February 11 sec

Here is my entry for Feb. 11 second club competition. It turned out much better than last months as far as the animation is concerned... hope you enjoy.

Ferret Studies

This is more of my drawing studies with the story I'm writing. Here are some drawings that I later went over with pen and ink which I have found to be a fun medium to work with simple for the line variance and the heavy contrast.

Current T-Shirt

This is the most recent design that I am working on. It actually ties in with the storybook that I am working on in another class. The story deals with a boy in middle school who is struggling during the awkward pre-teen years. The time when kids can be really mean, only his imaginary friend from when he was a kid comes back to help him out. Even the imaginary friend, Ferret, is older now yet he is still there when the boy, Hal, needs him the most. The image is suppose to have an oriental feel to it with the style and brush strokes. It has a certain flow to it, hence the water, and yet it represents the bond and connection between these two characters.

Here is the working progress of the image. I will post the final when it is done, and any feedback comments would be great.

T-shirts

I was always biased against illustrator and the type of work you can produce with it, however, I tapped into it last semester and started to work up some t-shirt designs. A friend and I worked on a shirt to sell for our Computer Art Club and it was actually a lot of fun. I then went ahead to produced another one to represent our club; so here are those two designs.

The Basics

Recently I took a moment to go through the basics. Here is a ball bounce that I did the other weekend just to go back and try to remember and capture the basic principles in animation.

Style 5 Animation

This is a site that a friend of mine stumbled across a year ago and I absolutely love the animation and the style that they do it in. It really captures that urban lifestyle well. Their is also a wide types of animation in their intro real with a very different approach, especially for the one walk cycle that they feature. Anyway check out Style 5 Animation.

January- 11 Second Club

This particular animation was created for the January compition for the 11 second club. If you don't know what the 11 second club is it's a competition for animators. Each month a new voice clip is posted for everyone to animate to and at the end all are voted on and the best one wins. Anyways, if you are interested check out their site. Here is my entry, hope you like it and any feedback at all is more than welcome.