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Artist // Professional // Film & Animation
- Norway
- Deviant for 17 years
- www.andreasfrancis.com
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Current Residence: Brisbane
Favourite genre of music: Everything!
Favourite genre of music: Everything!
Favourite Visual Artist
Da Vinci, Andy Bergholtz, Will Winton, Nick Park
Favourite Movies
Wallace and Gromit in The wrong Trousers
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers
Tools of the Trade
Hands, fingers, thumbs, a needle and loads of plasticine
Other Interests
Sculpting, animating clay, drawing, guitar, piano
New movie in progress!
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I've started making a claymation short film that will be several minutes long. It tells the tale of the Norse creation myth, how Odin and his two brothers Vili and Ve killed Ymir, an enormous frost giant and made the world from his body parts. E.g, the sky you see is the inside of his skull which they placed as a dome over the world to protect it, and the clouds are pieces of his brain which they tossed up in the air.
Working title is "The Frost Giant", and I've created a blog for it where I aim to have one update a day. My goal is to have it finished before Christmas. See you there :)
thefrostgiant.blogspot.com: http://thefrostgiant.blogsp
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Hiatus is over
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I have been away from the DA community for a while. There's great inspiration to be found here and great people to chat to, so I am excited to be back. :D
Had 1000+ messages in the DA inbox, but that's now taken care of. Great to see all the recent artwork submitted.
Have a great day.
Andreas.
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Website is up!
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Although it has more work to be done on it, particularily in the deep-linking department, it is now presentable. So without further ado, here it is, in full Flash:
Andreasfrancis.com - http://andreasfrancis.com/
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Fantastic gallery! You've got some amazing pieces!
Thanks Crestmoth 
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My pleasure
Haya A, Im in animation school right now and would love to be a stop mo animator.... there are not enough of us around and CGI is running rampant.... what do you reckon. do you think I should become a puppet maker like I would like to of try and focus primarily on Maya and Z brush etc?
Hi Steve! sorry for such a late answer. I reckon the skills are quite transferable. The animation principles are the same for all forms of animation, and designing a good character is about developing a good "eye". If you draw a lot of faces, that helps with sculpting them and vice versa. Same with clay and Zbrush. So if the basic skills are down, moving between mediums of expression is just an adjustment if you change your mind later.
If it helps, animators I spoke with at Aardman reckoned it was easier to go from stop-mo to CGI rather than the other way around. I can't say from personal experience though, I've barely tried Maya, though I had a little bit of fun with Zbrush.
To me the magic of animation is making the plasticine I played with as a child come to life, so CGI just doesn't do it for me, but that's me.
Hope that helps! Good luck with your animation.
If it helps, animators I spoke with at Aardman reckoned it was easier to go from stop-mo to CGI rather than the other way around. I can't say from personal experience though, I've barely tried Maya, though I had a little bit of fun with Zbrush.
To me the magic of animation is making the plasticine I played with as a child come to life, so CGI just doesn't do it for me, but that's me.
Hope that helps! Good luck with your animation.
tack för favven !!