Updated Advanced Animation

It is the last week of the semester (and the last class of advanced) and this is what I have to show for my semester's work! I'm pretty proud, it's all keyed out. I'm changing the beginning scene when I introduce the Becca and the Phil though. Basically when I zoom down and you see his eyes, instead of cutting back to Elliot, I'll show the monster start crawling out from under the bed. And then when I cut back to the wide shot of Becca sleeping, Phil will be half way out, but stuck under the bed. That's about the only change I have, otherwise it's all about in-betweening and some timing stuff.

Last Illustration Projects

Here are the last 3 projects I have done for my concepts and metaphors class. The first one is Paula Deen's kitchen, the second one is "Lost in a Magical Garden", and the last is "Bird Watching in Minneapolis". The last two are paper cut outs (something new I've been trying). I really enjoyed the process! This was my last illustration class at MCAD. I really enjoyed it, and I think it helped me explore some new techniques.

A work in progress

This is something that I did for my concepts and metaphors class, and also for my senior project. It's my character, Becca, doing some every day activities. I was given 8 words, "animals", "pattern", "it's cold", "food", "water", "smell", "transportation", and "sound". See witch ones you get! (Cut out paper, acrylic, and a little bit of digital. Still a work in progress).

A rough animation

Here is a rough version of my senior project so far! I haven't done the ending yet, so I'm kind of leaving you on a cliff hanger..sorry. I just realized that after watching it. Anyways, it's not all key framed out yet, or lyp synced for that matter, but the movements and timing is pretty much where I want them.

Some school stuff!

This is my first assignment for Concepts and Metaphors. I got "raining spectacles" as my theme, so this is it! I did it with color pencil.
Assignment number 2! My theme...telling secrets! This is the first version of that assignment.The second version of that same assignment, was to add a word to telling secrets. I chose "intensify". So...more secrets! Oh, and both of these were done in acrylics.
This was my third assignment, a small boat in a sea of fish. Also done in acrylics.

I'll put these on my website soon. I just want to capture them better first. My little digital camera isn't the best at capturing things.

Otherwise, my animatic for my senior animation is ALL done! Sound and everything, and I've even started animating some scenes. I'm just happy the sound is done. My actors were awesome. This semester hasn't been as bad as I thought it would be. Which is good. But I feel a cold coming on, so that amazing.

Emma and Phil

Here are two of the characters from my senior project. It's Emma and Phil. This is the scene where she discovers him, and Elliot bursts into her room. It's the first colored version that I have for this whole project so far. I started school yesterday, and my teacher is having us work out or schedule on how we think we'll get our projects done. So I just need to go through my animatic and see what I feel are "easy" and hard scenes, separate them, do one of each, and then from there decide how long it will take me. How fun!

NEW Demo Reel...sorta

I updated my demo reel again. I still want to tweek some of the animations, but I'm pretty happy with this version of it. I also realize that I have not uploaded anything from this summer. So. I have one thing that I actually did on my computer. Otherwise everything was in a sketch book. AND I just found out that I have a week to get the CS4 package for school. Crap. Well, I'll only be getting photoshop, flash, dreamweaver, aftereffects (hopefully this version will work for me), final cut, and possibly illustrator. Yayyy. School starts in about 10 days, and I'm actually pretty pumped for it. I'm sick of working everyday. It gets a little old. I'm just a little nervous about my senior project. I have this part that I want to animate with crayon (it's a really small part) I just worry it will look to messy. We'll find out I guess!!

Oh, and this wolf drawing is for an animation for my friend Joe. It's the only thing I did on photoshop, but I'm doing the wolf animation for a project of his.