FINISHED 11 Second Club

trumpets, fanfare, and unicorns throwing confetti...it is done.

admittedly,  "done" with an asterisk that i would work on it more if i had more time, but this is the deadline i set for myself and i think it looks pretty good for the time i put into it. i'm damn happy to have a colored, finished piece to submit this month.

so here it is. i'd love to say i'll go back and touch up some things later, but that never happens. always moving on to bigger better things!

11 Second Club - Sept 2010

More 11 sec club

Rufs just about done! just missing mouths then it's off to clean up land. whoo~

Also damn you, adobe for foresaking quicktime in every version of flash after fl8. Terrible ghosting issues making me bring swfs into after effects to get a useable file out of it >_<

Cat & Dog sketches and Animation update

After roughing in some key-ish drawings for my 11 sec club entry, I figured I should spend a little time doing some life (photo) drawing of some of the key poses and actions. Oddly enough, I pretty much always had a dog growing up, but I've always sucked at drawing them. For whatever reason, drawing cats came much more easily. Also I need to work on getting out of the habit of drawing animals' heads so tremendously big : /

and just for kicks, here's where I am with my animation. still have some timing/posing issues to work out. 

story board v02

Got some feedback on my previous post and reworked some things. Added an intro of the cat getting on the chair and a couple more poses. I feel like it's a little busy at the end, with the cat finishing his line and the dog shaking his head...i might tweak that in animation to see how much time i really need for that stretch, if i can push the head shake later or see if it reads as an action to do while he's standing up. Feel free to critique more :)

I also thought i'd throw in a photo of my inspiration for this idea, my dog Misty and cat Vesta. Vesta is the most adorable little satan cat ever (as anyone who's met her will tell you) and Misty's solution to everything is to just walk away.

Alive and animating - 11 sec club

...or getting there atleast. Sorry i have neglected you, blog world.

I really like this month's sound clip on 11 second club and an idea came to me really quickly so i started my sketching and my boarding. here's my first pass story boards. comments and critiques onegai shimasu! again..first pass boards, so ignore any lack of cohesive character design.

Fanart Explosion!

I looove doing fanart. So nice to just focus on the technical aspects of drawing and not having to come up with the design of what to draw.

There's a group on deviantart called Daily Sketch Challenge (which is linked to Outcast Studio's forum) that posts a character every day. Participants submit 15-30 minute sketches, with the emphasis being just picking up a pencil (or stylus) and drawing every day. It's a low pressure community that just encourages drawing and not on creating a polished finished piece. Here's a couple 15-20 minute drawings i did for the group:

Saturn Girl

Tomorrow Woman

aaand some personal fanart. if you're going to spend any time on my blog you should know that my favorite subjects for fanart are X-Men and Sailormoon. So..be prepared for that.

the quest for the perfect character design..

I've got this idea for a short but I keep getting stuck on the character designs. She's...kind of a wannabe princess, but I think most of the drawings I've done of her make her look far too young. Before I had much of the story down i did these designs which i was happy with at the time but, once i started fleshing out the story, i think she's too young.

(done back in 2008)

After some time away from the project, I really hit the story side harder, fleshing it out and doing some ruf boards. After that I took another stab at the design. None of them really jumped out at me. Also I started watching Princess & the Frog towards the end of doing these (the ones on the left were actually last) and I think it's funny how much the designs loosened up.

 (April 2010)

I tried again today, this time with a much more traditional Disney-ish look to her. I like how she turned out but I still think she looks too young :/ Maybe I'll try playing it out and see if it's really as off as I think it is. Even if I don't use her for that, I still think it's a cute design :D