Featured on the Animation Mentor Blog

I got featured on the ANIMATION MENTOR BLOG Where I explain my workflow for the shot featured on the Animation Mentor Showcase
link to: SHOWCASE

Freelance at Duckling

Currently doing freelance work at Duckling the next month or so. Fun stuff so far. www.duckling.dk

(Note: I didn't do any work on the TVC screenshot you see here. It is from a Duckling production though).

ANIMATION MENTOR REEL

Finally I have rendered (most of the shots) and edited my showreel together.
It's been a great journey.
Thanks to everybody at Animation Mentor. My mentors and fellow students have all contributed so much to this reel.
And thanks to Anders Kilbrandt for litghting my Orphanage shot. Great stuff.

ANIMATION REEL 2012 from jais bredsted on Vimeo.

youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KyLXCnk4I4&feature=g-crec-u

Hitman Absolution Released

Finally Hitman Absolution got released. I worked on it as an animator for 1½ years. On both Cutscenes and In-Game sequences. I went to the release party last Tuesday and it was a blast. The critics agrees that Hitman Absolution is a pretty darn awesome game. Check out Conan's awesome review:
 There was a Hitman Barber at the release party. So I went for it:

All in all a great experience.

Graduation and Awards

Just graduated from AM last week and went to get my Diploma at the Graduation Ceremony at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in SF.
It was so much fun meeting all the AM'ers at the parties and the BBQ and at SIGGRAPH where I also helped AM out talking about my experience with the education.
I also won some Awards:
Mentor's Choice Award 2012 Recognition for the Highest Achievement for Character Animation,
and the
Student's Choice Award 2012 Recognition for the Highest Achievement for Best Dialogue Acting.
I'm really proud and happy.

Class 6, Week 10

Here is a shot where I focused on practicing lip sync. Starting out by doing the lip sync before doing the body animation. Fun method to explore that allows you to really get to know you audio before posing out your character.

One of my shots made it to the Animation Mentor Student Showcase 2012

Awesome. One of my shots made it to the Animation Mentor Showcase Student Showcase 2012.
Check it out on the front page of Animation Mentor
http://www.animationmentor.com/campaign/showcase-2012/

Screenshot from the Showcase