Invented Characters!

based on real models :-o
~2 hours each
jk that last one took four

Pierre the Serveur

Bertrand the Drunk Vampire

Sheeza Badmamajama

DIPSY!

Yo so I haven't made a DIPSY post in waaaay too long. I'm still going every week, and I still love it. Here's a little recap:

Week 1

Speaker: Andrew Theophilopolous

Demo: Painting (like Sargent)/Color

Theme: Animal Warrior

Week 2

Speaker: David Coleman

Demo: Character Design

Theme: Inferior Dragon

David actually chose my drawing out of the bunch as being the most successful! 

I was super proud and excited :D

Week 3

Speaker: Me!

Demo: Threadless

Theme: Puns

It was a huge honor to be able to host a DIPSY and I demo'd how to prepare t-shirts for Threadless. It was a lot of fun and I think some people really got a lot out of it. Here's some of my notes from the demo:

Essentially, Threadless prints the full spectrum of designs, from very simple ones, to highly intricate ones. Often times, the simpler the better, especially for t-shirts. Remember that people have to be able to tell what is going on from far away and get the point/joke right away.

Colors cost money. Therefore, it makes sense that Threadless is going to lean towards printing designs using less colors. Not always the case but it is a factor. It shouldn't limit you but you should always be looking for ways to decrease your color count if it doesn't hurt your overall design.

Take any one color layer with varying opacities,

Command C, Command N, Command V

Image: Mode: Greyscale (Flatten Layer if prompted to do so)

Image: Mode: Bitmap

Choose "Halftone Screen", play with the numbers to get the desired look (now your image is purely black and white, no fuzzy edges or different colors)

Image: Mode: Greyscale (so you can have layers again)

Duplicate Layer and Delete Background Layer (so you're left with an editable layer)

Magic Wand Tool, uncheck "Contiguous" and "Anti-Alias", click the white, delete it

You're left with a haltone version of what you had, in black

Color Overlay your original color back on

Week 4

Speaker: Pascal Campion

Demo: The Life and Times of Pascal

This guy is awesome and loving life, as he should.

Week 5

Speaker: David O'Keefe

Demo: Caricature

Theme: Yoav

cherubs included :)

Week 6

Speaker: Michelle Kwon

Demo: Digital Painting/Color?

Theme: Movie Still

Week 7

Speaker: Roi Horn

Demo: Art and Life

Theme: Battle Scene

only had about 15 minutes for this one

it was awesome to hear Roi talk, because he doesn't do that a lot

I also won by default O.o (still counts?)

Invented Domicile: Magic Man

O.o this took so long...

Invented house/room for this guy, truly the most epic character proportionately to the amount of air time he gets (like 2 minutes). My favorite part of this piece is the little fucked up skinless bunny in the background tree, or the cactus on the telescope chair...

FULL VIEW this shit, aight?

Bandito! Revamped

Yo I've grown really attached to this animal. They're extremely funny in real life, with some of the most amusing mannerisms I have ever seen. I actually saw one on the way back from the Academic Center today. We just sort of stared at each other, I feel like we had a moment. 

After perusing Youtube for raccoon videos, I decided that this guy most definitely had to be a thief. Just look at that mask! And those glowing round white eyes (FUN FACT: pretty much every illustration I've made this year has white circle eyes). 

Anyway, I was gonna go with the little cutie, but ultimately I wanted to make a design that stood out from the rest, and hopefully might be remembered for years to come. Plus it has stronger silhouettes and lines of action, which will fit in to my animation more. It's inspired by the beautiful Oaxacan sculptures, check em out! I'm gonna try to whip out some sort of rough pass this weekend. Cheers!

Sketchbook Dump

just finished my second sketchbook at Ringling! (even though I've got like three more on the side O.o)

Pew Pew

its my history of animation midterm! 

I was toiling away at a Papernauts concept but it was driving me nuts and I had poured endless hours into it and didn't like it so the weekend before this was due I was like, "fuck it, we'll do it live"

~12 hours start to finish, really fun