Networking and the Home Stretch.

I'm in the home stretch with my Multifunctional Laser Tiger Animation which is making me super excited. I haven't fixed the one shot with a camera yet or started the other shot that has a moving camera. I want to get most of my thesis composited and rendered out before I do simply because the camera is super hard on my computer.

I've also finally started on my story board assignment for concept art and I feel that theses tight-ish storyboards are a bit more time consuming then they should be. So I just have to keep cranking them out or they simply won't get done.

Yesterday I went to a video game panel over in Harrisburg and I brought a concept art and model work with me and after the people stopped talking I asked if they could look at my work and give me some feedback. They gave me some presentation tips for my 3D models adding images of the wire frames as well as writing a polygon count on the model page, and were really impressed with my textures in fact the guy from Schell Games and the Firaxis Games told me that I should send my submission package with a demo reel to their studios. I'm honestly super excited about this especially with Firaxis 'cause I enjoy the Civilization games.

Today there was an AIGA portfolio review at my college. I sat with a total of 5 people since students stopped wanting to show their work at 11:30 and I was kinda "well I paid $15". Of the 5 I saw 2 people didn't say much or didn't know how to critique illustration work and I started asking them technical questions and presentation questions just to force a dialogue. Then on the flip-side 2 of the guys I spoke with were really awesome about giving me feedback and talking about my stuff and people I should be looking at some of which I've never heard of. One of the guys who was from a publishing company was really interested in my patterning work and told me to contact him once the semester was over and we could do lunch and I who quite enjoy lunch was bubbling over with excitement. The other guy I spoke with gave me some advice but it was sort of you should want to be a graphic designer so I didn't take it too close to heart.

Finally I'm really excited for the new Looney Tunes Show that's going to be coming out soon.

Just look at them it's so stream line and awesome! PLUS Bugs and Daffy are roomies I think this show is going to be the sort of thing that "wrights it's self".

Between the Semester Madness and Elvis Count Chula!

So the first semester of my senior year at PCA&D has ended. It was really short yet really long and I feel that a lot of good work was created. As well as more of a style being formed. The end of the semester means I have less than 30 days to complete my goal of at least 4 more shots for my thesis. I also have graduate school demo reel and portfolio to piece together and submit before the next semester starts. Grad school is a little scary but even Hasboro Studio wants animators to have a Graduate Degree, and formal animation studies will be really what I need. PCA&D has some amazing professors with awesome work, but I am going for illustration degree and I want more technical and artistic guidance from actual animators.

Well I think this'll be my last post of the year (or atleast til after Christmas) since I won't have internet where I am spending my Christmas holiday. To leave you off I'm going to show off a fun character sheet of Bubbah Chula. Which was a project from my humorous illustration class. My specific assignment was to redesign Count Chula. So I decide that he saw an Elvis impersonator in Vegas and wanted to also be like The King. Also a different take on the "shiny vampire".

How Many Muffins are in a Dozen?

Ok, so here we good decent quality movie with sound.

The semester is wrapping up I'm stealing the computer labs to render work that I've been fixing/ trying to fix since Thanksgiving times. Which is cool to feel like the supreme ruler of the computer lab. Also played with my Count Chula for my Humorous Illustration class. I'm not sure where to go with it anymore so I think it might be done. I just gotta work more on my thesis since that's something I can't really take a break on, well except for when I'm working on other work, but it's still my number one priority. I do also have to start scanning life drawings before the semester is over so that i can't not have an under construction raccoon on portfolio anymore.

Semester is wrapping up pretty fast and I think this is the first semester I don't have a real test to worry about. I have projects and papers but not art history or whatever final to worry about on top of that. I'll try to get another blog postin' in before I go away during break and I lack internet.

Re-Edit:: So I figured out that embedding from YouTube Healine was wording about.

I guess this is my fist finished shot.

So last week I uploaded the pencil test of Multifunctional Laser Tiger fist using his laser powers. Today I think it's pretty close to finished I'm saving all of my color correction to the end of this project just to consolidate time.

I had another shot that is pretty close to finished and will be finished by next Thursday. It was the shot I was working on during break and it was the first shot of the tiger running through the jungle. I didn't really do much tweening of the head at all so he looks kinda special waggling his head about. I think I can have that done by tomorrow night. That said I haven't really touched that crappy Maya model for my Tuesday class and I'd like to not have a bad grade. I also have the acting yet on the bakers dozen part of my Tuesday animation which I need to make look less chunky.

Finally I got told my a professor Christina Hess that taking concept art would be a good thing for me over the game design class. Where as many of my other professors were trying to pressure me into taking game design. Christiana is a fellow patterning lover and she's been helping me out with the textures and colors I've been using for my background concepts. I really appreciate some encouraging words especially late in the semester when I feel greatly discouraged about several nouns.

So I'm going to leave you off with the finished for now shot of MLT firing his lasers. (The song has a sorta 8bit electric feel so that buzzing you hear is part of the song in this part.)