New drawings

I'm busy with setting up a studio called Snappy Sunday, along with a dear friend of mine.
We're in the process of making a logo, a website. Apart from this we're having a training in setting up your own business. We're learning about the brandkey and other usefull things.

We're scheming to make a new animated short film, Apart from this we're scheming to make a new short animation. We're looking into some allowances you can get in the Netherlands and we have some appointments with producers.

I can't share everything we're working on, because we want to keep it a surprise but I do want to share some new drawings I've made in the past period.

Taking my Vespa girl character into a new dimension ;)

This is supposed to be Tim and Mary from the lovely movie About Time. I've seen it a few days ago and I really loved it. Best romantic comedy I've seen in ages. Made me go see it twice in two days!

Showreel and end product

Yesterday we had our assessment and the teachers were very pleased with what I made.
I received good grades, four times 8 points out of 10.

So I'm really proud to present my finished work :) I would have been proud without the good grades aswell ;) so don't worry.

This is my showreel of January 2012.


And this is my final animation for the lipsync exercise;


First part says; Listen Animation, Second part says ; Speach Animation.

The first part is a reaction to a text of a friend. My friend designed a little fox, and it was supposed to be her plushie, that she still has.
First part says:
Hello. I'm the fox of Irene and I hate that. I live in her bed, and there's nothing there to enjoy, like running around or hunting. I would really like to get out of here! So adopt me!

In the Lipsync animation, this is what's being said :
I love the Vespa. It is so much fun when I drive really fast, and when I take bends really quick. It's like I'm someone else. I'm not insecure anymore. At that moment I'm the girl on the Vespa.

I worked on this for about 2,5 months. It took a lot of effort, but it was totally worth it.
I got the inspiration to make this, because I'm a very proud owner of a classic Vespa myself.

Originally my character was in 3d, but I rendered it with a Toon shader. I think it works really well, but if you're curious how it would have looked in 3d, I also have those videos, but not online. So let me know if you want to see them.
I hope you enjoyed my work!

It's starting to look good!!

I'm really happy !! :D This is the first time I actually feel at ease with Maya (lots of thanks to Dave who is really helping me out)

This weekend I'll be watching tutorials for the rig and facial rig, god, I hope it will work out. I want to start with the animation before the Christmas holidays begin, but modeling took me one week longer then expected.
Well anyway, I do think the lines are pretty perfect now, so I'm expecting no problems with that during rigging.

Apart from that I'm starting to feel more confident again. I'm so stressed out most of the time, but I'm actually starting to believe that my work isn't bad at all (lack of confidence). And I'm really doing great at the moment. I'm just very enthusiastic about the current design and I'm looking forward to the minor period.

I did lose my tablet pen, which is a shame. I don't think it's worth to buy a new pen, because it costs €35,- and that's pretty much what my tablet is worth. It was on the schedule to buy a new one, but not this soon... A new bigger one will cost me €170,-
And I'm not sure if I can actually pay that. Maybe with some help from mom?
It's really stupid though, because I draw better at the computer at the moment (it changes), and it's pretty annoying to have no tablet for a while..

Well, I'll be updating soon again, 'till next time :)

Different sides

So I can make my model in Maya.

Lalala

Lalalala :)

Character sketches

We got the new assignment last week.
We have to practice with lipsync and we need to design a character that is related to ourselves.

I'm especially interested in an alter ego. One that loves traveling and her Vespa.
Right now I'm focusing on a character that I drew before:
http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs40/f/2009/051/0/d/My_personal_chara_by_dream_artist.jpg

I really like the idea of that character. She looks really fun and I think it would be nice to work on.
Here are some new sketches for the project:





It's far from done, but it's an idea.
See you next time!

Results of 3D semester

I didn't even realize I hadn't posted my videos of the 3D semester.
Very bad of me to just forget.. Maybe I was to glad that it was done and that I made it. It's already such a long time ago, and I don't know if I want to go into detail.
Let's just say I have the feeling I only just made it to the third year. I definitely want to be better next year and I want to work on it very badly.

Anyway. I'll just show you the videos that I made.
In the end my character just bounced a bit across my self-designed forest and there wasn't really a story behind it. I was really desperate to just finish something in the end. The way I planned things was way off, and I definitely need to work on that. Although I have to say I was quite happy at the time that I even finished something and I had to work so hard in the last week, to even make this happen. So in a way I was proud that I could show something and that it wasn't a total failure.
The second video was about getting across the atmosphere, in this case, a scary forest, in which you feel haunted.
In the end I really had to juggle with some things, but I do think I made the right choices. Definitely the right choices to at least make it to the third year. But enough with the details, because I said I wasn't going to tell about them.

This is what I made of it, and I really did my best, and if that's the case, I couldn't have done any better at the time.

(my character is in playblast, because there was no time left to render it.. I rendered a few stills, so I could show how it should have looked)





This is my scary forest :


I'll be uploading more shortly, because I'm walking behind schedule.