the dreamry

Portfolio February 2012

2012-02-11T16:36:00.000-08:00

ART DUMP!!

2011-07-07T15:42:00.001-07:00

I FINALLY GOT MY SISTER'S SCANNER WORKING!!! :D

Therefore: ART DUMP!!

There will be more to come! :D

-Lis

2011-05-25T23:44:00.000-07:00

I went to the Los Angeles Arboretum in Arcadia today. I did a few sketches, took bunches of pictures, and then did this photoshop sketch after coming home. Almost no reference: the duck was giving me trouble.

Aquandlin Part 3

2011-05-01T10:15:00.000-07:00

The final presentation:

On the wall:

As a booklet to accompany it:

Aquandalin Part 2

2011-04-28T02:43:00.000-07:00

Aquandalin part 1

2011-04-25T18:56:00.000-07:00

The final for my animal drawing class is to create a fantasy creature. Well, I decided to go back and use an idea from waaaaay back in elementary school. I can't take full credit for the origin of this creature: the name and basic idea came from my best friend, Kimlinh Tran (http://hnilmik.newgrounds.com/). However, in the intervening decade I've continued to think about this character, and work with it. And in the past week I've thought about it, written about it, and drawn it more than ever. At this point, the only things that still hearken back to the original are the name and the fact that the creature is made of water.

Up in the right top corner you can see me trying to remember how I drew the aquandalin back in fifth grade. The rest is from the past day or two.

Here are some notes, as well as crafts they might make.

A parent and babies. Also, the process of transformation. Did I mention aquandalin are shape-shifters?

Drawings showing the life-cycle, as well as the giant river otter that I took a lot of inspiration from.

-Lis

Girl in Moonlight

2011-04-19T22:35:00.000-07:00

I drew this the other day. I'd been having a bit of a rough week. It came out pretty well though, so I have just started coloring it!

Here I've only juuuuust started to map out the areas of dark and highlight. Since I can only work on this in my free time, it'll probably take a while before it gets finished.

In other news~
HAPPY DAY~!!

I've been chosen as a semi-finalist for Nickelodeon's Artist Fellowship! There was much excitement and noodley-arm dancing to be had. :D

WIsh me luck!

-Lis

Final Portfolio for Spring 2011

2011-04-05T04:31:00.001-07:00

Here we go! This is the final portfolio I am submitting (and already have submitted!):

The Many Great Adventures Trailer from Lis Savic on Vimeo.

Animal Drawing Stuff!

2011-04-01T06:26:00.000-07:00

Hey all!

Lookit this: not portfolio work! Instead, this is my homework due in about three hours for my animal drawing class! The first part of the assignment was to do a structural analysis drawing of an animal (our choice), and then do a "cosmetic" pass which showed texture, markings, etc. The second part was to do some character designs based on those studies. This is what I came up with, using a Red Tailed Hawk as my animal of choice:

Another Page for the Portfolio

2011-03-30T08:21:00.000-07:00

So, not the WHOLE portfolio again... just a page. A page of GUYS! Gasp!

One of the comments I got back was "Lis, your drawings are good, but... they're all girls. Draw some boys/men/adults!" (Mind you, I'm wildly paraphrasing, but it's now 8:22am, and I still haven't slept yet. Whee!) So... here are some guys.

MORE PORTFOLIO!

2011-03-24T16:06:00.000-07:00

So... I guess I wasn't done yet!

I've been getting some feedback, and making changes, and since I want to be able to mail this tomorrow... I figured I'd best do one last posting with the changes that I've made.

Portfolio Update! part 2

2011-03-22T23:22:00.001-07:00

Alright!

So, I'm DONE with messing with this; I gotta get back to thesis!

Portfolio Update!

2011-03-22T05:10:00.001-07:00

Well, I'm working on a new portfolio again! Gotta start having something ready for jobs and all that.

This is in progress. I still have more to add, but just to start getting some feedback:

-Lis

Trailer!

2010-12-21T23:01:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone!

So if anyone's looked through this blog, or especially at the portfolio pages, you're sure to have noticed certain characters. These are for my thesis film, The Many Great Adventures!

The film will be premiering in May, but to whet your appetite, here is the trailer!

The Many Great Adventures Trailer from Lis Savic on Vimeo.

Enjoy!

Any feedback would be very welcome!

-Lis

It's a Portfolio Update!

2010-10-21T14:15:00.000-07:00

So! I just finished up my new portfolio for the CTN Expo next month! Since the submissions can't be seen yet [and the images are REALLY small], I thought I'd post up the nice full resolution images here!

Enjoy! And as always, thoughts are welcome!

-Lis

Ellie

2010-06-10T21:12:00.000-07:00

Hello there! Sorry for the long absence. The ending of school was a bit rough. I haven't stopped drawing or working though! There's lots of stuff ready to post... I just need to get myself to a scanner!

Anyway, here is a sketch I did today. I would love some feedback on how the lighting works. :D

-Lis

Portfolio 2010.04.19

2010-04-19T17:46:00.000-07:00

It's my new reel and portfolio! Check it out! I'd appreciate any comments or critiques!

-Lis

Maya... it eats my brain.

2010-04-08T22:48:00.001-07:00

So here's what I've been working on! In my Intro 3D class, I'm just working on painting weights. It hurts my braaaaaain.

Yes. Screenshot of Frederick the Mouse getting himself weight-painted.

-Lis

Hiking Adventures!

2010-04-08T02:30:00.000-07:00

Hey look! A comic!

Yay for hiking adventures with my boyfriend!

-Lis

Sketch!

2010-04-05T15:48:00.001-07:00

Well, so it's not the portfolio, but it's something! A quick doodle before I run off to class~!

-Lis

Fail Week

2010-03-28T21:05:00.001-07:00

This has been a week of fail. No posts within the last eight days. So much for that streak.

Basically, I've been bombarded with lots of homework leading up to this week, spring break. And even though it's spring break, the work never stops! I have internship applications and thesis work, and... I'm not going to get into that.

Once I've got my new portfolio [in fancy 11x17 pages~!] figured out, I'll post that up on here! So then the blog will be less lonely. :]

-Lis

Viking! Part Two

2010-03-20T15:58:00.000-07:00

I meant to have this done yesterday, but so it goes!

Here is the small resolution version of my submission to the LMU Animation Club's How to Train Your Dragon competition! Full print size is about 11.5"x10.5"

-Lis

Viking!

2010-03-19T00:19:00.000-07:00

In preparation for the release of Dreamworks How to Train Your Dragon, the Animation Club at my school is putting on a small contest of sorts.

Here is the first half of my entry [at a MUCH lower resolution].

I gotta say, I'm pretty proud of how that helmet turned out. I don't usually like doing metals, but I think it looks pretty snazzy.

-Lis

3D Screencap

2010-03-17T23:22:00.000-07:00

Today the sun captured my attention; it was such a nice day. And now I'm working on finishing some 3D homework, instead of drawing a comic. So, here's a quick test-render of what I'm working on!

It's still going to get a lot of work done, but I do believe it's coming along nicely!

-Lis

Reeeeel!

2010-03-16T22:00:00.000-07:00

Here it is!

I'm not sure about this whole thing. There's a good chunk of my thesis storyboard in there, as well as a bunch of other random stuff, like the little piece of animation I posted before.

-Lis

Portfolio 2010.03.15

2010-03-15T21:05:00.000-07:00

Here is the most current incarnation of my portfolio. I'm thinking of trying to do some more work in the next week that would be portfolio-worthy instead of just random sketches. So then, when I submit for the next two internships, I'll have something a bit more shiny. Reel update for tomorrow, since I'm expecting to be entirely brain-dead.

-Lis

Animashuuns~

2010-03-14T21:52:00.000-07:00

I've been working on putting together my portfolio and my reel, so I haven't had time to make anymore comics. However! I'll be putting up my portfolio here probably tomorrow.

In the mean time, here's an exercise from my character animation class that I found while looking for reel-worthy things. I did this Fall 2008, the first semester of my sophomore year.

-Lis

MIDTERM!

2010-03-12T01:13:00.000-08:00

My midterm killed my brain. This is what came out of it.

-Lis

Sleeeeeeeep....

2010-03-10T21:08:00.000-08:00

I meant to post this one yesterday, but that drawing demanded attention.

Have you ever been so tired that you start hallucinating in class? While it can certainly be interesting, it doesn't help when you go back to study and realize that gnomes actually weren't involved in the witch hunts, and the test won't actually include drawing a dragon.*

-Lis

*Not entirely accurate, but fairly close to personal anecdotal notes.

Quick Sketch

2010-03-10T00:28:00.000-08:00

Well, I had a comic I was working on for today, and then this image popped into my head, demanding to be drawn.

Photoshop CS4, about a half-hour, I believe.

Does it still count as the 9th if it's only a little bit after midnight?

-Lis

What to Draw...

2010-03-08T23:10:00.000-08:00

In an attempt to inspire myself to regularly update this blog, I'm going to steal the idea of doing a kind of sketch diary from Erica Moen, of DAR. Unfortunately that comic has ended, but it's still a great read!

Without further ado, a comic.

-Lis S.

Um, Hi.

2009-02-19T12:22:00.000-08:00

I guess I'm really bad at this whole "update with art regularly!" I'll try to do better, but so far this semester has been just as crazy as the last! Maybe even more so...

Here's some 0f the stuff I've been doing recently!

I've also got some animatics from my Advanced Storyboarding class, but I think I'll save those for another post. Gotta make sure not to overload Blogger...

Hopefully I'll be writing again soon!

-Lis

Oops

2008-10-24T16:45:00.000-07:00

Well, that wasn't really supposed to happen. It's what... the 24th today? Hm... Time warp?

That however is not to say that nothing else has been done! Quite the contrary. The film is moving along splendidly to say the least:

of 85 shots, less than 23 remain to be animated.
nearly all of those 62 shots are already colored.
Toon Boom can read minds, and thus makes compositing far less confusing than it would otherwise be.
of roughly 82 backgrounds, 36 are done, but the remaining backgrounds are all a lot easier than the ones that are done.

And in addition to this work, I even put together a portfolio! Yay? You see, the first ASIFA Student Film Festival was last Saturday, and they had portfolio reviews! I spoke to Jorge Gutierrez of Nickelodeon, and he had some good advice for a li'l sophomore like myself who doesn't quite know what she wants to specialize in yet.

Now, I know this is sad, but I'm on the wrong computer to update my portfolio, and am quite frankly not in the right state of mind to mess around with photoshop to resize and flatten some backgrounds to post them here. You see, I may just save over the file I actually need for the project, in which case I would be very much in trouble. So no art this post. Next time! I promise!

And now, back to work! Yarg!

-Lis

Procrastination!

2008-10-07T18:25:00.000-07:00

So it probably isn't the most accurate thing to say that I am procrastinating. I am merely taking a break between backgrounds so that I don't get annoyed with them. Yeah. That one.

I meant to post some backgrounds on Sunday, but then I think I blinked or something and the next thing I knew it was Tuesday. Time is an interesting thing when it's spent in two places: sitting behind a Cintiq coloring, or in bed sleeping. Anyway, enough of this writing, time for some pictures!

In case you're wondering, these are a few of the backgrounds for that project I mentioned in my previous entry. They have been re-sized to only a quarter of their actual resolution, but I don't think HD-sized images at 400dpi would fit very well on a website. Presuming that they would upload at all. Sooo... yes. Back to work then! After all, I have about another... oh... 65 backgrounds to do?

'Til next time!

-Lis

Why hullo!

2008-10-02T17:24:00.000-07:00

And with this I do begin.

As an artist, and knowing other artists who also have blogs, it seemed a good idea to start one for myself. And thus I do introduce myself to whatever part of the world stumbles across these humble words.

I am Lis, currently a second-year animation major at Loyola Marymount University. As this particular semester calls for a group film, I intend to partly use this place as a production blog to follow along with our progress, and partly a place to put up various pieces of unrelated artworks.

So with this, I am done, and must be off to work on said film!

-Lis