As promised, here are my animations from 3D Character Animation and Set-up. At least the first two since I may have to upload my third video somewhere else due to YouTube's policies on certain copyrighted music in videos. First up is the first project for my class, my little fearful retro robot.
(Had to re-upload because of incorrect video file)
Next is my second project, the grumpy Dr. Eggplant. And to be fair, it's not exactly my best and could have done a whole lot better, especially knowing what I know now regarding rigging and model skinning.
Finally got a hold of some of my projects from Digital Cell 1. They are a little unpolished for the moment, but with time, they will all be redone and presentable. Until then, enjoy what I have so far.
First animation I've ever done and in Flash too. Objective was the create animated piece of how to do something, whether serious or humorous.
Ferret character done in Toon Boom and the cat character in Flash. Main objective was to animate two characters talking in the same space. Dialogue taken from the film Knocked Up (which I haven't seen admittedly).
My final project for Digital Cell 1. We were free to do whatever theme or concept we wanted. Mine was personal as it represented some issues I was going through at the time (and still am). Done entirely in Toon Boom.
On a side note, I had done a third animation project for class, but it's an interactive animation. As such, either until I get my main art project site up or find a really good site for uploading flash files, it'll be awhile before it's seen.
It's been a couple of weeks and I thought I'd show off some work from 3D Character Set-Up and Animation. First up is some concept sketches and one final character sketch of my first project. The objective was to design and animation a retro style robot acting out one principal trait. The trait I end up choosing was "fearful." Will post the full animation soon.
Finally, here after stalling for a couple of months, that and it's just been busy in my life. Anyway, without further ado, here's my Senior Project comic, Aerial Show-Off, staring Sasha and Riley.
Welp, the end of the quarter is finally here. It's been a rough but over wise fun ride. Now that graduation is almost upon me (this fall actually), there's still a lot for me to do such as the great challenge of job hunting. That and keeping myself active in comics as often as possible.
Overall, I'm pleased the progress I've made and people I've had a pleasure to meet. I'll post my completed Senior Project comic, but here's my redesigned Sasha and Riley from my project "Aerial Aces" to tie you over.
You may have recognized these two already, but if you haven't, they are Sasha and Riley from my project called "Aerial Aces." They will be featured in my eight page comic for Senior Project. And as of this post, their costume designs and a bit of Sasha's character design has been changed. I will post their new outfits sometime after this quarter, but until then enjoy.
What I've been up to for the past three weeks or so. Some environment designs for my eight page comic for Senior Project which was part of Phase one along with the script and thumbnails. However a few of these designs I've decided to redo, mostly the airplanes which I will post later when I get through polishing them.
Thought I show these off for the sake of it. These panel illustrations were part of an assignment for Principles of Screen Design. Essentially, the assignment was to create 6 to 10 keyframes for our final animation project, which is our self portrait piece reflecting ourselves. The blue leaf is meant as a representation of myself and the other leaves are of the things I love and enjoy. Needless to say, the actual animation was unfinished due to the time consuming nature of my eight comic for Vis 2. Will I upload it at some point? Maybe since I have plans to redo it in my own time and program. But until then, hope you enjoy concept frames.
Spring Break is here and my next classes won't begin for a couple of weeks, time to post some of the work I've done. For my major assignment for Visual Storytelling II, it's an eight comic with a complete story. I'm pleased with the end result, though as usual, I can always do better. Here's the colored version of my eight pager. Hope to post more soon.
Thought I should post this as it's been a while since my last update. It was part of my final project for Visual Storytelling I class, and as far as I'm concerned may be one of my best works. The comic itself features my characters Voku and Vexa in their humanoid (and under different names for the purposes of the assignment). Here are my original cleaned-up inks. I will be posting the colored version during Spring Break as I'm fixing it up for my portfolio.
Since Fall Quarter is over, time to show some of my better work from Advanced Inking. First up is my four-page comic entitled "Conquering the Dragon." I feel I've come a long way since I've decided to heed my teacher's advice and step back to not overrender. And safe to say, I like the results and hope to get better, especially when inking my own stuff and potentially other works.
I know Digital coloring class seems ages ago, but since I had yet to post my final project for that class, I thought I might as well post it finally. So without further ado, here's my three page comic featuring two of my characters, Riley and Bryce, from a personal project called "Aerial Aces." Riley was originally from my Character Design and Storyboarding for Animation class. In time, I hope to have a fully realized story for her and of course her friends and boss.
Before I settled on the script I would be working on for the final project, my first idea involved two characters that basically existed since my Character Design class. The plot mostly consisted of the two trying to best each other in an extreme stunt, and then later was switched to the cheetah pilot (on the left) teaching the Tasmanian Tiger pilot (on the right) a lesson. Ultimately, I decided to forgo that idea for a better one, but not before doing some character designs in the process.
The cheetah pilot named Sasha and Riley, the Tasmanian Tiger pilot. I may continue redesigning them in the near future as I hope to do a series of stories about Riley's misadventures as a pilot.
Thought I would share some character designs for the short story final project for Advanced Inking as a preview.
The main character of my story named Lyda, who is a struggling writer trying to write a good story (sometime I'm sure anyone can relate to). Interestingly, I had a completely different vision of her character for another story I've been trying to work on. But for now, she's been modernized for the purposes of the project.
And the Dragon, the main antagonist, found within Lyda's dream. My initial design of him was very generic and so a scrapped it and came up with a design motif of torn paper, broken pencil leads & nibs, and scribbles in order to emphasis the dragon as a representation of "creative block."
It's almost halfway through the quarter and I thought I would go ahead and show off some artwork I've been working on for Advanced Inking. Mostly the pin-up illustrations using different inking techniques.
Devilman Pinup. Using PITT pens and Micron .05 and .02.
He-Man pinup. Using G-nibs and school nibs. Probably my best one so far (which isn't saying much for now), even though I still need a lot of practice as far as nibs go.
Adventure Time pinup! My favorite subject since I'm a fan of the show and I tend to be simplistic in terms of line marking in my own work. I used my trusty #3 round brush, which is my favorite along side markers. But like with the nibs, I need further practice. Still think I have my share of hits and misses.
Thought I now show off a few pieces of animation I've done for 2D Animation. First one is the second project for the quarter, which is essentially animating two bouncing balls, one rubber and the other a ball of our choice.
The second is where we have to animate a character sidestepping over something. I chose my long time character Kanaye. Not my best animation so far, but it was one of my favorites.
Once again, but a long while since I last posted here. I promise to upload more art in the future, even if it's not all that impressive. Anyway, first up, my second project for Concept Illustration, which in all honesty, despite it being a difficult class, I rather enjoyed it.
Here's vehicle concepts. The objective was to design one that was mechanical and the other a biomechnical or a beast of burden. I went for a submarine and in relation to the sub, a jellyfish biotech. While I might get around to reworking them in the future, but for now, here's what I've got thus far, including some sketch studies for a design for each other. I have to say for the biotech, I did like the mola mola as well.
