Day 20: Cat Doodles

Some cat doodles (plus one weird old man) before I pack away my scanner.

Sorry, I guess I'm missing another of the thirty days. I spent the day studying, doing finals, and packing stuff in my car so that I can leave for California right after my last final on Monday. I'll have something up for tomorrow.

Day 18: More Character Designs

I tried to reproduce the results I got last night, and it would seem that I can't draw the same character twice. I'll work on it some more tomorrow after the majority of my finals are over. I also got a Staedler Calligraphy pen to try out, which is why there's a cowboy with a huge mustache.

Day 17: Character Designs

A year ago I wrote this short story in a creative writing class, and ever since I've felt an itch to get it out in some form or another. For a while I was thinking of animating it, but I think it would work better as a comic. Today I tried getting some character ideas on paper. I first tried the "Sandwich Shop Ninja" style, and that didn't really work the way I wanted it to. Then I tried a more realistic style, and liked it even though I got the arm proportions way off even when I tried correcting one of them.

Animation Final

Link

Just follow the link to see the school mascot, Cosmo, in his infinite-looping glory!

Day 16: Gesture Drawings

Scans from my last gesture drawing session of the school year.

Day 15: Future Nature

...and I didn't post yesterday. So much for the thirty-day thing. I spent the entire day working on my final for my Intro. to Animation class. I'd have uploaded it by now, if only the Mac the file is on didn't keep corrupting it when I moved it over to my flash drive. I'll have to go back tomorrow and copy it multiple times to ensure that it is copied completely. I can't stand Macs.

Day 13: Time-Lapse Photography

I walked out to the busiest street corner I could find nearby. these would have been longer if the battery for my home-made intervalometer wasn't dead. Also, whoever keeps honking their horn in the parking lot at 12:43 at night needs to be shot.

Day 12: Planet

TDP - Day 11: Scenery Revisited

I worked a bit more on the scene image I posted a few days ago.

TDP - Day 10: Forum Sketches

So I had to go see some professor talk about his book today for a class. I drew some people. Then in another class I learned about the macuahuitl and that an Aztec warrior could severe a horse's head with one. Awesome.

TDP - Day 9: More Scenery

Staying up late doing essays leaves little time to do much else.

TDP - Day 8: Waiting Ninja

What's he waiting for? He's waiting for this stupid semester to end, that's what. Man, I'm out of practice with Flash.

TDP - Day 7: Twilight Hills

TDP - Day 6: Sleeping Beasts

A pair of large creatures sleep in the sunlight on the grassy hilltops of some unknown land. It would not be unwise to wake them. However, it would be unwise to hang around after waking them, for they are known to eat people. Not just any people, just the really stupid ones that piss them off.

TDP - Day 5: Clouds

I realized that I wouldn't be able to get breakfast at the cafeteria tomorrow, since its a Sunday, and that I didn't have any cereal. So today, after the general conference sessions, I drove around looking for cheap cereal and milk. It took a while, since the first few stores were sold out of the cheap stuff that wasn't $4.50 a box.

Is the moon even visible from Provo? I haven't seen it in over a month.

TDP - Day 4: Speed Paintings

Thirty-Day Project, Day 4 - two more speed paintings, one of a forest, one of a spaceship docking station.

TDP - Day 3: Spiff Sketch

I have other deadlines that I need to work for, so here's a sketch I did to avoid falling asleep in astronomy today. I still fell asleep, and ended up smearing the penciling on the planet. Still, out of all the sketches I did during classes today, this one turned out the best.

TDP - Day 2: Cloudy Coast

It'd be nice to live in a place like this. Calm, peaceful, a nice cool breeze. I'd still have to have a job, and traffic in the bay area of California is something of nightmares.

Day 2 of the Thirty Days Project, a small 30-minute speed painting. I'll be able to put more time in these when finals are over.

[Edit] Hmm, now that I look at it on a screen that isn't my laptop's, the sky is green. Seems a little counter-productive to have a tablet PC with a generic cheap poor-colored laptop screen.

Thirty Days Project - Day 1

Since it's still technically yesterday according to Blogger's standards, I am still able to fully participate in the Thirty Days Project. Behold, a Ring-Tailed Lemur wearing boxing gloves. Also, my scanner seems to have issues suddenly.

Animation?

So I turned in my portfolio today. Or yesterday. It's tomorrow over here right now or something. Here's the animation I used for it:

If the above video doesn't work, here's a link to somewhere else that has it:
Alternate link to animation.

Whatever. I can't even view it because my computer got messed up and the only way to fix it was to install Windows Vista.