Hjalti Hjalmarsson is an excellent animator, director, rigger, and layout artist from Iceland. Lately he's been working on the open movie projects with the Blender Institute, including Caminandes, Cosmos Laundromat, Glass Half, Agent 327, and more!
In this interview, Jonathan Lampel and Wayne Dixon will be talking with Hjalti about Blender productions, his workflow, and how he's learned to be a better animator.
Early Agent 327 test (unlisted):
Dweebs shot: https://twitter.com/hjalti/status/907611840984834048
Character rigs:
Red Nelb - coming soon (it’s already completed and Daniel M Lara has given permission to release it)
BBB Bird - Coming soon(??)
Books:
Illusion of Life - Frank Thomas & Ollie Johnston
Animators Survival Kit - Richard Williams
Character Animation Crash Course! - Eric Goldberg
Like my name, people always get it wrong :(
5? Sheepishly counts on fingers...
Wayne would be the 4th Jonathan at CGC.
I really enjoy this. Thank you Hjalti, Jonathan and Wayne.
Seriously. #realTalk about people loving the idea of being a digital artist (or anything really) but not interested in the work that it requires.
That is some great advice!
When does the knitting course come to CGCookie?
jjohaks Sure, we'll list the book in the notes once this stream is archived (next day or so)
That seems to be a recurrent theme... I have a family member that went to Europe to learn 3D, spent a lot of money and he doesn't know squat, I learned 10x more in CG Cookie
Can we get the list of books?