Senior Film

I've finally begun compositing my senior film, and I think it's coming together nicely:

Here's the turnaround of the main character: Circlecat!






And the main baddie: Bog!


I'm excited for how it will turn out!

Sherlock Holmes

Hi all!

Long time no post (sorry!) I've transitioned to California for the summer, and I'm just getting into my character design class with Joel Fajnor- and I have a design I'm ok with. So I hope I'll post that when I tweak it into something presentable.

As of now, I wanted to post a few silhouette projects I've been working on focusing on one of my personal heroes: Sherlock Holmes.

I took the version of him in my mind's eye from the original novels, and caricatured them into 'cartoon' versions. I'm happy with them..



Then I took the BBC Sherlock TV show, and made characters of them as well. They turned out less cartoony, but I find I still like them...


If they develop any more, I'll keep you updated!
I'll also try to get some of my Senior Film pre-production work up in the near future, but the idea's gone through an overhaul, so it's still in the refinement stages.

Till next time, stay well! :D
~J

Just for the fun of it.

So if you aren't already aware... I'm a rather obsessive Trekkie. I'm also the Co-Founder of a Star Trek fanclub on Deviantart. Because of this silliness, we've created our own Starship, the U.S.S. Legacy, which my character (Tischna Salem) Captains.

Because we're avid fans, we decided to redesign the uniforms for our personal incarnation of the crew. I took some liberties, but here're my designs: Just for fun:

Model Sheets! Todd vs. The Fuzz Emz

Meet Todd. He's one of the two characters I will be using in my Production class for my three-shot film. He's very scary, I assure you. He started out originally as a wild boar, and now he's... this. I draw monsters as a hobby, and it didn't seem right not to utilize the ability in class.


These are the Fuzz Emz. This particular one is the other main character in my animation, and is a mixture of a guinea pig, a squirrel, a dog (I think) and a rabbit. He originally started out as a Tribble with a tail. I'm glad he's a little more than that, now.

More to come as production moves forward. Next: Color Keys!

Model Sheets!

Hello All!

After a short Radio-silence (wherein I began to accustom myself to my new class schedule) I now have Model Sheets from my "Character Design and Layout" class. These are the revised versions, as the Professor knocked my first two down.

There will be more on these two, as they are also the main characters in our storyboard assignment.

This is Tea, and though the model sheet has a blurb on her, I can tell you that she is 10 years old, and her favorite color is green. She's a bit on the rebellious side, but in an underhanded way that makes her difficult to pinpoint until the authority figure in question has already been significantly undermined...




This lady here is Cookie. Don't let the sweet ol' Granny name fool you. Cookie is the Grandmother from Hell, if you'll pardon the expression. Rigid, old, and traditional; straying from the 'normal' and 'right' path is a one-way ticket to Cookie's bad side. And Cookie's bad side is one place you do not want to be. She is significantly against Tea's aspiration of Belly Dancing excellence and would rather she found a 'real' goal, like getting married and buying a farm.


These two are my first official model sheets! I tried my best, and I'm at peace with how they turned out; but resubmits will be allowed (I think) so for now I'll just hand them in and see how they're received! Tomorrow I hope to get Space-Ship designs and a few environment-tests up in a quick-fire post. But I might be delayed a day or so. Wish me luck!


Till next time!


~J