It seems as though a lot of the people that I follow on Blogger have been leaving for tumblr. I don't say that I really blame them. Tumblr is how I hope the future or writing papers will be. You have a source and you can see where images and ideas have come from and who has added input before it gets to you. I still like my blogger and don't plan on getting rid of it too soon. Tumblr is also more busy than Blogger is in terms of updates and the blogs you can view.

My online classes have started up at AAU and I really like my professors they have lots of office hours and are really quick to review your work and in some cases allow resubmission as long as its completed by the deadline.

This past weekend I went to a wedding of one of my very best friends ever Jess Jones her and Matt have been dating about 5.5 years since our Jr. Prom and yesterday was the first time they kissed. So it was a very "B'AWWWE" moment. Also got to dance with my husband to a married couples dance at the wedding and I was very "SQUEEE".

Oliver and I have also started work on a territorial TCG. I would like us to have something functional before one of the three Lancaster Gaming Cons next year (yeah, Lancaster, Pennsylvania is BIG for traditional gaming who knew?). That is also an excitement that we are both passionate about. Me gaming and card illustration and him with card games and designs.

Interests, Bells, and Online!

Ok so last time I was complaining about not being able to afford Graduate School, well I'm going to start attending classes online and I hope I'll be able to afford to go out to California by at least my third year. I'm excited about school and the curriculum. I have been looking into more video game studios and I hope than an animation masters degree over an entertainment technology degree will be more beneficial because it it too much money to get a degree that I'm not going to use.

Also I'm going to be getting married soon. As in 23 days I wasn't really counting until it hit 3o days and I've just kind of been counting down with excitement jitters since.

My friend Liz posted this link and it had me thinking a bit about the bio. This blog is sort of just a giant bio, but on my other social networking sites it's more "here's some art and I'll throw in some context". There isn't too much of myself put in there. I never really thought people cared about the bio, but some people might. I haven't formally sat down and written a good one but I have been thinking about them. I've also been looking at the art of Richard Perez so I decided to also make an illustrated list of things I like.
Honestly it was a nice relaxing way to spend my evening and to get me thinking about a formal art bio rather than just an artist statement of purpose.

So I've Graduated...

... and I didn't get the grant money I was hoping for from the Delaware Scholarship Incentive Program. So I can't really afford graduate school next year. I spoke with my one friends sister who has 1 bachelors degree and 3 masters degrees and she said that after Oliver and I get married financial aid becomes a lot easier to come by. I can see that being true. Still not attending graduate school right away even though I got in and even was able to skip a class is a pretty big downer. So I'll be working saving money, paying back loans, applying at game companies, and today I sent out about 100 postcards for various illustration jobs that my work seemed to fit into. I am also reconsidering going to graduate school specifically for animation. I'm thinking more of an "Entertainment Technology" program and to specialize in animation, because I think I might rather work in video games because of the constant production work flow and I like being busy. That and with video game you don't get the out sourcing that comes with the animation territory (at least television animation).


So since graduation other than working I've also been working on food illustrations as seen above because Charlie suggested it to me after he saw my postcard 3 months ago and I'm finally getting around to drawing some

I've also started preproduction work for my next animated short "Level 4 Goblin" Title still in the works. I've pretty much started on making a map and fleshing out the map a bit so that I have and idea on where this goblin is going when I storyboard it. The basic concept is this goblin gets dropped into a game of dungeons and dragons while the world is being built around him I expect the run time to be between a minute and 2 and a half minutes. That'll sort its self out after I do the story boards and throw them into an animatic. I also want to go to 3 film festivals that have animation as part of their work and depending on what happens next year I really want to go to the Ottawa animation fest.

I have also watched this one anime Puella Magi Madoka Magica and between that and The Amazing World of Gumball airing on CN I am really taken a back by their animation. They are very different types of shows; Madoka Magica is a sad sad show with amazing character development and upon watching the ending my tears caused Lancaster PA to rain for a day straight, and Gumball is a silly show with less developed characters and convenient situations and over all hilarious shenanigans. Both these shows that have recently been airing in their respected countries have several different animation styles and techniques inter graded in the show and pull it off really really well.

This is a .gif from Madoka Magica and it doesn't show how awesome these combined techniques really look, but it does show the gest of what I am talking about. (Also from this show I learned that Joan of Arc was a magical girl).

The character designs are really adorable and between that and the way the backgrounds are build and the lighting in some of these shots I'm really blown away. (This show has the most intelligent humorous cartoon mom).

I'll try not to wait too long between posts because the result tends to be super long.

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".