Fist of the north star (hokuto no ken) fanart

So I've been watching a lot of retro anime lately. I'll probably do some fan art based off it, and give a summarization of my thoughts about the anime I am talking about. Recently I watched fist of the north star, so here's a drawing I did.

What's it about: Dudes with glam rock hairstyles and shoulder pads... using their martial arts to out-do each other with whatever martial art each uses - set in a post apocalyptic future.

My opinions: It's f*cking awesome. It's been hailed as one of the most manliest movies ever, and it deserves such a title. I really did fall in love with the characters of this anime, and drawing them was a lot of fun. I feel like doing more because all the characters are awesome, but I did the three that show up pretty much every episode.

Here is the opening sequence:

Animation Demo Reel

Mostly consisting of stuff from my third year film!

There's a clip that reveals Wolfsong was originally supposed to have dialogue (voiced by Karen Kahler) but for the storytelling sake, I took it out and made the film more pantomime.
Lucien Dodge voiced the hunter (in the reel he exclaims DIE! but I changed it to efforts)

Check out my story portfolio here!

http://toniko-portfolio.blogspot.com/

Wolfsong

Here is is! My third year film, wolfsong!

Here is a film that I had the most difficulty working with.
It's a suspense thriller!

A mother wolf breaks into a hunter's den and takes back her cub, only to find it a motionless trophy. She sings a lullaby hoping that her cub will sleep. Little does she know that they are stalked by a young hunter back from the den.

A film that had way too many problems! Both story and animation related... It kind of shows sadly :( I hope I come to the 4th year more prepared.

Wolfsong Screenshots

Well, I recently finished my third year film, Wolfsong. Definitely the most difficult film I've worked with due to the many story problems and changes I had to make, so that might show during its release to the internet.

While my 2nd year Crayon Dragon was whimsical, "cute, and magical, this film is more down to earth, dark, and moody. Wolfsong focuses on a recurring lullaby, so that adds to the short film's haunting nature. It is also more of an action thriller, so I don't think anyone should expect much aside from this.

Cafe Sketches

Since I've started working in my apartment on my film, its been hard to keep up the momentum. Watching the sky so dark all alone in the apartment is one of the most quiet and boring experiences yet. To catch a glimpse on human life, I usually bike to Denny's which is about two to three blocks away from where I sleep.

Also here are some doodles.

Update Feb 27

A visual development piece I did for my film, this was done during the start of the semester but I'll post it now to see how the final film ends up changing.

Bad animation frame.

Walking Mouse

Based off a drawing a classmate of mine did. I asked

if he could design some sort of mouse character

because I wanted to do some performance animation tests featuring a mouse,

a needle, a wheel of cheese and some sorts. Here's the first pass at it.

I definitely had a lot of fun animating his design - he comes up with really appealing characters!

I should scan in the designs once I have more performance tests!

Here are my studies of his designs.

  Ali is a very talented character designer. I wish
I had some sort of character design skills...
Check out his blog!
http://alizartz.blogspot.com/

Just 2 more days til street vendor food!

Stuff I found in my folder and never bothered to touch on!

Moonrise Kingdom Tribute

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Here is something me and the talented Michael Piazza (The creator of Lost
and Under a Big Tree) worked on! We did a 48 hour film together last year,
and we collaborated again for a school assignment, which was make a little
opening/tribute to a movie in Flash.

more wolf and naive kid

I should be exploring more on this kid's face.

I was told my wolves looked too manly at this point (since I'm aiming for something a bit more motherly) so I took a stab at it again. I was given some notes on how to achieve feminine looking wolves by being more delicate with the straights vs. curves on them. The offset fur on the side of the face resembled mutton chops of a human, and the thick eyebrows I had was too masculine.

So some of the headers I got were to make the legs more skinny and delicate, smaller feet, smaller neck, a more softer shaped body and a softer shaped head (noting bigger craniums - similair to human heads for females)

Up to now I'm still having problems. I don't think I've solved the problem yet - but I feel like I'm heading in a better direction. If it ends up looking too feminine and delicate, I'm afraid I'm going to lose her character. We shall see how this goes! Designing characters and making character statements was never my forte, but I'd love to be stronger at it.

Neverending Story (1)

Atreyu and Falcor...

I tried looking at German folk art like Fraktur and tried implementing it as character design.
The second one was me trying to understand the japonisme art movement, but with
pretty much the same characters. I need to get back into the designing grove.

the same characters.

A Family

An assignment given to us - to imitate another existing character designer. I chose stephen silver! I have a very hard time during the clean up process, something I need to work on if I really want to fines my work.

Logger + Father and son

Here are some character designs I did for Phil Rynda's character design class. I might have to fix some of these drawings so the mistakes don't distract from the image - if I want to put them in a portfolio for something.

And here is a father and son from different time periods! I didn't know what I wanted to do for the 'past' reference, so I loaded Highlander on Netflix and it kind of solved that issue. 

Past

Present

Future

Its always the ballpoint pen

I've been drawing a lot of gestures lately, and its been making me more analytical at the same time. I have been using the ballpoint pen a lot for a lot of these drawings, and its been making me choose boldly with my stroke decisions. I should really get back to drawing more cartoons really - I really need to work on my character design and appeal studies.