Starting this young professional attire journey..

by trying to win some free swag! Also, this girl knows her fashion stuff and is classy in a fun, creative way. Check out her latest give-away:
http://www.thepinkpeonies.com/2012/07/a-giveaway-worth-entering-100-winners.html

Al, the coolest cat I've met, and his friends

Long Animation Reel!

Check it out!

http://vimeo.com/22113527

Updates!

I am done with The Pitch! I think the pitch to Warner Brother's Exec. Nancy Spears went well. She laughed at the characters and seemed intrigued by the story line. After all the pitches were done, Professor Goto said she was impressed by our class and was holding on to a few. She even passed a pitch on to a Nickelodeon friend of hers. Congrats Phil! Over all, it was a great experience and I learned alot.

Im in a Pitchy mood

Here are some more concept sketches for "How I bought the farm". Its rather fun :)

"How I bought the farm"- The Pitch

One of the classes I am taking this quarter is The Pitch, taught by Professor Goto. It revolves around concepting and pitching a single idea to a Warner Bros creative executive at the end of the quarter.

My idea is for a short "webisode" series, "How I bought the farm", targeted at kids 11-14. Seth, a germaphobic, paranoid 12 year old boy is sent to live on his grandparents' farm for a summer. Being thrown out of his comfort zone and into a world of dirt, unfamiliar creatures and crazy neighbors, Seth has to battle his way through each day. With the help of a quirky girl next door, his eccentric, dance-loving grandparents and his sidekick cockroach, Twitch, he may just survive and become a normal kid.

Here are a few concept sketches of the characters!

Gestures

Its been a while since Ive done gestures, but it is one of my very belated new years resolutions to go every weekend. SCAD offers great open model sessions all day on fridays, so it has become a part of my weekly routine.

Here are the results from this past weekend:

3 minutes each

Eureka, CA

So I went to visit a friend in Northern California this past winter break. It is the second time Ive been there and it is beautiful! Here are a few snippets of what I doodled while there:


There was an energetic young boy at the airport that kept leaping over a soda can on the ground..

I cleaned!

If anyone ever wondered where and how I work, here it is. I cleaned so I would be even more inclined to spend many more sleepless nights here..

Its been a watercolor kind of week

I have rediscovered one of my oldest loves, watercolor painting! Here are a few things Ive been turning out:

The first sketches done in my shiny new watercolor sketchbook. A christmas present from the talented Daniel Woodling!

These were done during the 2011 Grammys



Just some fun color shapes Id like to import into photoshop and draw characters on
A bunny and a special cameo appearance by David Chen (Right page, left side) and Daniel Woodling (Right page, right side)! Thanks guys :D

Finals Week Fall 2010

As this quarter comes to a close, I feel more pressure then ever to decide where I want to end up after I graduate from SCAD. The funny thing is, I have been thinking of where I want to go instead of what I should really be focusing on. What do I want to DO once I get there? California has always been this great, bright beacon beckoning to me from across the US. After my visit this past summer, that light has only gotten brighter. However, by not over analyzing what specifically I want a career in, I have realized what I love, who I am as an artist, and the type of people Id like to work with in the future.

I love dark humor. Nothing is more fun to torture then something fluffy with big puppy eyes. (In animation! NOT reality! I love all the fluffy forest friends) I want to make people laugh! Making people laugh makes me happy. :) And if I can do something that will make the world a happier place, then thats enough for me!

My most recent project, about a loofah who is used by the wrong person, makes you giggle. But my hope is the next time you go to take a shower and see your loofah, you wonder who might have used it. Maybe even sympathize with it.. who wouldve ever thought you could have feelings toward a fluffy ball of plastic.

Also, the southern dialect has sunk so far into my brain that I must apologize to anyone who is victim me saying "yall".. It happens

Janelle

The Devil went down to.. the Gap?

This is a dialogue exercise for my Digital Cell Animation I class, with Professor Webber.
We were taught to use the nesting and swapping methods for the mouth shapes and lip syncing. I preferred and used the swapping method for this assignment. I enjoyed animating his inflections, mainly because of the great dialogue clip i recorded with Mike Walker (thankyou!). I would like to go back in and do more eases with the body movements. I was strapped for time, but overall, I am happy with how he came out. Critiques would be great! Thanks!

Flash Walk Cycle: Hipster Girl

Final Character: Hipster Girl

Our assignment in Digital Cel Animation with Professor Webber was to design and create a puppet as well as a background. Then, place the character within the background and produce a walk cycle using frame by frame puppet animation. I am satisfied with the overall result of my hipster girl, although Id have liked to make her lines a bit cleaner. Here she is!

Flash Background: Hipster Cafe

Flash Walk Cycle: Hipster Girl (Color Concept)

Flash Walk Cycle: Hipster Girl (Pre-sketch)

Senior Project: Character Design

Another attempt at redesigning my main character. I wanted to go for a more stylized look. It was closer, but he looked to old, would be difficult to frame well and didnt have that vulnerable, awkward little boy look I wanted. So I called in some back up:

*These ^ drawings are not mine! They are the work of the lovely Lauren Brown. Concept artist extraordinaire.*

It is amazing how just a few drawings from a completely fresh perspective can turn everything around! Here he was! That awkward, shy but lovable character Ive been trying for this whole time. But it wasn't exactly animate-able. Nor was it my personal style. So I took the look of Lauren's drawing and combined them with my aesthetic.

Let me introduce you to.. Guss! I know there will be many more adjustments made (clothing, animate-able base shapes, ect) but this is the personality Ive been trying for all along. I am so excited to put him in my world and start making him move!

*No matter how far along Ive gone in this process, CRITIQUES ARE ALWAYS WELCOME! Even if you have suggestions about things that have long since passed, I am always looking for your honest opinions.*

Be back in a.. Flash! Oh ho ho!

But seriously, first Flash background produced for Digicel, Professor John K. Webber.

I tried to move away from my painterly, overly detailed style. Something new and exciting. This is a great way to eliminate the unnecessary elements of a background and focus on layout. Im looking forward to working with Flash more!

This was my first idea, which I painted in Photoshop. But I realized that there was to much detail for the assignment. The goal was to create flat shapes with gradients. I needed to push myself past what I normally did. (Tho I really still like this this camera angle and distortion of the trees)

Back to the drawing board.. or sketchbook. This composition seemed to fill the assignment's requirements more accurately.

The finished piece. The professor and the majority of the class seemed pleased with it. Even though it isn't my favorite style to work in, I enjoyed leaving my comfort zone. Im itching to go back in and add more detail, but I know I must move on and do it better the next time.