Expression Change (Revised w/ Music)

Heh... this. Final animation assignment of the semester. Don't watch it here, I spent 40 minutes uploading it in HD to >YouTube!< (or click the YouTube icon in the bottom right of the video):

Flash Backgrounds

Backgrounds drawn in Flash for my facial expression animation assignment:

Intimate Interior

Caricature Portfolio

Here's some stuff from today's caricature portfolio (some reposts but they're already all edited together). 

^ AndreasChoice (YouTube) as Jessica Rabbit,
Matthew Mcconaughey as Ron Woodroof

^ Jared Leto as Rayon,
Jon Heder as Napoleon Dynamite

^ Top two: videos shown in character design class,
Middle: Zero Mostel as Max Bialystock,
Bottom: character teacher Pete Emslie, Gene Wilder as Leo Bloom

Cathedral - Toned

Here's the toned version of the cathedral I created inspired by 13th-18th century Spanish Gothic architecture (for layout class). The linework is >here< -!

Digitally edited version to fix some prespective and depth issues:

Cathedral for Layout

Here's the linework for a cathedral I created inspired by 13th-18th century Spanish Gothic architecture (for layout class):

           I'm a bit behind after a horrible stomach bug that caused a chain of rushed projects, but after working on this for so long I couldn't ruin it by rushing tones on the original linework. I can hopefully get the tones and characters done on this by Monday (as well as a second layout set in a tighter space).
           Coming up this week as well I have a pitch to Nancy Beiman (who was incredibly kind in letting me pitch on Monday), a caricature portfolio (that I'm very excited about!), and a life drawing portfolio;  in week 14, our final week of the semester, we have a final 3d animation due (very fun), a painting assignment + colour key from boarding class, an expression change animation, and our Leica reel from this Monday's pitch. I'm really looking forward to working on all of these things.

Royal Winter Fair- Year 2

I had a second year field trip to draw farm animals at The Royal Winter Fair at Exhibition in Toronto on Tuesday! This trip was a bit less serious than last year's trip (and a lot shorter). 

Here are some farm animals from this year (watercolour and pencil):

Grease pencil & character design

A wonky drawing of my character design teacher, a sketch from my most recent character design class, Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder from The Producers, and a tonal sketch from painting class. A bit of a stressful week for us, but it's passing by quickly!

Halloween and Birthday Cards

Here are some birthday cards I painted with gouache recently for Gabe and Jess' birthdays:

And a Halloween contribution from my roommates: Jesse's pumpkin (which I proudly gutted) and Eleanor's cupcakes (thanks to Jesse's mom who mailed him muffin wrappers and sugar knives)!

La la la

Hehe. Gif.

Painting - German Town

 Painting Exterior assignment, with digital corrections

BOOK OF LIFE!

I saw Book of Life on the 17th at a promotional night for Sheridan students, and I LOVED it!!
I hear the movie isn't doing too well, so if you get a chance, go see it or buy it when it comes out!

On a semi-related note (Book of Life is about the Mexican Day of the Dead)...
Happy Halloween! I don't have time to draw anything festive so here are some weird jack-o-lantern people and a few more exercise assignments from layout class (the goal is to improve on placing a character within an environment)... and a sketch! 

Character Sketches

A couple of sketches from in class today!

Skeleton Study

Dog skeleton study, 1 hour

J. Wabbit

School! Busy! Going home to Ottawa this weekend for the OTTAWA INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL !
Here's a funny bunny:\

Bunny wabbits

Beat panel. heh :)

Sketch for painting class

Cityscape Painting Sketch. Wonky but I had fun!

HTTYD2 Themed Banner

BACK IN SCHOOL! FINALLY! I'll definitely be posting more stuff. It's gonna be an awesome year! (for now. We'll see when I wake up with my face slapped up against my tablet in the studio on a Sunday morning).

So the second years are doing a themed banner- draw yourself as a How to Train Your Dragon 2 character. I didn't have time to give myself a dragon because I've got other school priorities to take care of but here it is!

HTTYD Theme banner WIP

HTTYD portrait WIP, hopefully HTTYD gets picked! I'm on vacation until the deadline for this project so had to get it done beforehand!

Character in a Setting

I thought I'd scan and upload this since I'm handing it in (last week of school) and proooobably won't ever see it again. Worked on this and finished it today- character in a setting. The little robot is painted on a different piece of paper.

Also, my roomie Rebecca's group film is called Red Alert (unrelated to this)! It's awesome. I'll post a link to it when it's up.

Diagonal Pan Elements

This is the little treadmill I run on

More Digi BG!

Second scene BGs:

Digital Tools Background

Finally got this one to look right for me... background for my first scene for final digital tools short animation !

Caricatures

This was an in-class assignment for life drawing!

Elizabeth, Corey, Alyssa B., Rosanna, Rebecca, Alyssa C., Stephanie

Zooooo

Zoo portfolio due this week

 

uhh... formatting... what are you doing..?!

Character Timeline: Foreman

Finished this just in time!

Character timeline assignment. His name is inspired by George Foreman (career) + Red Foreman (personality).

Pigs

John created a pig character for his animation portfolio and I gueeeeeeeess it has kiiiiiindaa inspired me?

John's portfolio!

HERE is my boyfriend John's 2014 Sheridan Bachelor of Animation applicant portfolio!

Edit: He got in!!! Woop wooey !

Minimum scores for firm admit these past few years:
3.00 -> 3.06 -> 3.12 -> 3.21 this year... wow.