- I get a lot of inspiration from the real-world,
like, mechanics and physics.
But, yeah, the best part with working with 3D
is that I can ignore the boring things like friction,
and all my animations slightly use gravity
in an abstract way in order to be able
to create these infinity loops.
I use a pendulum quite often in my works.
I saw this big old, what is it, clock,
and I started thinking about the swinging motion.
So, yeah, I tried a couple of ideas based upon that.
I find it quite hypnotic to see,
you know, these repetitive motion patterns
when something just repeats infinitely.
It makes me calm.
I think a lot of people that reach out to me
and tell me that my work has helped them
with some OCD, and if they are stressed,
they can sit back and watch my animation.
It can almost be, like, meditative.
Inspiration comes to me when I'm
not in front of the computer.
As I mentioned, I get a lot of inspiration
from the real world, things I see,
and when I get an idea, I usually put it down
on paper first, make some rough sketches in a sketchbook
just to get a better feeling for it,
and if I think it works,
I jump into my 3D software, Cinema,
and
do some basic tests with animation first.
So I just use simple shapes to see if the movement
is, you know, satisfying for me,
and if it feels good, and if I like the animation,
I proceed with the visual development.
You know, introduce lightening and textures, etc.
In order to make something that stands out,
well, first you have to have a good concept
and something that's not, you know,
been posted 1,000 times on Instagram before.
And then I think there's a lot to
the actual quality of the work, as well.
I love to use real-world materials
like wood and stone and marbles.
I love to walk around, like, a home improvement store
and to take my camera, my phone,
and just compare different materials in real life
and see how they react to lights
and, you know, to different, compare the textures.
When, like, social platforms like Instagram became popular,
I realized it's a great platform to reach a lot of people
with smaller content, shorter videos.
So I, instead of making long videos,
I started to create content especially made for Instagram.
So short loops 'cause usually you only have
a couple of seconds before people
get tired of a video on Instagram.
And that was about three years ago, I started that,
and, yeah, they became quite popular pretty fast.
So, yeah, I decided to stick with it.
Our lives are quite chaotic nowadays with all the media
and all the different platforms around us,
and that's why I think it's a good contrast
to use these kind of, well, calming animations
where it plays quite opposite,
where things work smoothly
compared to all the chaos around us.