The Watcher's Monolith

Autumn has finally arrived in Savannah Georgia, two months later then I'm used to, but the temperatures are finally bearable (to me anyways).

Started listening to the new Agalloch album... then this happened. Still pushing/pulling values on it though, but I plan on finishing it completely.

Mind/Body/Light/Sound

First quarter of grad school is finished. I've never learned so much in such a short amount of time. I plan on making a post summing it all up within the next week or so, and will also be announcing a big project of mine I'm about to start with two classmates shortly afterwards (worth nothing, seriously).

In the meantime, here's a sample of another thing I'm working on. I cropped it cause I haven't rendered anything else. 70 degrees and sunny in late November. I love it.

Show of Shows

This year's Animated Show of Shows, a collection of animated shorts, was fantastic. Thank you Ron Diamond for coming to Savannah!

The adaption of Shaun Tan's "The Lost Thing" I found especially amazing. A film like that done by three people? Crazy.

What Happened?

Even if you're painting realistically, if it does not work on an abstract level, then it does not work. Period.

Same goes for animation.

I've known this for a while, but one of those things I always need to remind myself.

...suddenly Georgia got cold.

Badger

Band of the moment, This Town Needs Guns. Check them out.

Rows of Houses

SKATE!

10+ hours of animating for 10 seconds of film. All emphasis on weight and movement. I'm a n00b at this still, gimme 2+ years to master it.

Long day. Bye.

Rivers Dancing

Two hour portrait, no references. Drawing hot girls is such a challenge, since any wrong brushwork will ruin the whole face... as opposed to drawing say, a wrinkly old man.

...yeah.

Pretty happy with this though. I am gonna try to do a few simple character portraits a week.

Fantastic Beasts and where to Find Them.

Welcome to Savannah

Found the biggest spider I've ever seen on my car this morning. Thinking of drawing up some sketches of it?

Skate!

Demonstrates a modified version of the Bloke 1.0 character riding a skateboard. Besides the character base, everything else was done by myself, including modeling, rigging, animating, and recording audio.

This will be online in a few days on my Vimeo page. I'll link to it once up.

The Great Annihilator

Work in progress animation for my character rigging class.

I love Maya. It is such an astounding piece of software. Highly intricate, powerful, yet simple at the same time. Complex yet intuitive. While a lot of amazing work has been crafted with it, the construction of the actual application is what I find the most fascinating.

The program is, in itself, a work of art.

Animus

Started this tonight, going to try to get it done (as well as another piece I'm working on) by the end of the week. I wish there were 36 hours in a day, instead of 24.

Once the semester ends in mid November I'm going to publish a long post documenting my first quarter of grad school.

Peace out from Georgia.

To Here Knows When

To the few that read this blog, I'll have updates resuming in a little bit. I'm currently overwhelmed with schoolwork and my job, but I haven't forgot about this.

As a real quick update, I'm getting my portfolio ready to apply for some big internships...