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Wh-when did it become March? And P's birthday, to boot!

I've been working with Flash a lot recently, courtesy awesome internship. While I still have a lot to learn, I've definitely made a lot of progress (anything is a lot of progress when you don't know much to start with!). Symbols are magic. Forgetting to set them to single frame when you want them to be is not magic, it kinda sucks.

But anyway, have some half-baked things!

Happy New Year!

expecto patronum!

jiiiii~

Today, we looked over and Lemon (the leopard gecko!) was standing at the glass and looking back. This does not happen often.

In other news, I'm trying to teach myself Flash. XD It's slow going, but a friend told me about the miracle that is onionskinning, and that helps a lot.

One down, one to go!

...the Intermediate piece! Hopefully, it will have music before too long. Finding composers is a tricky business with which I am not very familiar, but I've been given some pointers (and handy e-mail addresses). I'm crossing my fingers here.

Also, you might or might not notice a handful of kinks (like, say, sudden changes in color); I spotted them shortly after uploading the video and promptly sent them to their rooms with no dessert. Don't worry, they'll grow up to be outstanding individuals.

(Edit: It is off Youtube, but residing on my portfolio website. WITH MUSIC.)

Life drawing!

This semester, I opted to take another life drawing course. It never gets old! I feel like, as the years go on, my grasp of proportion is slowly beginning to resemble more of a firm handshake than the limp fish I started with. Thank goodness.

Sadly, the first drawing is 11x14, and we all know I do not have that kind of crazy scanning power.

In other news, I have (basically) finished rough animation on the advanced piece. ON TO INKS AND COLORS! YEAAAAAH!

Animation progress!

As the rough animation of my thesis nears completion (and only a week off schedule!), it is also my sacred mission to finish the dang intermediate piece already. It's been a busy last semester. In lieu of sketchbook pieces, I thought I'd share some of the more recent intermediate stuff.

What's it about? Well, there's this little green guy who passes by a fish pond every day. He adores them, and they love him (mostly because he brings them food). One morning, Green approaches the fish pond as usual - but there's someone there already! And - horror of horrors - the fish can't even tell the difference. This will not do!

Green wages a feeding war with the intruder, determined that the fish should choose his side once and for all...

Lip sync!

The last Action Analysis II exercise. It's not completely fleshed out, but I'm still very happy with it.



...I don't think I'll be listening to the Macarena again any time soon. Good grief!

fly on!

Action analysis homework: "A character attempts to fly." I kind of rushed through it, but I'm still happy with the results. I feel like my ideas are getting a bit more solid each time I do this. Wooo!

homework!

Homework for Action Analysis II: A character enters with a vase, trips, and breaks the vase. There are some parts I'd like to tweak, given time. (Example: the part where the vase bounces off the bird's head. It has no weight. D:) It's the first time this semester I've drawn a non-human character, so I had fun.

Moving along.

I need to go out and draw Real Things more often. Lately, have been dreadfully behind schedule on animation project (as was expected). Did spend an hour in between classes peoplewatching at Starbucks. It was very calming.



Fish fish fish fish fish. Fish. I am not confident at all when it comes to fish, and have finally decided to just bite the bullet. It's fish time.

Fish!

Go go go!
Sometimes, it's good to work on small things, so I feel like I can tackle the bigger ones again.

In progress!

Happy November! Hope you had a spectacular Halloween. I sure did - dressed as Diego Armando (the video game character, not the soccer player), which meant I got to prance around all day carrying a coffee mug and calling people Kitten.



So lately, I have been spending every available moment (except for this one, clearly) working on the Intermediate Animation Production assignment (one semester! one animation! one minute!). I have come to the uncomfortable realization that I am fairly slow and inexperienced. Doing my best, though, and having fun most of the time (except for the occasional I WILL NOT GET THIS DONE ON TIME! panic state).



I was trying for a walk with elements of Thai dance. It ended up pretty wonky, but at least I got a better feel for the character... or something. I think it might help if I limit the tilt of his upper body... yaah!

Out and about.

Hey hey! So, first off, I realized that I didn't mention NYAF. Yes, I am a giant dork. A few weeks ago, I was hanging out in the Artists' Alley at the New York Anime Festival, helping to promote a fledgling webcomic. I got to sit around and draw for an entire weekend - not different from any other day, except for the location, and the fact that I was making money off of it. Huzzah!

That third page came after I saw Ryusuke Hamamoto's panel and watched him draw. He works in a lot of solid blacks, which I find really cool and comicky.

So these are things I draw when I don't know what to draw, and don't have anything to refer to. Except for that little dude in the hobo hat, that's Hamamoto. He was sitting so close to us...!




More recently: sitting down and enjoying the weather while it's still tolerable! First, various passersby at Washington Square Park. There was a band playing, and they had a trumpet! Well, two - one man was playing two at the same time (!!). How cool!

And second, cute (and huge) fish at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. It was great seeing them, because the story I decided on involves fish. I feel more confident now in my ability to draw fish that resemble fish.

At the bottom right of the second: Bob the Goldfish, courtesy a very cool person.




^ A very cool person!

Thinking about stories.

Classes loom! I've been trying to think of things that I would enjoy working on for a semester (!).



Silliness.



Then something about the sleepwalking kid made me want to draw him again. I think it was the jammies.



And this stuff started happening. A kid who never really stops hoping that his teddy comes to life. In the end, it doesn't. What kind of a sad story is that?

So I'm still thinking. I might be on to something - I'll let you know once I have it more fleshed out! :)

Flipbook!