Mikael Safonov - CG Generalist

My last work.

2010-03-28T12:22:00.000-07:00

Hey there. Here is my last work. I always wondered how different live action films would look like if they were done in stylized 3d animation. So I made one myself with some modification.

No Country For Old Men CG style from Mike Safon on Vimeo.

Demo Reel 2009 (beta)

2009-10-28T18:37:00.000-07:00

Hi. Here's my new demo reel. Still consider it in beta mode, and hopefully I'll make a 'final' version by the end of this year.

3D Artist Demo Reel 2009 October from Mike Safon on Vimeo.

New video.

2009-09-12T15:41:00.001-07:00

Hey, watsup.

This character was intended to be in a short film that I never completed, it was supposed to be for a CG Challenge with the subject called 'Secret Agent' over at http://forums.cgsociety.org/, but I thought I didn't want to just waste this character so I made a small animation of it.

Vimeo messed up the whole video with its crap encoding so I posted it on YouTube. But YouTube made the video really dark, as if it wasn't dark enough already :/

Don't take this thing too seriously. It's just sarcasm :P

2009-03-11T14:04:00.001-07:00

I have been working on this rig for some time, trying out different methods.

Here is the "result". Some glitches here and there. I would have added fk/ik blend control but the rig was too damn heavy already, just the face alone has way to many helper objects.

The main point with this rig was try to create "elastigirl"(Incredibles) type of character so it can stretch and bend in many ways.

"Elastigirl"-like stretchy rig from Mike Safon on Vimeo.

Just a Jump Test =D

2009-01-24T05:26:00.000-08:00

Yo! Just did a little animation test with a new character, for a little longer I'm planing to do.

Head over to Viemo to see it in HD, much MUCH better quality picture.

Potato Jump Test from Mike Safon on Vimeo.

My Demo Reel for 2008

2008-12-10T12:38:00.000-08:00

So, finally, my demo reel is done, even though I posted it a few days back on vimeo and youtube I am posting it here now :)

There were lots of things I could have worked on if I had better computer and more time as I now look back at some of these animations. But, I have to post something now. So here it is.

Enjoy! :)

My Animation Demo Reel 2008 from Mike Safon on Vimeo.

Be sure to comment!!! :D

11secondclub animation

2008-12-03T16:23:00.000-08:00

Just wanted to post my 11 second club entry here :)

Magician talking from Mike Safon on Vimeo.

And I also wanted to say that I'm finishing up with my Demo Reel and will post it within a day or two. Yay! :D

Time for update

2008-10-31T18:05:00.000-07:00

Well. It's been a hectic time and I assume more hectic times are coming.

Anyway, I'm in the works of my demoreel and so far I made this little transformer animation which took me about 10 days(about 4 hrs a day) to complete.

Volkswagen Beetle Transformer Final from Mike Safon on Vimeo.

I will soon be posting more of my works. I am as of now available for freelance, you can contact me at kr3mlsweden@yahoo.se with work you want to be done :). I am a generalist, so I can do practically everything from modeling, texturing, animation, rigging, lightning and rendering, my weakest point is applying photo-realistic CG onto film, but other than that I'm ready to do stuff that I just mentioned. I work mainly with 3dsmax for all the 3d stuff, Photoshop for texturing, and applying effects in After Effects then later edit all that in Premiere.

I'll organize this blog much better in a while.

Stay tuned in for more animations here soon.

Guess who's back?

2008-06-15T07:08:00.000-07:00

Well, well, well... not much action going on. That is about to change, I will be posting more often here from now on, and not just about animation but other stuff too ;)

So, I closed down my kr3ml.com webpage because I was barely using it and cannot afford to have it running.

Here are links to some of my old works from 2003-2005:

kr3ml 2003

kr3ml 2004

It seems some strange mistake, so when you enter your redirected to the mainpage, but I know that the pictures are there because I am able to direct link them.

Anyway, Laterzz!!!! :D

Just a test :)

2007-11-04T13:12:00.000-08:00

testing.... :P