Bye Bye Blahs

I think I am over the 'blahs'. My animation came out fairly nice. The secondary action on the cape and the fat fox's boobs was surprisingly good.


Damn amateur photograpy skills! I got my slides back today and most of them don't look good enough to send to colleges. One more shoot aught to do it--it seems like F2.8 with shutter speed 60 is working( I hope that is right). At least they didn't turn out like the last four rolls I made--the film never advanced in the camera, so I got $40 worth of black film back from the camera shop.

The new puppy, who is now called Ginger, is happily peeing all over the carpet. She doesn't like the designated "wee-wee" spot, so she'll dart over to a spot near the door and pee before you can catch her. She is still insanely cute, though.

A Case of the Blahs

Unfortunately, I am feeling really shitty and unmotivated right now. I'm trying to finish cleaning up my animation HW but I can't help feeling really apathetic about it. Blah.

Maya Animation class is going better now. Last HW I modeled a dragon and a giraffe; much better than my crappy pear house. Blah.



I'm doing a bit better in figure drawing too; the techniques Mike shows me really help. Trying to keep next week's HW from sucking as much as last week's. Blah.

Blah blah, freaking blah. I hope I'm not burning out.

New Puppy

My mom just bought an apricot-colored, miniature poodle puppy today. It is really cute and REALLY frisky--right now its running around like someone gave it a Red Bull.




My hard drive is finally fixed! HOORAY! Thanks a bunch, Dad.

The STOOOOOORM of the CENTURRRRYYYYY!

The whole eastern seabord from VA to ME just got pimp-slapped by a huge noreaster.
Here in Newark, DE we got about a foot; NY has record breaking snows, according to the sensationalist Weather Channel.

Did everybody go out and buy bread and milk?! If you didn't, you will DIE!!!!!

Best Day EVER!!!!!

Today was the Corcoran trip I was really looking forward to. It was a blast! Luckily the snow held off until we left.

Thirteen of us piled into a van early this morning and drove from Wilmington to D.C. The ride wasn't as bad or as long as I had expected it to be.

Corcoran is a very nice school and I really think I would enjoy going there. A lot of the group was really excited about the facilities and how nice the dorms were!
I'm pleased that they have a good scholarship program; I really hope I can get one.

The whole ride up and back we talked nonstop. I enjoyed it because I don't get a lot of time to socialize. I threw a couple of snowballs at Thomas at a rest stop, too. There's nothing like pelting your fellow students with snowballs.

The Corcoran is a museum school, and it has a beautiful gallery for historical art work and considerable space for student work.





There are also many beautiful examples of sculpture and architecture on the campus.





I was really inspired by the work in the digital media class. I want to pursue creating animations for music videos. Time to get back to the animation homework!
Overall, I think everyone had a good time!

Catching Up on Schoolwork

Today I decided to take a day off from work to tackle my various projects.
I'm redoing my 'Sparks and the Foxy Lady' animation for this weeks HW.
I Finished the majority of the extreme poses today. Here are some shots from the rough story boards.





My hard drive crashed, so I couldn't fix the brightness/contrast like I wanted.

Tomorrow is the Corcoran trip! I'm really looking forward to it, and I hope we don't get the 6-10 inches of snow forcasted this weekend.

Class Doesn't Get Any Better Than This

It was another wild day in animation class as usual. Today's lesson--anticipation!
I couldn't have anticipated that Thomas could say so many dumb things, or that the majority of the students prefer pirates to ninjas. I prefer robots personally, especially the giant variety. I also didn't 'anticipate' getting to impale fellow students with my prof's sword! Ok, maybe I just pretended to impale them, but Pahl did have a sword.

We also contemplated what would happen if Chuck Norris were to fight his evil twin or future self.
Wow. Mulford gets 6 F's.

My animation came out better than I expected, even though I stayed up all night rushing to finish it. It features a fat, busty fox trying to grab my chicken/gryphon hybrid character. She eventually just eats him--he's full of tasty lovin'!

Here's my chicken character pegging Thomas in the face with a book.




Good times.

Overall, I had a great day, well worth losing all but 3 hours of sleep.

Video Class

Today I finished my 'contrasting image and sound' project for Intro to Video--It was pretty weird.
It turned out really emo, with dramatic blue and red lighting, and Radiohead's Pyramid Song in the background.
It was a wannabe abstract expressionist film.

Revenge of The Nurbs

I'm Starting to get the hang of Maya 3D Animation class--somewhat.
The program is chock full of nerdy jargon goodness--Nurbs, phongs, parenting, isoparms...some of it goes over my head.

Blog Envy

After a lot of pressure from my college friends(Mike, Echo), I finally decided to start a blog for posting art work, pics, and thoughts. Currently I'm working on applying to various art schools to transfer to for Fall 2006--RISD, Pratt Institute, SVA, Corcoran, and possibly NYU. It's tough to balance school and shooting slides, writing essays, and completing drawing exercises. I'm shooting for a pretty big scholarship.

Here's a drawing that I included in my portfolio. Just a simple study.

This is one of my favorites. I had to draw this with an ordinary ball point pen, and in order to get a grade, I had to empty the entire contents of the pen. Sounds easy? It took forever.

A nude from 2005. After Drawing II class, I really started to get the hang of drawing accurately from life.