tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-198464672024-03-24T00:40:31.423+13:00Martin K - Animation BlogAnimation Mentor Alumni - Graduated Spring 2007Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger409125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846467.post-13918785125376225432014-09-29T09:19:00.001+13:002014-09-29T09:19:12.911+13:00Update!Please subscribe to my <a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fuser%2FMartinKAnimator%3Fsub_confirmation%3D1&redir_token=mWLK8IlsfRJKQ5Zuyb4thX6v8-98MTQxMjAxNDUzMUAxNDExOTI4MTMx">YouTube Channel here </a>and follow me on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/martinkirkhaug">Facebook here</a> - to get updates, news and notifications.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846467.post-37490506460884759642013-05-11T21:21:00.002+12:002013-06-26T20:47:51.370+12:00Update and New Website<div style="text-align: center;">
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Wow. It's been more than a year since my last update here. Time flies :)
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Here's a quick update. I left Oktobor Animation back in October last year after 2 and half wonderful years in New Zealand. Best place I've ever worked!. <br />
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I went back to Norway to study music composition and orchestration and I'm currently working freelance (and studying) as a composer and animator. Please send me an email at <a href="mailto:info@martinkirkhaug.com">info@martinkirkhaug.com</a> if you need a score for your projects :)
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I also got a new website up and running: <a href="http://www.martinkirkhaug.com/">www.martinkirkhaug.com</a>. Head over there to check out my music and some recent animation.<br />
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Thanks for all the support in this blog over the years. The journey continues at <a href="http://www.martinkirkhaug.com/">my new website</a>. All future updates will happen there!<br />
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all the best,<br />
Martin Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846467.post-22657729779455912442012-04-02T09:20:00.002+12:002012-04-02T09:21:48.663+12:00Katzenberg: Honor Employees<object width="416" height="374" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" id="ep"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="movie" value="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&videoId=business/2012/03/29/qmb-intv-katzenberg-ceo-dreamworks.cnn" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" /><embed src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&videoId=business/2012/03/29/qmb-intv-katzenberg-ceo-dreamworks.cnn" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" bgcolor="#000000" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="416" wmode="transparent" height="374"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846467.post-30548301129121210812012-03-29T11:16:00.002+13:002012-03-29T11:16:02.500+13:00Hotel Transylvania Trailer<iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/FYgzizpCTKU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846467.post-82240527433545589832012-03-29T11:10:00.001+13:002012-03-29T11:10:27.952+13:00Rise of the Guardians Trailer<iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/aPLiBxhoug0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846467.post-84023809863516760952012-03-25T08:09:00.002+13:002012-03-26T00:33:10.407+13:00Glen Keane is Leaving Disney<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdJ8FpMy8SY8ncF0DhaKUfcaGDmlSHMLcAuKMAcXt5riMBBw5LpooU3NDXrZGMrR9bysj8UAb1nDw4wXwxU-vPCWLOjbHkOjKpuqjwKf9UlS-YdplfGEwe-RzhyygboWgIhzDpHg/s1600/tangled_glen_keane_image_01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdJ8FpMy8SY8ncF0DhaKUfcaGDmlSHMLcAuKMAcXt5riMBBw5LpooU3NDXrZGMrR9bysj8UAb1nDw4wXwxU-vPCWLOjbHkOjKpuqjwKf9UlS-YdplfGEwe-RzhyygboWgIhzDpHg/s200/tangled_glen_keane_image_01.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><b>From Cartoon Brew:</b><br />
<i>Glen Keane has left Disney’s Feature Animation studio. He worked at Disney for approximately 37 years. Disney artists received an email late-Friday afternoon LA time with the text: “Glen Keane has decided that the time has come to take the next step in his personal exploration of the art of animation.” - </i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.cartoonbrew.com/disney/rumor-mill-did-glen-keane-leave-disney-today.html" target="_blank">Read More Here</a></span><br />
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<b>From The Animation Guild:</b><br />
<i>Almost everybody in the cartoon industry moves from one studio to another studio in the course of their career. For all kinds of reasons. Glen, last I heard, was in the old animation building on the main lot developing projects. Now he has tendered his resignation. Maybe he was having "creative differences" with the powers that be, maybe it was something else</i>. - <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://animationguildblog.blogspot.co.nz/2012/03/glen-keanes-departure.html" target="_blank">Read More Here</a></span><br />
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<b>From The Hollywood Reporter:</b><br />
<i>Animator <b style="font-weight: normal;">Glen Keane</b>, a 38-year veteran of the Walt Disney Animation Studios who worked on such classics as <i>The Little Mermaid</i>, <i>Beauty and the Beast</i> and <i>Aladdin</i>, announced Friday that he is leaving the company. In a letter sent to his co-workers, he said that while the studio has been his “artistic home,” he had decided after “long and thoughtful consideration” that there are “endless new territories to explore” and so he is moving on. </i>- <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/glen-keane-leaving-walt-disney-animation-303857" target="_blank">Read More Here</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846467.post-49173509724694111882012-03-15T06:36:00.000+13:002012-03-15T06:36:35.957+13:00Great Advice on Story from Mark Andrews<iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/lmd7YIHUI5M" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
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<i>Previous Production Videos:</i><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/BzPqFhnKigU" target="_blank">The Hobbit Production Video #5</a><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/clSUILKxW3w" target="_blank">The Hobbit Production Video #4</a><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/t47TXEi0No0" target="_blank">The Hobbit Production Video #3</a><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/2oZSfT1ANgI" target="_blank">The Hobbit Production Video #2</a><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/jqaUk-r8DBk" target="_blank">The Hobbit Production Video #1</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846467.post-67829742870747221162012-02-24T08:01:00.000+13:002012-02-24T08:01:55.269+13:00New Brave Trailer<iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/JOmc2GzWtSE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846467.post-13249712106970430482012-02-23T18:23:00.001+13:002012-02-23T18:24:27.773+13:00Creativity requires time!<iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/VPbjSnZnWP0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846467.post-27299630577648185032012-02-21T08:33:00.002+13:002012-02-21T08:36:21.515+13:00Forever Young - 100 000 ViewsWhile checking out some old Animation Mentor videos online, I saw a link to my AM short "Forever Young" on YouTube and to my surprise it has more than one hundred freaking thousand views - which is amazing!!<br />
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Thanks to everybody who watched it!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846467.post-14262438736359214342012-02-17T07:30:00.000+13:002012-02-17T07:30:12.405+13:00Snow White - The One That Started it All<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5xm2m-EvsP8" width="480"></iframe><br />
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My tweets will mostly be animation related stuff that I find inspiring, motivating and interesting - maybe others will too :)<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Please feel free to follow me: </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a class="twitter-follow-button" data-show-count="false" data-size="large" href="https://twitter.com/MartinKAnimator">Follow @MartinKAnimator</a></div><script>
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Maybe I have a low tolerance for noise, or rather some peoples behavior, but no matter what, it was about to turn into a problem that required a solution.<br />
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The solution was this: <br />
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These noise canceling headphones, Bose Quiet Comfort, are fantastic. Putting them on is like stepping into another dimension. I also use them at work and it makes a big difference. They're quite expensive, but it's well worth the money in my opinion.<br />
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I rarely buy stuff I feel I really don't need, but I gave in and finally purchased my first Apple product ever - iPod Touch.<br />
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It's a pretty cool toy :)<br />
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To get some practical use out of it (other than playing music and videos), I got some nifty apps like FilMiC Pro, a video camera app that shoots in 24fps (or whatever frame rate I want), VideoPix, a videoplayer that can play video back at any framerate - as well as let me frame by frame thru videos and PhotoSync that let me transfer files to and from my tablet via Wi-Fi.<br />
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If anybody knows about other cool and useful apps for animators, please let me know :)<br />
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I gotta admit I'm hooked - iMac next!<br />
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846467.post-1744149903445960712012-01-28T19:27:00.000+13:002012-01-28T19:27:49.608+13:00The Making of Toy StoryShort Toy Story documentary - I just love this behind the scenes stuff :)<br />
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Piracy isn't cool, but this is not the way to fight it.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846467.post-13111087737621388172012-01-18T23:22:00.002+13:002012-01-18T23:22:31.291+13:00Eric Goldberg at CTN<iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/H5uJ56tX6jQ?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846467.post-75230443389373371032012-01-06T18:39:00.003+13:002012-01-06T18:45:37.465+13:00Tangled Ever After Clip<div><iframe frameborder="0" width="480" height="288" src="http://d.yimg.com/nl/movies/site/player.html#shareUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fmovies.yahoo.com%2Fmovie%2F1810121160%2Fvideo%2F27789981&vid=27789981"></iframe></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846467.post-79608707109700413792011-12-27T19:39:00.000+13:002011-12-27T19:39:26.526+13:00The Making of Mulan<iframe width="479" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Ok5OH2PQMTY?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
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Amazing reference!<br />
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Merry Christmas to ya all!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846467.post-72669400993152455742011-12-22T07:05:00.000+13:002011-12-22T07:05:48.735+13:00The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey<iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/G0k3kHtyoqc?hd=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19846467.post-80149054033908292042011-11-22T07:00:00.003+13:002011-11-22T07:06:49.950+13:00"Baby" - Work In ProgressI initially started this a couple of months ago and intended it for the October 11 Second Club contest, but realized pretty soon - that's not gonna happen :) - so I've just worked on it now and then when I had some spare time.<br />
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I thought it would be fun to try to do some acting stuff with a lying character and also play around with the Morpheus rig, which I have done before, but never actually animated a test with him.<br />
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Blocking WIP:<br />
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