Happy holidays! God jul & godt nytt år!

Hi, we are now at the end of the year. And what a year, both the best and the worst. With Covid and all. But this year I have had the opportunity to produce so many great thing and I can’t wait to get everything online (just need to find the time). I’ve done huge project, had a lot of fun, and stuff that didn’t go that well. Jumped on new possibilities and I guess missed a few.

So here it is, a Christmas card, from me to you. Hope you have a good, quiet, healthy and fine festive season!

- Jørgen

The best received respons on any project I've made

Sometimes is fun to help people be entertained. And this time we (Julian Forthun, Erlend Bjelland from Absurd Film hit the nail on it’s head. Only positive response on the video (released yesterday).

Take a look at this (they are in Norwegian):

So a lot of short in a 3d shoots, vfx stuff in a short amount of time!

IKEA hack - Björksnes - remove unwanted noise

Yes, this is an unusual subject for my site, but it’s my platform so here we go. 

I have a Björksnes bed that started to make squeaky noises. I’ve tried to tighten every knot but in short time the noise came back.  

But finally, I found the noise, and an easy fix. 

When you build the bed, you have a metal bar that goes across. This has two thinner bars that goes across in the other direction. Hand where these meets, there’s the problem. Metal against metal isn’t a god combo. 

By adding some electrical tape around the metal bar heads fixed this pretty quickly, on every connecting part.

Now I don’t need to hear the squeaky sound every time I move.

Have a good sleep!

Making my site come alive with GifGun

I’ve updated my site with small GIF animations.

Yes good old GIFs, the easiest way to create a moving images, when it’s not clean graphics. I’ve done a lot of web-animation that are SVG based and way more flexible and economic in “physical” size, but sometimes it’s only GIF that delivers.

And in this case I wanted to show some logos in context.

So how to make simple and quick GIF without pulling all your hears out?

A GIF are usually horrible to work with, in Photoshop, but with the simple plug-in for After Effects called GifGun it’s possible to fine tune and create a GIF that looks good and don’t end up as a 60 MB behemoth.

All the examples are from 500 KB to 2 MB.

A last trick is to only have a small part of the image that moves, so the freezed parts are only rendered ones.

So say hello to some simple and great updates to web-animation page :)

Late Summer Projects

I’ve added a some projects to the site and you can read much more if you click on the images :)

Together with Guilty we created a Power identity for Vimond. The project were strategy and concept driven to find the right solution for Vimond.

I’ve done a lot of work with Kunzt, and now also an identity upgrade.

For Prisonmade I made this video showing their logo identity

I’ve made a new version of my post popular graphic over at Society6, I call this abstract pattern, Late Summer - Apple.

Stacc show reel 2020

I helped Stacc creating a show reel. They work in Banking, and other systems and are basicly only screen based. I came up with a concept to work with called; all the screens. Screens can be really static and I had to make that interesting and different. This ended up with many different devices floating around in a red Stacc void showing some of their solutions. Visit Stacc here: https://stacc.com/

I helped Stacc creating a show reel. They work in Banking, and other systems and are basicly only screen based. I came up with a concept to work with called; all the screens. Screens can be really static and I had to make that interesting and different.

This ended up with many different devices floating around in a red Stacc void showing some of their solutions.

Visit Stacc here: stacc.com/

See their FB post here:

Dr Greve Pharma +

I helped Neue to create a video to tell about their concept for Dr Greve. They worked Dr Greve to make a new line up of products called Dr Greve Pharma +. Dr Greve is a well known gentle skincare brand sold at Norwegian supermarkets. They saw an opportunity to expand the brand further with a new skincare product range sold exclusively at Norwegian pharmacies.

Learn more about the design and product over at Neue website.

So many threads! New year, new computer!

New year, new computer!

After the release of AMD Ryzen Threadripper computer processors the following years, that look really promising on both price and power, I jumped on the wagon and upgraded my system.

My criteria: I wanted it to be as up to date as possible (many programs ended their Windows 7 support). Have the best graphic card that worked great with Arnold renderer GPU version (CUDA cores). Storage that reading and wright really really fast. And a case that can run as silent as possible.

Specs:

AMD Ryzen ThreadRipper 3970X - 3.7 GHz - 32-cores - 64 threads (CPU)
Noctua NH-U14S TR4-SP3 CPU cooler
be quiet! Silent Base 601 - Black - Cabinet (no glass, no RGB “fanciness”, just a black box)
Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 64bit
GIGABYTE TRX40 AORUS PRO WIFI - AMD TRX4
Kingston A2000 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD
HyperX Fury DDR4 2666MHz 64GB
ZOTAC GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
Noctua NF-A15 PWM - 140 mm - 19 dBA (cool the CPU)
Noctua NF-A14 PWM - 140 mm - 19 dBA (Cabinet fan)
Cooler Master V Series V1000 1000watt

So if you know any of these parts a question would be; why do I cool the system with fans and not a water cooler? I hate noise and after a lot of research I found that there’s a lot of good low noise fans that work as good as a water cooler. And with fans I would not hear the gurgling noise form the water pump.

If there’s anything that could be better is the be quiet! cased. It came with some noisy fans. And with some tinkering in bios, an picking up two Noctua fan, I could cool my system from 95 °C to 85°C at full load over time, with out bugging me and the rest of the office at all. But I think I would like it around 70 °C on full load and need to pick up some more fans and get rid of the be quiet! ones.

The system is blazing fast and stable, a must for me, I don’t want the computer to hold me back in any way when working on a project. And I can’t do any over clocking, since I want it stable for work and not only showing off :P

Cinebench r20 score: 17257 pts!. Many test online has a Cinebench around 16988 pts.

I’m now hoping I’m done with online render farms. The computer is about ten times faster then my 2018 MacBook pro, making it easier to get the rendered images I want.

Some images from the computer build.

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