Late Night Drawing Session

Here's another one for you guys! For some reason they all enjoy running around everywhere lately... I'm still playing with Flo's design, but I think this version is what I want to move towards more. Also that cat kid doesn't have a name yet, but he has an important role in the full story. 

I'm almost sad that I won't be doing this film in 2D. Almost.

Tree Progress

As my Senior 1 class comes around to midquarter, I figured I'd post some progress on this ridiculous tree. Let me say that first of all I am not a modeler, I am an animator. So this thing has really been a struggle for me, but I took it on to give myself a challenge. For a while there I seriously questioned my entire knowledge of modeling because the form that I was so cautiously building seemed to be turning into some sort of squid...Anyway, I now have it at a point where I'm actually sort of proud of it. I've been modeling it in Maya so now I'm going to try my hand at ZBrush (a program I've never worked in before, let alone opened...). This should be interesting.

(Also my friends really wanted it to have googly eyes so here's a little something extra: [x] )

Just messing around in photoshop - highly influenced by listening to OneRepublic's new album (mainly "Life in Color").

The girl character here is Florence (or Flo for short). She only has a couple of dialogue lines in the short, but she's another main character in the full story. Flo helps Leo navigate the DreamScape from the outside since she can't transport herself there. I'll have a post dedicated to just Flo later on to give more of an idea about her character designs.

As for the film's progress, Leo's modeling is underway! So are the environments, which I've decided to take on myself since there isn't very much to them. There will be a draft of my 3D animatic posted in approximately 3 weeks since it's due for midterms. I'm really excited and getting anxious to animate, but that comes later so I'll have to be satisfied with making this crazy tree for now :)