So much for being a stop motion wizard! There was NO magic today. I was on set for four hours and only got about thirty good seconds of animation. My set keeps falling apart, my puppet is terrible, she can't stand up under her own weight- how do I animate a dance with a puppet who can't stand on one leg without falling over?!- my flying rig is a ( Read more... )

Okay! I have gone INSANE lately with art for my animation thesis, which have to present to the board of directors tomorrow (wish me luck!). Heres some of what I've been working on.

A sketchdump of a jack ton of my production notes. This isn't even all of them. Just the ones I had scanned.
The turnarounds for Abigail and Simon (no werewolf, it wasn ( Read more... )

ARTISTS! and people with good ideas! if I was going to anthropomorphize a bird, like a bird-man that would look good and right next to a mermaid, what do you suggest? I haven't found a lot of good bird anthros out there for reference ( Read more... )

I think there are two big reasons why I haven't started the Candyland comic, despite loving the idea and wanting to draw it. (Well, three reasons- grad school being one ( Read more... )

did I... did I tell you guys I moved to San Francisco for grad school?...
because I did.

So, technically I graduated from Evergreen in, I think, September. I didn't know I WOULD be graduating until summer, so I didn't walk with my class last spring. I was told I'd be able to walk this spring instead, but I started thinking about it recently and you know... I haven't been going to that school all year, I've already started grad school ( Read more... )

So how fun is my homework? My homework is so fun that when I draw a eighty frame animation, I have to individually scan every single one on my Lexmark Printrio, making sure they all line up perfectly for lack of a proper peg bar, because I don't have a fancy downward shooting camera that can just take a picture, and have no idea how to finagle my ( Read more... )

I did some of my homework and now I don't wanna do any more. But I have to so that I don't have to do it over the weekend. I still need to do two animations, and four half-hour life drawings from pictures of naked people off the internet. It's not quite the same as a real model, since I'm limited to the size of my monitor, but all the shapes and ( Read more... )

The post-it note feature on Windows 7 has been very useful in reminding me what homework I have to do this week. And if I want this weekend off, I'd better stay on task. It's hard having like six months off and then taking online classes, because it still feels like you've got nothing to do. being forced to leave the house would be better. But then ( Read more... )