Friday, June 19, 2009

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Animation Mentor? (edit: June 17)

i need to work on a short.

we'll see what happens with schooling in January.
I'll prob end up staying in SF at AAU.
That's cool.

At this moment...right now...
my goal is to have a spacegirl short done by April.

Keep the aesthetics simple. (meaning no color)



I just saw 'Step Brothers'.
Hilarious.
And kinda heart-felt/serious on some level.
Usually the two things occured at the same time.
('Should I be laughing at this?')
'Observe and Report' accomplished the same.

Here's an example.
A deleted scene.





But yeah.
See it.
rent it.
watch the extended version.
then watch the extras.

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

UP

I found out today i think...that this guy worked on UP.
I think I've seen him around.
Maybe in the 2d lab.
And supposedly...he lives in the same dorm as i do.
He's listed the shots he worked on.


I saw UP for the third time today.
The tears were a little more forceful than before for some reason.
No waterfalls or anything.
I think it's just the appreciation of what I was seeing on screen.
I questioned Carl's talking to 'Ellie' a little more.
I suppose it helps with the whole letting-go-of-the-past-and-moving-forward thing.
But on a psychological level...i questioned it.
Maybe it was a comment on religion?

Bought a book on digital painting yesterday.
My eyes were opened.

finished painting soon?

random:
Herbie Hancock on Sesame Street

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

photoshop

i did something crazy the other day.
I updated my tablet (Graphire 4x6 i think) driver for my current computer.
And you know what happened?
I got used to using my tablet.
(After having it for like 2 years)

crazy.

I did some research on coloring in photoshop.
I came across the processes of Kibuishi's and Laughead's illustrations/comics.
Here's Laughead's process.
Illustration Process

Very informative.

Playing around with photoshop:






























You can see the unfinished painting of this in an earlier post.
I like the result so far.
I think I may complete this in photoshop.