My name is Andreas Normand Grøntved. I've got a bachelor degree in character-animation, which i have been studying for 3,5 years at "the Animation Workshop" in Viborg, Denmark. Since graduation I have been working on various projects, such as feature films, shorts, games, 2D and 3D.
Primary skills: High Quality Animation Concept Art & Production Design
2005 - fast western - dark room productions - animation
2d short
2005 - a knight film - independent - animation
2d short
2004 - skyggen i sara - annecy award winner - animation
2d pilot
2004 - mr. rivet - luc chamberland - animation
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24/11/2009:
wtf action added to the animation section. I just got my first business cards! yay. I've got no one to give them too though, and i'de estimate that I could hand out 30-40 before I'll design and order a new batch. Have a fantastic day!
21/10/2009:
updating sota takes time. I realized that everything looked like crap in firefox, so the cleaning has begun. I want to make a major update in the design, and i'm currently looking into things. Seems like the animalogic website is running smoothly even though its a 2000x1200 flash with giant (upscaled, yes, but giant) pictures for backgrounds. smeee
20/10/2009:
After almost a year of production design i finally switched to the animation department. Boy i've been waiting for this. I feals great to be part of so many aspects of a feature production. Sadly I still cannot dedicate myself 100% to the action on screen - There are still many things which needs to be made and prepped for others to use.
Lawrence Marvit (pixar dude, and former mentor/teacher) came to visit me and my director a couple of times the last weeks. He and I talked about colors, colorscripts and shapelanguage. Amazingly interesting. I would love to one day be able to "take my time" with exactly that.
10/10/2009:
Not much is going on. Just cranking out there at work, along with small freelance jobs to give life some sweetness. I've added some new sketches from the steampunk challenge on cgtalk.
2/6/2009:
It has been years since I colored a "real-life" sketch in PS. And it is actually quite fun. Working with compositing for half a year have tought me a couple of tricks to make a sketch look alot better. Such as destortion of channels, sharpen, noise, depth of field and some nice glow effects.
So i've uploaded like 5 or 6 pieces the last two days, and i feal like i've had a great weekend. Ahhhhhh. Too bad the uploads aren't big pieces of art but rather more like design sheets. But still.
12/3/2009:
- Oh and i got my own smiley: /|:i} -Depending on the font, I look more or less like me. Hat - eyes - mouth - and beard. heheh
12/3/2009:
Lastly a network section has been added, with the people i'd like to recommend or just highlight. Also there is my "hOLY f bLOG" and "ColorThief" which is a freelance Photo/Design/Graphics group, which I am a part of.
12/3/2009:
Also the site has been updated more than the eye can tell. There is now a stupid click counter at the bottum. It sucks, but atleast it tells me when there has been people on the site.
I got "Apple and the Worm", also a Copenhagen Bombay feature, on my CV as well. I did a sequence in there, which turned out nicely.
12/3/2009:
I am now working as Production Designer on "The Great Bear" at danish animation studio Copenhagen Bombay. Together with the director, Esben Toft, I figure out how backgrounds and characters should look like. It's nice to draw again, after a long period of animation. But as I draw each day, I miss animating alot. In a couple of months we start animation, and I'll be almost done with the production design, so I can jump over to the animtion team.
8/3/2008:
4 new sketches + 1 new 2d artwork. a couple of robots, a dead cowboy and a zombie running.
8/3/2008:
finally i have managed to set up a next/previous when viewing artwork. i don't know why, but i have had massive problems getting my head around the PHP coding required to make it work. now it works, and i'm happy. i hope this will encourage people to stay a couple of minutes more, to see it all.
8/7/2007:
oh and i am working on "a-film" (danish company) at the moment. for the last month i have been modeling in max, which have been a blizz compared to maya. but i am not looking forward to the animation mostly because we use tcb. OMG!!! anyways the project is called "rejsen til saturn" - "the journy to saturn" and it will star alot of the tv-comedians in denmark, and it will NOT be a childrens movie, even tho it is animation. so all you wierd parents who took their children to see "terkel i knibe" ... heads up! animation is a medium for artists to express them selves, it is NOT "cartoons" saturday morning.
8/7/2007:
I've uploaded a couple of new things. and updated the "worked on" list. the last month i have been doing a music video for a danish band called "band ane". the video have been and will be shown on mtv, and other danish channels throughout july. afterwards i'll tube it, so everyone can get a glance.
17/4/2007:
animation section and 3d images section have been updated. Plus the list of stuff i have been/am working on has grown as well.
3/12/2005:
btw. the list of projects i have been working on has grown a bit as well.
3/12/2005:
the contact page has been abused by some external batch something something, and has therefor been terminated. my mail-adress still works though, so do not hesitate to write me about any matter.
7/7/2005:
interface has been updated. the doodles section has been deleted, but sketches are now viewable in the 2dimages-section.
29/3/2005:
still major problems with the uploading of images.
25/3/2005:
some problems have occured while trying to program the upload modules.
25/3/2005:
almost all images from the old sota.dk site has been tranfered to this new one.
25/3/2005:
total renovation of the original sota.dk homepage. it has now become a personal portfolio page for me (andreas ng) as it should be.
= heads up!)
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