More various things

Pokemon profile picture month

Some character development for the pirate lady and the little witch

Ignore that his left arm is like twice as short as his right arm.

Some animal studies

And finally, some warm-up sketches I made while under the influence of a fantastic fake moustache.

New header + a couple things

Redesigned my hero from that one assignment. Cruella Hook's getting revised too, but not so drastically. Also, a random Internet sketch!

Also also, finally removed the awful banner, and made myself a little banner. My good friend Amani just gave me some nice lookin fonts so I'll probably edit it yet again, but for now that's cool. c:

Reworked caricature, and hero/villain designs

Reworked the caricature of my brother to be more 'caricature'-y and less 'character design'-y, and also did a couple of character designs for class. I also reworked the Bill Nye caricature to be pushed farther, but I honestly liked the previous one better. *shrug*

Yeah, it's basically a re-work of that lady Crocodile I did a while ago. I just REALLY liked the greasy, slicked-back hair, fur coat around the shoulders, and giant, evil-looking hook. So I changed it a bit, and it's not like I didn't put any thought into the lady version of Crocodile, so I don't feel too badly. It's a little bit Cruella Deville, too- I imagine she had to kill SO MANY baby seals to make that coat.

Decided to do a witch for my hero design, since it is that time of year and all. I wish I had the time to re-work her though (maybe in the future?), I honestly had a hard time deciding on what to do for her and didn't leave enough time to explore different aspects of her design, so I kind of had to just pick a half-finished concept and finish it right then and there. Was thinking Kiki's Delivery Service/Little Witch Academia/a tiny bit of Puella Magi Madoka Magica. You can kind of tell I designed her on the spot (that cat isn't sitting properly on her head, it looks like it's about to fall off). Also her legs are different lengths. Curses. Yeah, I think I will rework her to be better. Because I can do better. This weekend. 

Some more class and other work

A couple of character designs for class

This guy is based off of a construction worker I used to see around the Wilk at ~1:00 AM. He was a pretty cool guy, super friendly, but he just had the scraggliest beard. 

And this guy's just all over here like "MATH, YEAHHHH~" Still not sure how I feel about the legs and their curviness, at first I was like 'it gives it energy AWESOME' but then I looked at it and well it kind of looks like he needs some Skele-Gro up in there.

I've been drawing a lot of ladies recently, so I figured I'd switch things up and draw some gentlemen for this assignment whoops hopefully it doesn't bother anyonnnneeeee

Here is some proof:

Didn't finish it because her torso torsion (HA HA) bugs me, and also she is basically Arlong in lady form. 

DO YOU KNOW WHAT I JUST NOTICED I just noticed that all of these are facing the same direction. Believe it or not I have been flipping these the whole time I've been drawing them, so really I can draw things at more than one angle wheeeeeeee

Oh wait here's some more (considerably less exciting) stuff for class

Crunchy Joe- Aftereffects Experimentation

Really the only thing I've ever used Aftereffects for is just importing and exporting PNG sequences as video files (see my 3D animations). But I know I've seen some really awesome things that people have made with it so I wanted to start learning more about it. So here, I've just been messing around with some really basic stuff- just some opacity, nothing exciting. I also learned a little bit about particle systems, that alpha matte at the end is bound to a null object animation. It was probably my favorite little trick I used in this clip.

I'll probably mess around with it some more, I wanna try some other things with it. It looks pretty boring right now!

Youtube link, in case Blogger is lying about uploading my video there: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIw6N_9GwQw

Drawing Editing- Before and After

The process by which I edit my traditional drawings digitally to compensate for quality lost through the camera (I don't have a scanner, so I photograph all of my traditional art).

Typically I try to work with the cleanest (sharpest) photograph I can, but the lens inevitably warps the colors and the perspective. So I have to correct that in Photoshop.

Before:

After: 

Nothing fancy. But I always like looking at before and after pictures.

Some stuff for a T-shirt contest

So I actually meant to submit the top one instead of the jellyfish-lookin Ghast to J!NX's Minecraft T-shirt contest... unfortunately I submitted the wrong file (I blame lack of sleep). Oh well, I still like the other one, this one just looks a little more Ghastly. And the bottom one is my favorite of the two designs I entered. Didn't make it through though (I suspect either too scary or too many colors).

Some things I've drawn in the last semester

Woo! This semester has been entirely crazy! Here's a couple things I've done:

A painting for a friend (Photoshop)

It's from their engagement photos. He has ridiculously huge earlobes, and not just in the painting.

Here's my final animation rig for Intro to 3D Animation (Autodesk Maya):

And a quick little animation done using only Blend Shapes (also Autodesk Maya):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEGwap0gsvU

The rest of the semester was programming, essays, and programming! Those aren't as exciting so I won't bother to post them, heheh.

Peacock

Just a quick watercolor/ink study. Gave it to a friend.