Showreel 2023

July 13, 2023

It’s about time I updated my showreel; a collection of work I’ve created and been involved with over the years. You can read more about the work and my role.

This video started with the music, a collaboration with the great Atella guys, where they created stems (different parts musical parts and drums) and I did the composition, some additional sounds, mix and master. Inspiration at that time was Blade Runner, both new and old, and a couple of other tracks that I liked the feel too.

For all the camera-movements I’ve tracked live action stock videos that almost contain the images I wanted. Drone shots, hand held movement and underwater camera. I did a rough cut to the music and started to create the scenes.

I’m going to write a project breakdown later with more info and short clips.

Links to whole projects:

Ard arealplan - Tollet
Atella - Closer to life
Hi Tech Mobility
Sjøfartsdirektoratet
Aclima
Ardarealplan.no
Maritim Forsøpling/Kystverket
Subshine
Kunzt.no
Wonderboy
Vi Aquavit
Oslow
Coca-Cola
Marcus Monne (personal work)
Myreze - Una World
Stacc

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AI saved you again

June 8, 2023

It's fascinating to realize how many AI tools I've integrated into my daily work routine.

For instance together with chatgpt to enhance my website's text, aiming to make my message more concise and understandable. You still need to do some tweaking to get it right, but at least you get a head start.

At a out door photo session I did I could now push the photos from good to greater. With the assistance of Topaz Denoise, an AI tool, I was able to eliminate unwanted grain and enhance the overall sharpness of the photos. And I often use Topaz Photo to scale up images from Mid Journey too.

In my experience, I often see where the composition of a photograph could be improved back at the office. Although I had previously relied on my skills in photo manipulation, the new Photoshop beta generative fill feature has made the process significantly easier. Particularly for nature and background elements, this tool delivers impressive results, and also just change faces that are in the background. By incrementally applying generative fill in small steps, it becomes easier to obtain synthesized results of high quality, resulting in sharper outputs. It’s still early days for generative fill.

As AI continues to advance I’m looking forward when even animations are easy to generate, and I aim to remain at the forefront when it comes to new tools to make the day to day taks easier to handle.

Overall, the integration of AI tools has change the way I work and allowing me to achieve greater efficiency and creativity.

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Time for annual reports

March 30, 2023

Just finished with Norges Klimastiftelse Årsrapport 2022 design. This is a web annual report that has clickable links but still possible to print and still be able to get a hold of the content.

Norges Klimastiftelsen or Norwegian the climate foundation work for a society without emissions of man-made greenhouse gases, and always interesting what they do and really glad to help.

Take a look at these examples, made with my own package called PolarWhite.

And see the pdf annual report here

Learn more

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Stacc Brand Video

October 31, 2022

Stacc is a Norwegian fintech company with more than 30 years of experience delivering digital solutions and consulting services to banks, asset finance providers, insurance companies, pension funds, family offices and the public sector in the Nordics.

Stacc combines financial technology with design and strategic know-how. We're fast, we understand, we help you do the right things the right way. We enable financial services to innovate, surprise and excite.

I’m really happy how the project came along, and happy to make a second video for the guys :)

Stacc

Producer: Jørgen Håland, JHåland
Photography (people moving): Jørgen Håland
Stock: Artgrid
Motion Graphics: Jørgen Håland, Julian Forthun
VFX and Color Grade: Jørgen Håland
Edit: Jørgen Håland
Voice: OnlineVoices
Music: MusicVine

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Parking System

October 19, 2022

I created this video for Hi Tech Mobility

For the project I got help from Ørjan Andressen on photography, so I could concentrate on my role as producer.

I’m very pleased with the result and I got a really happy customer too.

Producer: Jørgen Håland, JHåland
Photography: Ørjan Andreassen
VFX and Color Grade: Jørgen Håland
Edit: Jørgen Håland
Music: MusicVine

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Create your own short cuts in Cinema 4d

August 9, 2022

I had to make a new tutorial. And it’s been a long time since I’ve done it, and also testing a new setup.
This is more or less for me to remember how to do simple scripts in c4d.

In this tutorial I show how I create simple scripts without knowing much about scripting in Python.

In the script we are picking your objects, and do different functions; like closing a spline, creating extrude nurb and changing some settings and so on. Remember Python is indent sensitive so be aware of that :)

    objects = doc.GetActiveObjects(1)
    for obj in objects:
        obj[c4d.SPLINEOBJECT_CLOSED] = 1
        c4d.EventAdd()
# Extrude
    objects = doc.GetActiveObjects(1)
    c4d.CallCommand(5116) # Extrude
    
    objects = doc.GetActiveObjects(1)
    for obj in objects:
        obj[c4d.EXTRUDEOBJECT_EXTRUSIONOFFSET] = 0

    c4d.EventAdd()
# Remesh
    objects = doc.GetActiveObjects(1)
    c4d.CallCommand(1054750) # Remesh
    
    objects = doc.GetActiveObjects(1)
    for obj in objects:
        obj[c4d.ID_REMESH_POLYGONTARGET_MODE] = 0
        obj[c4d.ID_REMESH_QUADREMESH_ADAPTIVENESS] = 0

    c4d.EventAdd()

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