GET THAT COIN OUTTA MY FACE
OH MY. There is a new animation studio in Omaha. *IS AQUIVER*
Story Time - Ok, so on Friday I saw Coraline (in 3D!) and it was beautiful and now I want every movie to be in 3D, I don't even care how stupid the glasses look. But one of the guys who worked on the movie (Ben Vu) was there! There was a crap ton of people, so I didn't get to see him then - but on Tuesday he came to my storyboarding class and talked about making the movie, and showed up secret footages from the pre-vis department at Laika Entertainment. :DD AND AND I held in my actual hands real drawings by Henry Selick and the tiny Coraline model the artists used to gadge proportions. And I saw an animatic drawn by Vera Brosgol where young-Spink-and-Forcible were doing their acrobat thing and character designs by Chris Appelhans. IT. WAS. EPIC. Vu also showed us a few glimpses of new stuff he's working at his brand new studio in Bellevue (like ... a 20 minute drive from my house 8|||) and said he was looking for people. Looking for people, you guys. /end story
Coincidentally, one of our assignments in Projects Development class is to make a website for ourselves, so check this out:
Tadaaa! MECHASHIVA It took me wayyy too long to get the Lightbox script to work. I know the info page is weird, and there's not a ton of art up yet ... aaand the extras page doesn't even exist yet, but it's a start! I want to send this to him in less than a week, so be my beta-testers plz? :3
I had to resize and edit these in Microsoft Picture Manager, bc I'm on my boss's computer and he doesn't have Photoshop. :C
This .. aha, this drawing makes me laugh because it look just like a guy I know at school. The front-facing one isn't quite as good.
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lol, i didn't know what to draw, soo ... pig! And sunglasses guy.
For storyboarding class, a monster design. I think I'll change the colors, though. And make the eyes creepier.
And this next one is pretty massive, but it's a test frame from my storyboard, I want to do them all like this, but probably won't have time: http://www.mechashiva.com/frame0015.jpg
I forgot to mention - Ben Vu might also be at my storyboard final to watch us pitch our stuff. 8|| AND THE DEAN'S going to be there too. No pressure or anything.