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Not dead

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:54:00 +0100

Just wanted to tell you I’m not dead.

No, I’m very much alive and kicking. I began my internship at Stopp (Stockholm Post Production) a few weeks ago and I put all of my focus into that. I mean - man, just before the internship I started renovating my apartment. Needless to say, I’m living in the middle of a junkyard of dust and rubble here.

For time being I don’t have much to update the site with. So instead, I try to update my twitter now and then. You find me @JohanIdesjo

See you!

Happy Holidays!

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:20:32 +0100

I’m already on my Christmas holiday! Haven’t had this kind of break from either school or job for quite some time, so I’m gonna enjoy it to the fullest. That means, I’ll have to paint my apartment and change the floors.. But also work with the pre-production for a short film that myself and a director friend are working on, script should be finished soon. Exciting!

I’ll also try to visit the company where I’m going to have my internship at as often I can before the actual internship begins. This year might be the ending of a decade, but it sure is the beginning of many things to come.

By the way, the picture above is my submission for a Pin Up Girl-contest held at Bobby Chiu’s blog. The prize is original art by Bill Presing. Wish me luck!

More info below.

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:37:36 +0100

More info below.

Showreel time again

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:31:24 +0100

It’s time again. I’ve updated the showreel with my latest project.

As you can see, I have focused my reel on animation and it’s basically what I want to work with when I graduate from school. That aside, I know how to model, texture and light a 3D scene as well as pre-and post production.

Right now I’m looking for an internship, so if you’re a company looking for interns - give me a call!

I’m going to share a preview of the project I’m...

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:27:08 +0200

I’m going to share a preview of the project I’m working on right now.

I’m making a 25-30 second animation together with my mates Mats Virtanen and Lucas Pettersson. In this project, as the previous one, I’m in charge of story, animation and design. In other words, I’ve come up with the story and boarded it, modelled the main character (Yeah, he’s based on me. I’m shameless), designing backgrounds and I’m animating all of it.

Mats is modelling and texturing everything and Lucas takes care of the rigging, lighting, shading and rendering.

This short mockup/playblast is my animation blocking. There are some stuff I’ll correct and redo, but basically this is how the animation looks before I start refining it. I’ll share more stuff along the way so stay tuned.

Showreel Breakdown

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:22:00 +0200

Here we go, the showreel is up!

I’m going to take my time and break it down for those of you who are interested. I know I’m not the only one who like to have a peek behind the scenes.

I have chosen to show two projects in this first version of my showreel. Not that I haven’t done more stuff, but these projects show more of what I actually want to do in the business and that is first and foremost animation.

So first up is the project I want to break down for you. I made this together with two classmates (Lucas Pettersson and Marcus Åvall). I’m responsible for 40 seconds of animation and 3 of the 4 characters that are in it. It was done in a couple of months, and was quite a challenge since this was our first real animation.

Having that in mind we created a concept that was open enough to interpret and go wild with. In this case the evolution of some missing links.

As the director, animator and designer of concepts and backgrounds I had loads off fun stuff to do. Since you’ve already seen a clip from the film above in the reel, I’m going to show you a couple of production designs and explain more about our approach.

I tried to capture the mood of the environment by playing around with shapes and colors. I wanted this to be a playful and bright film. The characters had to have completely different silhouettes and personas.

The environment was designed to match the characters. I really wanted this to feel like a separate universe, and to use a phrase used during the production - “feel like the Muppets invades the Nobel prize banquette”.

The backgounds were split in three as you can see below - foreground, middleground and background. That way we could easily get more depth in the scene.

Since the harddrive we saved the early animation blocking stages on isn’t with us anymore, I’m afraid I can’t show you any of that stuff. But I’ll make sure to take the animation I’m currently working on and break that down for you when it’s finished in a couple of weeks. As a matter of fact, I might even post some playblasts later on this week.

Until then, take care!

Pre-Showreel

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:50:00 +0200

So I’m just a couple of steps away from being done with the first version of my showreel.

It won’t be a long reel, but I want to take my time and break down the material in it. I like behind the scenes-stuff in dvd:s so I will present what I did in each project instead of just showing the results.

In the meantime, I organized and updated the Work section with some images.

The links are still very slow (and if you use Explorer they probably don’t work at all). In that case, just go back to the Main page where you can click yourself ahead.

Stay put

/Johan

Update

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:21:53 +0200

I’ve put most projects on ice right now, focusing on school. This fall I’ll put together a showreel and upload a bunch of concept sketches for the sake of my internship applications.

Hopefully I get some time on my hands to redesign the site, but until then have a look in the Work section where I’ve uploaded a couple of character sketches. Currently I’m trying a more Animation-sort of mannerism. Hope you’ll like it!

Cheers

/Johan

Interview and my first timelapse

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:18:00 +0200

Lars from Uniforms interviewed me, you can read it HERE and make sure you also take a look at the short timelapse we shot while I made a Uniforms mural at PUB in Sthlm. Awesome music by the way, The Touch are responsible.

Still Dedicated

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:58:00 +0100

Click here to see the music video I made for Uniforms together with Sesse and Gabriel

I’m responsible for all the faces as you see.

(if the video doesn’t pop up, just scroll down and click the Spring 09 Video)

Uniforms For The Dedicated

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:27:00 +0100

For a year now, I’ve been working in periods with the amazing award winning fashion brand and concept Uniforms For The Dedicated.

Now the clothes has hit the stores around the world and I’m happy to share a couple of images I’ve done for this Spring and Summer seasons clothing line.

You can see a couple more of them in the Work section. And you should of course make sure you have a look at UniformsForTheDedicated.com

During the following weeks I’ll be able to share more stuff I’ve been working with together with Uniforms, so stay put.

Browser

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:18:22 +0100

Realized there’s some things to fix. The links don’t work properly for you Explorer users, should be working fine in Firefox though.

Gordon Fights

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:46:00 +0100

I made this for my friends Gordon Fights who release their first EP now in january. Make sure you check them out! Good ol’ rock ‘n’ roll, go pick a fight.

Homepage Release

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:24:33 +0100

What better way to start off the new year than with a new homepage?

Ok, maybe plenty. But this is a huge leap for me to finally have this thing up and running.

My name is Johan Idesjö and this website is meant to be my portfolio, though I’ll probably update this news part of the website with other stuff as well.

Happy new year!

Cheers

/Johan Idesjö 2009-01-02