OH MY GIF

The above was a practice animation for one of the current senior films being worked on.

The one below was originally for some storyboards for the other senior film, and I cleaned it up a bit and made my own animation.

And here's some cauldron magic from my 2D special effects class.

Sketch Dump

 

 

 

 

 


Just thought I would upload some sketches. Yeah, my scanner is a narp so you get phone pictures.

Character Design Final

So, for my character design final we had to create a story pitch, design four of the story's characters, and create two environments. Here's how it came out. I kind of made up the story as I was making the designs, so it's a little last minute. Anyways, it was a total stress bomb, but way fun to make all of this! 

Some Work in Progress Animations

Feedback would be helpful!

Miyazaki Emulation + random schoolwork

Here is my piece emulating the great Hayao Miyazaki! I kind of realized, in doing this, that I've been subconsciously emulating him already.

If you haven't seen a Miyazaki movie you must. Quickly my boy.

And I liked the one with just shadows too, so I threw that in.

And here's two assignments I kind of had to throw together last minute.

Some of My Happiest Moments

The first comic occurred when we went to see wreck-it-ralph last week.

awesome movie. I cried. loved it. see it.

And this comic is about how I welcome the onslaught of winter. 

Also if you aren't already in love with Norah Jones you should get that relationship started. 

Just a Lobster

Crustaceous animals are my all time favorites.

Knight Girl Animated

Holy Animation Batman!

Yeah, an animated GIF! This was way fun to do, and I like the way it came out, even though it is all pixelly...

Jumping Kick Animation

This assignment required that we animate some kind of acrobatic movement.

Ta-

Dah

Retro Futuristic Necromancer

Second try on the silhouette project. Yes, the aforementioned title was our theme for this assignment.

African Mother

This was a cool assignment! We had to first create silhouettes of characters based on the theme "African Tribal", those are what you see in the top left. We then had to choose one and give it six different variations using white to block in some detail and contrast, then we had to create a final, line art version (the big one on the right).
I was soooooooooooooooooo happy to do african stuff. This was sooooo awesome.

Some Animated Walks

ZOMBIE!

The second one needs to be looped to play well. Don't know if that's an option on blogger.

Mama Bird and an Inuit Zombie Slayer!

I ended up spending way too much time on this.

The assignment was to make a random shape and then create a character out of it.

So! Here's what came out of that. I like it, but I kind of wish I went with this other shape I drew because it totally could have been a guy in a turban riding a small dinosaur. Maybe I'll draw it anyways.

So all you get right now is mother goose sitting on an egg. Laaaaammeeee.

Also, here's some other school assignments.

This assignment was to design a main character for a zombie/horror video game. Our group decided on an arctic/inuit theme. He's a zombie slayer, yeah! The first two are just sketches, the colored one is the final.

Some Character Assignments

Soem character designs for school. Nothing much.

School is Back!

School is back! Which means art projects with weird themes! For my Visual development and character design we had to take the above photos and stylize the characters in our typical drawing style. Have fun with lil' miss barbarian and her hick pa!

Also! 

Have you been having trouble jumping over boxes lately? Here's a fun and helpful demonstration of one way you might approach such a demanding task!

Available soon will be an entire DVD box set of tutorials guiding you through a variety of ways to leap over pesky boxes!

With training, you can eventually jump over the box of DVDs!

Remember to reach those arms!

Piggly Demons!

July 2012

December 2008

So, I thought it'd be fun to re-imagine my very first digital painting, which, for some reason, was this strange four-breasted pig demon. What was I thinking? I have no idea. It'd actually probably be better if no one knew...

 So, I painted it again, in a new style.

I'm hoping that improvement is visible, considering its a 4 year difference (but technically two years, since for 2 out of those 4 years I was in africa and didn't do any digital painting, and very little drawing).

Enjoy. Well, try to at least.

Group Project Stuff

So, as a summer project, a few other animation students and I have been working on a super short animation. I'm in charge of modeling, rigging, and animating the main character, whose name is Larry! I didn't design the character, I just made the model.

Anyways, it has been good to learn more about the pipeline, and stay in touch with animation skills over summer. Oh, and its also been FUN.

Love,

Aaron