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More Dream animation stills from scene two of my short film. This is from the latest render of my loose narrative, music video/short film that I have been working on at UCLA this quarter. The music is by the amazingly talented Welsh composer Ceri Frost.
This film is a combination of TVPaint, Flash, hand drawn, hand painted, and Photoshop elements put together in After Effects. This film is almost finished and should be complete before January :)
I’ve almost finished a small flash game project that I’m working on at the UCLA Animation Workshop. It’s inspired by the wonderful games of Amanita Design.
Above is the sea background that I created. It’s a combination of hand drawn and photoshop colored elements.
Below is a link to the flash file that shows the game’s sea animation and the main character along with his idle animation (click on the image :)
I updated my blog to the latest release of wordpress today (version 2.6.3) and was able to add a really cool plugin for NextGen Gallery. NextGen Gallery allows you to implement and organize galleries and albums on a wordpress site like flickr. I really like NextGen’s implementation and it’s easy to install.
Anyway, with the gallery plugin installed I uploaded the second set of photos from our Gnomon Stop Motion class visit to the Chiodo Bros Studio in Burbank. This set of photos focuses on one of their talented artists, Rick O’Brien, and his amazing painterly work. Rick spent a lot of time with us explaining his texturing and painting methods and concepts – it was great :)
To look at more of Rick’s work, visit his Monument Project and Blog.
Background painting of a cityscape for a Flash project at UCLA. Created with Photoshop.
Background painting of a city street created in Photoshop. This is for a project for my Flash class at UCLA.
The story board for my film, version 1, part 5. Drawn in Photoshop.
Anne, my grandmother. Life drawing using oilstick on canvas board.
One of my older life drawings that I have always liked. Acrylic painting on paper.
‘O Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done’…Captain for Illustration Friday
A cat on a rocket. Created with acrylics and pens on Bristol board, 9″ x 9″.
I struggled with this painting and repainted areas several times. I think I struggled because I tried to do some things differently with this piece. I have rarely used black paint so the black cat was something different for me. I hoped too that by using black it would force me away from my reliance on using pens to add detail and line work and that instead I would have to paint my lines.
I’m really trying to improve my brushwork, especially when it comes to laying down fine lines and details. I even bought some new smaller sized brushes, a mix of liners, spotters and rounds of size 1 through 000 (seen below).
Have a good weekend.