June 5th, 2008
I started working at Bibo Films / Pumpkin 3D on “A monster in Paris” as a character Rigger on monday. It is a very nice Project and i am very happy. The production will use my approach of creating a non-flipping shoulder in XSI. I just want to point out that I invented this before working here, and give myself credit for it. You can see it in my rigging demoreel:
http://www.ivogrigull.com/reel/Ivo_Grigull_Rigging%20Reel3.AVI
http://www.ivogrigull.com/reel/Ivo_Grigull_Rigging%20Reel3_sorensen3.mov
http://www.ivogrigull.com/reel/Ivo_Grigull_Rigging%20Reel3_wmv.AVI
January 28th, 2008
All animation for the second Urmel movie is finished. Now i have plenty of time to hone my skills in drawing and keyframing some more. I think i learned several things during the last production. One is to use more video reference and simply strive for more detailed animation, look for strong poses. Will do some exercises for weight and balance too.
January 21st, 2007
Barnyard did not quite bad at the box office and it is available on DVD allready. I compiled a new animation demoreel to look at. You can watch it at my CG Portfolio over at CGTalk.
The other news is that my mother has met a new love on her last trip to australia while visiting her sister there. She decided to leave germany and marry him down under. So for that reason i am kind of thinking about working over there too. Most of our familiy is living in australia now.
July 9th, 2006
Hooray! On thursday i saw the trailer for “Der tierisch verrueckte Bauernhof” (the german title for barnyard) in the theater, before Over the Hedge! Next i found the release date for germany. It is the 5th of October 2006.
July 9th, 2006
New exciting adventures are happening to our hero, the animation dude! Curious yet? Watch the new episode “The job interview”!
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June 24th, 2006
I joined a sub-blog of “Die Bilderwumme”. 30 people, each showing of some illustration at his particular day of the month. I am number twenty one. You are looking at: the real Mr. Incredible!
Visit “Die 30 Heimer”
June 3rd, 2006
There was this guy that i was working with at Omation. Todd Ammons. He was constantly doodleing and was hooked on buying new sketchbooks that he filled out within two weeks. I want to develop some story and characters for my own project. Inspired by Todd (and many other artists) i started my own sketchbook. I think i have 16 pages filled out yet. Probably not a mindblower, but it is for the sake of fun anyway. So here it is: klick
Time for one commercial here, or two:
Eric Walls’ Children’s book “The Harbour Light” (just ordered my copy)
Uwe Heidschoetter’s sketchbook “Augenblicke” (limited stock)
May 21st, 2006
No idea what went wrong with that old gallery script thing, it just stopped working one day. So i moved the stuff to Photobucket.com. There are some new sketches in there.
If you like, check out this blog from some of our staff. There is a new sketch everyday.
I also found out that there is a new Barnyard-Webiste on nick.com that has a new trailer and an actual release date (that is earlier than what i had been told before).
March 19th, 2006
Added a whole bunch of stuff. Some concepts for the game and “life” drawing stuff that i did. The speed painting guys at CGTalk really inspire me, so i will try to do some digital painting in the future as well. Despite my color weakness (red/green issue).
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