Flying Fish, Cupcakes, and Creatures

With great thanks to the beautiful weather this week(end), the past few days have been super unproductive. But, nonetheless, work was done.

I'm finishing up a pixilation project for my Intro to Animation class tonight, but, for now, a metamorphosis! If only there was an option too loop it...it's supposed to morph seamlessly into itself.



It's important to remind myself constantly that this class is about motion, not about super fancy details, and so far I think I've been sticking true to that. The sounds, done by yours truly, might have been my favorite part. :]

In other news, my roommate has been taking a character design class and I have been living vicariously through her by doodling assignments in my sketchbook:



The assignment was to characterize your best and worst qualities -- I won't say what's what, as I'm hoping they speak for themselves, but I could be misjudging their readability. Color might help these look a little more finished, which I'll get around to as soon as I have a little extra time and I find my missing tablet pen...eek!

Off to iron 10 yards of freshly dyed cotton. What fun!

Huuuur I am boat

The title of this post is only (maybe, potentially) funny because of this web gem:



...which cracks me up every time I see it. My roommate laughs too, so maybe that's a sign I'm not super lame.

But anyway, boats!

The actual image is about 50% less saturated, but since I am incompetent at adjusting color balance on scanned images, this is what happened:



All I have to say about this project is: "David Weisner, I aspire to be you. Teach me your ways."

The first panel tries to have night light, the second one decided to fail miserably. I almost want to douse everything in blue to at least psedo-fake an understanding of night light, but...ehh...I don't know.

Ultimately, I missed gouache. I missed its supple and succulent color and opacity.

Wintersession, Second Semester, Summer Internships, oh my!

Wicked Watercolor was a lie. Well, sort of.

I managed to squeeze myself into Figure Modeling Marathon last minute, which I suppose it what I was originally hoping for (but RISD has silly class limits, so originally the class was full), but the professor took pity and succumbed to my pleas.

The class met 6 days a week, 8 hours a day (Upon sharing this with my friend Nick, the first question I get is, "...are you okay?" I laughed a little, but I was unsure what to answer) and to be perfectly honest:

I loved and hated every minute of it.

Not to mention, it reinforced the fact that not going into a 3D major was a very good idea. Hurray, Illustration!

But essentially, it was challenging understanding the concept of 3 dimensional form and substance, and my professor took every opportunity to remind me that what I was doing was significantly less than perfect (with good reason). Ultimately, though, I felt like I made a lot of progress, especially since I started from point zero. Even though I don't think I'll be going back to sculpture for this upcoming semester, it has, miraculously, changed the way I draw for the better, and sparked my interest into expanding to a 3 dimensional plane. And with that, I present, samples!



Now, onto other things: Second Semester, 4 studios ftw.

First, we have Illustration 2, with Judy Sue Goodwin-Sturges! Our assignment was was to illustrate a poem from a list of many, so I chose "Four Fishing Boats", by Margaret Wise Brown. I'm giving color via gouache (eek! Frightening to tread in unfrequented waters!) a try, along with trying my hand at comic-bookery. So this is to be continued!



Socond, I give you a drawing assignment!



The thought process for this assignment is as follows:

"Oh darn, I have a drawing assignment due in 4 hours, and I haven't started! What should I do...? Oh look, it's our campus coffee shop! Cool."

My only pride in this that it was done freehand. NO PENCILS. NO SKETCHING. ALL GLORY.

However, not as much glory in my internship hunt. There are a few secretaries at various game and animation companies, however, that have heard enough from me to know me on a name basis. Kinda uncertain if that's beneficial in anyway...

My first interview at Animation Collective (animated Eloise, Speed Racer, Discovery Kids shows) could have gone slightly better; my stammered speech and nervous ticks may have been a little distracting...ultimately they contacted me about being a "reserve intern". Essentially, if someone drops out at the last minute, I would take their spot, which isn't bad -- I'm competing with super talented students (including and not limited to...upperclassmen...eep!). I did get offered a spot at Clambake Animation (this summer they're working on a pilot for Adult Swim...which could be kind of a big deal), which was super exciting! Either way, it seems as though I'll be spending another summer as an RA (free housing, yay).

Still waiting on replies from Studio 38 and 2K Games...unsure how things will work out with Rockstar, Arkadium, and Double Fine. I'm crossing my fingers!

Well, on an unrelated note: I'm really excited for the new House M.D. episode tomorrow night.