Graphite Animals Have Returned

Summer is sneakily trickling by and I'm almost starting fourth year... weird.

Here are some more zoo animal drawings for y'all, because... well... we're still doing zoo trips.  I switched over to drawing with a pencil again recently, which feels nice and stuff.

Compiling these is always odd.  I'm moving all the drawings around on the page and I'm never quite happy with their locations.  And then suddenly I'll just stop and upload them, like today :)

I Like Rain

Rain usually means the zoo isn't too busy, which is very nice when trying to draw animals.  And you don't get sunburned as easily!  Here's a whole bunch of drawings from the last zoo trips.  All pen drawings :)

And here's a whole bunch of fourth-year film development.  The story with the salamander and the dragonfly is constantly being tweaked, but I'm slowly arriving at something I'm excited to work on.  In the mean-time, I've been doing drawings all over the place to explore the designs of these two characters.  I think I'm getting close to the final design of the salamander, but I'm still figuring things out with the dragonfly, who's (currently) a very jolly character.  Here's a whole bunch of pages:

I've been doing a bunch of Rayman Legends colour studies recently, as that game has some of the most amazingly beautiful paintings and colours I've come across.  Ever!

There's a whole bunch on these original artists' blogs.  They're all awesome, so check 'm out!

http://cmessier.blogspot.ca/
http://jbdugait.blogspot.fr/
http://sebastiendujeu.crevado.com/rayman
http://luyangartbox.blogspot.ca/2014/07/the-art-of-rayman-legends-2012-ubisoft.html?m=1

And if you, too, like rain, listen to this while doing anything and everything:
http://www.rainymood.com/

Third Year Film

This is a big post.

First, the film:

So, there was a looot of time put into this.  I was one of the production managers on this project, which means it got pretty hectic at times.  A lot of the work I did over the two semesters during my third year can be seen below.

Here's a beat board.

Patricia did the other three :)

Next up: storyboards!  I did a lot of these in the first semester.  We divided our entire group in three smaller groups: character design, layout, and storyboarding.  So as you may have guessed, I was part of the storyboarding group.  Many late hours were spent on this, but it was fun and helpful to collaborate and solve story-problems with a group.  Some of the stuff here was cut, as we simply had too much going on at some point.

Some colour keys here.  We didn't end up using these, but they were fun to do.  And good practise too!

Here are some of the rough character designs I worked on beside working on the storyboards in first semester.

An expression sheet I did for Edgar.  This was at the end of first semester and we were all super busy.  I did these all at some late hour.  In pen, haha (except one!)

Speaking of that end-of-first-semester rush, we had an animation journal to write for our animation and stop motion classes.  We also had to draw something for each of the ten topics we were discussing.  I used our film characters for this.  They were all drawn super fast and I must have been pretty sleep deprived at that point.  It's funny to look back at them now though, so I compiled them all here:

Backgrounds I did for the film.  I sadly didn't get to paint any of them, but I did put in the blocks of tone that could then later be coloured.  I only did the workbook of the third one here, so that one is still rough with some... uhm... discarded storyboard drawings in there :P

And yes, I animated too!  I wish I had some more time on some of the scenes, but there were other things that had to get done too.  I didn't do the clean-up for most of my scenes, so I worked on them up until the tie-down stage, which you can see here.  It was a pretty quiet video, so I added some music from the film to it :)

And as a little bonus, I tried doing a whole bunch of "Scary Edgar" drawings, for when Edgar loses his mind towards the end of the film and sneaks up on Bob.  Everyone kept saying I drew him too cute, so we didn't end up using these.  They were interestingly fun to do though, haha!

And that is all (I could find)!  I worked on almost all of the sound and music in the film too, which was quite a bit of work as well.  I learned a lot from it though, so that's great.

I have some zoo trip animal drawings I could upload, but I'll save that for another post.

I Never Finish My Drawings

And that's frustrating. One day, one day!

Here's a whole bunch of stuff from the last couple of weeks.  I compiled a whole bunch of sketchbook stuff, so... well, yeah, here goes:

Cafe Sketches.  All unfinished, of course, but there are more full-body poses.  I never do enough of those, so it's a step in the right direction, I hope.

Zoo trip number one:

And fourth year film concept stuff. These are all from the sketchbook and some Photoshop files, while the coloured images are parts of my pitch package that I did at the end of the semester. The story is about a salamander and a dragonfly. I'm still tweaking it, so I'll leave it at that for now :)

Wait, Only One More Year to Go?!

Not sure how I feel about that.  Third year felt very different than the first two years though.

I'll be posting my contributions to our third year film soon, but I have to wait a little longer with that.  There should be storyboards, concept pieces, layouts and animations posted sometime... in the summer?

We had a final assignment due for life drawing which I could post.  However, with my sleep deprivation and limited available time due to having to finish the film, I really couldn't get the assignment to come out like I wanted it to.  I even restarted halfway through until I literally had to get back to school to submit it.  Oh well, I learned something from it, and that's what counts.

Long story later: I'm not posting that final assignment, although here's my final life drawing portfolio of third year.  I did quite a few life drawings in my sketchbook this semester, so I included some of those too.