STYRO CUBE!

I was helping some friends the other day build their brand new book shelves and found this multi colored styrofoam cube in the boxes. Thought I would give it some personality.

Late Night Scribblez

Thought you would enjoy some mindless thoughts of mine scribbled onto paper late last night while I was working on stuff.

Summer QTR Week 8

I've got three more weeks til Summer Quarter is over, and lots of work ahead of me. In Concept Development, I've completed thumbnail roughs of my general storyline for class. I've also worked out my Character Designs for it as well. I've been contemplating on whether to upload the thumbnails now or not. Mostly because I may use this site as my final turn in for class, because we are to create a site to display everything we have done in class. I'm going to create clear labels for each assignment when I do get the green light to use this site. As for what needs to be done now, this Thursday will be when I have to pretty much complete my Storyboards and Character Turnarounds for a Pitch to be presented in class.

In Senior Project, I still need to get a lot done. I'll leave it at that.

There's still so much I need to get in order, and I need to pull together soon. On the bright side, I feel that I've been getting better in terms of skill. A friend told me that some of my choices in shots have been really good for someone who has not been trained much in that kind of thought process. My figures and my drawings are much more confident now, as I've been going to Friday afternoon Life Drawing Sessions for the past 3 weeks. They've been a valuable resource that I should have made use of earlier in my SCAD career...but hey, better late than never.

Hopefully the next post will have some artwork for you all to see, til then see ya.

Concept Development Class 11: Midterm

So earlier today, I had my Midterm for my Concept Development for Animation class. We had to completely storyboard the classic Tortoise and the Hare story in two hours. It's designed to show us that we are capable of creating a storyboard sequence in such a short amount of time. It also shows us the surface level knowledge we have because we were forced to draw quickly to meet a deadline, so we resort to things we definitely know how to draw. We also needed to take from it the concept of setting deadlines for ourselves and actually achieving it. Why were we able to get our midterm finished? Fear of the Deadline? Random Subject? Whatever it was, we have to try and apply that to our regular routine so that we are able to keep a good work ethic in our artwork.

I somehow, actually enjoyed working on this. Even with the pressure on to finish within 2 hours. I never knew 2 hours could go by so quickly, but it was fun. I had to constantly edit myself so I could make the deadline and at least tell a complete story. There were more boards I wanted to add and details here and there, but I had to work fast...so obviously there will be mistakes. So without further a due, here's my Midterm in all its hastily drawn glory.

Catching up and Summer Quarter...

So it's been almost a Month since last post, sorry about that. Lately just been enjoying my brief bittersweet summer break. Today is the first day of Summer Quarter for me, so expect more posts in the future. I'll include my final for my Maquette class last quarter since I never got around to that a little later.

Anyways, here's my new schedule.

Mondays/Wednesdays 2pm-4:30pm : Sequential Senior Project
Tuesdays/Thursdays 11am-1:30pm : Concept Development for Animation Projects

YEEAA...2 Down, 1 to go.

So at the end of my Animation II class today, I managed to finish my Final for that. So maybe like about 6 hours total was how long I spent working on this piece. I kinda like it. Hope you like, gotta get to work on that maquette!

Progress since about 2 hours ago...

I used my Hypa Punch animation and continued it for my Final in Animation II. I'm doing a guy who does a martial arts combo. He steps forward during his combo and it reveals his opponent who is standing casually. The guy stops his combination just before hitting the opponent, who then suddenly pulls out a gun and shoots the martial arts dude. Yeah morbid, but it's funny in my head.

So since last update...which is about 2 hours or so, I managed to get maybe...45% of it done? I have the Hypa Punch, followed by a kick, punch, then 3 quickfire punches. I may add more because I think there may be a certain time requirement, I'm not sure. Otherwise, I think I could seriously finish by today....yay :D

My 3D Rig class starts in 5 mins :3