Fromage3D.com - An animators blog

Happy new year!

2011-01-03T22:21:00.003+01:00

I totally forgot to write anything on my blog the previous year, I guess it's time to pick up the blog hobby again! That could be my new years resolution I suppose!

Workout video

2010-09-13T15:30:00.005+02:00

I was at the gym yesterday recording myself working out, and here is the end result of the workout, enjoy!

Workout from Erik Svensson on Vimeo.

Motivational speaker - Les Browns.

2010-08-29T22:00:00.001+02:00

Whenever you feel like life/someone is pushing you down, whenever you feel like a failure watch this guy (preferably the whole series of part 1-6) and you'll find the little spark of joy again. What you experienced in the past, whatever someone tells you is not a reflection of who you really are, it's only your/other beliefs. Never ever make this to your own truth and always pursue your dreams, only you can do it even if someone else tells you that you can't.

"Practice do not make perfect, practice makes improvement."

A day in Donald Ducks life.

2010-08-27T16:44:00.004+02:00

Can't beleive I haven't seen this one before. So good! Especially around 2 minutes into it when he has a conflict with his own voice.

Workout day, shoulders and back.

2010-08-26T19:05:00.003+02:00

I decided to hit the gym today and do a proper shoulder/back workout.

As some of you may have noticed I do not eat many carbohydrates (usually below 20 gr a day) and may ask how this works out with weight lifting. I can honestly say that I do equally good now as I did with carbohydrates. Surely it takes a while to get used to, but once you've passed the period where you adjust to fats rather than carbohydrates as the primary fuel it goes very easy.

I'm still trying to lose some fat so I haven't increased a lot with the weights at the gym, mainly because I eat less and lose weight, therefore it's hard to increase the weights at the gym.

So far I lost:

26 kg on the scale
26 cm around the belly button
Gone from 32 in BMI to 24.5

If you're interested in how LCHF works, I really recommend that you have a look at this video (a short clip from the movie 'Fat head'.) I really recommend that you watch the whole movie if you feel that the video below is any good.

Warmup gesture drawing.

2010-08-25T09:47:00.001+02:00

I saw this link at the 11 Second club and it's an interesting approach he has towards the figure drawing, not just drawing the character but also adding a touch of his own while doing it. I really recommend that you watch it whether you're an animator, modeler or an 2D graphical artist.

Brilliant animation from Princess and the frog!

2010-08-25T00:34:00.000+02:00

I can watch this clip over and over, it's really funny!

Even though 'Princess and the frog' might not be up to quality of the old Disney movies I still think that 2D animation is what they do best. They've tried some 3D animation but I never really felt that those were as good (except for the upcoming 'Tangled' that is). I would love to see more 2D animated movies from Disney because it feels like it's their strongest side.

I'm still a big fan of Aladdin, Quack pack, Goof troop and the rest of the series that were created back in the 80s/90s, too bad most of them never made it onto DVD discs (at least not with Swedish voices which makes the nostalgia complete). I wouldn't mind if Disney decided to create new versions based upon these series, that would be really cool actually!

Upcoming animated movies worth watching!

2010-08-24T17:59:00.001+02:00

There are quite a few animated movies I'm looking forward to watch. Among them there is the latest 'Toy Story 3' that looks totally awesome, and I never experienced a bad Pixar movie so I'm sure this won't let us down either.

Another movie I really want to watch is Disneys latest movie called 'Tangled', watch the video for yourself and see what you think about it. It looks really promising I think!

New design coming up!

2010-08-24T00:05:00.006+02:00

It's been quite a while since I did anything to this site, so I thought it could be a good idea to revise it a bit. I've changed the whole look to it and I've also added a few more things to it, such as links and info pages.

I really like how user friendly blogspot is, and I will definitly put some interesting stuff up here in the upcoming weeks now that I know how it works! Since I'm very interested in nutrition and arts that will be my main focus on this blog.

It's been a while!

2009-06-28T20:18:00.006+02:00

Howdy!

It's been a while since I wrote here.

As you might see on my profile on the left I work as a game animator, and you might ask what games I worked on. Right now I've been working on Battlefield:Bad company and Mirrors edge at EA Digital Illusions and I'm currently working on Battlefield:Bad company 2. But at the moment I'm having four beautiful weeks of vacation which is awesome. Hopefully I'll spend some time beeing creative.

Been having a gym/workout focus lately!

2009-03-07T14:00:00.006+01:00

Hello!

Haven't done anything 3D-related at home this week because I had lots of things to do at work instead. And on top of that I've tried to pick up my gym workouts again which takes quite some time, but it's really fun and you feel so good after a hard workout.

My brother is visiting today so I will not work on anything today, but hopefully tomorrow.

An animator at work showed me a decent rig called Norman that I will def. try out and see if I can make any cool animations with. :)

A bit lazy today

2009-03-04T20:45:00.003+01:00

It's quite hard to decide what to do and then do it. I really want to make something artistic today but I'm not sure what that would be.

The trickiest part is to get an idea of what you want to make rather than doing it once you know what you want to do. I guess it'll come if I google some inspiration... maybe.

My first post in my brand new blog..

2009-03-02T22:37:00.002+01:00

Hi there!

I've decided to create a work in progress/final projects blog where I can post things that I'm currently working on in 3D/2D. It'll mainly be modeling and animation but I might even post some rigging too.

Thanks for the visit!

Erik

Contact

2008-11-01T17:43:00.001+01:00

Erik Svensson

Ormängsgatan 47A

165 56 Hässelby

+46(0)73 028 19 79

Email: Erik.svensson (at) gmail.com
MSN: esvensson (at) ea.com
Skype: Jingjingmannen

I'm always interested in new challenges, so don't hesitate to contact me. I am currently looking for work so there is no need to wait!

Resume

2001-01-01T17:46:00.000+01:00

This is a short version of my CV, for the full length contact me.

Skills

Animation - Characters, vehicles, facial, mocap
Rigging - Characters (basic)
Modeling

Employment history

2007-2010 - EA Digital Illusions CE, Stockholm

Animator

Battlefield: Bad company

My first project at DICE where I learned the frostbite engine and the other tools such as Motionbuilder. Did some first/third person weapon animations. I was also responsible for most of the facial animation for the cutscenes and in-game facial animations.

Battlefield: Bad company 2

My responsibilites were to create keyframed/mocaped AI animation assets, custom vehicle animations, interactive rail sequences and implement cutscenes.

Mirror's Edge

Cutscene implementation, facial animation, intro/outro-sequences

Medal of honor: Multiplayer

Created/tweaked first/third person weapon animations, winning/losing cinematics

2003-2005 - Dreams in motion, Kansas (online)

Animator, modeler, rigger

Part time freelance job that I fullfilled during spare time alongside my studies. My responsibilites were to create models, rigs and key framed animations for two un-released titles called 'Kids corner' and 'Legendary sword'.

Education

2005-2007 - Gamemaker, Arvika

Education with an overall focus on game production. The education consisted of:

Two smaller game projects in teams of eight to ten people.
Sixty weeks of school studies on site.
Thirty weeks of internship at two studios of your choice.
A couple of weeks with animation focus.

Technical application skills

Primary

Secondary

OC Entertainment FaceFX
Adobe Photoshop CS4
Adobe Premieré

References

Available upon request.