100th Post!

I wanted to so something nice for my 100th blog post but instead you get tiki boy here :( Oh well! Happy bloging!!!

The Halloween Post

I wanted to do a nice new post for Halloween but havent had time, so here is my monthly contribution from the sketchthemes blog! Hope you like it. Happy Halloween all :)

End Credits

We have a few days off school while they clean our computers out, thought I would make myself useful and do my end credits for my film. So here they are, well minus the actual “credit” parts! :)

Sneak Peak!!!

Here is a sneak peak of my characters KeeKee and Tulie from my 3D student film "Cerise".

It will be done in December but the sound won’t be complete till the end of January. It’s basically a story of two flightless birds fighting over one cherry on a tree branch and chaos ensues!

This isn’t the final lighting yet and the background will be a 2D matte painting... but you get the idea :)
Can’t wait to start animating on it!

Hens!

Happy weekend everyone! :)

Something Blue

A super rough doodle with some super rough colour :)
Have a good day all!

Tree Planter

Old Maids

A quick sketch and a picture of my kitty! :) I'm going to try post something better soon :)
*hugz

SPARK, and a cat :)

Ok, it’s been a busy week for me, the spark animation festival was on here in Vancouver and I was trying to attend events for that while not falling behind in school :)

Two highlights were seeing "The Secret of Kells" an awesome feature from Irish Studio Cartoon Saloon and other various co-producers. I wouldn’t say it’s the best story I have ever seen but the art direction would be well worth it for anyone to see, it also has some great moments for animation too!
The other was the master class with Ricky Nierva, from Pixar's "UP"! It was really awesome, a class of only about 30 to 40 people and we got to spend pretty much the whole afternoon going over character design and some Pixar processes. He was a really decent and humble guy who totally gave credit where it was due. I don’t have any amazing secrets to share because he didn’t either (yes folks, it really is all about hard work!) but I do have a list of some fun sort of inspirational quotes (some from him, some from others passed on to him)

"Story is King"
"Design is re-designing"
"Fail early, fail often"
"If you’re not failing, you’re not taking enough risks"
"Story feeds art, you zig when they zag"
"Enjoy the struggle!"
"It’s not about trying it make things realistic; it’s trying to make it believable"

I also have a huge list of inspirational artists to Google for some time well wasted but unfortunately I'm out of time now so I will post them later this week!

I also got a cat this weekend... her name is Fred :) I'll post pics later too!

Cheers,
Desiree

P.S. Sorry about the rushed picture... time thing :)

Illustration Friday: Welcome!

My post for Illustration Friday. Cats are always there to welcome you home, especially if you bring food :)