Nupastels Are Neat

We did colouring in life drawing class today. It was quite cool. The technique the teach taught us works really well.

Our Film: Electropolis

The main focus of 3rd Year is a group film project. Last week we had to put together this here Pitch Package and present our story to the rest of our year. It went well, we recieved some constructive criticism, and almost everyone seemed to get the concept (which I was afraid might go over some people's heads). So, uh, yeah, this is my group's film: Electropolis. It is about a walking signal that wants to be a dancer.

I did not do all of the artwork in this, everyone in our group is credited under the specific drawings that they did.

My group members include: Myself, the vociferous Hank Choi, the tranquil Allison Neil, the humble Dimas Mohamad, the composed Jason Walmsly, the reserved Ki Eun Suh, the casanova Giorgio Mavrigianakis, the elusive Debbie Yu, the bearded Adam Trout, the charismatic Amanda Stocker, the uncanny Dawnson Chen, the instigator Dan Seddon and the rational Kevin McCullough.

3D Walk Cycles

My first (actually, it took about about four failed attempts to get it to this) 3D walk cycle. I like doing 3D Animation a lot more than I thought I would. Modeling was a little boring and I seriously doubt rigging will be my thing, but animation is....well...animation. It's really not that different from 2D animation. There is a bit of a learning curve and it takes a little while to learn the buttons and controls and how to use the graph editor, but after that it's all the same as hand drawn. I think so anyway.



I have a bad habit of always doing generic walk cycles, so I did another one, this time with more character to it. He was supposed to look like he has to go to the bathroom really badly, but it turned out looking more like he has a stomach ache. It'll have to suffice.

Both of these were modeled and rigged by Mike Watters.

Naked People

A whole whack of life drawings. Some really rough, but hopefully expressive gestures, some normal ones, and some with shading.

Action Analysis Rough Design Pack

So, third year is off and running. It was a pretty slow start but it's getting busier now. All this junk is from my Action Analysis Rough Design Pack. The Action Analysis is a big assignment that spans this semester that will eventually consist of a 30 second working reel, part storyboard, part finished coloured animation with effects. My story is about a hotdog vendor who gets his hat stolen by a racoon. This is partway through the design process. Some of these drawings are pretty bad and will definitely be replaced for the Finished Design Pack which will come a little later.

In other news, the group film is going swimmingly. A little to well, actually, we haven't had any major fights yet, so I guess we're due for one soon...

I'll post some stuff related to the film later...

Extra Life

IN 3D!!!!!
Yup. Modeled and rigged by Mike Watters, I presume. Animated by moi.

Coming to a Close

Just some character I've been drawing lately. I tried playing around with colour (something I definetely need to do more of.

Also, a drawing of Uncle Stan from the sort-of-annual Pockaj family camping trip a few weeks ago.

Also, on a side note, only 2 weeks left of summer, and it appears Group E is no more. A few of my classmates that I've talked to have different schedules, so I assume they broke us up and sprinkled us amongst the other classes, as we thought would happen. Third year is becoming interesting already, and it hasn't even started yet.

EDIT: It appears some people from Group E have been switched with some people from Group D. I have no idea what purpose this would serve, but we may soon find out.

The Princess and the Frog

Okay, blogger is being stupid today, and is not letting me upload images, so I'll put up something else that recently came to my attention. There is finally a trailer for "The Princess and the Frog" on Disney's website! I don't normally use exclamation points, which means I'm pretty excited about this. I grew up on the 2D Disney musicals of the 90's (The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Alladin, etc), so this is a pretty big deal for me. It doesn't come out for over a year, but I'm pretty stoked. This one film is going to have a huge effect on whether or not 2D will ever make a comeback, so here's hoping it will be awesome. The link is here

Caturday...

Dogs too...