Most of my time and energy right now is going into making the short vfx film project Mango, so this blog is being a bit neglected. I’m not expecting anyone is actually following this blog anymore, but here is a update anyway!

Here’s a few of my paintings that i’ve done on my free time. All done just for fun, with Painter 12 (except for that fat guy, he was painted in Krita) on a Samsung Slate 7 tablet.

Here’s a painting i did of an awesome cat. Based on a picture i found when searching for “awesome cat”

Done in Painter 12

Bellow is a picture i painted, just for practice and fun. It’s based on a piece by a great artist called Ali Zafati (click here to see his portfolio on cgtalk)

Done in Corel Painter 12

Haha! I finally got the youtube video embed thing working.

I’ve been doing a lot of research on physics for Mango. The video above shows a few of the tests I’ve made. I wrote about it on the mango blog here:

http://mango.blender.org/production/more-physics/

and also here:

http://mango.blender.org/production/pyro-and-destruction-01/

It’s official. I’m going to be working full time in Amsterdam on Project Mango!

http://mango.blender.org/production/the-mango-artist-line-up/

For me the project doesn’t start until March 2012. That means I still have time to prepare and practice on stuff that will be relevant to the project.

Out December my plan is to become a little bit more comfortable with concepting robots, with a combination of 2d and 3d tools. After that I’ll probably do a small VFX project just for practicing things like tracking and general FX-work.

This is going to be cool

Now that the reel is finally finished I can spend some time to expand my skills a bit.

So I bought Corel Painter 12 on a sale a couple weeks back and have been learning the software, watching painting-tutorials and practicing. Bellow you can see a collage of images I’ve made the last few days. They are all unfinished sketches just made for fun (and of course for practicing digital sketching/painting).

Yesterday I removed the old demoreel and replaced it with a new one. And today I sent in my application for project Mango to Ton! Fingers are crossed..

For you who don’t know what project Mango is. It’s a open movie project in Amsterdam.

Here’s a link to the project-blog:  http://mango.blender.org/

Check out the new reel on vimeo, youtube or download it directly from here

http://www.kjartantysdal.com/reel/Reel_2.0_720p.mp4

http://vimeo.com/25556399

http://youtu.be/5cVM38uordA