Totalt Jävla Mörker

Finished a new music video form punk/hardcore/metal act Totalt Jävla Mörker yesterday.
It's very rough and dark, but considering the music it works really well.

Logh - Video release

The new Logh video is finally out. View the result above.
www.logh.se

POPCIRKUS - making of...

Hey, finally some new stuff on the blog :)

So I posted earlier about the Popcirkus opening sequence I worked on last month.

So here are some screenshots and quicktime clips I saved during the progress.

The Brief was to make a opening sequence for a new tv program for SVT (Swedish television) called Popcirkus. The program would focus on bringing live music to the tv screen in a 90 minute weekly based program featuring 3 band per episode amongst other things, and the bands / artist would get to play their music infront of a live audience and at the same time broadcasted live on Swedish television. The Brief also consisted of making a logotype for the show and graphics for signs showing artist name and song titel. 

So our idea was to make a rocky and vivid 2D animated intro of different artists morphing from one to another illustrating the adrenaline, power, and enjoyment of a live concert.

Very rough storyboard. I had very limited time to get everything done before the airdate considering it would all have to be animated mostly by hand, so I just made some very rough storyboards to map out my ideas for myself, you probably won't get that much out of them thou.
First rough logo idea sketches. First thing that came to mind was making the logo out of real life objects. At first I thought about making the logo out of record sleeves, vinyl records and cassete tapes but quickly changed to more suitable instruments and objects that could be found on a stage during a concert.
First rough sketch of the logotype made for the initial treatment.

Vectorising the logo and trying a somewhat different approach then the initial sketch.

First test of what the logo might look like in the opening sequence.
Final logotype, above a more rough version in dark blue and below a clean version.


This is a question mark that would be used in a segment of the show, made in the same manner as the logotype.

First look and feel test of the animation. Started out as a very colorful and poppy style.

...then got a bit darker, and added more paintbrush like textures.

Finally decided on going on a more earth-tone color look and reducing the colors.

Below are a few quicktime clips of the work in progress.

Here is the first reference movie witch we then used as a guide when creating the animations.

It's compiled out of different live concert stock material from the television channels archive.

Some rough animations made it into this first version as well.

First look and feel animation test, trying out colors and style.

More experimenting with color and style, as you can see the first versions where very colorful.

Not really knowing where to go colorwise and getting a bit to messy look with all the diffrent colors blending together.

Staring to find the real look of it. Reducing the colors and focusing on a grey / off white background with darker elements and have two main colors red and blue.

A difrent sequence with added background objects from a stage.

First version with the opening sequence in it's whole still lacking a lot of details and final touches.

Here is the final version of the opening sequence, credits below.

Director: Popcore film and Kenny Lindström

Animation and compositing: Kenny Lindström

Art direction: Kenny Lindström

Additional roto scooping: Nils Lidström

Music: Refused - New noise

logh - death to my hometown

I recently started working on a new video for the band Logh
The video will be for the song "death to my hometown" from the album north. And it's going to feature a hungry galactic creature eating up the galaxy. I will post stuff continuously during the process, so here are some early sketches from my moleskine to begin with.

On the left are some planet and moon sketches and on the right some creature sketches.

More creature sketches and some early storyboard sketches.

Some verry early and strange create sketches :)

Intergalactic ice cream cone made out of planets on the left and comet and rock sketches on the right.

One of my first sketches of the caracther.

Here are the storyboards for the video, some scenes are in the wrong order.





Trying out some different styles and textures for the planets.

Polka planet :) (don't know if it's called polka in english...)

First comp test of planets, stars and open space.

More to come so stay tuned :)

Popcirkus - opening sequence

Popcirkus - opening sequence HD from picnicwithpanic on Vimeo.

Some recent work I did together with Popcore
It's a opening sequence for a new television program for SVT called "Popcirkus". The concept is bringing back live music to the television screen in Sweden. The episodes runs around 90 minutes and feature 3 live music acts, and everything is shoot live at debaser medis in Stockholm.

Direction: Popcore / Kenny Lindström
Animation: Kenny Lindström
Art direction: Kenny Lindström
Music: Refused - New noise

Popcirkus

Popcirkus is a new TV show on swedish television that starts airing today. For you who get swedish television check it out tonight at SVT 2. I made the animated opening sequence along with the logo. I will post the opening sequence here later on  so stay tuned.

Merry Christmas

Me and Mathias at North Kingdom put together a Christmas card last week for NK. It ended up being like a short film, you can watch it here.
Mathias did the 3D and I did background paintings, character design and snow particles and mixed the sounds together. Above is the Background painting for the end sequence.

Here's the background painting for the end where I've sketched out where the other elements will go.

The Character sketch for Santa.

Hope you all have a great holiday!

Home Sweet Home

I just finished work on a new video for Swedish popact Those dancing days together with Popcore film.


Those dancing days - Home sweet home from picnicwithpanic on Vimeo.

Here is a QT version of the video >>> here!!!.

It might take some time to load, but be patient, if not you can check it out on youtube as well but I would recommend this version because it's in much better quality than on youtube.

My work on the video involved everything from keying the footage to comping it together with the backgrounds ,creating postcard graphics and animations.

Here are some screens from the process and of some of the graphics I put together:

john butler trio

The new John Butler Trio video was released this week. Popcore film asked me to help them out animating some streetart-ish gig posters on walls in a urban setting. The posters would feature the band members singing and playing the song. We spent some really long workdays to get it done in time. Anyway I think it turned out nice :) hope you like it.
Have a look for yourself:

Here's a quicktime version of the video:
JBT.mov

Bring me the horizon

Started working on a new music video this week together with popcore films, for british metal band "bring me the horizon". Will start animating this weekend I think it will turn out really cool, here's some photos from todays video shoot and of a mask I made.