Figure and Motion Drawing Final

Whew.....I'm done! I was really worried I wouldn't finish these in time but I finished with 4.5 hours to spare. I don't necessarily think that these drawings look much like me but I like how they turned out and it was great to use a different medium for each drawing.

Crappy photo, but this is a digital painting printed first on textured paper and then photo paper(for the dog). Gah, total horror story with this one. I had to restart my computer b/c from the power outage yesterday, my computer was acting weird. When my computer comes back on I try to open this file and somehow the file got corrupted and I can no longer even open it up. THANK GOD I decided to do some test prints just because I was curious to see what it would look like on the different type of paper I had otherwise I would have had to start completely over with this. Too bad the file is lost though, I really liked how this turned out. :(

Chalk Pastels, Pencil, and Charcoal on Posterboard. 22 in. x 11.5 in.
My least favorite of the three, but it was great to use chalk and charcoal, it really fit the mood.

Sharpie, Prismacolor marker, FaberCastle Brush Pen, Golden Acyrlic. 18.75 in x 25.5 in.

And with this sophomore year is finished. Crazy, I'm halfway done.

~Lauren

Birthday Party Blues- Animation Final

Birthday Party Blues

There's the link to my animation final for Basic Animation Techniques. Yay! Now I just have to make through two more finals, then I will be on summer vacation! :)

Finals.....dunnn dunnnn duuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhh!

Animation Final Preview #2

Did the cut-out animation portion for my final tonight. Oof, my legs are quite sore from standing for so many hours, but I think it was well worth it. Things went rather smoothly during shooting....I just hate the lights in the shooting room, they add this nasty yellow hue and it's a pain to do color correction and have it match nicely throughout your film. But I'll make it work.
Gah this is due officially in a week! Yikes!

Animation Final Preview #1

I'm almost done with the pre-production stage of my final for Basic Animation Techniques. I'm using traditional cut-out animation mixed with hand-drawn animation, so I've been hard at work creating backgrounds, puppets, getting voices, ect. I can't believe this has to be done in less than two weeks but everything is coming together so much better than I could have imagined, so I'm excited to see how this turns out in the end...hopefully it won't disappoint but with how it's going, I can't imagine it going sour. Anyways, since this is definitely going to be consuming my life until it's over, I'll be posting some preview images occasionally for the next two weeks.

First preview: The 6 kid puppets. All created on Photoshop then they will be printed off on card stock and then sewn together, but in this image I assembled them as they should look.

Sleepy Woody Life Drawings

Woody was sleeping in the dogbed and he was just so cute, I had to draw him. :)

Sound Synch Animation

For Basic Animation Techniques, we had to do a sound syncing animation with simple shapes. Here's the link to mine:

Sing, Sing, Sing Sound Synch

Overall I'm pretty happy with how mine turned out. Although I totally got sick of listening to music, I actually really enjoyed sound-syncing. I usually go by feel when animating but this time I had to be bound by the rules of my music which was an challenging but interesting change of pace. Plus it was pretty cool to see the finish product with the animation fitting to the music (for the most part). Hopefully I learned some from this project, as I'm moving past simple shapes and sound-syncing a dance animation for another animation class I'm sitting in on. Hopefully it will be done by the end of the school year, but here's a "preview" (a single frame!). And if you're curious, the song I chose to do my dance animation is "Send Me On My Way" by Rusted Root. If you haven't heard it before, check it out, it's a fun song.