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The goal here was to put 3D characters in real space.
We’re blueberries.

Blueberries Getting Married

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Our wedding is in ONE WEEK!

Here’s a little hand drawn animation I did this semester based on a clip from animation mentor. I’ve gained a lot of respect for those old feature length hand drawn animations! This took so long and it’s about 15 seconds long and no color!

Next fall, for my senior thesis here at UofM, I’m creating an Animated Musical Short with my roommate. I’m pretty excited about it, but there’s still a lot to learn before the fall in order to finish it all in one semester. Here’s my first attempt at character animation. It’s pretty rough and needs tweaking that could keep me busy for months, but I’ve learned what I need to in order to begin rigging my own characters.

Time for some character designs!

This is a song I wrote for Jordin back in our dating days about a year and a half ago. It’s rough, but after a year and a half of not recording the rest of it, I decided all the instrumentation and better miking I envisioned for it would have to remain in my head. She liked it. :)

The previous post was a lie. I actually painted this after 26 days of no food or water, wandering through the Arabian Desert in search of the base station of the malevolent guerilla warriors who put me there. I found them and convinced them they needed me alive, but was given water only after I completed a self portrait using their dried up oil paints.

Curtis Wiklund Self Portrait - oil painting

I tried oil painting this semester. It felt nice getting away from the computer and working with such a tangible medium. I’ve never painted before, and now I feel like I’ve been missing out on one of the most therapeutic means of expression. It was so freeing!

(We had to “alter” ourselves in some way, so I wrapped a sheet around my head)