More masks!

Posted on November 7, 2010 by Andreas Qassim

Guess what? I’ve got a patron! Her name is Emma Agering. She bought the Buster Keaton mask I made for the comics festival in Malmö last year.

Emma wanted two more masks, and in a weak moment I said yes. That was like January. Then poor Emma had to wait and wait and wait. When she framed the Keaton mask, put it on her wall next to two LARGE empty spaces, photographed it and mms:ed it to me, that’s probably when I got my thumb out and sat down to finally do the work.

These are A1 drawings, a mixture of ink and 4B pencil. Hurtful for the back to draw that large, but the three of them will make quite an impact together.

It was a while ago since I did caricatures. They aren’t that distorted perhaps, but at least they are exaggerated, and I guess that’s what caricature is about. Can you see who they are?

Thank you Emma and Helen for wanting these masks! Can’t wait to come and see them IRL!

3D Showreel Completed!

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Andreas Qassim

After many hours of editing and re-editing, the reel is done!

3D Character Animation Showreel from Andreas Qassim on Vimeo.

Many thanks to all the amazing people who gave me feedback and helped make it better! Now the re(a)l work starts. The job hunt has begun…

Pimped Dialogue Clip for Reel

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Andreas Qassim

My 3D showreel is almost there. This is the final clip to be refurbished. It came from a two week dialogue course with veteran Pixar animator Rich Quade. Rich was Directing Animator on Toy Story, and he animated on Toy Story 3, which will be out any day now in Sweden (can’t wait!). The voice of the clip belongs to Vincent Gallo from the movie Buffalo 66. The refurbished version includes polishing of the facial expressions, adding surfaces and lights to the scene, and further developing the escaped convict’s dialogue partner…

Escaped Convict from Andreas Qassim on Vimeo.

Pimped acting clip for reel

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Andreas Qassim

Here’s another freshened up clip for the reel. The result of a 2 week silent acting course with Disney/Dreamworks animator Eric Schmidt.

Going to Work from Andreas Qassim on Vimeo.

The assignment was A) to invent a character and a simple story. I came up with this musician, a triangle player, going to work. B) to have a safe suddenly drop from above (“magic if”). How would the character react in this given circumstance? The lesson to be learned here was that you really have to know your character (how old is he, where does he live, what is he doing, why is he doing it, what does he like, what does he hate etc.) in order to know how to animate him.