Trailer Kleurrijk Wit (Colourful White)

Finally, the trailer for my short animation film I graduaded with a few months back!

Trailer Kleurrijk Wit from Julia Jager on Vimeo.

The Life of Death trailer

This is the short of Marsha Onderstijn, in which I supported her with animating deer in the background.

The première was in the Chassé Theatre in Breda, around a month ago. It was really cool to see all the graduation movies, knowing that it will be my turn next year :)
Marsha was also really kind and gave me the dvd of The Life of Death and a little present, a small version of the book of Muybridge, with lots of animation walks in it :) really good for reference and really appropriate because I used a lot of walkcycles for the deer.

The Life of Death - Trailer from Marsha Onderstijn on Vimeo.

Anyway, check her website, the short will be online soon; www.marshaonderstijn.com.

Aurora internship finished

This is kind of a late message. Because I finished my internship the 15th of June.
But I haven't had the time to tell you how it went, due to holidays etcetera.

My internship went very well, I'm really really proud to have been there and that I helped. One month ago there was the première in the Tuschinski theater in Amsterdam, and I said back then that I couldn't have imagined myself standing there 4 months ago.
Everything went so fast. I've learned so much in such a short notice.

I've had the pleasure to get to know more people in the animation field, I got to go to Annecy 2012, I've never had such a clear view of what I want to do next year, although I still have a lot of choices to make, but instead of having to make a choice what road to take of a 100, I think I've limited myself to about 8.
Apart from all of this, I don't think I really understood in the beginning that the short that I was working on would be played in Pathé cinemas. I think I didn't really grasp that part. So after 3 months of hard work and traveling from Breda to Amsterdam, it kind of came to me that this opportunity was so special, and that I couldn't have had a better place then this...

Tomorrow will be the REAL première, because Aurora will be played before the movie Abraham Lincoln; the Vampire Hunter. And because Abraham Lincoln is premiering tomorrow, Aurora is aswell.
The ironic/sad/coincedence part is that we wanted our short to be played before The Dark Knight Rises at first (months ago), but after last events we're really glad it didn't. It would have been such a sad coincedence, and I guess our short would have been taken out of the cinemas.
If anyone of America reads this blog, by any chance, I'm so sorry for what happened in Aurora, it's so cruel...

I'm not really sure what I can actually show you, without betraying something of our short (I can probably show it in the fall, when it's more widely known)
But I do want to share a few sketches, and the trailer of Aurora. I had to animate a tree, and I had to get my inspiration of the scene in which Snow White is running through the Haunted Forest. It was a long process of changing and altering, making the tree even more scarier, I think in the end it came out well. (I also animated some other things, but this was my main duty)
If you live in Holland, go see Abraham Lincoln ;)

Animation results Minor

I never told how my minor period went, so I'm doing now.
Actually... There's not very much to tell, but there are some things I can show you. I've helped Marsha out with background animations, furthermore I'm still coloring shots at this moment, though I am having an internship in Amsterdam at the moment.
I do miss school a little bit, I especially miss being at the place you need to be in 5 minutes. It takes 4 hours traveling a day to Amsterdam, before I'm present at the studio. I do like the studio very much and I feel I ended up in the right place. I have very nice collagues and there is a very good atmosphere at work.

I do think that time goes rather quick and I can't keep up with how fast it's going.. I think it's a pity I barely have a month left, and thinking about how fast the last 2 months have gone, it will be over in a blink of an eye.
I will be able to accompany Aimée de Jongh to Annecy Animation Film Festival though, and that makes me very happy. I'm really looking forward to that week. It was arranged so suddenly that I haven't really adjusted to the idea yet, I didn't think it would be possible to go to Annecy, because I thought it would cost a lot of money, but I bought my flying ticket last week, got my festival accreditation from the producer Jantiene and I can sleep with Aimée and her friends for an affordable price in an appartment! I'm learning a lot and I'm thinking a lot about what I'm going to do when my study is over.

Anyway, I wanted to show you the animations I've done for Marsha's graduation movie, colored and all. There's some repetition in the animations, so you have the time to examine them better, because they're rather short. Also there are sometimes more animations in one video.