Piano Poster

A commission for my friend who needed some art for her upcoming piano recital. 

Thanksgiving Cartoon Challenge

I’ve been meaning to post this for a bit. I spent Thanksgiving with my dad’s side of the family that includes a 9 year old cousin of mine. She challenged me to draw any cartoon character she could think of. Since we had no internet, I had no way of looking up reference and it became a very interesting test of my own memory about current cartoon characters. She even drew Spongebob for me from her memory! 

Big Book Give Away!

The Appy Ladies are giving away five copies of my animated children’s e-book The Pick-up Princess. Be sure to share this with your friends and try to get a free copy yourself! http://theappyladies.com/the-pickup-princess

woof.

Arya Stark Charcoal

Felt like playing with charcoal yesterday morning. 

familiar sci-fi faces

Dr. Who and Star Trek characters. 

new brush warm up doodles

found a new brush today and so i did some warm up sketching. here's the brush: http://stumpypencil.blogspot.com/2009/11/return-of-stumpy-pencil.html

Wild Dogs and Jumping Girls

Nice Teeth Contest Victory

My character Crab Tree placed 2nd in the Nice Teeth comic contest recently. Good job Crab! http://ashleylange.deviantart.com/art/DYOI-RESULTS-403501891

I made a comic to celebrate.

The other two in the comic are the 1st and 3rd winners. 

My old friend Era

Sketches of an old character of mine, Era (and Huan in the bottom image). Just wanted to try some redesigns on her outfit. No one should live in clothes designed by a 7th grader forever.

(c) me

bear and boat and thing and what?

just something weird as a break from my senior film work.

Danny Doodles

It was a Danny Phantom kind of night.

Danny: "Um, Sam? Don't you think that maybe I should handle this one?" 

Tucker: "Dude! Don't be messing with her mojo! I want to live!" 

Crab Tree and Bunny

I decided to participate in a contest for the comic Nice Teeth. You had to design a character that would live on The Island. Check it out: http://niceteethcomic.com/

for those who can't read that small of print:

"Crab Tree is a spicy lass from the depths of The Island. Kind Islanders label her stature as “toad-like”, unkind Islanders just call her fat and short. Crab has a bad attitude and persistent frown, but she does get along with a few islanders. She appreciates the “honestly stupid” and regards the “uppity types” with contempt. Especially those who read. Crab can’t read (who cares about a bunch of swirling letters?). She isn't stupid, but she only trusts her own mind, and believes that those who trust in books are people to watch out for.

Crab met Bunny when he was just a tiny Tree Thing. Tree Things, native creatures of The Island, usually only grow to be 27 inches. Bunny, however, somehow managed to grow the size of the trees Tree Things are supposed to inhabit. Crab and Bunny are best friends as he is very often the only one who will listen to her three hour rant about the benefits of toast in every day life. They live together in a comfortably large house Crab built with Bunny specifically in mind."

Bereft Poster

I went ahead and made a poster for my senior film: BEREFT.

I can't believe this actually happened...

Other than some minor tweaks I'll have to work on while animating, my rigging is done! HUZZAH! I'm currently reworking my animatic and it's truly nice to be away from the highly technical stuff...for now. I can't believe that a couple weeks ago I was stressed about loosing my rigger and having to end my summer vacation early so that I could go down to SCAD and hopefully put something together before school started! I went from having half a facial rig and no body rig to a fully rigged character capable of the Loony Tunes style animation I'll be going for in just 2 weeks! Pardon the pat on the back, but I think I deserve this one. *pat* *pat* 

Demon New Test Poses

I  got far enough with my skin weighting yesterday that I was able to do some test poses. Here are a couple for you to enjoy. And if you're wondering who this little guy is, he's a part of my senior film. You can watch the animatic (a sort of pre-film) here . 

everything (c) me

body rig (c) AbAutoRig 

more rigging doodle breaks

The skin weighting continues.

Rigging Doodles 4

Today's break doodles 

Toad Patrol character (c) it's owner which is not me

Rigging Doodles3

More doodling during my rigging breaks. 

Demon Rig Process

I have been getting a surprising amount of rigging experience lately. Some how I've manage to almost rig my whole senior film by myself. All that is left is my little demon guy (who is one of the main characters). I've spent the past week adding more flexibility to his face and now I'm working on his body rig (with some very special help from abAutoRig). Right now I'm in the process of painting his weights (see here for an explanation of what that is and my feelings about it) Wish me luck! 

testing various poses his face can achieve

adding lots and lots of stretching capabilities....with some frightening results...

painting weights so that the skin moves properly when the animator animates it.