Martin K - Animation Blog

Update!

2014-09-29T09:19:00.001+13:00

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Update and New Website

2013-05-11T21:21:00.002+12:00

- Visit www.martinkirkhaug.com for my new blog -

Wow. It's been more than a year since my last update here. Time flies :)

Here's a quick update. I left Oktobor Animation back in October last year after 2 and half wonderful years in New Zealand. Best place I've ever worked!.

I went back to Norway to study music composition and orchestration and I'm currently working freelance (and studying) as a composer and animator. Please send me an email at info@martinkirkhaug.com if you need a score for your projects :)

I also got a new website up and running: www.martinkirkhaug.com. Head over there to check out my music and some recent animation.

Thanks for all the support in this blog over the years. The journey continues at my new website. All future updates will happen there!

all the best,
Martin

Katzenberg: Honor Employees

2012-04-02T09:20:00.002+12:00

Hotel Transylvania Trailer

2012-03-29T11:16:00.002+13:00

Rise of the Guardians Trailer

2012-03-29T11:10:00.001+13:00

Glen Keane is Leaving Disney

2012-03-25T08:09:00.002+13:00

From Cartoon Brew:
Glen Keane has left Disney’s Feature Animation studio. He worked at Disney for approximately 37 years. Disney artists received an email late-Friday afternoon LA time with the text: “Glen Keane has decided that the time has come to take the next step in his personal exploration of the art of animation.” - Read More Here

From The Animation Guild:
Almost everybody in the cartoon industry moves from one studio to another studio in the course of their career. For all kinds of reasons. Glen, last I heard, was in the old animation building on the main lot developing projects. Now he has tendered his resignation. Maybe he was having "creative differences" with the powers that be, maybe it was something else. - Read More Here

From The Hollywood Reporter:
Animator Glen Keane, a 38-year veteran of the Walt Disney Animation Studios who worked on such classics as The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin, announced Friday that he is leaving the company. In a letter sent to his co-workers, he said that while the studio has been his “artistic home,” he had decided after “long and thoughtful consideration” that there are “endless new territories to explore” and so he is moving on. - Read More Here

Great Advice on Story from Mark Andrews

2012-03-15T06:36:00.000+13:00

Andrew Stanton: The Clues to A Great Story

2012-03-07T09:44:00.000+13:00

The Hobbit Production Video #6

2012-03-04T08:26:00.002+13:00

Previous Production Videos:
The Hobbit Production Video #5
The Hobbit Production Video #4
The Hobbit Production Video #3
The Hobbit Production Video #2
The Hobbit Production Video #1

New Brave Trailer

2012-02-24T08:01:00.000+13:00

Creativity requires time!

2012-02-23T18:23:00.001+13:00

Forever Young - 100 000 Views

2012-02-21T08:33:00.002+13:00

While checking out some old Animation Mentor videos online, I saw a link to my AM short "Forever Young" on YouTube and to my surprise it has more than one hundred freaking thousand views - which is amazing!!

Thanks to everybody who watched it!

Snow White - The One That Started it All

2012-02-17T07:30:00.000+13:00

The Making of The Prince of Egypt

2012-02-08T07:55:00.000+13:00

The Making of The Incredibles

2012-02-06T07:56:00.000+13:00

ABC Family's Special:

I'm on Twitter!

2012-02-01T19:51:00.000+13:00

I'm finally on Twitter - better late than never!

My tweets will mostly be animation related stuff that I find inspiring, motivating and interesting - maybe others will too :)

Please feel free to follow me:

Follow @MartinKAnimator

Noisy neighbours and trying the "Insanely Great"

2012-01-30T18:52:00.009+13:00

Living about 4 minutes from work is awesome, but the downside is that in the middle of the city there's a lot of people living above, below and next to - and it's amazing how inconsiderable and noisy some people can be.

Maybe I have a low tolerance for noise, or rather some peoples behavior, but no matter what, it was about to turn into a problem that required a solution.

The solution was this:

These noise canceling headphones, Bose Quiet Comfort, are fantastic. Putting them on is like stepping into another dimension. I also use them at work and it makes a big difference. They're quite expensive, but it's well worth the money in my opinion.

I rarely buy stuff I feel I really don't need, but I gave in and finally purchased my first Apple product ever - iPod Touch.

It's a pretty cool toy :)

To get some practical use out of it (other than playing music and videos), I got some nifty apps like FilMiC Pro, a video camera app that shoots in 24fps (or whatever frame rate I want), VideoPix, a videoplayer that can play video back at any framerate - as well as let me frame by frame thru videos and PhotoSync that let me transfer files to and from my tablet via Wi-Fi.

If anybody knows about other cool and useful apps for animators, please let me know :)

I gotta admit I'm hooked - iMac next!

The Making of Toy Story

2012-01-28T19:27:00.000+13:00

Short Toy Story documentary - I just love this behind the scenes stuff :)

Enjoy!

PIPA and SOPA - Not Cool!

2012-01-19T12:15:00.001+13:00

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.

Piracy isn't cool, but this is not the way to fight it.

Eric Goldberg at CTN

2012-01-18T23:22:00.002+13:00

Tangled Ever After Clip

2012-01-06T18:39:00.003+13:00

The Making of Mulan

2011-12-27T19:39:00.000+13:00

Merry Christmas

2011-12-25T07:22:00.001+13:00

Amazing reference!

Merry Christmas to ya all!

The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey

2011-12-22T07:05:00.000+13:00

"Baby" - Work In Progress

2011-11-22T07:00:00.003+13:00

I initially started this a couple of months ago and intended it for the October 11 Second Club contest, but realized pretty soon - that's not gonna happen :) - so I've just worked on it now and then when I had some spare time.

I thought it would be fun to try to do some acting stuff with a lying character and also play around with the Morpheus rig, which I have done before, but never actually animated a test with him.

Blocking WIP: