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.
Things mentioned:
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
Yes for rigging course for Wayne, it's the part of the whole 3D workflow I have the most trouble with
Yes, bring on the rigs!!
More rigs, please!!!
Nice!
I'm thrilled to say that we have another Wayne animation course underway!
I'm also trying to convince him to do some rigging training down the road 😎
@theluthier I know! part one is really really great, it's those kinds of movies you see now as an adult and appreciate it more. Same thing happened to me watching Terminator 2, Man I felt sorry for Sarah Connor now
Yeah!!! Wayne the RiggerMan :D
Wayne: I'm looking forward for more animation courses
Haha exactly dostovel! Just watched that a couple nights ago. Pure gold.
xD