Ascending & Descending". It is inspired in the artwork from MC Escher, who did very advanced perpective works you can confuse with CG in a time computers were still making only simple calculum tasks and were too big and expensive for having one at home. Another interesting fact is that he used lithographs and wood engravings on most of his work.

This image has some paradox triangles and also gives the idea of a perpetual motion engine on the waterwheel, challenging not only geometry, but also physics with the impression of a continuous gravity that generates continous energy. It has always been a dream to me to make something with that "escher's" impossible feeling.

The main work wasn't in modelling/rendering, but in converting isometric perspective into 3d, with the help of photoshop. I will soon make a small tutorial of how I did it and the different renders.
The image I have inspired in can be viewed here: http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/recogn-bmp/LW439.jpg
Other incredible escher's works can be viewed in this page:
http://www.mcescher.com/

Escher's waterfall

Keeping the MC Escher's series, I am posting here the WIP on the waterfall because it is being quite a job. It has been a 3-layer composition for making believe this was only one beauty fill render pass. It doesn't have yet these layers: 3 layers of ambient occlusion, the water comp layers (at least 2 beauty fills) and the background (very simple comp, free of impossible perspectives).
I hope you enjoy it!
Milton

Piano

This piano was made for a group project of an animation with some fellows from the calango class at OZI, but 3 members of the crew got a full-time job and another one moved to Goiania, so we archived the work. I found it would be nice to finish the piano and still have some portifolio. Maybe I will make a smaller script and do some animation with the piano after the ascending and descending work not to spoil the work I did in it.

Some traditional art

Some of these works are a little old, but I just love them like as if they were part of me.

In fact, they are.

Ascending and descending

Now I can finally show some of the work I have been doing these days I am making to try finishing it before going to Canada. The hardest part was composing the scene and making it convincing it's only 3d. I'll soon post some of the progress pictures too.

Milton

Calango is now on the Youtube!

The embed link is not working here, but you can have a look in this page:

http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=o9GKdUw5EnI

Character creation Workshop

Hi!

I've been for two weeks through some intensive classes about character creation with Fernando Faria, on Photoshop and using a tablet. I'm still not used with tablets, but that's what I've got. This is also my first speed painting challenge, and surely not the last.

The task:

We were miming a normal advertising routine: a client with no clear idea of what he wanted, and we had to take the job.

It had to be a cartoon character (also one of my first characters in the cartoon style) and it had to be (on our own interpretation of the words):

- "Fashionable", "trendy", "media" style

- Magic

- Big eyed

- Big legged

- Ironic

- A glutton

- Punk hair style

He's a fashionable magic as he looks like a Simpson, dresses like harry potter, wears nike shox tennis shoes and plays basketball. He's a magic glutton as he is from a religion of donut worshipers and his magic wand is a magic spoon ans he's fat. The ironic part goes with his pants and the heart decorated underwear. The punk hair style, I did it on the helmet.

Calango until now

Here is a list of where Calango has been and the prizes we won (until now):

Anima Mundi:
Best animation done in class - 3rd place
Best Brazilian animation in class

Mosca (Cambuquira festival):
Best animation
http://www.mostramosca.com.br/vencedores.php

Festivals we were invited to:
Cine Ceará XVII
Fortaleza, CE, Brazil - June 1st > june 8th, 2007
http://www.cineceara.com.br/

Anima Mundi XV
Rio de Janeiro, RJ - June 29th > July 8th
São Paulo, SP - July 11th > July 15th
Brazil, 2007
http://www.animamundi.com.br/

Florianopolis youth movie festival (Mostra Infantil de Florianópolis)
Florianópolis, SC, Brazil - June 29th > July 15th
http://www.mostradecinemainfantil.com.br/menu_filmes.htm

Cambuquira "Mosca" festival III
Cambuquira, MG, Brazil - July 11th > July 15th, 2007
http://www.mostramosca.com.br/

Gramado animation festival II (Granimado)
Gramado, RS, Brazil - August 10th > August 12th, 2007
http://www.granimado.com.br/

São Paulo International short film Festival XVIII (Festival Internacional de Curta-metragens de São paulo)
São Paulo, SP, Brazil - August 23rd > September 1st, 2007
http://www.kinoforum.org.br/curtas/2007/

Santos short movies festival V, São Paulo (Curta Santos 2007)
Santos, SP, Brazil - September 17th > September 22nd, 2007
http://www.curtasantos.com.br/

Animadrid VII
Madrid, Spain - September 17th > September 22nd, 2007
http://www.animadrid.com/animadrid_07/seccionoficial2.php?id=87

Barcas S/A CineMutante Cultural movie project (Projeto Cultural CineMutante Barcas S/A)

Cabo frio Shorts festival (Mostra de Curtas de Cabo Frio)
Cabo Frio, RJ, Brazil

Culture Shorts São Paulo (Curta Cultura em São Paulo)
São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Interviews to Globo Television (with our director, Alexandre Camargo):

DF TV
http://video.globo.com/Videos/Player/Noticias/0,,GIM703604-7823-BRASILIA+TEM+DESTAQUE+NO+ANIMA+MUNDI,00.html

SP TV

http://video.globo.com/Videos/Player/Noticias/0,,GIM700359-7823-FESTIVAL+DE+ANIMACAO+TRANSFORMA+SONHO+EM+REALIDADE,00.html

Jornal da Globo

http://video.globo.com/Videos/Player/Noticias/0,,GIM701364-7823-DESENHOS+FEITOS+A+COMPUTADOR,00.html

Calango in IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1054474/

Some reviews about our movie:

Cine latino americano.org (spanish)
http://www.cinelatinoamericano.org/texto.aspx?cod=871

Cinema com rapadura (portuguese)
http://www.cinemacomrapadura.com.br/cineceara/2007/06/06/calango-faz-publico-do-cine-ceara-rir-na-noite-de-terca-feira/

Our making of on the brazilian magazine digital designer (portuguese):
http://www2.uol.com.br/ddesigner/int_edicoes/90/calango.htm#

Anima mundi!

We won two prizes in Anima Mundi!
I'll soon post some photos here.
We got the third place in the animation in class category and the prize for best brazilian animation.
We also were the only brazilian group to receive a prize in the animation in class category.

Thanks for all who believed in our work!

High hopes,
Tom Andersen

Well, I´ve just began this blogger the other day and haven´t posted anything yet, so let´s begin:

I've worked on this movie: http://www.calangofilme.com.br/

And now I'm working on the CGchallenge Strange behaviour.

I'll post some of my new art here soon :)

A little something from the Calango movie:

I've also been to Ceará showing this movie in cineceará