Faces! And Some More.

Yup, haven't updated in a while!  Still working on the action analysis, but I'm hoping it'll be done ultra-soon.  I figured I could upload some sketchbook drawings.  Most of these are caricatures I drew in the Oakville mall with Josh, Neo and Allen during the last week of the break.  Some of these are actually from an older sketchbook from last semester.  And even less of these are from people on the internet.  But they are there too.  Apparently I find it hard to draw women appealing, more-so than men.  I just realized that as I went through these.  Gotta practice more!

Here's a character I'm currently developing to animate in a lip-synch together with Josh.  We'll see whenever we get some time for that :)  Either way, this character's not quite there yet.  I'm mainly trying out expressions at the moment, as I am currently pretty fascinated with and trying to improve on using simplistic, but still structural mouth shapes.  Tricky, but fun!

And here's a thing from the beginning of... last semester!  I don't know why I didn't upload this before, but I just came across it today.  It was my pitch idea for the 3rd year group film.  It didn't get chosen, but I love what we're working on right now (an idea that came from the brilliant mind of Patricia!).  The main logline of the story was that a salamander realizes his selfishness as he services a heron.  Here be some of the concept sketches I did for the pitch.

Pressing a Button

Suddenly semester 5 is over.  Wait, what?!  Where does the time go?  Looking back, this has probably been the busiest semester for me yet.  I had planned on finishing my rough animation for my action analysis by week 12 so that I had two weeks to do clean-up and colouring.  Things happened, and of course I was unable to get even close to finishing the animation by that time.  There was so much stuff due that I could only work on my action analysis until all the other stuff was done, and at that point I was just burned out.  Luckily I've been catching up on sleep again and I'm working on spending a proper amount of time on my "AAA" over the break.  Until then, here's some other assignments!

The Creature Transformation, yay!  I wasn't able to spend too much time on this, but I fixed a few things up before uploading it here.  I was going to make the first panel be the bird zapping the guy, but you can probably tell that I ran out of time :)  Blogger made that green very saturated here: not sure why...

And then my life drawing portfolio for the end of the semester.  Actually, I just realized that I didn't take photos of all the things required for the portfolio (pastel, ink and sculpture), but here's quite a few extra "regular" life drawings.  Lots of short ones, of course, because I like those a lot.  Sadly, there was literally no time left for extra life as I got closer to the end of the semester.  Oh well, this is what I had:

And then a quick, really short 2D animation lip-sync with one of the tree characters I created earlier this semester:

Aaand, that's all for now!

Blue Things

Sheridan revealed it's new logo recently.  Yay!  ... Nah, I'm not a huge fan of it. I would much rather see them stick with the original tangram.

Anyway, for our elective course we had to work with that new logo design and turn it into something... special. Anything really. So I drew it made up of animals. Big 'Thank You' to Patricia for staying up and helping me judging the appeal in the poses till 4 am sometime last week :)

And then here a fun little walk we did for our 2D course.  Cut-out animation, like 3D animation, allows you to work with a graph editor, which is awesome!  I didn't create the character. The teacher gave us the rig. 

Happy Pigs!

We went to the Royal Winter Fair again last week aaand... we drew the animals.  Surprise!

I wasn't able to stay super long like previous years, as I had to go back to school to get more work done.  I got a good amount of gestures and one longer drawing done in the time I was at the fair though.  So yeah, here is a compilation of most of those gestures and one adorable pig that kept on stretching!

Third Year and Its Life Drawing

Life drawing just keeps going!  Although I can't make it to extra life as many times as in first and second year, I still try.  Group film and action analysis are just taking up a lot of time, although it's fun working on them.  Anyway, here are the drawings I submitted for my life drawing portfolio before reading week.  There might be a few extra ones and there are a few I didn't take photos of either, but oh well.  That'd be all for today!

And thanks for checking out the blog everyone: it means a lot!