| Character designs |
[Nov. 17th, 2009|10:07 am] |
Here's the final style I ended up going with for the character designs.
( Under the cut 'cause it's big. )
I'm planning to go back and polish these even more, so feel free to leave comments and suggestions. I love visual development! |
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| Style exploration |
[Nov. 10th, 2009|04:52 pm] |
I'm coloring up some character designs for my Visual Development class (which turns out to be worth the price of admission to CalArts alone) and trying desperately to improve my range of so-so to terrible Photoshop coloring skills.
( Let's get started. ) |
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| Nerdy girl wedding = The Best |
[Oct. 28th, 2009|11:21 pm] |
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D'awwwwww.
Everything about this story makes me :) :) :). It has Utena (best anime!) AND Portal (best game!) AND hot ladies AND cake. Best!
It also reminds me of Ivy and Amber's wedding last spring, and their amazingly nerdy (and delicious) Borg cake. Mmmmm, Borg.
This is just further proof that nerdy lesbian weddings are ALWAYS THE BEST. |
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| This is kinda scary... |
[Oct. 25th, 2009|03:52 am] |
While taking a break from homework tonight, I of course used my free time to watch cat videos on youtube (because I'm so cool that way). Maya hopped in my lap at some point and started reacting to them, something she'd never done before. She meowed along with some of them (but stopped as soon as I grabbed my camera, of course) and did lots of exploring around the computer monitor/speakers to figure out where the other cats were coming from. Cute!
This is a kind of freaky video to begin with, and I wish it had been a different one, but it's the one Maya happened to react to the most while I had my camera out. My favorite part is at 0:15, where she looks at the computer speakers. Awww, cute confused kitty. |
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| Crit time! |
[Oct. 19th, 2009|02:20 am] |
This is a motion test that's part of a larger piece. It's just the character movement right now, but this finished shot is going to be sort of shaky cam chasing POV with a moving background. It's also at a dutch angle at the beginning, in case it's hard to read. I'm fairly happy with the movement right now, but it could always use improvement. Feel free to leave comments/suggestions/insults so I can improve! I am always willing to re-visit character animation to polish it up.
There is more to this, but I am too disgusted with it at the moment to put it online, even for feedback. I'm going to re-work it first. |
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| Book survey |
[Oct. 15th, 2009|01:11 pm] |
The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
Bold means read it (and finished it)
Italic means I didn't finish it (or am still reading it)
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchel
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
I need more things to read after I'm done with Let the Right One In so this will serve as a good reference. Les Miserables is my all-time favorite book. <3
In unrelated news, the weather today is fucking beautiful. Life is so good. |
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| Exquisite Corpse! |
[Oct. 4th, 2009|01:05 pm] |
My friend Flavien, a game designer from Giant Sparrow, came over for games and fun times. He, Jacky and I sat down for a vigorous round of Exquisite Corpse, every artist's favorite game.
( Check out the corpses! ) |
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| While it's on my mind... |
[Sep. 30th, 2009|09:10 pm] |
My Top Favorite Films of 2009 (so far):
Moon (The rest of these are arbitrarily listed, but Moon is definitely #1.)
Coraline
District 9
Up
Ponyo
Watchmen
Best movie I could barely sit through:
The Hurt Locker
Things I missed/still want to see:
The Informant!
Food, Inc.
In the Loop
Adventureland
Away We Go
Drag Me to Hell
Thirst
No Impact Man
Paris
Looking forward to:
Capitalism: A Love Story
Adventures of Power
Where the Wild Things Are (!!! We have all-time favorite potential here, I think.)
Gentlemen Broncos
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Princess and the Frog (duh)
Seriously, you guys. Where the Wild Things Are should be re-named to Where the Awesome Things Are. I can't wait. |
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| Sketch |
[Sep. 26th, 2009|08:31 pm] |
I did this little doodle during a class drawing session I unexpectedly kinda liked.
It's just a wee thumbnail, but sometimes lines fall out of my hand onto paper in less than 15 seconds and I end up liking them better than drawings I've spent hours and hours polishing up.
Anywho, back to work. I think I'll start posting pencil tests as I finish them (not for big projects I plan to send to festivals, obviously, but little side things), since a lot of y'all are also animators and I could always use some honest feedback. |
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| New (free) Pumpkins album and other news |
[Sep. 16th, 2009|05:42 pm] |
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This is pretty neat. Machina II was free for download as well, years before NIN and Radiohead stole all the "free music for fans" thunder (disclaimer: I love In Rainbows). I am suitably excited.
Speaking of excitement, I started classes at CalArts! They are already a blast and I am super excited to churn out a bunch of films this year. I'm already in the planning stages for 3 of them--I hope I'm able to force myself back into my old college work habit and keep the production levels high throughout the year without slacking off too much. These are my teachers. Lisa Keene's work makes me <3 <3 <3. I am taking her Vis Dev class my first semester to correspond with my year-long short film classes (I have 2 of them), so hopefully I'll make pre-production art that's actually worth looking at for once.
I'm going to update my website a lot, and I'll be sure to update here each time I do. Speaking of, I just updated stuff recently here, here and here. Take a look!
This post was somewhat narcissistic, but hey. It's livejournal. |
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| Art + haircut + cat |
[Aug. 22nd, 2009|04:34 pm] |
The drawing of Maya was temporarily on hiatus the past couple of days because I was working on this, a birthday present for a friend of mine, who looks pretty much like this:
I don't have it scanned (it's one of those lame, 20th century "analog" drawings ;p) but you get the gist. The drawing of Maya should be done soon.
I got a haircut this morning, which I've sorely needed for a long, long time. Pics are under the cut.
( Haircut )
( Pics of Maya ) |
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| I'd buy that for a dollar! |
[Aug. 20th, 2009|01:04 am] |
I got Let The Right One In and Robocop on Blu-ray today. Goddamn, was Robocop always this brutal? How was I not traumatized by this movie as a kid? I should be weeping uncontrollably in a padded cell somewhere. Or struggling with a crack, smack and coke addiction. This guy knows what I'm talking about.
Back in July I accidentally left a dress in a San Diego hotel room during my stay at Comic Con. Artist guru Rachel, bless her heart, found it and mailed it back to me, complete with this adorable drawing on the envelope.
You flatter me, babe. |
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| Drawing. |
[Aug. 15th, 2009|11:10 pm] |
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I drew my friend John's sphynx cat, Iggy. Most people are squeamish about hairless cats, but I think he's quite adorable. He's also one of the nicest cats I've ever met.
This was fun. I haven't sat down and just churned out a drawing in a long while. I feel way out of practice, and I'm definitely not used to drawing caricatures of animals.
Send me pictures of your pets, and I'll draw them! |
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| Blast from the past |
[Aug. 6th, 2009|04:40 pm] |
Woah, D'arcy was on the radio recently! And she's really boring, apparently!
Man, who cares? She was the best Pumpkins bassist ever. And by best I mean hottest. |
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| Birthday fashion show |
[Aug. 2nd, 2009|05:53 pm] |
Hey all! So this morning/early afternoon I went shopping with my BFF John and his fashion designer superhero friend Michelle, in celebration of my turning 25. I'm halfway through my 20's now, and it's about time I started wearing clothing for adults, as opposed to torn jeans and "ironic" print T-shirts filled with anime and video game references. Michelle used her amazing super powers (ie good taste) to pick me out things I normally would never consider wearing and I was pleased with the results.
( Friends + fashion show ) |
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| Giant sashimi bowl gorge-fest |
[Aug. 1st, 2009|03:27 am] |
Tonight I went out with Justin, Bamboo, Zac, and a few others for dinner at a place called Wakasaya in Little Tokyo. They have a huge, $48 donburi bowl there called the Bikkuri-don. The restaurant will give this to you for free if you can eat it all in under 15 minutes. THAT THERE IS A CHALLENGE, RESTAURANT! Justin and Andy decided they weren't going to sit still and let Wakasaya taunt them with its free, impossibly large bowls of food.
( Here is what happened. ) |
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