Fall 2011 Vis Dev Midterm

The story we got for this project was kinda weird lol. The teacher gave of the premise of a man named Sam in his 50's or 60's who works in a ticket booth for a show. His boss hates him and made him work there for some reason we had to decide. Sam loves fish and collects them in his RV that he lives in. We had to decide why he likes fish so much. Also, he has a picture of a lost loved one in his RV, and a favorite fish. We had to decide what those particulars were as well. So apparently, one day while Sam is working, some man comes up with his kids and wants to get into the show, but he has no money, so he offers Sam some magical walnuts. Sam tries to refuse, but the man's kids run in and the man chases after them. This causes Sam to get fired and he then has no way to take care of his fish. So I guess at some point he eats a walnut and it takes him into a dream. That was where most of the liberties for the project were. We also had to design a character named Theo and his pet.

Initially, we were put in groups to come up with this part and we decided that Sam had raced motorcycles in the circus in one of those round cage thingies when he was younger lol And that the lost loved one in the frame was his gf who he killed on his bike trying to show off. His boss was her father so that's why he hates Sam so much. I decided that Theo would be his partner in the act and that he was the one who tried to keep Sam in line, because he is a little brash and hot headed. Theo uses his pet Maddox, who is a falcon, to watch over Sam. When designing, I took different types of fish into account, as well as my love for Cirque du Soleil combined with styles from the early 1980's.

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Spring 2011 Work Pt. 2

This was our last assignment in vis dev this semester. It was a character design project. We had two choices and I chose to design the Widow Ching Pirate who is based off of this person http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ching_Shih

We also had to design her a sidekick so I chose to give her a Chinese snub nosed monkey named Bao Bao. I did like this project a lot. It was required that we design them "realistically" so I was a little mad at first, but it forced me to do a lot of things I don't normally do so I learned a lot in the process.

Spring 2011 Work

So here are the projects I did this semester. This is the reason why my roommates almost never saw me...combined with the Green Ninja animatic. The first was a project in which we had to design a kitchen based off of Gary Soto's writings and childhood. The perspective and ellipses were my biggest problems =_=



Then we had to do a treehouse also based off of Gary Soto's writings and childhood. Yeah...pretty sick of that guy now lol And after we thought we were done, we had to do them again! So there are two versions. I'll admit I like how the second batch came out more.







Then we got assigned a character design assignment from Nickelodeon to teach us character design. It was super awesome and I learned a lot XD Basically we had to design either a female wolf in sheep's clothing, or a male rhino in female's clothing. I chose the wolf and this is what I did. Somehow she won 2nd place out of many, many awesome designs and I'm so grateful for that.

Fall 2010 Final Projects

This is my final animation for 115. I stayed up for 5 days straight finishing it =_= lol But it was worth it, and I dedicate it to one of my best friends Kristen, who was encouraging me and there for me all semester even though he's all the way in Estonia :3 There's a lot that can be fixed but I did the best I could >.<








And this is my final animatic for 118. I like how it came out, dispite all I can fix, and my dad compared it to The Twilight Zone XD Which is fine by me because I love The Twilight Zone. He also said I need therapy >.> He doesn't know that these animatics can get a lot worse lol

Me, Kristen, and Bart XD

lol XD I really like how this came out. I was testing out a style to use in a project I'm working on with my friend Kristen, who is in this pic, along with my teddy bear Bart XD Was done in flash, and I'm getting better at it :D