Where I've been lately...

Where I was:

Not to put too fine a point on it, these last few weeks have been terrible so far as my school work is concerned. There is almost nothing that I'm willing to post here right now, not without some heavy editing.

Things got a little tight after I decided to apply for a job... that needed a custom portfolio, especially since it was finals the next week. And then finals themselves were a bit too much to handle. My chances aren't looking great for the job, but I'll know for sure by tomorrow (later today really), and I'll update you guys on that (sooner if I get it, and later if I don't).

Anyway, I spent the weekend getting settled in, though there's still a fair amount of unpacking to take care of. My dad's birthday is tomorrow, and that'll be fun. I got him some cool things, though since one of them is in French, I'm not sure how he'll take it.

I saw Real Steel a few days ago, I can't recommend it enough! I enjoyed it so much more than a lot of movies recently. From just the trailer, I thought it was going to be terrible, but it was a huge surprise.

Where I am:

I'm currently finishing up one of my finals, since it was largely unfinished. It's a storyboard animatic of Bill Cosby and one of his Noah skits. I won't really be able to put the audio version on Youtube since the sound-clip is copyrighted, but I'll see about putting a captioned version up when I'm finished.

Also, I'm working on storyboarding an original sequence based on J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan. I'm not sure about the title at the moment, but it's about Peter finding a lost boy. It's supposed to take place before Peter takes Wendy to Neverland. It should last about two and a half minutes all together, and I'm going to look into getting someone to make a short music track for it.

Other than that, senior films. I got way behind on them during the quarter, the sheer class workload came as a huge surprise. It'll be mostly layouts, background concepts, and I'll be working on clean-up storyboards.

That's about all I have planned for now. My other projects aren't forgotten, they just are more demanding in every respect and I want to get some more manageable projects done before I bother with them. There's almost nothing in my portfolio at the moment, and I'm starting to get concerned.


That about wraps it up. I'll be posting some tentative character designs soon for the Peter Pan shortly, so keep an eye out.

Toodles!

The Pans

I really have no clue what "The Pans" is about. It was extremely late when I picked the title, and it seemed like it had potential. Now it makes very little sense, but I think I'll keep it.

These are prop sheets for Jude Harper, a member of the LockWitch clan. It's a group of evil witches where their magical power is gauged by the length of their hair. She's a traveling witch so for ease of travel her hair isn't as long as the "master" witches.

The props include her broom, her hairbrush, and her wand.

The story will be shelved for a while, until I've figured out a good direction to go with it. I need a main character, and I guess she'll need to cook.

So here's a taste of what could be once I get the ball rolling.

And the crowd goes wild!

Sort of.

Hey, guys! Finished another assignment that I'm sure you all are just aching to look at. (Yes, you sitting in the other room). I ended with twenty characters, if you're not including the animals. I had to take a few out due to time constraints; I might add them in later after painting.

This quarter has been one of my most productive ever as far as school work goes. Other quarters have been just a slurry of mediocre trashliners.

Now it's slightly less so.

It'll be nice when I finally figure out what I'm doing.


In other news, I've been working on Senior Films. So many great ones to choose from this year, it's terrible. I'm having to narrow things down but it gets harder everytime. It would be fabulous to have multiple copies of myself so I could do all these things at once.

I have some other really exciting things I plan to post soon so keep an eye out!

After a long absence...

I have returned.


Well, when I say long absence... I mean a week or so.

It has been a bit of a nightmare as far as workload for the last week and a half. I have literally gotten about... 12 hours of sleep in the last five days. Cumulative. And I had this die-hard fever Friday thru Sunday which was an experience in itself.

That being said, things haven't been that bad. Midterms week is guaranteed to wreck your life most quarters, so it wasn't something I didn't see coming. (The fever did catch me off-guard, I must admit).

I've done several things the last several days, (some I'm much to ashamed of to post) and some things that I don't want to post just for no reason what-so-ever. But! I do have a couple of things to show you guys.

First, Dorian now has a pretty solid color scheme rolling for her, so I thought I'd show you guys.

Not that you'll be seeing her in color for quite a long time, but I still thought it was kind of nice.

Second thing is a field pan I did for a class. There are details I missed that need to be added (wood grain on the nearest stall's poles for one), but all that can wait till later. I think I'll render this at some point and use it as a legitimate layout example, but that might have to wait till winter break.

I'm excited to draw the characters in (the minimum requirement is 12, but I think I might exceed that a bit). Buuut, I am dead tired. I'm going to go take a nap so I'll be decent enough to work on some storyboards tonight. Maybe I'll be able to post those sometime soon! 

I'll keep you all posted!

Munchie Game Video

For the last few months I've been doing some work for a game called Munchie from ScriptG Studios. They recently made a video showing some of the basic gameplay from one of the levels.

I thought I'd show you guys since you can see some of my work floating around in it! Once the game comes out, maybe I'll post a sheet of the images I've done for it. It'll be available on Andriods and Kindles as far as I know.

Still, you can see most of the images I've done if you look at Tricky Ted's Emporium on the official page.

Munchie Official Page

Munchie Gameplay Video

Jim Royal and His Shop of Horrors

Well, not really. But this is his work shed where he makes his boats. It's sort of animated; there's a depth of field change every two seconds, so it might get a little dizzy.

The rendering is terrible, I intend to redo it digitally. (All I had was tracing paper, and that was the worst idea possible). Anyway, I've got another without the window frame if you guys are interested.

I haven't posted much these last few days since I've been so crunched for time, and yesterday I basically did nothing but sleep. Who needs to watch the debate? They always spout out the same drivel anyways. 

I'll be trying to keep with posting something everyday, but sometimes it's not possible. I hope you guys can forgive me. This weekend will be eventful in many ways, so I'll share all the interesting moments (if any). 

Finally!

I have the scans, the environments are FINISHED. (We forget that I'm working on another that's kind of due tomorrow).

I wanted to post these before Tuesday so I'm popping in quickly and dropping them before running back to work.

There are a couple of egregious errors in the perspectives that I'll have to fix before coloring these, but let's ignore them. I'm pretty happy with how these turned out in general. Hope you guys enjoy them, too!

See you tomorrow with something new!