Demo Reel

So here it is. A month of work and here is my demo reel. I still have to re-do some of my animations, but that's okay. School is out, and now I have a summer to work on everything. Woot!

Cluster Crew

So today was really random. I woke up at midnight to help out the Cluster Crew fill up a bunch of helium balloons to create a promotional event for the upcoming Disney Pixar film, Up. It was so much fun! There was a chair attached to over 60 HUGE balloons that lifted you up about 120 feet in the air. We would go to the top to the top of the Metrodome and just float there. Awesome. It was a long day (12 hours) but so much fun!! We would let get people situated on the chair and slowly float them to the top, and then pull them down. A huge arm work out!
This is me!! I think I'm being lifted up, and thinking "what the hell? I hate heights!" Johnathan, the professional balloonsit, left the volunteers up there for a while. I didn't move at ALL but I loved it!
This is Johnathan and Kirk. They decided they wanted to see how high they could get without any ropes holding them down. So Kirk was just floating around, while Johnathan would push him. Hah, he got pretty high! It was hillarious to watch.

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.