Animation, Layout and paintings, oh my...

Firstly paintings:

I did not design or draw this layout (above) but I did colour it in photoshop as our first painting asignment of this semester.

The next one was also given to us, but as part of a layout assignment everyone had to draw the same layout from a slightly different angle as the example we were given. This was not painted from my layout but is pretty much exactally the same anyway. The assignment was to remove all the lines so I only put a stroke along the edges that I wanted to excentuate.

And in 3d, I modeled my digital camera. Which I still can't find the cord to! Ahem, the only problems I have with it was a lack of rounded edges and it's not shiney enough. I also did the back of the camera but this is the only rendered image I took of it. I made it so that it could be rigged to actually move like a camera, but I don't know how to rig yet so I didn't go that far.


As for the animations, I'm uploading them as I type this there are 3 assignments from animation class and one layout I did. So I'll link to them once the extreamly long process of uploading ends.

Westerns

So, I'm working on my material for my western story. Namely the pitch. And the Dewey Cox music Hugh's playing is very distracting.

Enter the Hero, our Gunslinger:


Not quite what I have pictured now, but a nice little thrown together picture for tomorrow.


Our heroine, the love interest:


And the villains, the only two I have names for, Sheriff Billybob Jones (Meagan will understand the significance of this name) and his sinister lackey of a little brother Nedd Jones:

I think I'll be keeping this last style from now on for all my work on this project, possibly with a little more flourish to the outlining; more noticeable thick and thins.

Well that's all for now.

Madness

I finished another sketchbook yesterday, so since everything else is on the school computers I'll post some pieces of it, mostly it's just my madness coming out in sketch form.

I notice a trend.

A lesson about eye direction, be careful while watching those flies:

Flies these days may come equipped with ray guns. Stay aware, stay safe.

It's times like these I wonder how I got into Sheridan Animation... and then I remember that I probably could draw if I wanted to; but I don't care when it comes to my sketchies.



I've found that some students get obsessed about what they show of their work and who sees it. But it's nice to just let loose and draw something completely crappy for the sake of weirdness. It's very relaxing.

And it gets the crazy out so when I do a project it doesn't turn into alien cheese monsters taking over the Bluenose and trying to use it to destroy all of Canada only to realize that most of Canada is inland and thus the bluenose is useless, not to mention that it's not actually equipped with heat-"seaking" missiles as I once believed as a child. And thus they'll have to take a sea-king and fly it into the parliment buildings.

Damn... I like that story... I need to re-write my storyboards.

She must be tired of something

So the Storyboarding assignment has consumed my life, that and Ultimate Alliance, I do love video games.

Hugh and I went to the mall over the weekend, he had some assignment to do, so I drew him. I also finished my animation a while ago and my layout's done, so when I finally decide to take my harddrive in I'll post that stuff.

So like I was saying about the Story assignment... I've been wanting to do something with my obsession with this song: Round Here - Counting Crows So I'm making a western about it. Don't ask how that makes any sence. It will. Oh how it will.

On that note: I really liked the good the bad and the ugly, but For a few dollars more was better. And of course... Firefly <3 Thus is pretty much all of my experiance with westerns. Well, there was Spirit... but I dunno if that overly counts.

PS: Who else thinks Adam Duritz looks a little like Adam Hines?

PPS: Why are there so many Adams? O_o

It's friggen freezing Mr. Bigglesworth!

I occasionally get the reputation as a person who fears no cold, ever. But to be fair that's only because I grew up here in the frozen wastelands of Nova Scotia (and of course I spent many a winter in the snow-dunes of New Brunswick).

But I can honestly say, it's freezing! Oh god... so cold! Nyeeerrr (wraps up in blankets).

I missed home. Snow day and night, there's gotta be six feet of it in my back yard. -16 is usual wind chill not included. Man, I was wishing I'd had a coat at 1am when my flight got in.

On to updates.

I started studying muscles, I figure I'll move down starting at the face:


Next on the agenda is the neck, stay tuned!

Resident Evil rant following:

So I had a Resident Evil marathon yesterday (and by that I mean I watched the games on YouTube while drawing). Followed up by the recent movie and I have to say the only thing I liked was Carlos' death scene. I get bored real quick with the over-powered chickies especially if they take time away from interesting characters like that k-mart girl and a strange version of Claire that can only be described as, not Claire (but then the same is true of Carlos). And eww! He kissed the Alice chick. So wrong! Seriously there is only one couple in RE and it's Steve and Claire, and I really don't think Claire liked Steve that much. And I'm sure you could argue for Jill x Chris, Jill x Carlos or Leon x Ada. But none of them actually have a relationship. Not that I'm not a Leon x Ada shipper... no... that's just silly.

End of Resident Evil rant...

So since I like RE2 so much here's a pretty picture:


Note: I can't draw motorcycles, it took forever to get one in there. And I need to fix the wheels I know how to do them right now but the picture was done so no looking back for now. I think I'll draw a few motorcycles in my sketchy for practice. That's Claire by the way, hopefully you knew that if you play RE games.

Enter brief rant about neck pain:

Anywho, back to enjoying vacation and trying to con Mommy into giving me a neck massage so I can maybe move my neck in the future. GAH! It's been four days since this started it's driving me crazy, I wake up every morning because of neck pain. EERGH!


Neck rant over.

Happy muffins to yous all,
Skamz

Animation Update

If the code works this should be my expression change assignment:



So I haven't yet shown my walk run, shame on me, SHAME!



Well there we go. All updated.

I've started studying for the muscles test and I've been doing some RE2 fanart so expect another update soon.

Luvz,
Skam
=3

Fish for layout!

So I haven't even started my layout assignment yet. This is the third pass at the painting project. I'm thinking if I can go with something like this for the realistic version I'm good, it's just using gouache for that... well it's a lot harder. I'll start work on the stylized version tomorrow, for now I ought to finish character design and/or layout. I shall keep trucking along as they say.

I think the moon is too strong, note to self: fix that in the b+w roughs.


In the timeless words of El Grunty:
-"Work work..."