Look!

I just wanted to say, look at my website.

www.ambermaki.com

I finally have everything up there that I want.

Finished!!!

I have finally finished my stop motion! I'm super happy about that. We've got a week left, and I won't have to be in that black studio panicking. Sweet! I'd show some, but..ugh. I've got some editing to do! And, I start work at Forever 21 on Friday. Yep. Finally got me a job. It was a nice month and a half with no job, but I've got to get back on that working train. Or something like that.

Set set set

I'm pretty much ready to animate (finally). The set is done, so I can animate some scenes, but I still have to make a spoon and a facet. Random, yes, but that's that. Anywho's, I took some pictures of my set last night. I was on a little bit of a sugar high (the last month of school always makes me buy bags of candy) and I got a lot done! To explain the signs in the last one, someone (who is not in animation) decided to use my set as a table for his camera equipment. Our studios are in the schools black studio, who everyone has access to, so we basically have no privacy what so ever. I walked in one day and found this kid taking pictures, and for some reason felt the need to put a huge camera case on my set. Needless to say, I was not to happy with him. I decided that since everyone in class is having the same issue that I had (lights being stolen, etc) that I would tape off my set, because apparently just putting a sign next to your set is not enough. Oh, and I was mature about it. My friend Hannah was with me and told me to make the second sign. After I took the picture I took the sign down, and added a "thank you" to the other one. You got to be poliet to the people that don't have the curtesy to leave your set alone you know!

Baked goods

I love me some baked goods! For DI we were to make an illustration about food. So yeah, I did some baked goods. I'm not too happy about the cookies, or the girl for some reason. It's okay though. I really love the cupcakes, cake, and breads. Maybe I should have just made it with them. Then again this morning I was thinking about deleting the whole thing and making it about peanut butter crackers. I've done too many things on peanut butter though. I already did a illustration on PB&J's, and I gave a speech on peanut butter for my speech class when I was still at Inver. That's too much peanut butter, even for me. Baked goods, you're good to go!

Strata strata!

This kids, is my first attempt (and probably my last time) doing a strata cut animation. I did it at the end of class when everyone started to clean up, so my lighting changes like 3 times. Plus side though is that I felt like a little kid again and got to play with tons of clay and do whatever I felt like. I'm sure my teacher didn't really want everyone doing some type of abstract thing, but that's what he got from me. He was talking about making eye balls, and faces, and that all just went over my head. Especially once I got started and realized that I had no idea what I was doing. You have to start from the middle...so yeah.

Currently I'm like having a panic attack. I have about 3 weeks left of school, and way too many projects to get done. Good lord. One drawing, one stop motion (2 minutes long) and a story board that I haven't gotten the story figured out for yet. Oh, and a demo reel! Oy.

Some Story Boards

The story board above is for a commercial about bran cereal and marsh mellows. It could only be 30 seconds long so I ended up having to cut a lot towards the end. My story was about a little girl on a farm enjoying her morning breakfast. Anyway, this is my most recent story board for my class.



This story board is just the second half of the story, the ending. I worked with a partner and she has the other half. The story was given to us from a student from the script writing class. Her story was about to animals, a dog and a cat, finding a new baby in their home. In the end the baby pulls on the cats tail and he leaves, and the dog cuddles up with the baby in her crib.











This was the 3rd story board I did for class. It was the first one that we did were we got to come up with the story. We were told to have a place, a character, and an item. My place was a bee hive, my item was a flower, and my character was a Queen Bee and her royal subjects. She basically tells them that they have to travel across the forest to get her flower for her to eat because it's the only thing that she eats.


So yeah, those are the 3 story boards that I have done so far. We did 2 more in the beginning, but these are the ones that I am most proud of. Right now we're working on our final project that our teacher wants us to eventually animate in the future. I'm going to do my senior project, and I've come up with an idea to have a little boy rescuing his little sister from the monster in her bedroom, who is actually a very terrified monster. The boy comes to her rescue when he hears her screams, and makes his own sound effects.

Update

I'm on spring break. My boyfriend left me here in Minnesota for NYC, so I've been spending most of my time with the cat. She really doesn't want me to be alone, and sleeps near my head every night. As for my junior review, thankfully MCAD was nice enough to tell us how we did before we left for a week, and I passed. Yayyyy. I can now take advanced animation classes. And I'm signing up for classes sometime this month, which always gets me really excited. There's no reason really, I just like random bits of change. Also, it has recently hit me that I only have a month left of school, and then what? That's the big question on my mind. I need a job. I want an internship. I would like to go outside of Minnesota.
*On a side note, I'm watching Robin Williams on "Inside the Actors Studio". Hahahaaaa*
I'm working on a portriat for a school competition. I don't really know what I want to do, so currently I'm just putting paint on a mesonite board. I haven't painted in so long that I'm just loving the experince. It's super relaxing, I don't know why I stopped. But yeah, so far I've just sitting on the living room floor with the window open enjoying the beautiful Minnesota spring weather, and listening to the Temptations while plopping huge amounts of white, blue, and yellow paint on the board and trying to figure out what I'm doing. I think I know where I'm going with it. Hah, thankfully it's acrylic paint!
Well, my cat just woke up after a very eventful dream that had her running on the couch. I think I'll go back to my work.