Harpie

Puppets I made for my next animation project. She's probably not a good design for a stiff puppet. I really dislike the side view one. I didn't draw her well balanced and she's off balance in the front 3/4 view one too.

Objects and Film Studies

Finally scanned my work from Will Weston's class. And this time I got a good scanner and edited them. Here are some object drawings and a few of the film studies I've done. I really like that class. I feel like I'm really learning.

Some Recent Animations

First I made a sculpture out of recycleables and pasta


Then I took photos of 8 angles. Cut him out in photoshop and made each limb a separate layer, making sure to add missing parts. We used the puppet pin tool in After Effects to animate. First assignment was just to move it across the frame, second was to make it sentient.




Next is an attempt at visual music. I wasn't very inspired and had a hard time finding the beats.

This is my character animation last assignment, but we weren't told until the second pass that it was our final. first passes by hand, redrawn and frames added with photoshop animation.


I also helped my sister with some flash animation last semester. Animation by my sister Michelle. I edited her volumes and did the coloring.

Been working on animating the characters of the video game Quicksilver:Infinite Story, a USC Advance game project. I can't show any animation, but I think I can show the comic I did for their contest.
http://quicksilverinfinitestory.wordpress.com/developer-blog/
I learned how to use my tablet better. The script was from a pool of premade scripts, but I reworded it for comic conciseness.

Progress on Story and Other Doodles

First is the sequence of "storyboards" for my final for Writing for Animation class. There not like real boards because I haven't learned how to do them right. I cut a lot of the included text from the actual script




Richelle is the character in the story. I am trying to find how I should draw her.
The rest are random sketches or the original sketches for my final art project last semester. I like the lines of the sketches better than the inked versions.

Just some Figures

Just some of my better figures this semester. Too bad my apartment has horrible lighting.

Self Portrait

I went to CTNX a few weeks ago. I had a lot of fun learning more about animation and meeting people!
I have been slaving over this art project. Life size self portrait. So this is about 6ft by 3ft. My idea was to represent my story ideas as blooming. I made them color because someone's creations are remembered when the personality of an individual is not. I had fun drawing the characters but transferring from the sketch to another paper hanging on my wall and then finally to ink made them lose their line quality. The floral design wasn't planned in advance and probably would be better if it was
I do not like drawing myself, especially life size. I need to work on portraits.

Two More Figures

My art teacher told me I ruined this because I smudged the lines a bit when I was making a soft layer for a skin base. But I wasn't concerned so much with my line or even finishing since I was more concerned with the composition and then the hands. I really like the cropping...I don't know why I turtled through this. Only lines in three hours. I must have been tired.



This was fun. I like the things this model puts in his hair. Crooked background though....

I can't wait for Tangled!