week eight

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above you can clearly see what kept me busy this week. our account executive at the bijenkorf liked the countenance-clips i made for the three crazy days so much, that he offered me the job to make animations for the upcoming month theme. the bijenkorf has a certain theme every month, and for oktober it's "boys will be boys". i was given some illustrator files with graphics of cars, motors and other cool stuff that i shoud make some nice animations from. nice assignment i'd say.
i picked the three best of those files and started working on that. the problem with those vector artworks was, that they weren't made for being animted, they were only made for looking good printed. so i had to split them into groups layers and clipping masks in illustrator before being able to animate them. took a while, detailed as they are. and that created the next problem. i had only three days for all three of the animations. so i had to work the evenings aswell. but that's not that bad, if you work over regular time, you can eat on costs of holland centraal, and they make a good pizza on the opponent site of the street :P
my colleague auke also liked the graphics of the clip in the middle so much, that he wanted to participate in creating that clip aswell. so he made the intro where everything pops up and i made the sequence where the camera dives into the artwork.
it was really fun to do, and i am as happy with the results as the bijenkorf-people.
the rest of the wek wasn't too interesting, bijenkorf pages mostly.