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Tutorial series about the plastic monster

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Tutorial series about the plastic monster

I’ve created short tutorials on different aspects of the character development and 3d work.

I’ve also got a great mention from Lesterbanks.com, that showcase tutorials form C4d, Maya, render engines and more. Thank you for that!

Get some insight in the process behind my most viewed video to date, 1,3 million in tree weeks.

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Do you feed the plastic monster?

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Do you feed the plastic monster?

My latest video for Norwegian Maritime Authority and Marfo! I'm the guy behind developing the monster, animation and vfx it into the shots. If everything goes as planned I will create some short tutorials based on the work from this video. I came across a lot of interesting techniques and also ways do simplify some of the processes, like picking a camera from other videos to animating te monster.

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Showreel 2023

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Showreel 2023

 

It’s about time I updated my showreel; a collection of work I’ve created and been involved with over the years. You can read more about the work and my role.

This video started with the music, a collaboration with the great Atella guys, where they created stems (different parts musical parts and drums) and I did the composition, some additional sounds, mix and master. Inspiration at that time was Blade Runner, both new and old, and a couple of other tracks that I liked the feel too.

For all the camera-movements I’ve tracked live action stock videos that almost contain the images I wanted. Drone shots, hand held movement and underwater camera. I did a rough cut to the music and started to create the scenes.

I’m going to write a project breakdown later with more info and short clips.

Links to whole projects:

Ard arealplan - Tollet
Atella - Closer to life
Hi Tech Mobility
Sjøfartsdirektoratet
Aclima
Ardarealplan.no
Maritim Forsøpling/Kystverket
Subshine
Kunzt.no
Wonderboy
Vi Aquavit
Oslow
Coca-Cola
Marcus Monne (personal work)
Myreze - Una World
Stacc

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AI saved you again

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AI saved you again

It's fascinating to realize how many AI tools I've integrated into my daily work routine.

For instance together with chatgpt to enhance my website's text, aiming to make my message more concise and understandable. You still need to do some tweaking to get it right, but at least you get a head start.

At a out door photo session I did I could now push the photos from good to greater. With the assistance of Topaz Denoise, an AI tool, I was able to eliminate unwanted grain and enhance the overall sharpness of the photos. And I often use Topaz Photo to scale up images from Mid Journey too.

In my experience, I often see where the composition of a photograph could be improved back at the office. Although I had previously relied on my skills in photo manipulation, the new Photoshop beta generative fill feature has made the process significantly easier. Particularly for nature and background elements, this tool delivers impressive results, and also just change faces that are in the background. By incrementally applying generative fill in small steps, it becomes easier to obtain synthesized results of high quality, resulting in sharper outputs. It’s still early days for generative fill.

As AI continues to advance I’m looking forward when even animations are easy to generate, and I aim to remain at the forefront when it comes to new tools to make the day to day taks easier to handle.

Overall, the integration of AI tools has change the way I work and allowing me to achieve greater efficiency and creativity.

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Time for annual reports

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Time for annual reports

Just finished with Norges Klimastiftelse Årsrapport 2022 design. This is a web annual report that has clickable links but still possible to print and still be able to get a hold of the content.

Norges Klimastiftelsen or Norwegian the climate foundation work for a society without emissions of man-made greenhouse gases, and always interesting what they do and really glad to help.

Take a look at these examples, made with my own package called PolarWhite.

And see the pdf annual report here

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Stacc Brand Video

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Stacc Brand Video

Stacc is a Norwegian fintech company with more than 30 years of experience delivering digital solutions and consulting services to banks, asset finance providers, insurance companies, pension funds, family offices and the public sector in the Nordics.

Stacc combines financial technology with design and strategic know-how. We're fast, we understand, we help you do the right things the right way. We enable financial services to innovate, surprise and excite.

I’m really happy how the project came along, and happy to make a second video for the guys :)

Producer: Jørgen Håland, JHåland
Photography (people moving): Jørgen Håland
Stock: Artgrid
Motion Graphics: Jørgen Håland, Julian Forthun
VFX and Color Grade: Jørgen Håland
Edit: Jørgen Håland
Voice: OnlineVoices
Music: MusicVine

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