Art of Laura Lee

Tech Fantasy

2011-03-17T14:06:00.000-07:00

I haven't posted in forever...... ....

A ZSketch blog went up and I've mostly just been looking at it. It's a blog within Zynga where artists (and non-artists too who just like to draw) do a quick daily sketch based on a daily theme.

I managed to squeeze in a 30 mins sketch this time. The theme was Technology meets Fantasy.

Since I used to play WoW... Here is a Night Elf Tron'd out. :)

Photoshop-30 mins.

Baby T-Rex

2010-08-19T19:28:00.000-07:00

A simple small sketch of a Baby T-Rex in isometric view. Hopefully will be vectored, up and moving soon! :)

Cat character

2010-08-13T14:22:00.000-07:00

A sketch of my own cat character. The art and style is inspired by Tracy J. Butler. She creates the Blackadaisy series. :)

New post!

2010-05-30T23:58:00.000-07:00

Hey all!

Finally done with the semester a few days ago...Here is my final animatic for Art 118, Storyboarding class with Dave Yee. It is by all means not final at all...there's tons to do with it...by first off friggin' moving the frames to a template so it's stable....LOL...Lot's to revise in terms of making it more entertaining...but yea over the summer I hope to touch up on it, and then my Post-Production friend Mark will make the animatic 10x better, hehehehe!

Voices by Mark Wanninger.

....Sooooooo stooooppiiiddd!!!! ROFL......

What else... Oh yea!

So I won't announce everything I make, but these are my very first items released in FarmVille, so they are very special to me:

Come get your bouncy animals while the Playground Theme is up in FarmVille! :)

And that's about it for now...lots of side projects happening but it'll take some time to get stuff together and post about it.

Stay tuned! :D

"FairyVille" A personal project

2010-04-19T21:13:00.000-07:00

So I've been working on a personal project called "FairyVille"...OBVIOUSLY highly influenced by Zynga!!! Woot woot! :D

So this fairy deal was actually something that's been in my head since...since I did the Hallmark workshop, which was...wow when was it? Hahaha! Well ok after I post this I'll look at my archives and pull out my original fairy painting. (EDIT: Ok I have too many archival posts...forget it!! LOL) Been developing it in my head and playing Zynga games just totally made it come together I guess ;).

Now my goal over the summer would be to vector and color all of these suckas! My friend Eric Neto, a programmer, may be interested in Flash programming, so it'll be ready for him to mess around with. I may have to make a User Interface thingy too then.

So in FairyVille you can choose your professions...it's essentially the profession part only from World of Warcraft hahaha!! You will go out and gather things to make and either sell or gift your friends.

You can custom your Fairy...

Choose his/her wings...

Different clothing and accessories...

And stuuufff!! You can tell that the artistic style is very curly and curvy! This will reflect on like pretty much everything in the FairyVille world! :)

More stuff!! Hahaha!

But yea...I'll post more as I draw them... they are usually doodles I do during class or when I'm bored :).

Stay tuned for moooorreee~!! :D

Characters for 118

2010-04-16T13:58:00.000-07:00

So we're onto our final stories for 118!
My story briefly is the retelling of Orpheus' trip to the Underworld to bring back his dead girlfriend Eurydice. Only that Orpheus is a famous rock star with a lyre-guitar. He battles Hades and wins Eurydice back.

I will have to revise Hades, he's too similar and friends have suggested to make him much bigger and buffer, and use different shapes language. I was looking at Rob Zombie pictures, and he's definitely not very buff at all hahaha!

This was a back-up plan. The retelling of The Gift of the Magi with 2 homeless children. More "doll-like" so-to-speak I guess.

Anyways more to come soon! I'll see if I can color Orpheus and Hades if I have some spare time...supposed to be vectored and have flat, graphic colors with textures and what-not...

Stay tuned! :)

Stuffs

2010-04-04T23:32:00.000-07:00

As promised, here's some stuff I've been working on: finishing up storyboards, making new ones, some sketches done during classes, vector clean-up for an internship, etc etc.

EDIT: Just tried to upload a video of a new storyboard, but it's the one-frame version where it's not timed out. Yea it didn't work out with Blogger's video format. If I have time I'll time it out and post it :).

I'll try to post more diligently like I used to do! :P

Uh I'm sure I have more...but I some Art History research to do...Hahaha!

Stay tuned! :)

Been forever...

2010-03-25T11:14:00.001-07:00

Been forever since I've posted huh? Now that Spring Break started I promise to dump a huge post on just a bunch of random stuff I've been doing: sketches, vector clean up and animation stuff I'm doing for work, storyboards, etc.

For now you can check out http://artoflauralee.blogspot.com for an updated portfolio: it really does some of my most recent stuff.

But of course it doesn't have all the casual sketches I've been doing along the way...so stay tuned!! :)

Revised Animation

2009-10-08T01:47:00.000-07:00

Been working on the animation test and touched up on a looot of stuff like timing, weight, balance, etc etc. It's definitely getter better I think, but I still gotta work on it more!! :)

Updated Animation!

2009-10-01T21:24:00.000-07:00

So after a crit on Tues I got this so far:

I changed around a lot and it's muuuch better than the previous version, but it also created new things to fix! It's always like that of course :P. There's a lot of fast movement that I don't want in there so I'm gunna touch up on that, along with a list of other things to fix.

Oh yea did I mention that my teacher is Rex Grignon?? Head of Character Animator at DreamWorks/PDI! Suuuch a great teacher!! Yaay!! :D

I think after the weekend I should have another updated one to post!

Stay tuned! :)

Animation!

2009-09-30T12:22:00.000-07:00

As promised here's an animation test I've been working on this semester. It's a 6-second limit test of a person in an idle state to noticing and realizing something. In other words he's in one state of mind at first, and then it changes because he hears something.

There's tons to fix but that's what I have so far. I'll post an update once I make all the changes.

Stay tuned for more! :)

Another greeble

2009-09-27T14:18:00.000-07:00

This time it's a "hero" greeble. But yea we're going to now combine everything and make the Death Star trench!! Yay!!

The next post will be animation, promise!! :P

More Maya Stuff!

2009-09-23T12:30:00.000-07:00

For the lack of updates I'll post some of the Maya stuff I've just recently finished. These 2 are greebles from a Star Wars module, or in other words some parts of the surface of the Death Star. Working on a "hero" greeble now and I'll post that up soon. Otherwise I've been working on an animation but I don't have something put together to post up here, but I will very soon!! So stay tuned!! :)

Jenga!

2009-09-02T20:55:00.000-07:00

Here's a falling Jenga tower!

More to come! :)

First Maya Model!!! :)

2009-08-31T21:36:00.000-07:00

I'm finally taking Art 51! (Intro to 3D modeling)

Here's my first model!! Yaay!!

More to come!! :D

Quick post

2009-07-13T18:10:00.001-07:00

So I'm not quite back in the bay area yet but will be this Thurs! CSU Summer Arts was a fantastic experience!! I wish I can post some of the things I did there but they're mostly cleaning up Motion Capture data and editing, so I'm not really sure what I can post... I'll figure it out!

In the mean time...I've been lacking some posts here so I did a quick sketch:

Hope everyone is having a great summer so far!! :D

Nina

2009-06-22T23:36:00.000-07:00

Hey guys!

Alas I was unable to do a small illustration this time... just way too busy! So instead here are some pictures of my new kitten Nina. She's about 2 months old now and I had her since June 1st :).

Update! (Sort of...)

2009-06-19T16:03:00.000-07:00

Hey all!

Sorry I haven't been updating my blog lately! It's weird cuz I usually post something pretty regularly.

My summer's been surprisingly busy! My parents finally cut the financial cord so I've been working a lot- a part-time job on the weekends and freelance. I've been so busy that I had to bring my freelance work to my trip to L.A. (I'll be driving back down tonight)!
Production for Dave's new summer film should start on Monday so it will be even more super busy after that!
Next Saturday I leave for Fresno for the CSU Summer Arts: it's a 2 week "boot-camp" style summer camp where I will work with around 30 other student animators and guest artists (like Trevor Tuttle and Charles A. (Chuck) Harvey). I'll be learning motion-capture style and working with Autodesk MotionBuilder. I'm soo excited!! :)

So I apologize for the lack of updates! But I do plan to do what I started last Winter, a small illustration per day! So please stay tuned for some of those! Hope everyone is having a fantastic summer! :)

Last Day of class!

2009-05-12T22:45:00.000-07:00

Today was the last day for my Maya Animation class. Primo Navidad was an awesome teacher, and for my first semester in 3-D animation I learned so much and still have so much more to learn! Well here's the demo reel I had to turn in for class:

Huzzah!! Stay tuned for more stuff! I'll be animating over the summer :). Man this semester is almost over...crazy!!

Animation Update

2009-05-05T19:33:00.000-07:00

Hello hello! Been working on the dialogue test.... here's an update! :)

This semester's wrapping up!! It's crazy it totally zoomed by!!

About time for an update!

2009-04-26T23:02:00.001-07:00

Hello hello! It's been a while since I've posted. This semester is zooming by!! Well here's an update on the dialogue test:

Well that's what I have so far! I'm also working on a mechanical test where a character climbs a table and jumps off of it. I'll probably switch out the table with something more exciting. The plan is that he'll eventually be a character where he's running from something. I'll post it after I touch up on a few things!

That's about it for now! Stay tuned for more! :)

Finally An Update! (Dialogue Test)

2009-04-16T03:53:00.000-07:00

Here's a test I've been working on. It's our last test for the semester so I'll be working on this for the next mmm how many weeks do we have left... around 5? So yuuup! Here's my first shot at a dialogue test!

Stay tuned for revisions and hopefully some other stuff! :)

Birthday Gift

2009-04-05T03:00:00.000-07:00

Here's as far as I got with this test. Too bad huh haha. But I'll keep working on it over the summer, but for now I gotta move onto a dialogue test.

(I didn't get to work on the timing i.e. Graph Editor at all. It's just keys set to plateau.)

Zooming through the semester!

Finished Pieces

2009-04-02T00:45:00.001-07:00

I'll keep updating this post as I finish things up!

Another WIP

2009-04-01T12:19:00.000-07:00

2nd Interior line drawing. Time to tone it up! 2 colors and 1 schematic left to go! :)

WIP's

2009-04-01T00:40:00.000-07:00

Wow has it really been that long since I posted? Man what a hectic 2 weeks it's been. But here's some of the stuff I'm working on right now:

Man but there's so much more due this Thurs. I have 1 more B&W interior to do, including 1 colored exterior and 1 colored interior and 1 schematic. Holy macaroons?! Wish me luck hahaha! Stay tuned for more! I'll try to post my progress once I get more pieces laid-in/finished.

Sign Rendering

2009-03-10T16:01:00.000-07:00

Here's that sign rendering:

Oh and another quick anime character:

Line: 55 min
Color: 1.5 hour

Mmm.. time for animation! Stay tuned for more stuff! :)

150 Thumbnails

2009-03-09T23:23:00.000-07:00

150 thumbnails for Gary's Tree house is due tomorrow morning!

And I'm STILL not done with hw. I have to clean up 30 of these badboys and finish rendering my sign! Haha @_@!!Stay tuned!!! :D

What? Anime?

2009-03-09T16:32:00.000-07:00

Yup, that's right! Anime, or something similar at least. Something different for a change hahaha.

For the sake knowing how long it takes me to do something like this:
Line Drawing: 1.5 hours
Color: 1.5 hours

Not advertising tho!! I'm just starting to count how long it takes me to do something so I can slowly become faster.

Mmm pirates! Stay tuned for more! :)

Signs and Color Comps

2009-03-08T21:16:00.000-07:00

Hello all! So this Tues 10 sign sketches are due and we are to take one, do some color comps, and render one of them out. I finished the sketches and color comps:

I think I'm going to go ahead and render the top right one, although I'm itching to do the Halloween theme, cuz it looks so much fun! Much more is due on Tues tho! Like 150 thumbnails and ideations for our tree house! Yikes! Haha, stay tuned! :)

Final Kitchens

2009-03-04T20:07:00.000-08:00

Here are the kitchens that I turned in on Tues:

We're moving onto Gary Soto's Treehouse now! Yaaay! :D Stay tuned for more stuff!

Revised Sackanimation

2009-03-03T18:56:00.000-08:00

I revised the sack animation! Here it is:

So more timidness and more contrast. There's still things other things I need to revise. Stay tuned for more stuff! :)

WIP - Character Animation

2009-02-26T20:10:00.000-08:00

Hello! Here's my first 3-D character animation I'm working on :). Right now I just keyed it out and put it on plateau. So I'm going to start dialing in and working better timing based on what I have so far (and fix the poses as I go). So here it is:

Any comments or feedback are welcome! Stay tuned for maybe a revised Sackanimation based on some feedback I got on ACME!

Gary Soto's Kitchen - Revised

2009-02-26T06:27:00.000-08:00

I addressed all the problems that were pointed out on Tues. Here are the revised pieces:

Due in an 1.5 hours! Oh my! Stay tuned for more stuff! :D

Gary Soto's Kitchen - First Pass

2009-02-24T20:07:00.000-08:00

Hello! This morning Gary Soto's kitchen 1st pass was due! Rough schematics and 2 views of the kitchen. This is supposed to be a roughly 1940's house in a late 1950's time.

There's a lot of things I gotta revise and change. Like scale and distance and such. Stay tuned for revisions! And possibly some 3-D animation with a human rig! (Doing poses right now) :D

Sackanimation Final Tweaks!

2009-02-19T23:00:00.000-08:00

So we're moving onto a human rig now! Yaaay! I had so much fun with this sack rig though! Here's the final animation (for now, I definitely want to keep coming back to it to tweak it more and polish it up) of the sack pantomime - now with more personality, better timing, and more texture!

Stay tuned for more stuff! :)

Sackanimation Update!

2009-02-18T13:46:00.000-08:00

Update on the sack! Now with more personality and better timing. There's still a lot of stuff I need to work on, like what's up with that jump arc? Haha.

Stay tuned for another update soon! :)

Gary and His Mom

2009-02-17T02:06:00.000-08:00

Two character explorations are due in the morning! In addition to many other things lol.

I had a lot of fun with these! :)

WIP - Sackanimation Update!

2009-02-16T22:39:00.000-08:00

I've been working on the sackanimation - I been tweaking with the timing and added a bit more emotion in there, and fixed that weird turn he does while he walks backwards. He's now a bit more skeptical and surprised, and he takes a deep breath before running. I still need to work on it more and I'll keep working on it as much as I can! Fun stuff!! ^^

Stay tuned for more stuff! :)

Bump in the Road

2009-02-16T00:31:00.000-08:00

So for Vis Dev we got tooons of drawings to do, but for some reason this weekend is a preeetty bad drawing day for me! So I drew this:

That's me in my pink monkey pajamas desperately trying to draw a decent drawing. Lol. Man. O well I gotta keep drawing nonetheless (Since they're due on Tues)! Stay tuned for more stuff! :D

WIP - Sackanimation!

2009-02-14T23:49:00.000-08:00

Yay a sack pantomime doing an action with some personality! Ok well it's a work in progress, so the personality part is not quite there yet hahaha. But ne ways I just blocked it out on step-mode and just put it on plateau. I gotta mess with the timing more and add some poses that really sell his emotions, and fix some funky stuff that's happening right now. But here's what I have so far:

Now that I'm not hitting my head (over and over) on a vertical slope animating on Maya is becoming really fun! Any comments or suggestions at this stage would be ggrrreeat! Stay tuned for more stuff! :D

Sack Walk!

2009-02-13T17:22:00.000-08:00

So I'm pretty much moving on from the Sack Walk. There's a lot more I would like to do with this (like better timing, the feet, and tassels) but we have a new assignment so I gotta work on that. I'm also finally sort of getting the hang of the controls, so yay! Anyways here it is:

Lots of homework this weekend! As always haha. Stay tuned for moooore! :D

Man in the Woods Stuff

2009-02-11T23:12:00.000-08:00

Hey all. So the other day the 2 illustrations were due and this is what I came up with:

For the most part I'm pretty happy with it, at least for what I can produce. I put a lot of hours into both of them haha. However there's tooons of things I need to work on!!! But that's what the class is for, right? :)

Sack pantomime walk turned out O.K., but recently from the help of my fellow peers I realized that I was doing it wrong. Thus explaining the twitches haha. But for now I've moved onto a Sack pantomime action. He's going to jump over a cliff, with a little acting in there hopefully. I hope it turns out okay! Stay tuned for more stuff! :D

8 Larger Thumbnails

2009-02-05T20:17:00.000-08:00

Hello! Out of the 25 thumbnails of each word we chose 3 of the best ones. Then from the 3 we chose one. So there's 8 total now. Here are the enlarged thumbnails:

Now I have to do refine 2 of them, one exterior and one interior. I unfortunately don't have an interior.... so back to thumbnails for me! @_@ It's going to be a busy weekend... I'm working on a Sack Pantomime Walk Cycle right now, I'll try to post that up soon! Stay tuned for more stuff! :)

Barron Storey's Blog

2009-02-04T10:45:00.001-08:00

Did you know Barron Storey had a blog?? Man, I didn't! O_O But now I know haha, and so do you if you're reading this!

http://barronstorey.blogspot.com/

Thumbnails of Words

2009-02-03T03:29:00.000-08:00

So for 117 we had to choose 8 panels from the previous assignment and choose a word that best describes the panel. For each panel we had to do 25 thumbnails of that word keeping in mind the story and the original abstract shapes and draw more representational now. So here's what I came up with:

Due in 4.5 hours! Huzzah! Stay tuned for more stuff! :)

Telephone Poles

2009-02-01T19:55:00.000-08:00

25 telephone poles are due Tuesday morning. So here they are:

Still nothing tooo exciting yet, hehe. But yet there's more 117 homework! I gotta finish it! Stay tuned for more stuff! :)

Maya Ball Bounce (New)

2009-01-30T13:25:00.000-08:00

I previously had a post (that I deleted to replace it with this one) and I didn't realize that the ball was sooooo small you couldn't even see it haha. Well since then I revised my ball bounce and it has better arcs and better timing now. So here it is:

Next up: Sack Pantomime! Stay tuned! :)

More 117 Stuff

2009-01-29T00:07:00.000-08:00

Hello hello. A new 117 assignment due tomorrow. We were to take a short story and tell the story with abstract shapes with values of black, white, and 2 grey tones. So here's what I came up with:

The story is basically about a man who runs into a forest, all wild and tearing off his clothes, and something happens in that process where his attitude towards life changes and "the spirit of the wood possesses him". And then days later he can't recall what happened but has a memory that he's seen his life "from a different angle" and "simplified many manners."

Well that's about it for now. Stay tuned for hopefully some maya animation!

Windows and Doors

2009-01-25T21:17:00.000-08:00

Here's one of the first assignments given for my 117 class. Nothing too exciting yet, hehe. Here's 25 windows and 25 doors:

Stay tuned for more stuff! :)

In Coffee

2009-01-21T20:00:00.001-08:00

Here's me soaking in a cup of coffee. (I think I drink coffee too much, but sure love it!) Hmm the cup's supposed to be greener, it scanned pretty muddy, o well.

School starts tomorrow! Stay tuned! :)

Cleopatra Finished

2009-01-20T13:33:00.000-08:00

Ah my essay took longer than I thought! But I finished the Cleopatra drawing:

Stay tuned for more! :)

Work in Progress

2009-01-18T19:26:00.000-08:00

Here's something I'm working on currently:

Cleopatra on her Throne

I hope I can finish her by the end of the night, but I have an essay to write. So if it's not done tonight the finish will be up tomorrow! :)

Liz Lemon

2009-01-17T21:20:00.000-08:00

Jan got me hooked on 30 Rock haha. Here's Tina Fey as Liz Lemon:

This one's for Jan! :)

I Dream of Jeannie

2009-01-15T20:03:00.000-08:00

I remember enjoying this show when I was a child. The drawing didn't come out the way I wanted it, but o well. Stay tuned for more! :)

Today's Illustration

2009-01-14T20:32:00.000-08:00

The Goddess of the Universe Watches Over the Earth

Coffee

2009-01-13T16:51:00.000-08:00

Here's just a little illustration of me and a cup of coffee.

2009-01-11T22:55:00.001-08:00

I watched "The Duchess" recently starring Keira Knightley recently. I thought it was a great movie! Or I may just be a sucker for British costume dramas because I also watched "The Other Boleyn Girl" and I really liked that too. So here's a cartoony version of Keira Knightley as the Duchess of Devonshire:

I also sketched at Barnes and Noble the other night and here's two sketches:

I will try to do more drawings. Seems like my winter class does not permit me to do a drawing a night (it takes up more time than I wish), so I'll try to finish one every other day. Stay tuned! :)

SketchCrawl!

2009-01-11T20:31:00.001-08:00

Yesterday I went to SketchCrawl in SF with Chris P and Andrea R. I had a great and relaxing time! Here are some of the sketches that came from it:

Looks like Blogger is not enabling me to upload anything again at the moment. But stay tuned for a couple more sketches soon! :)

Just a little drawing

2009-01-07T22:31:00.001-08:00

I've been playing Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates on the DS lately so I decided to draw Meeth! I didn't really like her in the beginning, but as I'm playing the game I think I became quite fond of the character. Cute little bugger, ey?

I'll try to do a drawing a night, unless I get super busy. Hopefully I'll stick to it! :P

Projects from last semester

2009-01-07T16:36:00.000-08:00

Ah I'm finally getting my lazy butt to upload these here. This is what I ended up submitting for my 115 class. It's not quite my "vision", but I did my best with the given time!

Some shots were rushed and are almost like placeholders until one day I have the knowledge and skill to animate them. This film was quite the challenge I say!

If I had more time and had more animation knowledge, I would take it to a finished level according to this animatic:

But alas life moves on and I gotta focus on the future classes.. maybe one day I will revisit it! :)

Oh, also I don't think I've ever posted this one before. This is a glance to the past. Here's a short that I did 2 years ago, Winter of 2006 I believe. It's a film I submitted for the 15-Second Film Festival. Looking at it now it sure looks crumby, haha! Nonetheless I worked hard on it at the time so I'm still happy with it! :)

As for 118 I still need to put together the new/revised shots into Premeire. When I do I'll try to add it onto this post!

Happy New Year!!! (A non-art post)

2009-01-01T21:03:00.001-08:00

Happy New Year everyone!!! Here's just some pictures of the celebration:

Hope everyone had a fun and great New Years!

As for artistic posts, I'll try to post up my 115 Final Animation and 118 Final Storyboards. For the boards I have to put them into Premiere and time it out again since I revised it since the last one. So... yup! Stay tuned for more shtuff! :)

Update! New Storyboards

2008-11-30T21:33:00.000-08:00

Hello all! Yes, finally an update :P! Here is a new storyboard animatic that I did for my Storyboarding class. It's a story that I made, an adaptation of the story of Prometheus and how he gave the gift of fire to mortals. Oh, I mentioned it on a previous post huh. Here it is:

Thanks Jan for all your comments and critiques! You're the best! <3 And thanks to my little group in 118 for your comments and input as well!

Stay tuned for more stuff! Hopefully a revised animatic of my Boy Imagination story after a critique I got from Frank Gladstone on Transmission and critique I got from Tim Heitz. It's near the end of the semester so it's pretty hectic, so we'll see if I can get it done!

First Maya Animation!

2008-11-18T23:37:00.000-08:00

Today I decided to sit down and try out some 3-D animation. So why not start with a ball bounce? And here it is:

Animating in Maya was a lot more fun than I expected! I'll try to animate more stuff when I get the chance. Thanks Gus for helping me navigate and teach me the graph editor and the other chart thing! :D

Animation Update

2008-11-18T15:37:00.000-08:00

Hey all! Been busy animating this sucker and here's just an update on what I got so far:

Still all pretty rough right now and I'm getting nervous on time... 4 more weeks of school left!! Yikes!! Oh, the pressure lol! Wish me luck in finishing this film... I'll do my best!

Finally an update! (Characters and Animation)

2008-11-13T06:50:00.001-08:00

Ah it's been a while since I updated. As Januel said... for shame! Haha. Well here's just 2 things..

For 118 we have to come up with our own story to board, so I decided to revisit the story I was developing over the summer which is Prometheus. Here's the characters I came up with:

Prometheus and Elena

Here's what the altar may look like where the fire is kept.

And last but not least, finally an update on my progress for my short film. It's all super rough, and just letting you know I jumped around with the animation. It's still in chronological order, but I skipped a bunch in the middle and the end.

I really wish we had more time to work on this....I mean we only started animating like...roughly 3 weeks ago? And we only have a month left of school...omg....Man the animation is so rushed and I wish I had more time to actually think about it more. But o well....it's gotta get done nonetheless...

Alrighty...that's it for now...stay tuned for more!

APE!

2008-11-09T13:22:00.000-08:00

This post is pretty late cuz it's been a week, hehe. I went to APE (Alternative Press Expo) this year and it was pretty cool! I went on Sun Nov 2nd with Januel, Priscilla, and Nelson. I had such a great time! I got to meet Bill Presing, Ronnie Del Carmen, Daisuke Tsutsumi, Enrico Casarosa, and Louie Del Carmen. I look forward to more conventions coming up! Like WonderCon, then ComicCon, yay! Here are some of the pictures that was taken.

Us arriving there.

Group photo!

The infamous Bill Presing and I.

From left to right: Enrico Casarosa, Me, Dice Tsutsumi, Priscillal Wong, Januel Mercado, Ronnie Del Carmen, and Nelson Hernandez. This was at their Totoro Forest Project book where I was fortunate enough to get a copy and even have them signed!

Stay tuned for more stuff! :)

Night Elf

2008-11-04T20:24:00.000-08:00

Just a little drawing I did today. Also shows how much of a nerd I am.... for those who don't know I used to play World of Warcraft back in the day... haha :).

Figures and Doodles!

2008-11-03T22:25:00.000-08:00

I had a lot of fun the last figure drawing session! The first 2 are doodles that I did during the breaks and the rest are some of the figures from the session.

I hope to color these 2 above soon when I get some spare time!

That's about it for now! I really wish I have more time to color these and lay them out better...hopefully I will in the near future...but for now I gotta go animate now!!! *chugs down a Guava RockStar* YEEAA BRING IT ON!!! :D

Animal Drawings - Zebras!

2008-10-26T20:23:00.001-07:00

For class we all have been going to the zoo to get some animal drawing done. I've been drawing Zebras!

Here's some ink drawings.

And the pencil sketches.

Alrighty, well back to more homework!!... Stay tuned for more stuff!! :)

Animatic Revised

2008-10-26T16:32:00.000-07:00

Here's a revised version of my short story animatic. It's not the one I will go with the make the film for the semester (I won't be able to finish...only 8 weeks left of school.. wat?? Haha), but it's definitely something I will keep revising, hopefully if the shots don't change too drastically, I will add them on later after the semester is over. This is revised mainly for ACME, let's see what John Ramirez says hopefully if he gets back to me. Then I'll probably revise it again.

I'm hoping to make this a year long project in order to animate it well enough and finish it. There's just no way I can do what I want to do with it with the remaining time I have left in the semester.

Stay tuned for some animal drawings!

Short Film Character Model Sheets!

2008-10-23T04:22:00.000-07:00

Here are my model sheets for the character in my animated short film. They need a bit more cleaning to do....but ugh i'm soooo tired.... (it's 4:25am right now...hurray!!!...:D...)

Now to put them on a couple 11x17's and I'm ready to go for tomorrow!.....zzzzz.....

6th and 7th Story Challenge!

2008-10-22T13:12:00.001-07:00

Lately I haven't been getting a lot of time to do these as thoroughly as I want to, but here they are!

Like, I literally had about only 2 hours to come up with an idea and rough out the Scientist one... Yikes!!

Stay tuned for more stuff...!

A Doodle

2008-10-20T22:28:00.000-07:00

Here's a doodle I did the other day...

She's a reoccurring character that I draw for fun "The Magician". I guess you can say this is the style in which I draw when it's completely not related to school. I like to draw really curly and squiggly stuff haha. Very bubbly stuff too :).

The rainbow effect came from my scanner. I usually desaturate the image but I looked at it and I actually like it better this way.

Stay tuned for more stuff! :D

Bunny Gumball

2008-10-16T04:49:00.000-07:00

Here's what I ended up with for the gumball challenge... it's not even done and it needs a lot of work...

Short Story Animatic Revised

2008-10-15T17:25:00.000-07:00

Someone told me that he looked like a pet, so he's no longer in a box! Hahaha!

I'm very excited about this project. I can't wait to animate it. There's a lot of personal elements that I like in there... imagination, flying, and morphing. I hope it goes well! I'll keep updating on it!

Figure Drawings for the Week and Animatic

2008-10-02T10:15:00.000-07:00

Hello! This is probably the only good drawings I got this time. I kid you not.. lol!! It was one of the worst drawing weeks ever! But it's ok, it happens and just gotta keep going!

Oh, also here's my animatic for my new story for 115.

Stay tuned for more stuff!! :)

5th Short Story Challenge!

2008-10-01T13:25:00.001-07:00

Here's the 5th short story challenge for Jeff's B.'s story board class.

It's not the best in terms of the finished looks (compared to the I Got A Bite! one), but I'm pretty happy with the story!

More Figure Drawings

2008-09-28T02:41:00.000-07:00

Just 2 more pages of latest figure drawings. (The numbers were for posting on ACME)

Figure Drawings and Little Gestures

2008-09-26T00:34:00.000-07:00

Hello!

100 quick gestures and 25 figure drawings were due today. Here's just a few pages of what I turned in:

Stay tuned for more stuff to come! :)

4th Short Storyboard Challenge!

2008-09-24T14:36:00.003-07:00

And here it is! :)

Short Story Animatic...

2008-09-23T23:03:00.000-07:00

...that did not get approved cuz it's too long! I made the animatic fit about 30 seconds, but once it's animated it would turn into a minute. But it's ok, i'll keep the story and possibly animate it another time in the future! :)

3rd Short Storyboard Challenge!

2008-09-22T14:59:00.000-07:00

Here's the 3rd short storyboard challenge:

More storyboards to come! Including my 115 film short story! Work work work!! >:D

Storyboard Class!

2008-09-07T21:57:00.000-07:00

This semester I am fortunate to be taking a Storyboarding class with infamous Jeff Biancalana! Every week he gives us 9 panels in which to work with. He draws out the first panel and the rest is up to us. We can pretty much do whatever we want with it, considering story and composition of course. So this week this is what I got...

I'm sooo tired!!!! But there's so much more work to do!!! @_@;

First Animation of the Semester!

2008-09-02T08:49:00.001-07:00

These are just rough key poses for the Eric Goldberg Gumball Machine challenge in my Intermediate Animation class. The challenge is within 10 seconds a character comes in from screen left, unaware that the machine is broken, show emotion change, then exits the same way.

There's a lot to be done with it... the poses can be better and such... but let's see what Dave says today in class.

We got until the end of Sep to finish this and show it to Eric Goldberg on ACME Transmission!! Yay!!! I gotta work hard on this!! Wish me luck!! :D

Sketch Book Pro!

2008-08-28T02:44:00.001-07:00

I got Alias Sketch Book Pro 2.0 today! It's f*cking amazing!! I don't know why I didn't get it earlier! The sensitivity of pen and the response time is sooooo much better than Photoshop! So in celebration here's a quick sketch of a Night Elf done on Sketchbook Pro!

If you don't have Sketchbook Pro... go get it! :D

Cartoon Character

2008-08-22T01:03:00.001-07:00

My friend Johnny wore a cool outfit the other day so I have been meaning to make him into a cartoon character. Very rocker-ish!

Done on Flash and Photoshop.

Stay tuned for more stuff! :D Maybe more Flash stuff or a traditionally painted little something! ;)

2nd Comic Strip Finished!

2008-08-14T15:49:00.000-07:00

I finally finished the 2nd comic for school! I'm sure I'll find some minor mistakes later but hopefully not too much. If so I'll have to fix and resend it to Debra again. I can't wait to see them as bookmarks! Check them out, I think it's going to be passed out for this semester! :) If not, maybe the semester after... I'm not sure how long it takes for it to be printed and such.

Sketches done in LA

2008-08-11T20:43:00.000-07:00

I visited Jan this past weekend... had so much fun!!

I got to Burbank a bit early; Jan was still at work. So I went to the Americana... aka Santana Roids.

Just a few people in line at Universal Studios.

That's about it... for now! Stay tuned for mooooore!

Soul Calibur Shark!

2008-08-04T15:46:00.001-07:00

Beautiful game by the way... Soul Calibur 4 that is. Check it out if you haven't yet! :)

Comic Strip for School

2008-08-04T13:49:00.001-07:00

Here's a comic strip that I've been working on for San Jose State University. Debra said I can put it in my portfolio... which means my blog too...since I'll be transferring it to my portfolio... :)

San Jose State University owns this comic now. There might be a few last minute changes if Debra wants. I'm currently working on a second comic that is due soon... gotta work hard on it!!

Ah man...

2008-08-04T00:23:00.001-07:00

I gotta say, It's 12:23am and I'm desperately trying to get a drawing down before going to bed... but I have to honestly say that I'm stuck. The Prometheus character designs are regressing rather than progressing... my drawings are turning out too stiff! But I guess that's the constant struggle as an artist. Maybe tomorrow I will feel the "flow" better.

Another thing that's hard is to really stick with the project. I'm really determined to get the Prometheus story done...atleast to get some solid designs, turn-arounds, and a rough storyboard before school starts... but nights like this... sucks. Lol. But I won't give up! And why am I writing on this blog like it's a personal diary? I have no idea. I guess I need to express my frustrations as an artist somehow through words (or text in this case). I KNOW that tomorrow will be better. Just gotta think positively! :) Keep on truckin', right? hehehe.

I'll work on it more tomorrow and the day after... I'll post something up if I get a good drawing done... usually my rough sketches are much more flowing and not stiff... but it gets so stiff when I clean it up. Another constant struggle for any other artist I guess. Anyone have any suggestions? Or is it one of those things where I just need to have more drawing mileage and learn on my own... hmm...

Anyways, I swear this will be the ONLY post I type that will be like a diary entry. It's really not like me to write like this, it's just not my thing.

Goodnight all... and stay tuned for more stuff! :)

The Cutest Drawing EVER!

2008-07-30T14:02:00.000-07:00

I found this on Imaginismstudios.com. You can't get cuter than a fairy and a fairy DOG!!! :D

Revised Girl and Expressions

2008-07-29T20:16:00.001-07:00

I revised the Girl design according to a few things that Saul mentioned and what ACME pro's mentioned. I hope she looks a little more feminine now! I also sketched out a few expressions.

The design for Prometheus is going to take a little longer. I need to research a bit more for him.

Any comments or critiques are welcome and appreciated! Stay tuned for more stuff! :)

"Spirit" Sketch

2008-07-27T13:39:00.001-07:00

I was listening to Madonna's Ray of Light Album and this is what I got... pretty bizarre I guess. The title "Spirit" is obviously a place holder until I think of a better one. Maybe I'll color it when I get the chance. I'll have to tweak with it a lot before I do though... the composition isn't really there and I'll have to mess with sizes and placements of things and such...

Anyways, stay tuned for more stuff! :)

Project: Prometheus

2008-07-21T12:12:00.000-07:00

Jan helped me think of a story for a short film. In short, it's a story on my take of how Prometheus gives fire to mankind. Prometheus is a teenager, and has a crush on a human girl. She's shivering from the cold and Prometheus wants to help her and steals the fire. It's going to be a light hearted story. I'm going to keep working on it as much as I can. Stay tuned for more stuff! Maybe revised designs, turn-arounds, or storyboards!

Something I made...

2008-07-20T18:17:00.000-07:00

"Tasty Love"

This is a present I made for Januel for his trip to LA (to work at DreamWorks as a story artist!). It's a joke we have... I blow him kisses and he eats them.

Good luck and work hard Jan!! <3

Drawing for Creation Engines

2008-06-27T19:48:00.001-07:00

Here's a late entry for the Creation Engines blog:

*purrr...* just enjoying a nap...

Sketchbook Stuff

2008-06-27T18:56:00.000-07:00

Here's just a few sketches from my sketchbook:

Valley Fair Foodcourt

Santana Row

Umm... Starbucks cafe? (obviously drawn out of my head of course...hehe)

Stay tuned for a late "Tree" entry for Creation Engines!

More Drawings

2008-06-13T22:28:00.000-07:00

Here's some drawings that I made from the figure drawing session.

Stay tuned for more sketches! :)