It's been crazy times: working with selling stuff and sending my things back home among other projects, so thesis work has gotten delayed. I'll keep you updated!
Thanks and have a good weekend!
Joz
Friday, May 7, 2010
Thesis - Women Sketches
I started sketching some women before starting designing the female characters for my thesis. I'm aiming towards keeping them in the same style of my male characters, but adding a little more definition in the details of the faces: colored lips, eye shadows, eyelashes, and eyes might be smaller than the big cartoony eyes I'm using for the guys. I still haven't decided all this, but I feel I'm heading that way. Meanwhile, here are some of my women sketches.
It's been crazy times: working with selling stuff and sending my things back home among other projects, so thesis work has gotten delayed. I'll keep you updated!
Thanks and have a good weekend!
Joz
It's been crazy times: working with selling stuff and sending my things back home among other projects, so thesis work has gotten delayed. I'll keep you updated!
Thanks and have a good weekend!
Joz
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Updates: Thesis, Those Imaginary Miles, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and the 2010 SCAD Sands Art Festival.
Hi! I know the title sounds a bit overwhelming, but I want to talk about everything and didn't feel like making four posts to cover this, so instead I'm giving you a long one.
Thesis:
I finished the rough animatic, which I'm not disclosing yet. I had different possibilities for the ending, so I asked around to get the opinion from my friends and professors. What's to follow? Character designs! I will be uploading those once I'm satisfied... Meanwhile, you can see some of the characters' faces on my website, in the images section.
Those Imaginary Miles:
I'm working on a second scene from the project. Today the group met and we started compiling everything into Final Cut Pro to get an idea about how it will look like. I will provide a few stills soon.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit:
I recently bought this movie. The last time I saw it, I was probably about 8 years old. I remember as well some friends had the NES game, and that I owned a coloring book from it. Watching it again, 20 years later (probably), was quite an experience. It was like watching a completely different movie. I noticed so many things I didn't notice the first just because I didn't have the malice I have today. (What has society done to us?!?! Hahaha...) If you haven't seen it, you should: It's a great movie and it set a milestone at the moment for its innovation. It's great to see Donald and Daffy in a piano duel, and Mickey becoming Bugs' accomplice. What I did enjoy most about it, besides the overlapping of cartoons in the real world, was the message about the purpose of cartoons. Being in an art school, you can meet plenty of people that suddenly become too critical about cartoons and they forget their purpose: to make people laugh, to entertain. Roger Rabbit had it clear. Jessica Rabbit understood it too. If it were for animation Puritans like that, many shows playing on TV today wouldn't be where they are. "The Simpsons" wouldn't be there because they are too yellow, and no humans are that yellow (No, I'm not going to talk about Asians). "South Park" wouldn't be there because they are too "cut-out" and "poorly animated", just because the animation is not Disney-feature-film style.
If there's something I've learned about all this, is that we should celebrate diversity. Not only in animation, but in pretty much everything: race, culture, religion, gender, sexual orientation, everything. How would the world be if everything was cookie-cut "perfect"? Perfect, really? Sounds more like boring to me...
Of course, animation as an art form can reach different sensibilities and convey different emotions. I got into art school to learn how to animate properly in order to be able to get a job, with the ultimate purpose of bringing more happiness to this problem-ridden world. "Smile, darn ya, smile" is the main song from the cartoons at Toon Town. That's what my goal is, either by music or cartoons, on the long run all I want is to make this world better. Having that said, let's go to tonight's final topic.
SCAD Sand Arts Festival 2010:
Yesterday (April 31), I went to the SCAD Sand Arts Festival 2010 with a group of friends. We were a team of four. Armed by 2 buckets and a small trash bin, we started working, in the attempt of doing two dolphins kissing. Our fourth team member then joined in, and she brought a shovel, so our working conditions improved. :) After noticing we had a huge empty space between our two dolphin shapes, I suggested my team "How about we fill this space with a turtle, so that instead of the dolphins kissing each other, they're kissing the turtle, one on each side". Everybody liked the idea, so we went ahead. First we were taking sand out of the center of the piece, now we were taking sand from outside and bringing it in to make a significant shell for the turtle. We started detailing the shapes: the faces, then adding fins, legs, shell patterns. In between, a pack of dolphins, probably about 8, was swimming close to the coast, so our piece suddenly gained more interest and relevance from the spectators. After the faces were detailed many people passed by and couldn't resist saying "Awww, that is too cute!" It was quite uplifting and it helped us to keep working hard till completion. (While I was typing this, there was a blackout and it's 11:41pm right now, so the entry might not be published until tomorrow.) I got interviewed by Savannah's local press, and I was quoted on the news (with my last name misspelled, but that's still me, heheh). We also ended up calling our sculpture "Turtlely in Love" (as totally in love) but I guess the organizers of the event understood "Turtle-y Love".
Here's a link to the article:
http://savannahnow.com/news/2010-05-01/scad-students-sculpt-tybee-beach
Oh, and I want to say thanks to the Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary, since their judge selected our sculpture as the First Place in the Best Underwater Sea Creature Contest! All our hard work paid off! Thanks also to my awesome team, for without Tran Do, Sofi Petersen and Whitney Taylor, we couldn't have made it as good. Thanks to all the friends who showed up to hang out, support and cheer us up, and last but not least, thanks to the mom that was sitting next to us for worrying about me getting too sun burnt and spraying me with sun block and ultimately leaving us her sun block bottle after she left (The world needs more people like you, lady! Thanks! :) )
Here's a picture of the team, some of our friends, the sculpture and the "first place" tag. I'm the one with the baseball cap next to the dolphin.
Thesis:
I finished the rough animatic, which I'm not disclosing yet. I had different possibilities for the ending, so I asked around to get the opinion from my friends and professors. What's to follow? Character designs! I will be uploading those once I'm satisfied... Meanwhile, you can see some of the characters' faces on my website, in the images section.
Those Imaginary Miles:
I'm working on a second scene from the project. Today the group met and we started compiling everything into Final Cut Pro to get an idea about how it will look like. I will provide a few stills soon.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit:
I recently bought this movie. The last time I saw it, I was probably about 8 years old. I remember as well some friends had the NES game, and that I owned a coloring book from it. Watching it again, 20 years later (probably), was quite an experience. It was like watching a completely different movie. I noticed so many things I didn't notice the first just because I didn't have the malice I have today. (What has society done to us?!?! Hahaha...) If you haven't seen it, you should: It's a great movie and it set a milestone at the moment for its innovation. It's great to see Donald and Daffy in a piano duel, and Mickey becoming Bugs' accomplice. What I did enjoy most about it, besides the overlapping of cartoons in the real world, was the message about the purpose of cartoons. Being in an art school, you can meet plenty of people that suddenly become too critical about cartoons and they forget their purpose: to make people laugh, to entertain. Roger Rabbit had it clear. Jessica Rabbit understood it too. If it were for animation Puritans like that, many shows playing on TV today wouldn't be where they are. "The Simpsons" wouldn't be there because they are too yellow, and no humans are that yellow (No, I'm not going to talk about Asians). "South Park" wouldn't be there because they are too "cut-out" and "poorly animated", just because the animation is not Disney-feature-film style.
If there's something I've learned about all this, is that we should celebrate diversity. Not only in animation, but in pretty much everything: race, culture, religion, gender, sexual orientation, everything. How would the world be if everything was cookie-cut "perfect"? Perfect, really? Sounds more like boring to me...
Of course, animation as an art form can reach different sensibilities and convey different emotions. I got into art school to learn how to animate properly in order to be able to get a job, with the ultimate purpose of bringing more happiness to this problem-ridden world. "Smile, darn ya, smile" is the main song from the cartoons at Toon Town. That's what my goal is, either by music or cartoons, on the long run all I want is to make this world better. Having that said, let's go to tonight's final topic.
SCAD Sand Arts Festival 2010:
Yesterday (April 31), I went to the SCAD Sand Arts Festival 2010 with a group of friends. We were a team of four. Armed by 2 buckets and a small trash bin, we started working, in the attempt of doing two dolphins kissing. Our fourth team member then joined in, and she brought a shovel, so our working conditions improved. :) After noticing we had a huge empty space between our two dolphin shapes, I suggested my team "How about we fill this space with a turtle, so that instead of the dolphins kissing each other, they're kissing the turtle, one on each side". Everybody liked the idea, so we went ahead. First we were taking sand out of the center of the piece, now we were taking sand from outside and bringing it in to make a significant shell for the turtle. We started detailing the shapes: the faces, then adding fins, legs, shell patterns. In between, a pack of dolphins, probably about 8, was swimming close to the coast, so our piece suddenly gained more interest and relevance from the spectators. After the faces were detailed many people passed by and couldn't resist saying "Awww, that is too cute!" It was quite uplifting and it helped us to keep working hard till completion. (While I was typing this, there was a blackout and it's 11:41pm right now, so the entry might not be published until tomorrow.) I got interviewed by Savannah's local press, and I was quoted on the news (with my last name misspelled, but that's still me, heheh). We also ended up calling our sculpture "Turtlely in Love" (as totally in love) but I guess the organizers of the event understood "Turtle-y Love".
Here's a link to the article:
http://savannahnow.com/news/2010-05-01/scad-students-sculpt-tybee-beach
Oh, and I want to say thanks to the Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary, since their judge selected our sculpture as the First Place in the Best Underwater Sea Creature Contest! All our hard work paid off! Thanks also to my awesome team, for without Tran Do, Sofi Petersen and Whitney Taylor, we couldn't have made it as good. Thanks to all the friends who showed up to hang out, support and cheer us up, and last but not least, thanks to the mom that was sitting next to us for worrying about me getting too sun burnt and spraying me with sun block and ultimately leaving us her sun block bottle after she left (The world needs more people like you, lady! Thanks! :) )
Here's a picture of the team, some of our friends, the sculpture and the "first place" tag. I'm the one with the baseball cap next to the dolphin.
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