I told the toad to look both ways...

barking at walls

cocovan — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:35:07 +0000

lazybones…bones…bones…bones

cocovan — Fri, 27 May 2011 14:04:57 +0000

weekend mornings

An accident-prone fish or tree planking?

cocovan — Thu, 26 May 2011 14:21:37 +0000

the video game critic

cocovan — Thu, 26 May 2011 14:05:47 +0000

Show time

cocovan — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:05:33 +0000

So…I put together a showreel, compiling some of the work that I did so far. I can’t help thinking that this is always going to be “my first showreel” and in some years I will watch this humble beginning with tears in my eyes…but maybe, having lost the pleasure of seeing sadistic things, it would be because of the poor bug. Meanwhile…HAHAHA!

Last Minute Offer

cocovan — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:32:12 +0000

Bad day at work

cocovan — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:19:30 +0000

I liked this “auto theft suspect” story, so I continued working on the animation of the main character in order to improve my skills. I post this now, not because it’s finished (I came to terms with the feeling that this might not happen). It’s more because I’m in that point where I can’t press play to hear this soundtrack again. But you can do it for a change!

The Inappropriates

cocovan — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:48:10 +0000

Last week I visited Primola Chocolate Factory. And it smelled great! The visit became more and more exciting as we were getting closer to the end of the production process and all those small windows through which everybody was trying to catch a glimpse of hundreds of peanuts, chunks of cacao and strolling candies, disappeared.

Before actually getting out of this whole process, which takes in total 30 hours, the chocolate passes through two filters: one scanning them to see if they are the right shape and matching some other parameters and the last one where the product is scanned to see if there are some bits of metal left inside. It’s like in the airport: if it beeps, it’s not good and the candies and biscuits are immediately sent away and named technological waste.

Then we went to see how the cookies are made. Hundreds and hundreds of biscuits were rolling over our heads on these suspended highways and all I could think of is how Adi, the ultimate biscuit fan, would hi five all the biscuits in sight and then…eat them all, how else?! What would he have done if he had been there with me? Maybe steal one cookie? No, he is much too ethical. Maybe take a picture of himself with this biscuitish background? No, pictures were no allowed inside and this relates to the first point too. Maybe throw himself on the production line, refusing to come home? Fuck the rules! Plausible…

This train of thoughts was interrupted by the explanation of our guide, (Domnul Ciocolatescu in Romanian) Mister Chocolateson, pointing to a square mirror, hanging on top of the production line.

“This is like Big Brother! It tells us if there are any broken biscuits or biscuits in wrong positions. It tells us where they are and in which position we will find them”. Oooh…and this was the starting point for: “The Inappropriates!”

Nasty twins on duty

cocovan — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 14:42:15 +0000

This is my submission for last month’s competition on 11secondclub.com. I started to work on this dialogue a bit late. This is what I did last week.

The design and the rig is done by Victor Vinyals (luvictu.com)

Enjoy!

Dr. Fraud

cocovan — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:22:28 +0000