What is this?? A blog?!

Hello blog, sorry I have neglected you!

But I have not forgotten.

The first semester of my 3rd year at Ringling has ended and it was quite busy...  However, I think my work is improving slowly as I develop so - yay!

Here's a look at some of the stuff I did:

First I'll show my animation works!

These were our first "warm-up" exercises.






I enjoyed them, but think I was relatively "safe" with their scope...

Next we spent the rest of the entire semester on the following project.  This is the first part.  The second part is not 100% finished yet, so it will be after the new year when I get back to it and finish it up.



It was a lot of fun to work on.  I actually enjoy the second half of it where I change the persona of this guy from hard-rocker to ballet master.  However, like I said I won't have the final render of that until after the new year - the animation is pretty much finished.

Next will be my story class.  Had a lot of fun with it and really tried to simplify the scope of my projects.  The Cupid story was a beast to wrangle.  The final version seen here is really different from where I wanted to take it originally, however, I would need something like 3 minutes to accomplish that so had to go in a completely different direction, but I still like it!

Here they are:





Next on the will be the work I put out in my DFA class, which teaches design principles, techniques, and processes for character and environment creation.  Overall, it was an awesome class.

These guys were created from abstract silhouette shapes and random scribbles.

This is a caricature of myself that we will build and animate next semester - should be a lot of fun.

This was an attempt at caricaturing Bill Murray.  It was tough to wrap my brain around, but a good intro to "Advanced" (advance to me!!!) digital painting I suppose.  

 So these were a collection of abstract thumbnails that I did that led into the last two projects for this class.

 This project was a purely value based study of an environment including a character.

These were the two major steps of my last project.  I spent 90% of my time on the value study (with tint of color), then used that to color it.

In hind sight I should have done the exact same process with Bill Murray's caricature, but it was all to serve as a learning process.

The last class I took over the semester was a painting class.  At first was cool, but my other classes really took time away from completing my paintings, which was disappointing.  So I'll just include some of the "better" paintings... I guess???

 This one was oil...

 These previous two were acrylic.....

...and these final two were oil, also!

I switched from oil about halfway through the class to see if the fast-drying acrylic would be more or less frustrating.  In the end I definitely liked using the oils more.  It's just unfortunate that they're so toxic :(

Anyways!  That was it for the semester.  There was way more work not seen here.  Like process work and all, but I just wanted to show the finals versions of things here!

Hopefully I will post more often in the futureeee......

Adios.