Obligatory Skull Drawing

I wrastled that thar bar! Back in the fall that is.

It's nice being out on break, but aside from a couple of scribbles and some collagy junk I really haven't done anything. To top things off there's cows, horses, and lately a variety of water birds in and around my yard that I just haven't been taking advantage of. I need to get out there tomorrow and start some serious drawing.

Gladys!

This was the other walk cycle I did, the walk with character. While I love Gladys' design, I can't say as much for the cycle.... It's amazing the perspective a month can give you. Looking back I would make the body bob greater than the head bob, better choreograph the two, better the role of the neck, force perspective some, smooth the feathers, switch up the legs more so they read better, and probably do some more stuff too. Well, it was certainly a good challenge and learning experience at any rate.

Paint?? What's that?

Enough animation. Here's some from one of my favorite classes this past semester, Observational Color!


One of my earliest paintings in the class, I've just always liked it.... With that intense reflected red it picked up it was like ultra-pear!


Homework still life of a small plastic duck I found on the porch during break and brought back with me. Glad I did, this one was a lot of fun.


First portrait in class. We spent a long time on these.


Self portrait. It was with this one that things really started to turn.


In class portrait.


Final self portrait, and with it a huge conscious shift in my thinking process where things started to really click.

Vinnie's First Steps

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I'm such a proud mommy.

lolwut

probably done in ten minutes... I spent longer just putting the broccoli guy together and in the end kind of gave up with those copper legs and keeping them right... why he gets bow legged at the end. I had to pull out a lot of bad frames too, not that this was actually intended to be anything good. I'm still just getting my feet wet and even from this learned a lot about materials and method that will be useful in the future.

Levin Mowing Grass

I was too nice on my last assignment, had to step it up.

Ringling Commercial

This was a project for camera and sound class where we collaborated with the intro to advertising class. In my group the film students were me, Chris Darden, and Gena Morgese and the ad students were Mike Decker and Emma Clark. On the project I helped out with some refining of the concept and previz and directed and edited it as well. I'm fairly happy with how it came out. We had a really rough start and had to reshoot a lot (fifty five total minutes of footage for a thirty second commercial...), but hit a huge break though in editing and went with a much more non linear approach collaging visuals and reactions with music.

Since I can't figure out how to embed the video without blogspot cutting off a fifth of the frame here's the youtube link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EdTZUo5TDU,
and here you can see the other commercials the classes made http://www.youtube.com/user/RinglingDigitalFilm.

Take that!

Assignment for class where we had to have our character do a take. The beginning isn't inbetweened and there's a bit that's just on keys. I realized after starting that starting at the beginning wasn't the best idea and that I should animate the part that constituted the actual assignment first and do the rest if I had time. I'm going to have to remember to stick to that from now on and keep the story setup bits on keys.

No Mushrooms Here...

The next project in traditional involves animal based characters and I drew badger. He's got quite a thing for books and literature and is inspired by the greatest bibliophile I know and shares his namesake.



And here are the development silhouettes we had to do. Fun stuff.

Flour Sack

Drawing that zoom was annoying as could be, and there's still some stuff to fix, but thankfully it's time to move on to bigger and badger things.