Animated Pursuits

Even though, I know this is my character design blog, but animation..well, that is part of a character is it not? So I'm going to put up my last semester's pursuits up on how I did with animation. I'm not the greatest animated, but I think I did pretty well, no?


Also using a pre-set character that's already modeled and all you have to do is animated it IS A GODSEND! I love it way more than modeling, rigging, then having to animate. I mean, you can focus so much more on just the animating part is was way quick for me to animate this walk. Like maybe...I don't know, a few hours?



Bouncy little bugger, ain't she? I really like the bounce in her hair and step. XD

Module 9

Mod 9.2 - 40 Faces Working Progress...





Mod 9.3 - 1 of Each Age (infant, school age, teen, adult female, adult male, elderly) Finished!

Finishing Up

So I'm finishing up coloring for Ningen Manga and I really like how everything turned out. Yeah! Awesome! XD I've tried a new coloring technique with them as well so it's been taking forever to color! I wanted to bring in the feel of the comic-bookiness that was in the previous Women's Studies' prelim sketches so first I had to lay down flat color. Then I put flat shades and some highlights (think like cell-shaded). Then I blended them via hand (or tablet...whichever!) It's better to use the brush and blend it by hand rather than blurring it or smudging it with any other tools, I think.

Here's a taste! XD


I'm also rather proud of my little fella that I animated for my animation class. For my editorial illustration class (like way back) I drew some little pudgy stick figure fellas for an assignment to make an illustration for a newspaper article. It had something to do with how organic food purchases are so expensive. So I had one little fella give an arm and a leg (literally) to a another fella grocer. It was a very pudgy piece of arm and leg, and for some reason pudgy body parts like that tickle my humor bone. =) So my poor pudgy stick figures are de-limbed most of the time...

Animation

Yay! I'm stuck doing an animation for class. Although, you know, I'm taking an animation class, so it's quite obvious that I would do that.

So, I also have work to do for Ningen Manga and that's due Monday. Coloring and all.

I'm also thinking of doing a graphic novel with my fiancé's father. He has a story and I like taking on impossible projects. So that's all. I know I haven't uploaded any images. I'm a bit hesitant since it's a character design blog, I don't like people stealing stuff. It's such a double-edge sword. I want to show off my work, but I don't want people to steal it and it basically involves me trusting the vast scopes and eye balls on the internet.

I need to think of a way to protect my work but still show it off, so I was working on a copyright/watermark but it makes the art look ridiculous. >.> And making is small isn't going to work either. So I think I'll put a copyright on and make it a decent size but not too large or detailed. You all will just have to tell me if you've seen my art around being claimed by someone else. You think you can do that for me? That'd be great! XD And for that, I will make sure I have images for download for free, like wallpaper or paper designs and the like. Yay! Don't you just love freebies?

As for the 50 different words to base characters around, I'm open to suggestions however, I'm going to pick them randomly right now and not think about them...or I'm going to pick a random word from the dictionary and do it that way. XD Yay randomness! Actually, I'll just use this random word generator.

Words of Creation
Common Nouns
1. Jolly
2. Treaty
3. Film
4. Disposal
5. Follow
Common Verbs
6. Blast
7. Happen
8. Boom
9. Achieve
10. Pound
Common Adjectives
11. Easiest
12. Disturbed
13. Careful
14. Inserted
15. Wild
Average Nouns
16. Cartwheel
17. Bandit
18. Ejaculate
19. Rifle
20. MIcrometer
Average Verbs
21. Tiptoeing
22. Streak
23. Entrench
24. Bike
25. Unraveling
Average Adjectives
26. Aggravated
27. Buxom ((of a woman) plump, esp. with large breasts)
28. Nifty
29. Fateful
30. Reticent (not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily)
Uncommon Nouns
31. Accusal
32. Redecoration
33. Minotaur
34. Scourer
35. Connoisseurship (an expert judge in matters of taste)
Uncommon Verbs
36. Marbleizing
37. Enfilade (a volley of gunfire directed along a line from end to end)
38. Empanelled (enlist or enroll (a jury))
39. Rebalanced
40. Getter (a person or thing that gets a specified desirable thing)
Uncommon Adjectives
41. Multidisciplinary
42. Unchronicled
43. Countrywide
44. Salicylic ( bitter compound present in certain plants. It is used as a fungicide and in the manufacture of aspirin and dyestuffs)
45. Overground
Obscure Nouns
46. Decoagulant
47. Underaim
48. Nonspiral
49. Suriname (a country on the northeastern coast of South America)
50. Overfacility

So with those words and definitions, I'm going to try and either make a character that somehow includes that word or an illustration of a scene that involves that world.
Wish me luck!

*waves*

First Entry

Alright! First entry ya'll! XD So here's what's up. My professor has a blog specifically for his figure drawings and I thought, "Hey! That's a great idea!" So I'm going to be posting things for my figure drawings as well as character creation thingies here. I'll probably post up assignments as well among other things, which'll be good for me so that way I can see improvements and such over time.

I'll try and update the album that slideshows through my images as often as I can, but the more current stuff will be in blog form here. I'll try and just keep it to black and white sketches, etc. etc. too.

That's all folks!

Diane out.