My Online Portfolio - Official Website

It took me some time but I finally did it! Check it out http://www.wix.com/einavderi/portfolio

ARG! Cartoon Studios - Internship Update

I can't believe it's almost been a month since I started my internship at ARG! Cartoon Studios. I'm having a lot of fun working on different projects. I just finished creating backgrounds for an animated short that is going to be aired on TV, I believe it's going to be aired in the Colorado area. I'm super excited because I'm going to get some screen credits so it's pretty awesome. I'd like to thank Mr. Artie Romero and Mr. Woodrow Martin for guiding me and helping me through the process of creating these backgrounds. Also, I'm gonna start doing some 2D animations for them, I'm very excited about all that!

It's Finally Ready - Here comes 'Dino Phone Attack!' - My First Animation Project Ever

Ok, so it's been a real busy week for me, I've stayed over in college for more than 40 hours - no breaks, no sleep, over all it was pretty much my home over the last week, I worked on this project for a few weeks, worked probably 18 hours every day, creating animation and color tests and learning After Effect and the list goes on and on guys, it's kinda funny because I literally slept in college, in the computer lab room, it was intense, I barely got any sleep lol, well, this is it, my first animation project ever, I learned a lot from it and tomorrow is our final deadline so it's going to be a lot of fun. I want to thank Sasha and Sergey for helping me out, Sasha, thanks for staying up all night with me and for keeping me company, I really appreciate it man, and if you're reading this right now, I uploaded the video we shot at like 3 AM in the morning after everybody was gone. It was so much fun and so cool, you and Sergey are awesome dudes!

Anyways, to watch the video please click here - 'Dino Phone Attack!' - First Animation Project

Some info about the school project -
We had to create 15 seconds of animation for a commercial, the commercial was meant to tell people to turn off their mobile phones at the movie theaters, we were working on this project in association with the local movie theaters which is really cool.

As I explained above, I shot a video at 3 AM in the morning while working on my project in college, I asked the main assistant in the school if I could stay overnight and work on my project and it's very rare when a student asks something like that lol, so anyway, the assistant was kind enough to tell me that he'd stay up with me all night so we can both work on our personal projects, which was really cool, I really had a lot of fun.

Here's the video and here are some pics from this real long night, when we took this video we basically were on a short break, we had to take like a 30 mins break to rest our minds a little bit lol if you guys wanna see some of the stuff we were doing at 3 AM in the morning click here I donno, I find this video funny and cool at the same time, especially when he had to help me put the guitar on for like 5 mins lol
Oh, and if you're asking yourself what was the lenguage we were speaking on the video, it was half english, half hebrew, I know just a little bit of hebrew, still learning... yeah right

It's time for 'Dino Phone Attack!'

Yep, still working on the 'Dino Phone Attack!' short, it's my first animation project ever. Here's the final animation test for the whole thing, I still need to add the backgrounds, color and everything, I also have to fix the animation a little bit.

Anyway, if you wanna watch the test please click here I'll try to explain about the project a little bit later

But for now, Enjoy guys!

Hand Studies + Animation Test - Jump Test

Here are some hand designs

Still working on the 'Dino Phone Attack!' project for school, click here to watch the jump test

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZrN43XsjhE

Dedicated to my friend Julie, up in Seattle, WA

Sketches & Some New Designs + 1st Semester Animation Project - Animation Tests

And that would be my first animation tests for 'Dino Phone Attack!' my first school project. I changed the main character and designed it a bit different. I'm still working on this project, trying to fix all the mistakes and everythings. It should take me about one or two more weeks to finish all the scenes.

To watch the first animation test/jump test please click here

To watch the second test click here

Character Designs - Quick Sketches

Pixar Animator Matthew Luhn

Today I met animator Matthew Luhn! He's extremely nice and so kind and it was a pleasure to meet this wonderful storyboard artist. It was a real nice experience. Check out Mr. Laun's Official Website http://matthewluhn.com/


Also, my artwork\character designs were chosen as some of the best student artwork in my school for 2011! Only 30 different pieces were chosen, so it's kinda cool, I wish my teachers would have chosen different characters, I have better ones, but yeah, that's the way it goes. On the last photo bellow, you can see that I'm probably one of the few students in the school that actually focuses on character design, I try to make my designs as solid and appealing as possible, and hopefully I'll get better and better in the future.

Don't forget to check out Mr. Laun's Official Website http://matthewluhn.com/

Quick Sketches

Did these sketches real quick while I was in the car with my mother, she was driving and I started doodling these kind of bee characters

Internship at ARG! Animation Studios!!!

Wow! I just got a phone call from New York City, from the main offices of ARG! Animation Studios, they've told me that I got accepted into their internship program and that they'd be happy to have me as an intern! The studio is located in Colorado, the internship takes place online, it's really cool because people who live outside the Colorado area can work online directly with the animators in the studio. It's awesome and I'm looking forward to start my internship with them!

Car

Silhouettes‏ + Quick Sketches

Avril Wannabe

Me, dressed up as Avril Lavigne

That's what I did today instaed of doing my homework for animation class

Trying New Stuff

Pixar MasterClass Character Design Competition - Update

Well, I guess I was stupid enough to think that I actually had a chance to win the contest, nobody would even look at my designs, the competition is based on how many "likes" you get on Facebook, and anybody can submit their artwork, even artists working in the industry.

Anyway, when I created my pecies for the contest I tired to focus on good, solid character design, I tried to create strong characters, that basically was my main goal.

You can check out all the artwork for this competition by clicking here

If you like my stuff, you can vote here (Winner gets a 3000$ scholarship) You can also click on the images below to vote on facebook

My Final Pieces for April's Pixar Master Class Competition

Wow, the last couple of weeks were super intensive, I worked really hard on the stuff above so I hope you guys like it. So Andrew Gordon and Matthew Len are coming over to my school this month and they're gonna teach us a few things about Animation at the PIXAR MasterClass 2011. With all that they're having this cool competition that I'll be telling you about in a sec, Anyways, this month is going to be cool.

About the Pixar Master Class Competition, we were asked to choose a few characters from fairy tales and stories and create a twist for them in some sort of way, for example: The Horror Version of Alice in Wonderland, The Anime Version of The Little Mermaid etc, so I basically created the following stuff:

TweedleDee\TweedleDum - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Version

The Animated TV-Series Version of Jack and the Beanstalk

The Horror Version of The Story of Three Bears

The Black Version of Jack and the Beanstalk