Sophomore: Part I

The goods from fall semester!  Whole lot of learning that went on in those short months. Let's go by classes shall we:

Concept Development:

All about the art of storytelling. Our first assignment was to create an animatic for Aesop's fable "Maimou and the Dolphin." 

First we had to create a storytelling image (a single image that encompassed the action of story..kind of like a teaser to the story i guess)

A whole bunch of breakdowns and messy lessons later, out came the final animatic, my first animatic! (Certainly looks like a first animatic)

Our next assignment was a series of animatics to teach us "deep staging." Here's one about a raven:

And our final assignment, about one [noun] that wants another [noun]'s food. We first pitched 3 ideas via storytelling images, and chose in class which story to go with

I ended up going with the one about the dinosaur.

We did a layout of the space where it takes place:

And then the final animatic!

Computer Animation I

Assignment numero uno: ye olde ball bounce, featuring one real ball and one "alive" ball.

Assignment numero dos: Primitive Theater (a lot of people wonder how i thought of this...because it is a little strange. Basically, when thinking of primitive theater and "simple characters," I figured that such a character had a simple, disassemble-able body, like a toy. Hence, little Manny the construction worker misplaced his eyes.)

Final Assignment: Simple Poly. Design a bi-ped character and make him walk/jump turn. 

Here were my ideas:

Here's my fella:

And here he is in action!

Annnnnnd finally: a lip sync from Traditional Animation II. Didn't turn out quite like I wanted but, still pretty happy with it

Semester two coming soon!

Wowww it's been a while hasn't it...

How about an update? Everyone down for an update? ...or a bunch of updates?

Despite the utter neglect of this blog, I promise I've been really busy! So here comes a flood of updates to catch you up. Brace yourselves.

I'm starting you off by finishing up the summer of 2012. Some water colors from life:

And then a whole summer's worth (and actually some of winter break too) of cafe drawings done while home in San Francisco. And it's true: for every one good drawing you crank out 1000 bad ones must be cranked out first. Here were the one's that were somewhat decent:

It's been a busy yet lackadaisical summer

Update...sophomore year starts SOON!
This was a strange summer...I feel like I did nothing, yet when I think about it I guess I managed to do a decent amount.
I spent my first month of break and most of the second in a state of pure sloth-ery. Accurate depiction:

I started with painting from landscape photos to beef up my digital paint skills and get better at color.

I took a week-long Maya class and learned to model, texture and light

And some more random paintings here and there.
A quick color study of the Nevada desert on the 8 hour drive from San Francisco to Las Vegas

A quick color study of a desert sunset during my stay

And a quick self portrait in the car window on the drive back home

...and the only sketchbook thing worth showing. My pop at a sushi place

more summer work to come after some touchups

3D: (3)rd (D)ump

Wire and clay make for a hard day, but its fun to work with your hands :)

Man, I wish I could take this class again

3D for CA:

For what little projects we did over the semester, I just realized I did a lot of baseball related things.....

Second Post, Second Semester Dump

Oh hey

It's May

Meaning second semester is long over, as is my first year at Ringling.

That was insanely and horrifyingly fast, but also insanely fun :) I'm excited for the next 3 years.

Here's the highlights from figure drawing: