A Bug I Would Hug...

I'm collaborating with a classmate from school to get this bug modeled and rigged :) I really dislike modeling so far so i'm going to see how I like animating, and i figured this little guy would be an awesome character to start off with! I'm going to try some simple exercises but i eventually want to do a lip sync with this character :) any suggestions on a dialogue clip? :s

this little guy was inspired by some drawings of bugs i saw by Emmanuel Briand over at the character design blog

Glinda - Rough Colour Turn

yikes its been a while since i last posted! I've been incredibly busy story boarding and re-boarding and re-reboarding this beast....and i'm afraid its still no good :( so to get away from all of that i decided to take a break and paint this....it serves no particular purpose (b/c i wont be colouring any final animation... I think!) just a little unwinder! and its nice to be able to share something b/c everything else is currently in a state that is embarrassing to share....

the amount of work that needs to go into this little 3 minute song is crazy! i knew it would be a lot of work but I guess it doesnt hit you until you actually have to do it!! also i'm hoping that something from this project will be portfolio quality :( we'll see!!

Sirius, Dumbledore and Filch

Its almost time for Deathly Hallows part 2!!! So I decided to share some Harry Potter fan art... :) above is a piratey looking Filch (sadly without Mrs Norris!)

Dumbledore

Dumbledore again

Sirius (my favorite character <3)

jealous/ angry Ron....

probably like every other harry potter fan out there, i do a ton of HP drawings but i think this is the first time i'm ever really sharing it with anyone :0

**ALSO this is my 107th post :D....... 7!**

Mr Rochester

my version of Mr. Rochester from Jane Eyre! I was experimenting with using different brushes in Photoshop and tried to keep this a little more loose and sketchy :) it only took an hour or so to paint and i generally like the feel of it. I think i'll be trying out more like this!

poor, obscure, plain, and little

I just finished reading Jane Eyre last night and it was wonderful :) heres a little doodle I did of Jane! I have a Mr Rochester and Blanch Ingram on there way too and some Emily of New Moon Sketches! (oh goodness i'm so dorky) I've just been reading a lot of wonderful books lately and I've been influenced :)

does anyone have any book suggestions? I've just read 4 books all with pretty serious/ kind of sad/ bittersweet endings and i want something a little more light hearted! I have Robinson Crusoe that i might read.. do you know of any classics that are happy? :s lol

also...**shakes fist at blogger** you destroyed the colours of my painting!!

Popular roughs

This summer i'm attempting to animated (or partially animate?) the song "Popular" from the musical "Wicked" :) I was inspired by the storyboards by Heidi Jo Gilbert to attempt to do something that i actually wanted to see! i was also trying to emulate the style of Secret of Kells and I'm a Monster with these designs (theyre very rough, they were just done so i kind of had an idea of the characters to start my boards!). hopefully by the end of the summer, i'll have a leica reel with some pencil test animation cut into it and a bunch of layout and design work! I have a ton of work ahead of me, but i'm excited :)

i would love some critiques on these designs and how you think they might work (or not work) when animated!

also heres the song for any one thats curious :)

Muzzle Sync

Sort of old unfinished animation :s just posting it because! one thing i learned while animating this...dont try to animate a character without a solid design for it first..i thought i could just figure him out as i went along..and i think my piece suffered because of that :( well i wont be doing it again! more animation to come soon!!