Massive Update

I just put up a huge update today; the rest of my bone studies, a character expression sheet and my box fold animation. So please go and check it out!

It's been a ridiculously busy last couple of weeks, which is why I haven't updated in so long. One more week left of school so there was a huge amount of assignments to be done. On top of that there was an issue with my housing situation and I may have to move so I've been dealing with that. I'm 99% caught up now after that issue though so it's all good.

I'm starting to get in the Christmas spirit lately! I can't wait to go Christmas shopping, even though I'm horrible at thinking up present ideas. Mostly I just go to the malls and walk around for hours not getting any good ideas and then the week before Christmas I'm forced to buy something.

Look out for some paintings and another animation soon!

Character Poses and Clouds

We're handing in our second assignment for character design class today. This was pretty fun to brainstorm and formulate a character. My big project that I'm finishing is for painting, we have to paint clouds. We have to use a technique similar to watercolour which I've never done before now so we'll see how the final one turns out. Besides that I put up two videos from our Digital Tools class today, so check those out. We recreated our bouncing ball and bowling ball on the computer.

Character Rotation

Now that people are starting to check out my website I just wanted to teach people how to leave comments for people who have never seen blogs before.

To leave a comment on my blog:
Choose a post you want to comment on
Scroll to the bottom of the post and click "COMMENTS"
In the window that pops up type your comment in the box at the bottom
Click name/URL and leave your name so I know who left it!

There that was easy, now it will e-mail me so I know you looked at it! Unfortunately you can't comment on my animations on youtube without having an account first.

Also for those who have never used blogs before, if you click on the images in my posts you can see them bigger.

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Now on to the more interesting stuff.

The image below is the character rotation that we handed in today. I think it turned out pretty good! Better then the character I did for my portfolio to get in to animation. It's a lot less stressful when your not thinking about how your whole intellectual career hangs on the one drawing, so I got to experiment and be a little more free about the design of this character.

I still felt kind of rushed though, we had 4 weeks to do it, but with all the other homework it's really not that long. But the teacher said he's not looking for perfection since it's our first project. Apparently the next assignments will be "a lot more fun" and "less structured".


Somehow the scan turned out all mucky, I think the school's scanners need to be cleaned. My scanner isn't hooked up yet because I keep forgetting to get the cord from home. It's a bit of a hassle to use the scanners at school, as far as I know there are only two rooms with scanners and the doors to those rooms are locked arbitrarily.

Another thing that bugs me is that our perspective class is in a small English room in the E wing instead of a drafting room in the animation building. Our big sketchpads don't even fit on the tables. I know for a fact that the art fundamentals program has big drafting rooms and they are paying significantly less then us... suspicious if you ask me. It's very frustrating knocking elbows and poking each other with our long metal rulers in a tiny, hot room.

I don't mean to complain though, I'm having so much fun. We watch and study cartoons all the time, what can be better then that? I'm learning so much and all the teachers are helpful and knowledgeable, it's great. Especially in life drawing where we're learning anatomy, I'm finding it really interesting. Studying all those bones has been giving me some weird nightmares though.