Red Tide

1st assignment for Advanced Storyboarding.

True story.

Tigger animation

As promised, here is my final animation for Cynthia's animation class last semester. This is the work of the last three months. I chose to animate Tigger because he was the first thing I thought of when I heard this music. This was a practice in syncing animation with music, telling a story in the animation, and linking scenes so they match up and make sense. There are still a lot of glaring problems that need to be hammered out, but overall I'm pretty happy with it. I learned so much and he was incredibly fun to animate!

Tigger from Claire Gordon on Vimeo.

Now onward to animate something new!

Tigger is © Disney and the sound clip is from the soundtrack of Miyazaki's film Howl's Moving Castle.

Finals, finals, finals

Here's my character design final. 

My Animation final is coming up! I didn't have time to finish it to the degree that I wanted, so it will be up for your viewing pleasure after the holiday break. 

Here's the first assignment I worked on for that class. 

It still needs a lot of work, but this was a huge stepping stone for me and I learned a lot.

As a side note, if you haven't seen Disney's The Princess and the Frog yet, go see it. 

Emulation week 2

First up is a old man enjoying a game of golf, done in the style of French artist Sylvain Marc.

This flapper girl was done in  the style of art nouveau artist Alphonse Mucha.

That's all for now.

Emulation week 1

This week in character design, we were assigned to emulate an artist with a style completely different from what we normally draw in. Since I never draw anime, I decided to take a whack at it. So I emulated the Korean artist Hyung-tae Kim, specifically his work on Magna Carta. I feel like I got the anime look down alright, but not Hyung-tae Kim's look down. So I'll be trying this again soon! It was crazy fun. 
This is Suzume. She's a werewolf that has a hard time finding her balance between the animal world and the human world. She helps a mysterious party of renegade gypsies by using her ability to transform into a large wolf, but feels like she is more of a danger to the group than help. She is proficient at sword fighting as well as tracking. She rarely tells anybody her condition and trusts very few people.

More animals and sketches

I like to draw people 3 times uglier than they really are. 






Week two of animal designs for Character Design. I chose a vain Golden Lion Tamarin monkey, an elk who's apart of a sled dog team, and the Scottish mythical beast Cat Sìth.

Animals

Hey all, 

The assignment for this week in Character Design was animals, my favorite drawing subjects. 

I had fun with these ones!