Roy is the middle-school kid who wants the life of a bully, but not just any bully, but the one on top of them all, the Bully King. Because no school wants to keep him after witnessing his act, Roy is transferred to a new place every single day of the week. But how far can he go?
Originally called “Transfer Student” this short was made for a college assignment in early 2011. I had very little experience in cartoons back then, so this little film was a great way to learn animation, and to annoy my teachers. I also learned to never use Flash again in my life.
I originally wanted to make this concept into a series (A kid who steals the bully crown in every school he is transferred to), but then I quickly got preoccupied with other things, so it was left in the dust all this time. Only recently I remembered this “experiment”, and so I decided to edit it a bit and make it more watchable. Huge thanks to The Intergalactrix for helping out with music and sound!!
In Fall 2008 I started my animation course in university.
That year of my university life was not exactly what I expected. I never imagined that there would be such a small amount of time required to be on campus. Having only lectures on 3 days of the week was very dissapointing, because I was dying to have a social life. But I ended up being a hermit yet again. But this time I did not play video games that much. My new passion was to improve my art in anyway possible.
I remember how anxious I was becoming (so soon after Germany had finally made me confident again), though concept of time was my biggest fear. I always thought about not wasting any minute, since the student/rent expenses my mom was paying always put guilt on me. I wanted to make the best of my time in the university.
I was reviving my cartoon roots during the freshman year by reading as many animation history books as possible.
At the end of the year I went to Seoul for some time, and one of the most unusual things I did there were these paintings.
In 2014 my pencil drawings were finally published!! All thanks to Donna LeBlanc, who created the story and wrote all the wonderful rhymes. It was really fun working on it.
I made this in 2014, after I finished doing inking work on Kaspar Jancis’ illustrations for the book Lennujaama Lutikad Ei Anna Alla (Kairi Look).
These characters are designed by Kaspar, but the whole animation idea and execution was done by me.
After my stay in Germany I moved to UK. This is where I started to attend an animation university.
My drawings have been improving since I finished high school. But I was still not producing as much content as I wanted.
in 2007 I went to study in Konstaz, Germany. This is where I became alive again.
As the last year of high school was ending I finally saw hope. So I slowly started to get back into drawing.
Middle school made me play more and more games, but my high school free time consisted entirely of video games. It was the only sanctuary from all the disgust and ugliness I had to deal with in the community of my school. I had to often question myself if it was maybe me who was abnormal instead of everyone else. Luckily, all the negativity was washed away once I stepped into the different worlds of virtual reality.
In the mid 2000’s there was a huge battle between different video game companies. This is when I discovered online forums and that is what made me do this.
Still, none of the online forums could ever break my loneliness.
Antoonscape 