A Color study. A few months old now. I'm trying to get a better handle on photoshop, but this was done in Corel Painter.

 

Broke out my water soluble crayons for a cat pin up. I'm no sure either, but I sure had fun. 

Static Boy! from Elise Griswold on Vimeo.

Every now and then I have to remind myself to post my past work in Maya. Here's my thesis. In the meantime I'm modelling a serpentine dragon, hope to post him shortly too. 

It's fall! Had fun coloring an old sketch. 

Love painting in Corel lately with as much color as possible. Here are some bunny birds..Inspired by Eastern Rosella, Bronze-winged Parrot, and Sun Conure. 

 

Some simple character work. The top two characters are Alex and Penny. They're relatively new for me, but I like them quite a lot. 

The angel was an art trade with a friend online. I interpreted her differently from what I was given, but in the end we both liked the result.

I was looking back on some of my older comics I did for fun. Thought I'd share. These are water soluble crayon and ink, one of my favorite mediums.

(Sorry for some of the more offensive words in here, I was trying my best to make the antagonist as unlikable as possible, haha)

 

I love Doctor who, and I will never be ashamed of it. 

I'm pleased to say I like the final product of this, even though I forgot about it for a few weeks before finishing it. Success!

I don't think I ever posted these but I really enjoyed working on them. Wyn is meant to be an incredibly androgynous character, to the point of confusion on other charracter's parts. I was glad to find that none of my friends could agree on what gender each pose seemed more like.

Finished this one up a week or two ago. I haven't worked tradtionally in a while, so I had a lot of fun with it. Wyn is introducing Eli to his new city friends. Eli isn't sure if Wyn knows or cares that the birds couldn't care less.

Elise griswold reel from Elise Griswold on Vimeo.

This is my updated reel, as of June 2012. 1. An emotion test, done in one week to see how my blendshapes were working. (designed, modelled, rigged, animated) 2. Pencil Test, emotion exercise. (designed and animated) 3. Push Pull animation, worked on physicality. (designed, modelled, rigged and animated) 4. Pencil test of simple jump exercise. (designed and animated) 5. Pencil Lip Sync. (designed and animated) 6. Cartoon take (animated) 7. Push pull, exaggerated, "toony" (designed, modelled, rigged and animated) 8. Pencil animation of cat (designed, animated) 9. Lipsync project, 4 weeks, rig from beginning. (Designed, modelled, rigged and animated) 10. Emotions test and shot from thesis. (designed, modelled, rigged and animated)

Static Boy! from Elise Griswold on Vimeo.
Here's my final thesis! I'm proud to have made it through. I learned a lot from the process..such as even if you think you can fix something, sometimes it's best to start over. Things really snowballed, needless to say. I can't wait to have a chance to apply all this to a new project. I was responsible for story, design, modelling, rigging, animation, lighting and editing.

Self portrait I worked on yesterday. From a photo, a few hours. Corel Painter.

I had a lot of fun with this one, if you can't tell. A lot of time was spent seeing what I could get away with with what was line less and what wasn't. Color! I love Color! 

Oh, and the girl on the left is a character of my friend's, who's awesome with character design.

Sometimes I have the most fun doing fan art. It makes you think about why you thought a character was successful, and what you want to bring to the table with your interpretation. That said, here's some My Little Pony and a bit of Loki from Thor.  

Thesis Poster!

 Can't put my film online just yet, but here's a poster.

Every year the seniors make spoof posters for their films. I spent way more time than necessary on this, but I was determined to make it look legit. The more legitimate, the more hilarious.

(Dark knight Poster spoof)

Figure Work

Thought I'd update with some of my figure work from this semester. I'll miss having easy access to figures.

New Demo Reel

1. An emotion test, done in one week to see how my blendshapes were working.
2. Pencil Test, emotion exercise.
3. Push Pull animation, worked on physicality.
4. Pencil test of simple jump exercise.
5. Pencil Lip Sync.
6. Dance assignment, focused on keeping character on model.
7. Push pull, exaggerated, "toony"
8. Pencil animation of cat
9. Lipsync project, 4 weeks, rig from beginning.

Finally got their designs right!

Penny and Maude!

Gosh, I've had these characters a few years now, but I kept struggling with the design of the painter, Maude. I think they have an interesting relationship, between an establish though shy painter, and a brash young fashion student. I'm really happy with where they are right now.

More Art

This was a sketch I liked to much to let it lay around. I ended up coloring it really simply and leaving it at that.


This may or may not be the Doctor and the Beatles. Except I forgot to make Paul Left handed.

This design ended up on a coffee mug! I made it specially for my friend and I think it turned out awesome. I love obnoxious characters.

Keep forgetting to update! I liked how this one turned out.

Christmas card

This is a card I made for Static Boy’s voice actor. She did a great job! She and her mom drove an hour out to come help me out even though I hardly knew them. (I also have a mutual friend to thank.)

Used a Silhouette Cameo to do the cut outs, and Carandache water soluble crayons, white out, and a prismacolor marker for the card. Two of the snow flakes were premade stencils, but the one on the bottom right in the second to last shot was designed in the program that comes with it. I had way too much fun, but this card is super late and I really am soooooo thankful. I was totally into making it as cool as possible.

Here are some designs I did recently for my portfolio class. I particularly like the one with Wyn and the Balloons!

Cute animals

Here's some cute animal characters I designed. Nothing too exciting, but I ended up really liking the cat and the dog.