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jen — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:56:37 +0000

…another year of animation. Hooray…?

And for my first post of the new school year… something that has nothing to do with animation.

The revolution will be televised!

Corduroy Jones: Private Eye

jen — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:27:13 +0000

I love this little guy. If I had the time, I would have made this character sheet more like those black and white comics from the news papers, like Enzo suggested. I also just realized that I don’t have a 3/4 back facial expression…Oh noooeeesss….

flipbook

jen — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:52:24 +0000

my page for sheridan’s animation year book. I wish i could have fixed the contrast so its a bit easier to read, but they’re just scans of work from this year, and bad scans at that :/

the latest aminations

jen — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:56:15 +0000

reading week is descending upon me like the rapture. what with snow days and tripod days, piles and piles of projects… So little sleep, so little time. Here’s a few of the things that were keeping me awake.

Stitch!

…and also:

how the bat got his wings

jen — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:37:40 +0000

The first post of the semester. I have a rather unimpressive panther walk animation that I could have posted a week ago, but I am full of lazy, and I forgot to grab the avi off the school computers.

Eh.

Here instead are some ideas I’m putting up for storyboarding the Cherokee story of how the bat got his wings.

amination assignment 4: box fold

jen — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 03:58:15 +0000

I’m covered in flour paste and bits of newspaper. The reason for this is because I have pressing assignments that need to be done this week, a situation that automatically puts my procrastination burners into full thrust.

I have, however, finished this animation assignment. No flair or verve here. Just straight up foldin’ boxes.

amination assignment 3: the ball and the tail.

jen — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:09:08 +0000

Its done, although I wish I could do more with it. It looked a lot better when I shot it at school, but now I can see all the mistakes. Booourns.

I wanted to have a secondary animation of a butterfly, and had animated the ball to (kinda sorta) react to it, but it ended up not being enough time.Also, alternative name slate for my animations. Yes, Millie. Cheese is, undoubtedly, quite delicious.

character design: round 2 - posing

jen — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:55:47 +0000

So this is my character. I’ve been in this rut of cute for that I’m trying to break, so I decided to makethe greasiest possible character that I could think of. The original idea was a sort of Victorian style kidnapper, with a bowler hat and a burlap sack full of child, but I’m not unhappy with how this turned out. I especially like the idea that he’s the kinda guy who gets boozed up on someone’s grave. Classy.

more procrastinatorizing

jen — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 03:56:09 +0000

I spent all of Friday at Toronto’s wonderful Royal Winter Fair. I was sad because I didn’t want to do life drawing, and I had lost my wallet the day before… But it turned out to be a lot more fun that I would have ever expected, and I nearly came home with a bunny. However, I also learned that I am allergic to both hay and Canada’s godforsaken cold, so I think I might be coming down with something.

That, plus my ground state inability to focus on anything for more than 10 minutes, is making it hard to focus on my character poses. Which are due tomorrow. Boo.

Thats why I’m posting this guy:

His name is Bo Burnham, and his lyrics are BRILLIANT. I also love the little awkward/pleased look he gets whenever he makes a particularly racy pun. Search up his name on the YouTube to watch his other stuff. I highly recommend “My Whole Family…”. If I could rock wordplay like him, I’d hug myself to sleep every night.

Character poses and maybe some pictures from RWF up later.

second animation assignment

jen — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:10:18 +0000

My second animation assignment = done. My room is a wasteland of animation paper and eraser rubbings. Serious. I have wood floors, but they feel like carpet right now. I went through three brand new prismacolor pencils through the entire process, and have saved them in a jar labeled ‘nubbins’.