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When i can't figure out what to draw, i draw cartoon type myselfs. I don't know why i do this. I've drawn eleven different myselfs tonight. This was one of them, and i notice i didn't have a profile picture for this blog. Still need a banner too.

Heads and Hands: Mission Complete

This is the rest of mostly everything from this class. The first chunk of sketchbook stuff is homework, the rest in class. I start the new semester next week.

Big Blue

Photoshop helps me use watercolors. One day i'll be good at this. I love Superman.

Annual Self Portrait

My face in the year 2011. Drawn from a reflection.
I plan on doing these till i die.

Unfinished

This is a very unfinished animatic i did for school.
It is very unfinished. Anytime you see a bad cut or a bad drawing or a thing happen and there's no sound effect for it or the music levels fuck up, this is all because this is unfinished and i'm sorry. It will also probably never be finished. It's kind of long and it's an attempt at "serious film making", if you don't want to sit through it all, i completely understand. One of the big problems i had was that i only had so much score to put under the drawings before i would have had to start reusing music cues, so i had all these drawings and not enough room for them. So some stuff only appears for one second, stuff that i would have otherwise held on to build tension or to just give it better pacing.

I did way too many drawings for this, there are parts that are practically key framed. I don't think that's the point of doing an animatic. I actually removed some of the drawings that i originally had just to shave off time. I should have given myself more time to do this, i think if i had more time then it would have came out better. I finished it literally an hour or two before i had to be in class. But ain't that always the way.

I normally hate when people do a big 'don't look at this cause it's bad' thing before showing their work, but at the moment i don't care about being a hypocrite.

I'm working on another animation that will be shorter and finished and not painful to sit through. I need to have a demo reel. I need to have a portfolio. I need to get good.

Late Xmas Gift

This is the cover for a mix CD i made for a friend of mine.

I'm out of school now and i have all this school stuff that i want to post here, i just need to take the time to photograph/scan it all. I have the time now, i just need to 'take it'.
I'm lazy.
Shhhh, this is a big secret, please shhhhh.

I got a 60 dollar gift card for Borders which i won't buy a single book with. Straight to the dvd section. Criterion please.

I saw True Grit, great movie, everyone should see it and enjoy themselves.
Late Merry Christmas to everybody. I hope the new year is fantastic.

New and old animation

The best part about having a new computer is that i can finally use Flash again. This animation isn't much of anything, it's just a super rough little bit of movement i decided to do because i didn't feel like doing other shit i'm supposed to be doing. But even still i'm proud of it, just because it's been so long since i've made anything like this. I just felt good while i was making this. This feeling gives me hope.

I used to do a lot of flash stuff in middle school and highschool. I used to be really creative and ambitious. I used to think i could create the next Homestar Runner. I didn't have good follow through back then(there was a lot of animations with no endings, lots of scripts for things that will never be realized), but i kind of wish i had that same kind of drive again. When i was younger it was like i was this juggernaut of talent and the only thing holding me back was all the school shit i had to be doing. Now it feels like the only thing holding me back is myself. Maybe that's what it's been the whole time. I don't know.

This other bit of animation was my final for last year. I thought i had lost it forever because the flashdrive i had it on disappeared a while ago. But i was recently one of the school computers trying to send an email and i noticed that there was something i had saved in my "drafts" folder. I had tried to email myself this animation and it didn't go through cause it was too big so it just went in my drafts, and stayed there for a year. So i pulled it off of there and now here it is. I really like the last few seconds.

I want to get back into animating again i think. It's a lot of work but it is actually kind of fun and satisfying when you get it right. I've been in a shitty mood lately, and i need something to fix it. First i need to make it through this semester though. So, i'm going back to doing that now, i have a lot of work that should be done and it totally isn't.