Witch Tower + Figure Drawing

New concept for the Witch's tower for my film! :D

Also, my figure drawing midterm portfolio:

Painting

Painted a thing. Just a rough idea. Still figuring out how to paint mist/fog.

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Having fun with trees!

Also, sketches from the past couple of weeks~

And some Amethyst fan art!

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Today was spent setting up my new work room! I've got my animation desk moved to its new location and prepped to start working on the film again on Monday. This week will all be sketches and drawings of TMGA characters as I get back into the swing of things. See you tomorrow!

Happy New Year~!

Here's to an awesome new year!

TMGA: Year One

Coming June 2013! The Many Great Adventures: Year One!

Since I'm somehow not busy enough with class work and film work and portfolio work... I'm gonna be starting up a new project soon! I'll be posting snippets here and there while I get things going.

Happy Halloween!

Too busy to post yesterday, so here it is today! I'm still alive, just very busy with family and class. Still hoping to get back into the swing of the dailies soon. And now it's a new month, so keeping my fingers crossed!

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Just continuing on the painting!

Also, I updated the Storyboard and portfolio pages a few weeks ago, but never mentioned it in a blog post.

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My next painting project! The re-imagination of the Witch's castle. Just a quick sketch with some tones thrown on. Refinement and further work tomorrow.

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While I suppose I could leave it here, I'm still not quite finished with it. I don't know if I'll get back to it on Monday, since there's another scene I have in mind for next week, but we'll see.

If anyone's got some feedback on this, I'd love to hear it!

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Wooo color dump!

Just working on getting the values/hues around where I want. Still pretty rough, but getting there!

Finished painting tomorrow~!

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Now for something different!

This is the rough line work for a painting I've started. Instead of a daily drawing done in a single day, this one will be completed by this weekend instead. It's a nice break from finished colored character pieces.

Also, this will be used as a color/lighting/bg reference for the film! So there's that too.

Sunday Sketching

Hey folks!

I'm thinking of changing up my "daily drawing" type thing. While I'll still be drawing everyday, I'm going to change the format just a bit. Monday through Friday will still be regular dailies, although depending on the complexity, it might take two days or even the whole week to have something finished. Saturdays I'll be posting on The Many Great Adventures with progress on my film. And I think Sundays will be scans of sketches from my sketchbook!

So to start it off, here's some sketches from last night:

And of course... starting with Ellie and Celeste.

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Woo! Color!

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As promised, here's Celeste!

No time for a finished sketch today, but here's a quick drawing of Celeste in her new costume with the Magnificent Phoenix.

And this is her new design, more or less! (The bag has changed a bit). I was never overly fond of her old design, but I had to start animating. Now that I have the time, I'm updating the animation to this.

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Alright! Now that the craziness of July is over, time to get back into the swing of dailies!

For my first daily drawing, here's an Ellie! I'm not changing her design to this for the film, although I kinda do love her giant hair.

I've got a new take on Celeste that *will* be showing up in the film for tomorrow.

Also, even though I disappeared for a while there, I didn't stop drawing! I've got a bunch of stuff to scan, and then there'll be a sketch dump from the rest of July.

Oh, and as always, feedback/critiques are welcome!

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Hey folks!

I haven't died! Just been REALLY busy. One of the things keeping me from my dailies is actually working on my film again. I recently bought ToonBoom Animate 2 so I could keep working from home. Soon I'll have a full shot finished from scanning through compositing, and I'll throw that up here. In the mean time: screenshot!

One thing I miss sorely from Animate Pro is the node-based compositing system. Animate just uses linear/layer compositing, which can sometimes get a bit interesting...

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Oh hey, it's party Ellie!

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Continuing with TMGA characters... Here's the Magnificent Phoenix! ... Again, a bit younger than how she appears in the film. Young birds are all sorts of awkward. She's also significantly more sparkly than how she appears in the film. It would be far too much trouble to do all these effects frame by frame on her, although there may be a few shots where I'll make some exceptions.

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Figured I'd continue with TMGA by drawing Celeste! SO MUCH GLOWING!

Also, the last daily drawing for May! Not a bad month. I think I just missed one drawing.

Can't wait to see what June will bring!