I will be working at Storyline studios from august 2010. Needless to say, I'm very excited and I cant wait to get started working there. Storyline studios is the largest supplicant to Norwegian film industry, and they have a lot of great competence.
I will be working as a VFX artist / 3d designer / concept artist.

Again, I cant wait to get started and I feel I made the right choice, as I'm going to learn a whole bunch of new stuff!
I've always had a goal to work in the film industry and I'm very happy it would kick off so soon.

Check out their website for showreels and more: www.storylinestudios.no

The texture of the main character has been final for some time now, time to write about it!
The texture was done in bodypaint and photoshop. The useage of bodypaint was fantastic! The amount of precise detail in the texture was easy to achieve compared to UV layout in photoshop. I also got a lot of illusions to geometry that isn't really there. I'm glad i took the time to learn this new texture program as it really paid of. I also did a gradient to the texture depending on what would be damaged to the sunlight. Meaning that red would become slightly more orange in "sun" parts and so on. I also made the texture choice towards the large parent robot that this one is recycled by. So they would match. I also made different tests on how to make the texture better. Simply painting and tweaking colors in photshop. Then use the reference to make it right in the program. If there was anything I would do different, it would be to use bodypaint on all the other characters as-well.

The story has been a bit loose and hard to get right during our film production. I started out with Remi's and my early idea about the main robot function. The idea was that he projected artistic film through he's lens to inspire people with art. To give him a different purpose in the society.

After that I sat down and wrote a short treatment on a more developed idea. The theme and and story was a bit risky, witch i like. The idea was about the robot that was somehow able to record things, that happened to him during his one day lifespan. And the general behavior between people and robots was ignorant and careless. This behavior of individuals was then presented at the end of the film when our mainbot had given up, trying to fit in. The presentation was to be shown down by the sea, projecting clips on the fog and water reflections in a stunning way. Making people observant to what he was trying to achieve, but then again, people didn't care that much. And the robot ran out of power and shut down. The punchline of the story was fitting into the society, and how someone may get left out. Also a reminder of people's ignorance.

There was a lot of talk about this ending, how it might not make the message clear, and some didn't think it would fit at all.
Lucky, we had a good story to rewrite, and we have been thinking about it for some time now. The story has now (hopefully) come to an end. Sebastian, Paul (our teacher) and Myself sat down one day and brainstormed some ideas. And the result was this:

The story is pretty much the same, our main character trying to fit into the society. But there is one small change that will change the ending and the point trough out the whole story. The underlying plot is that our society leak of electricity. And the energy will soon run out. This means no more "life" for robots, and no more electricity of mankind. To build up this idea Ive made "flayers" that will be as a background asset trough out the film, as well as a flayer that one of the commercial robots hand out. Our main character will interact with this robot and the flayers as well. Our main character will be on the search of electricity in the story, because he is a result of a recycle of a larger robot. This means he's running out of time, low on energy. At one point he interacts with a fuse box. And towards the end when he has given up fitting in, he see a line of street lights. Now he understand that he needs power to keep on "living" He starts to follow these lights on the way to find the power-source to recharge himself.
On the way he slowly shuts down and "die" when all lights are out on the character, we see the flayer we've seen trough out the film, and it reads: ENERGY CRISIS! (image below)

To sum up, our main seeks to fit in, fails after many attempts. When he has given up, he finds his most important purpose, survival. He chases the energy to find the source, but "dies" in the attempt of finding it. Ending the story sadly with a message that has been running trough out the whole story.

Myself, I think this is a very good ending, we build empathy for the clumsy, cute robot that struggles to fit in. And when he found the easy solution that's been there all along, right in front his nose. He dies before finding it. Just because he didn't fit in, and nobody helped him to find the solution. Maybe the other robots wanted the little energy left for themselves, or simply was ignorant. I think this sends a underlying message to how many people care and treat other random individuals.
The underlying message is strong and hopefully many people who watch our end result will get the story and the message.