Independent Study Wrap Up!

This semester for Digital Arts Independent study, I wanted to really focus on animation and character creation. For my animation I wanted to create a trailer for the book The Knife Of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness. To do this, I had to create a story board and a script, I researched how to create a scrolling background, walk cycles for 2- and 4-legged characters, lip-syncing, nesting/pegging, and I had to learn and practice working with a character in a 2-D environment. The only problems I ran into while doing this project was lack of time and lack of knowledge of the programs I was using, but those were easily overcome by looking at tutorials. Even though I didn't finish, I'm happy with the work I did. It helped me learn and practice making my animations smoother. For the character creation portion, I mainly used Corel Painter 12. I would just start drawing and if I liked something or saw potential for one of my drawings, I would expand on it. Usually I would create a plan of what I wanted to do before I would draw it on the computer, but this technique helped me realize that art isn't planned, it just happens. I really enjoyed this year and I'm very proud of the work that I've done in Digital Arts.

Just decided to make another spiderman drawing! this also helped me figure out some features in Corel Painter!!! 

http://threadless.com/submission/427477/Best_Friends

Hey all! I submitted my T-shirt design and for the next 7 days, you can score it and maybe it will be turned into a T-Shirt!

What colors should the tshirt be in? You can say which ones you think: Best Friends Critique

Best Friends

Just created a T-shirt for threadless! Just a little something I came up with in Corel Painter. You can critique  it here: Best Friends Critique

Me and my friend were working in photoshop practicing blending two pictures together. It's actually harder than it looks!