The Christmas Post

I worked on this animated Christmas card with a bunch of people about two weeks ago.  It was a short project, and I ended up animating the beaver (not the clean-up), doing all the compositing, and adding all the sound work.   Didn't spend very long on it, although I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.  Worked on it with Anne-Marie, Kaitlin, Margaret, Maria, and Rebecca.

I'd love to post more film work, but I'm also trying to keep that "secret" until it comes out, so here's more portfolio stuff.  These were actually from the first portfolio earlier in the semester.  I did one coloured piece for it, although I was sick during that particular weekend, so it ended up looking pretty blah for my liking (I even touched it up a bit in Photoshop just now so that the colours were a little more interesting than the original).  I wanted to touch up some of the other pieces a bit more too, alas, I didn't feel good and ended up going to bed.  Here's a few of the better pieces for that particular portfolio :)

Posting November... in December

I'm late with posting for last month... again.  Here is a whole bunch of life drawing work from the latest portfolio.  I wanted to do some more colour pieces and maybe a digital piece or two.  I just ended up going with drawings from class though, since the fourth year film is simply taking up a lot of my time.  I haven't posted my midterm portfolio yet.  I should get on that.  Anyway, here are some life drawings and a quick compilation of some sketchbook work.

Tiny Animals and a Tree Root

We're nearing the end of October and I haven't done a blog post yet.  I really didn't know what to upload, since I don't want to give away too much film stuff (yet?).  However, since the film is the thing I'm working on most of the time, I kind of have to post something related to it, so here are some character design sketches from a couple of weeks ago.  I made the salamander a bit younger than what he initially was, whereas I tried to finalize the dragonfly a bit more.

So here's another random thing: a currently unpainted tree root that the salamander will be standing on for maybe half a second.  Yup, that's all :)

And I just dug this up again today.  I figured I might as well upload it, since I did this last summer.  It was the setup of an earlier story that, well... didn't make the cut.

Wings

I didn't post anything in September!  So to make up for that... I'm posting this a day later!

So my fourth year film is about a salamander and a dragonfly.  I don't want to give away too much at this point, but here's a test of the dragonfly wings that I've done.  It took a while to get the blurs to behave, but I think I'm close to getting it.

I tried different styles of animating the wings.  I had one that was more "realistic" in which you could barely see anything but a light blur in place of the wings, but it just didn't feel the same as seeing glimpses of the actual wings.  I don't really know what else to type.  So yeah, here is a GIF:

It's That Time of Year

Blog header update!  I wanted to do something different than the past years, so I kept the drawing rougher.  And... I didn't use any blue!  That's a first.

So yeah, that's that.  Here's a higher resolution version of the header.

Past Mey-Me Monsters can be found here:
2013
2012
2011

But how would my last summer post of 2014 be complete without animal drawings?  That's right, here's a whole bunch more of 'm from the last couple of weeks:

There comes a time where one has drawn too many giraffes.

Aaaaand fourth year starts in two days.  Wait, what?!