Bonjour!!

O man! I can't believe its really happening. For those of you that didn't know or don't even know me, I was accepted to Gobelins Animation School in Paris, France!!!!

Gobelins puts out hands down some of the best animation I have ever watched from students! I was 1 of 30 professionals and students from around the world to go! There are only 3 from the United States going. One is a professional animator and her name is Christine, I've had the pleasure of talking with her over email and shes phenomenal at 2D animation and quite scary at character design as well. Check >Christine's site out.


Here is a link to Gobelins

I will be updating this blog as much as I can while I'm over in Paris! I leave June 30th and will be staying til July 15th. I can't wait, jeez I better practice some animation so I don't pathetic out their!

Virginia Tech Fundraiser

I decided to create a fundraiser, benefiting the victims of the Virginia Tech tragedy. I pitched my idea to my school, The Art Institute and they wanted to help out.

Here is what some of the flyer's looked like:



We had talented artists from the school and around the Denver community come out and help draw or paint all day!! One of the biggest hits was the face painting. The 9th Annual Denver Arts Festival was gracious enough to let us set up a booth and take part in the event.

Here is the T-Shirt I Designed:


Donations are going towards the Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund:VT

I will update more with photos of the event along with the final amount of money donated.

Thank you again for everyone making this happen and for the support.

Quick Painting

This is a fun little site, art.com has a painting section, you can have save to their gallery and once your finished you can watch your work from start to finish.

For some reason I could not get my work to save!?? But I did capture it on my webcam and I speeded it up 3x more than the orginally speed up. Go here and check it out!http://artpad.art.com/?undefined

Here is my piece.

2d animation tests

Here is some of the 2d I worked on this quarter. Still needs polished.

Apperence:

Kid run- still needs fixed
Water Ski- kid jumps of a dock into the water, just gets his thumb up in time to say ready and the boat takes off!
Ready for Lunch- kid whips out his lunch and someone throws a snowball and knocks it out of his hands, still needs some tweaking
Dragon: I had a few other fly tests, but I didn't get time to capture them, but this is one.
V.1 still in early stages! lol It will be a walrus! he jumps up out of the ocean onto some ice, thats why he slides. V.1 from the slide over to screen right, all sucks i lost all my arcs and the animation looks bad.

So i started on V.2 oh! also this one is shot on 2's so its faster and missing a lot of inbetweens. Also I had an idea for this one, that someone was actually recording "the life of a Walrus" or something, and he does a double take and he stares at the camera, and thats why he gets up close and sniffs and what not. Not sure how to end it, maybe have him either go back into the water, or eat the people lol. Or I was thinking making him in 3d and with the extreme close up, transition into the 3d model and world so when he would go back out it would be in 3d. I dunno!

Last a lil kid baseball, I'm going to have him walk up to the plate and pick his heavy bat up, and I'm going to also make this like a home video, and have the crowd cheering and have the mom be like "oh my" when the bat comes at the screen, then have it go static and fade back into him spinning.

Thats some of the ideas, but I am open to suggestions and critiques!!! Now if my school would only let me use some of this in my reel >:(