Quick sketch in PS, using a photo as inspiration.

Angry walk from Magnus Møller on Vimeo.

My armature is finally done :) Here's a test I made at Aardman during lunchbreakes. I was trying to give him some attitude, I think I can make the caricature much stronger though. Next time :)

Bouncing ball with tail...

Bouncing ball from Magnus Møller on Vimeo.

and here's a sketch of the armature I ordered from John Wright Modelmaking in Bristol. It's hopefully going to be ready some time next week.

More tests:

another test from Magnus Møller on Vimeo.

bouncing ball from Magnus Møller on Vimeo.

Internship at Aardman
I just arrived to Bristol two weeks ago for my internship at Aardman. I have to say it "good fun" and I'm learning a lot about stop-motion (or 3D-animation as they call it here, confusing). I didn't pay so much attention to stop-motion before I came over, but I have to say being here really opened my eyes up wide. I think I found myself a new favourite animation medium :) So the "only" thing I have to do now is to learn it :)

I bought a webcam some days ago and found a freeware animation program and I have started to do some tests with plastecine. I havn't done any acting yet, just testing out animation principles and techniques like timing, spacing, overlap, stagger etc... It's not much yet, but here's my first attempt :)

Overlap_test from Magnus Møller on Vimeo.

(and it's abstract, so don't get any ideas...)

At the moment I'm in the modeling department of Aardman, and enjoing it very much. This week I'm going to start to build my own puppet. I will buy the armature from another studio in Bristol, and then model the plasticine on top of that. Here's the deisgn for my "man":