Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Reel

Here's my current reel. As much as I'm improving in computer animation, I'm still fond of my traditional animations. My design ability has gotten better, but life is simpler when it's just your creativity, a pencil and paper. I hope someday I can animate with Maya just as easily.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Story progress

Today was the first faculty crit on the second pitch for our thesis. As usual it was helpful.. I'm just glad my story is far simpler this time, I can mess with it more.

Like I said before, the story follows a little boy who is shocked by static electricity and declares it his super power. To get started I drew a ton of kids. They are existing characters I made younger, so I could just focus on design, already knowing their personalities.

Here are the current beat boards.

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Some animations



I don't have any animations up! I'm an animator, what's wrong with me.

Above is my most recent animation, which I was holding off becuase I intend to fine tune it more. However I'm working on a lipsync right now, and between that and other classes, haven't had time. It was animated in a week, the rig itself took about two months, and perhaps a few weeks of design in Drawing for Animators the semester prior. It's a self caricature, which I assume we were assigned for simplicity. Easy to understand the character, easy to voice!




This was from last semester, animated in maybe four to five weeks. "Push pull exaggerated". While I'm happier with this than the "realistic" pass, I notice I do worse work the longer I have to animate something. Perhaps my train of thought isn't as cohesive, perhaps I put too many keys. Even though it rendered a bit ugly, I think that this project was a pretty big leap in my understanding of computer animation.

Monday, March 14, 2011

Painted Birds WIP


Here is a painting I'm working on for my portfolio. Corel Painter 11. This file has gotten huge and unfortunately very hard to work on. but I want to finish it since I never do anything polished anymore. The image is based off of a short scene I wrote last year. Eventually there will be a painting on that huge blank wall, and Wyn will have a reason to have that paintbrush.

Sketches and WIP

Break is over, so here's some of what I worked on..Other than portfolio. These are all pitch images for Pre pro, we're moving onto doing a completely new story, regardless of how the last one went.

My teacher told me to go with this first one, (a little boy discovers static electricity and thinks it's his super power), but I still have to have others ready for the rest of the staff to look at.


I others, about a waffle house waitress, and one witha mouse that lived in a pumpkin that is turned into a jack-o-lantern. The Last is a spy at a birthday party I like a lot- but I would need a crowd and that's mostly no can do.

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Pin Ups

pitch passed! That means all that work I've been posting could potentially become my thesis. I'm lucky, and well aware that this story is too much for one person to handle, so I will work hard on making my second pitch more doable. Or..doable to the quality I'd like it to be, ha ha.

Since it's break, I did these to cool down. I like drawing ridiculous things, and old pin ups are awesomely campy and classic. So this was a lot of fun. The tattoo is only there because it is a specific character. I think it sort of clutters it a bit, but I don't like to be inconsistent.

Tomorrow, it's portfolio time. I also figured out how to get this thing connected to my facebook, if anyone is wondering what that huge white box is over on the right. Sort of an eye sore. (and hilarious, with the only follower being myself)