this is so true.

Finally I get the recognition I deserver :)))


In your face :))
/Tommie

i love this

got this link from work: Love it!!!!


cheers
/T

so whats cooking in animation

Well...

DreamWorks is aiming to put out three movies per year and all the movies is in stereoscopic 3D. Actually DreamWorks have said that all there movies in the future is going to be in stereoscopic 3D. At the same time Disney looks to its roots and puts out "the princess and the frog", I guess that is not going to be in stereoscopic 3D :).
Now why is Disney doing this? I mean besides wanting to make money. The marketing for this 2D flick has been massive, I have seen pretty much every big power-honchos at Disney on TV talking themselves warm over this "new" movie in "old style" animation. Well I cant figure it out. Will we see a re-birth of 2D animation? Will I have to dust of my pencils and start drawing again? hmm I don't think so, but I guess time will tell:))

BlueSky is working hard on there new movie "Rio", as far as I know that is set to be released in 2011 so I guess BlueSky is not aiming for the "more the merrier" concept. I do however like that meatball movie, although I think the character look to much alike, it gets to me after while.

Pixar is "hot on wheels" with there movie "UP". Everyone tells me that it's going to clean up at the Oscar. It might even, so I'm told, win the price for best movie overall. That would be great, its a great movie.

I saw "planet 51", from the Spanish animation studio "Iion", less than 3weeks ago. I must say that its a lot better than the reviews was. I totally like it, and so did my kids. I just wonder if this is an example of territorial dispute, I mean the Americans are more or less the top dogs of major blockbuster 3D animation movies, and given the state the economy maybe the American review writing dudes are looking at foreign animation with their patriotic American eyes, who knows, probably not....or? ::))

Sweden.....what about Sweden, you might ask if you are Swedish:). Well there are some things bubbling in that far of cold northern country....I have good friends snaking around, planing devious plans and if the planets line up when the moon is full, then just maybe we will see Sweden finally produce a 3D animation movie, I mean a full budget one, there has been attempts but without some serious budgeting you wont get a good movie.

So the Future? Well it looks bright, the 3D animation biz haven't yet had its first total flop and the movie entertainment biz overall is hitting an all time high in money making. So lets just hope everything works out for everybody :))

cheers
/Tommie

Its all action at DreamWorks

last week I got to go home early on Wednesday due to a bomb threat.
Link to the story

Now I'm worried that the overseas gift was meant from me :)))

the year 2009

Well I must say the the year 2009 is one hell of an year..

I have gone from planing a feature(still am) to travle across an ocean to the big pice of earth called USA and started a mission at Dreamworks..
I have nothing but love and praise to say about dreamworks, and will fight anyone saying anything else:)) seriously, DW is great and I urge anyone like me to focus its attetion towards DW and if it dosent turn out great I promeise to buy you lunch, it free at the Dreamworks Campus :)))

I mean who would feel bad spending your days at this place: (pic stolen)


decomposing your lunch here cant be a bad thing?? (pic stolen)


well shearing your lunch with this dude could be a bit tricky :)) (pic stolen)


Its absolutely the best place I have ever worked on. Thing is that somehow even though many people here right now are in "crunch mode", they still have a smile on there face. I hope I will have that when I go "crunching" :))

the beutiful waterPond, the fish seem to like it here and so dose the squerrls. I wouldnt mind to be resurected as a Dreamworks rodent...all thought I would have to get use to all the pokey animators trying to find out how my body mechanics works....freaky those animators :))) (pic stolen)


Just to prove that I'm not all about animation, here is how the best meatballs are done :) (and yes I fight anyone to prove it:)))


so from us all to you all, have a freaky great 2010!!! love ya!!


and this is hours later :)))))

never seen sand like this :)

Sand is a naturally occurring granular material composed of finely divided rock and mineral particles.

With thousands of different uses I can think of (well I only thought of three or four:) I never would believe you could kinda animate with it.



cheers
/Tommie

week six is history

Big week

I'm going from denial, passed trough the agreessive stage and just done with the depression so I guess next week is going to be the acceptance of Dreamworks animation tool EMO...
Well in all honesty its not that bad, actually its really good, it just takes time to find the goodies :)))

As i said before I have my show now, and I must say it was a great moment. I mean for some its just a job for me its a dream come true....and yes its even more strange getting this dream full filled in my age :)))


love ya all
/Tommie'

So it has begun

woopiiee!!

I got assigned to my first show(movie) today.
The show is great, but I cant say which or what it is about :/

I got a bit starstruck the other day when I ,all of a sudden, was standing in the same elevator with the legend James Baxter. Luckily my friend Mike was there to introduce me. I was seconds away from going -"hhhelooo Mr Baxter, can I touch you" or something like that :))) So a handshake later I was smiling like a six year old kid....I tend to do that a lot these days.:))

cheers
/Tommie

settling in

Slowly we are settling in here in LA

I must say that I really like LA, well the little I have seen so far is great. People are super friendly and I love peanutbutter :))
We just got our cableTV installed, but its not working, so I only have the 30 or so, normal channels, instead of the 200 or so digital ones :))) crazzzyy

Work is slowly coming together as well, I fell really luckey to have gotten the opurtunity to work with all the super-talented people at Dreamworks. That place is top-notch from the top to bottom....

A very good friend of mine just came over to LA to interview for a job at Blizzard, I really hope he gets it(He will:) and move him and his lovely family over here.....soon we can call it a Swedish invasion :))

Okay week 6 is just in the horizon..so..its..time.....aawwahhhh...to...zzzzzzzzzzzz :)

cheers
/T

Training is over

So the training weeks are over. Have I learned everything to be learned, am I felling confident that I will be a great asset for Dreamworks, well let me put it like this.....NOOO :))
But this is always the case with me, I need this "rush" of insecurity. It's like John Cleese once said, "every morning I wake up, terrified that people have discovered that I'm a fake"..:))) thats how I'm going to feel when i get my first shoot on monday...:))

cheers
/Tommie