Storyboarding

Dave Pruiksma's storyboarding class was a ton of fun. We spent most of our time working on a group project to come up with a story for an animated short and to produce an animatic reel with voices, score and sound effects. Every week we pitched the progress on our storyboards and received critique from Dave and the class. This is what we came up with at the end of the class. There were four members of our group and I was in charge of the boards in third section of the reel from the 7:00 minute mark to the 11:43 mark and the sound effects for the entire reel.

We also did a personal project. This is mine:

Figure and Portrait Sculpture

I really enjoyed this sculpture class. It was seriously challenging but nice to get my hands dirty and do something more hands on than holding a pencil or a stylus.

This is my portrait sculpture. I wish I could have cast it but I didn't have $300 dollars laying around.

These pictures are from various full figure sculptures I did throughout the class. They vary in time spent from 3 to 18 hours.

Character Design

In character design with Lou Police I did an interpretation of the Gingerbread Man fairy tale. I was influenced heavily by the Blacksad comics and so most of the characters are anthropomorphic animals and the story is set in WW2 Germany. The Ginger Bread Man instead of being a cookie shaped like a man is a redheaded baker who becomes a rebel leader in Nazi occupied Germany and the other characters from the fairy tale are interpreted appropriately as antagonists.

This is the old woman in the story of the Gingerbread Man that he runs away from. I imagined her as a Nazi concentration camp director who is after the protagonist for starting a rebellion.

This is my interpretation of the pig from the story. He is the butcher in the same town as the Ginger Bread Man who reports him to the gestapo for insurrection.

Here we see the horse from the fairy tale as a stuffy aristocratic Nazi party member.

This is the fox who in the fairy tale offers to carry the Gingerbread Man across the river on his back and ends up eating him. In my story he is a seedy dock worker who the Redheaded Baker pays to smuggle him across the river to freedom. He is eventually betrayed by the fox to the Nazis as he is vulnerable during the river crossing.

 Early sketches for the Baker.

This is the final color concept for the Baker. He escapes from a concentration camp and manages to start a resistance in Nazi Germany but is later betrayed by the Fox and becomes a martyr for his cause.

Digital Painting

I decided that I had better learn to paint if I was going to survive so I took a Digital Painting class even though it wouldn't count towards my major. It definitely helped even though I still don't feel like I paint that well.

First I will show some film studies and other stuff that we did for warm-ups.

Then we did a big concept project where we had to interpret Tom Waits' Cemetery Polka with elements of Sci-fi and in the style of Tadahiro Uesugi.

Intro to Perspective

Most of my projects for perspective are pretty dry but I wanted to at least show my final because I like the concept.

Visual Storytelling

For visual storytelling with Marshall Vandruff we were tasked with creating our own adaptation of Windsor McKay's Little Nemo in Slumberland. I came up with a retro-future science fiction story of Nemo as a teenager living under an oppressive regime. During a psychological evaluation, government doctors discover that Nemo's mind is a portal to Slumberland and quickly plan to invade and conquer the dreamworld. As Nemo tries to fight off the invasion in Slumberland and free his body from the clutches of the totalitarian regime in the real world he starts to have trouble discerning between dreams and reality.

These are the comic pages that I drew for the story. The speech bubbles are missing and the shading is incomplete but the line work and imagery is interesting.

Intro to Maya Projects

This post will be showcasing a few of my projects from Intro to Maya class. Some really basic 3D animation stuff from way back during my first semester at LCAD.

First is this submarine project.

Secondly is the final project for the class where we had to model a room and have a ball moving around inside it and then go into a box.



Next is a futuristic chair that I modeled.

Then I modeled a barn.

Oh and this TF2 Pyro themed pumpkin.

 That pretty much sums up Fundamentals of Maya