Ball Roll Test

Here's a few pencil tests of my Ball Roll assignment for DFA2 at Columbia.

First Pass


Tie Down


Final Pass

BTW

I hate Blogger's Video uploader and player.
I'm going with Vimeo from now on.

Ball Roll

First Pass

Skip

Rope still needs adjusting

DFA II - Sack Boat Wave

WIP Drawing for Animation II assignment.

Here's the wave:


Here's the Boat (Teacup):


Here's the Sack:

Day 17 - Favorite Plant

Lilies of the Valley

Day 16 - Inspiration

Day 15 - Family Pictures

Day 14 - Favorite Fairy Tale

Day 12 - Recent Accomplishment

Getting Lucas!

Day 11 - Turning Point in My Life

Day 10 - Favorite Candy

Day 08 - Favorite Animated Character

I don't really have favorites, so all of these picks are replaceable...

Day 07 - Favorite Movie

Day 06 - Favorite Book

Day 05 - Best Friend

Can anyone guess who this is?

Day 04 - Favorite Place

Day 03 - Favorite Food

Day 02 - Favorite Animal

Favorite Animal:

30 Day Drawing CHALLENGE!!! - Day 01

THE 30 DAY DRAWING CHALLENGE.
For each day of the next 30 days, draw the sequence of this list:

1. yourself
2. Fav animal
3. fav food
4. Fav place
5. best friend
6. fav book
7. fav movie
8. fav. animated char.
9. Fave tv show
10. fav candy
11.turning point in yourlife
12. most recent accomplishment
13. comic
14. fav fairytale
15. family picture
16. inspiration
17. fav plant
18. just a plain 'ole doodle. break day!
19. something new
20. something orange
21. something you want
22. something you miss
23. something you need
24. a couple
25. scenery
26. something you dont like
27. someone you love
28. anything. wild card day!
29. place you want to go
30. Congrats banner for yourself actually doing this.

Day 01 Sumbission:

It's a quicky sketch, I know, but it'll get me started.

Can you guess what tomorrow's submission will be of?

APS Progress

So, we are in the thicket of the first semester Animation Production Studio. Things are heating up too. We've already noticed some slackers and some creative hogs. Well, I just want to make what I am working on for the film the best stuff I can! Here are some working model sheets awaiting approval from the rest of the group:



http://bluepencilstudio.com/aps/takeonme.mov
While I want to stick with a cartoony style for the 2D portion, I want to play with how it is viewed since it is a "memory" from the main character (CG). Below is a few drawings from artist Mark Tennant.






His way of expressing detail with very little actual detail applied reminds me of something else.




Please pardon the parody.

I feel this resembles what I think of as a dream, never concentrating on every detail at once, but many details here and there. Now it depends on the feasibility of making this work with only three 2D animators and a limited amount of time.

Heres to high hopes!

Update 01.03.2010

School is over, and I must say I am glad! I learned a lot from my classes this semester and am excited to begin the Animation Production Studio class next. Jon McClenahan will be teaching, which is awesome! I still have a lot to learn and feel like there are some things I am still not grasping fully, but this next semester I am hoping to start early and try to run through all the steps to make sure I don't miss anything.

More updates coming soon.