Alas, the only toys were of Toothless in his more aggressive, 'toothy' poses. So until I can see the film again, I've been sketching his softer side...
(Drawn on cintiq, referencing google images.)
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Toothless Doodles
If you haven't seen Dreamworks' How To Train Your Dragon yet, you really should. It had me squealing with delight on more than a few occasions, and after the film I immediately raced to the store in search of merchandise that celebrates the cuteness of the dragon Night Fury, aka Toothless.
Alas, the only toys were of Toothless in his more aggressive, 'toothy' poses. So until I can see the film again, I've been sketching his softer side...
(Drawn on cintiq, referencing google images.)
Alas, the only toys were of Toothless in his more aggressive, 'toothy' poses. So until I can see the film again, I've been sketching his softer side...
(Drawn on cintiq, referencing google images.)
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Mardi Gras Beauty Queen
Yesterday was Mardi Gras, the Fattest of Tuesdays you'll see all year. To celebrate, I did this little sketch for my storyboarding class. The goal was to communicate a character in its environment, and it was deemed a success by my instructor and peers--Laissez les bons temps rouler!
Friday, February 5, 2010
Turkeynauts!
Some awesome folks from the 2D Grad Lab (and I) joined forces and sacrificed a year of their lives to create this little intro... enjoy!
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Fall 2009... inhale...exhale
...Just a minute... still catching my breath...
...Ok--These last few months were basically the beginning of an exhausting experiment. I have been forging a new arena in my animation program where I attempt to have my cake--and eat it, too. It wore me out, but I learned a lot about the grand balancing acts of a full and ambitious life.
Animation Production isn't technically on the books as an option for the MFA Animation program here at AAU, but it's my calling and I was compelled to go for it. Fortunately for me, organized go-getters are in high demand around here, so I have been welcomed as the Producer of two awesome animated films, Prelude and The Lattice-- and spent this semester managing those projects... while also juggling 3 other classes, my RA job, and occasionally helping out with the amazing collaboration project, "Rise of the Turkeynauts!"
When it came time to choose classes for next year, my program director and I realized that continuing production work as classwork necesitated taking the classes as Directed Studies, which you cannot do in our program until you've passed your midpoint review. So, I got signed up to present my Thesis proposal this semester, and the only open time slot was in finals week, on the same day as my most challenging class (Layout Design). The thesis I proposed involves completing and delivering the 2 productions I'm working on, along with "making of" books and deliverables, and also creating a storyboarding portfolio (since this is art school, after all).
To make a long story short (too late?), I survived!--passed my midpoint and also managed what I considered a very generous grade in Layout. I did this all while also taking care of class and work, travelling to see special shows and industry events, and allowing myself time to be social and enjoy myself, too. These were the busiest, most hectic months so far in my young life--and I need to give props to my awesome teachers, friends, and family. I also must admit my secret weapons--Google calendar, and Google docs kept me and my productions on task all semester long!
So I think I've earned a nice long break for the Holidays, and it's nice to have enough time to vent on the blog. Since every post needs pretty pictures, here's some images of the various presentation materials I had to put together this semester as a Student-Producer...
Business Card:
Midpoint Thesis Proposal Book:
Midpoint Presentation Powerpoint:
Layout Portfolio Book:
There's a lot of layout images to show, too-- they'll be up on my next post :)
CONGRATS TO EVERYONE ON AN AWESOME SEMESTER!!!
...Ok--These last few months were basically the beginning of an exhausting experiment. I have been forging a new arena in my animation program where I attempt to have my cake--and eat it, too. It wore me out, but I learned a lot about the grand balancing acts of a full and ambitious life.
Animation Production isn't technically on the books as an option for the MFA Animation program here at AAU, but it's my calling and I was compelled to go for it. Fortunately for me, organized go-getters are in high demand around here, so I have been welcomed as the Producer of two awesome animated films, Prelude and The Lattice-- and spent this semester managing those projects... while also juggling 3 other classes, my RA job, and occasionally helping out with the amazing collaboration project, "Rise of the Turkeynauts!"
When it came time to choose classes for next year, my program director and I realized that continuing production work as classwork necesitated taking the classes as Directed Studies, which you cannot do in our program until you've passed your midpoint review. So, I got signed up to present my Thesis proposal this semester, and the only open time slot was in finals week, on the same day as my most challenging class (Layout Design). The thesis I proposed involves completing and delivering the 2 productions I'm working on, along with "making of" books and deliverables, and also creating a storyboarding portfolio (since this is art school, after all).
To make a long story short (too late?), I survived!--passed my midpoint and also managed what I considered a very generous grade in Layout. I did this all while also taking care of class and work, travelling to see special shows and industry events, and allowing myself time to be social and enjoy myself, too. These were the busiest, most hectic months so far in my young life--and I need to give props to my awesome teachers, friends, and family. I also must admit my secret weapons--Google calendar, and Google docs kept me and my productions on task all semester long!
So I think I've earned a nice long break for the Holidays, and it's nice to have enough time to vent on the blog. Since every post needs pretty pictures, here's some images of the various presentation materials I had to put together this semester as a Student-Producer...
Business Card:
Midpoint Thesis Proposal Book:
Midpoint Presentation Powerpoint:
Layout Portfolio Book:
There's a lot of layout images to show, too-- they'll be up on my next post :)
CONGRATS TO EVERYONE ON AN AWESOME SEMESTER!!!
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Antique Repair Store, Wonky w/Graphite Value
My newest accomplishment from Layout Design, a first attempt at breaking perspective for Wonky-style and also my first experiment with using graphite dust to fill in the values. Felt good to get this all done, I'll be doing more work for class but for now, enjoy draft 1!
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
The Art of Procrastination
Last week, a bad flu took me out of commission for about 4 miserable days. When I couldn't stand being in bed staring at my four walls any longer, I finally dragged myself out and saw Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, which was EXCELLENT (SEE IT.) It kick-started my recovery and now I'm back to normal, but the many hours of feverish bedrest put me way behind in Layout Design in such a way that my brain has been psyching me out creatively and making me afraid of tackling it, which is bad at 11pm the night before class... soooo...after cleaning my room and re-writing my dry-erase board's weekly task list (and doing about eighteen other unnecessary things), I decided to finally pretend to get working, and proceeded to doodle this with my Wacom tablet:
VERY weird, I know... but now that I've shot it out into the blogsphere, I feel warmed up and silly enough to go make less of a mess out of my layout drawings--toodlelooooo!!!
VERY weird, I know... but now that I've shot it out into the blogsphere, I feel warmed up and silly enough to go make less of a mess out of my layout drawings--toodlelooooo!!!
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