Concept Development - more animatics

"Drunk Rats" - had a lot of fun with this one! Requirements: 25 sec, 5 shots, 2 rats playing pool and one of them messes the other up by making an annoying sound with the pool chalk.

"Raven" - I don't like how this one turned out nearly as much as the Rats animatic, but it was still a good learning experience. Requirements: 25 sec, 5 shots, A Raven hits someone on the head with a flower pot.

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As for the final animatic in the class - well let's just say I kind of made a mess of it. But hey I sorta like my original ideas for it, so here ya go - some pre-animatic work! :D

One of my first ideas was about a gingerbread man who must go into army-mode to reclaim his gingerbread wife.

Some concepts for the gingerbread story.

Another idea was about a homeless "hermit" who wants to live in the shell of an unfortunate little crab.

Final idea, and the one I ended up going with, is a story of a little girl who does not want to give up her first lost tooth.

ideas

Tooth fairy concepts.

The little girl.

Ultimately, the story didn't turn out how I intended, but I definitely learned a lot from it. 

More TA stuff!

Last 2 projects in Traditional Animation!

Lip Sync assignment - picked a short piece of dialogue from a movie and then animated it with a character of our own design. I picked a line by Jim Carrey in "The Grinch."

Here is the character sheet for the Lip Sync.

Dance!! Our last project was a group assignment. As a class we picked a song and then each of us animated a tiny segment of it. My class picked "December" and went with a holiday theme. Here's my portion of the project - Marshmallow the Stuffed animal Reindeer:) Decided to make him real squash and stretchy :D

Animatics for Concept I

Here are the first 2 storyboard animatics I've done for Concept class! Super fun to do, I feel like I've learned so much.

This project was titled "The Gondola" - we were given the basic story and characters, and we had to come up with an ending. The egg bit and on is the stuff I made up.

For this assignment, the requirements were that it could only be 25 sec long, 5 shots, and there had to be a frog playing an annoying instrument and so a tomato is thrown at him.

Pantomime - Traditional Animation

Finally completed the pantomime assignment for TA, and I had a blast! Created this lil guy - Lewis the Loris. 

This was my character sheet for him!

Then we had to have our character do a walk cycle, to get a feel for the way the character moves.

And here is the final pantomime animation! Requirements: Had to either walk on or off screen and had to show emotional change.

TA 2nd semester walk cycles

3 weeks into my year as a sophomore animation student, and I am loving it! So far we've done 2 traditionally animated walk cycles. The first one realistic, the 2nd one exaggerated. Super fun to do!

the "realistic" one

aaaand the exaggerated one! my personal favorite :)

Summer Stuff!

Well seeing as how summer is nearing the end, I thought I'd post some of the things I did this summer! Sorry for any crappy photo quality, the scanner we have at home is very small and dated, so I resorted to a camera.

Commission for Boeing - This will be their company's Christmas card this year! Done in oils.

         

Great Dane commission done in oil paints, and my mask design entry for "The Art of the Mask" phantom of the opera contest. Also done in oils! 

          Master copy from one of HR Giger's works in honor of his death. Done in acrylics. 

Random chicken hah! Done in Oils

An oil painting of the beautiful Princess Leia :)

An oil painting of my brother and our dog Molly!

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And here's some stuff from my sketchbook:

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Also here's some other old sketchbook work from the end of the school year that I never uploaded! 

Plein air study at Ringling - the tiger wasn't there of course, I added him for fun :D Done in oils on a piece of cardboard. 

End of the year project dump!!

Wow I can't believe my first year at Ringling is already over!! What an exciting ride it has been. Here's some of my favorite pieces from the end of the year.

Academic style drawing for Figure class, took 4 class periods on this one. Done in regular ol' derwent pencils :)

Self portrait from life - I look pretty peeved ahaha

My grunt sculpture for 3D Design! This is the Derp and he once was a sloth until a nuclear explosion was set off near his jungle - the radioactivity caused him to mutate drastically. This sculpture took a lot outta me :D I am so thankful it's done!!

And Here are all 3 of my proposed Grunt ideas.

Exaggerated walk cycle for Traditional Animation - Decided to create a big fat happy mouse :)

And here's the what the rough animation looked like before I cleaned it up if anyone is interested! Personally I like the way rough animation looks better anyways :)