Sketchbook February 11 2011

Above are patricia's characters for her Sheridan portfolio.

We were trying to figure out it's poses

I really felt weird figure drawing on my sketchbook this morning

Film characters 2

Here's I guess the promotional picture for my film?
With a new goldren retriever character that plays an important role

 

Oh and here's a random animation practice! Scott Wright, my animation teacher is awesome and totally motivates me - but I swear to god that guy is up to... something.

Sketchbook update Jan 13 2011

Playing with shapes and designs, especially in the random car thumbnails.

Now that the break is over, I really need to push things...!

Animation - Small Tests + Finding a language

Here are some animation tests from project DF.

In character design, I sat stayed around after class with my classmate Leon, who was showing his film character designs to Rik Maki. I was listening to the conversation, and I remember hearing Rik Maki telling Leon to find a language that works for him, and possibly him alone. Find a language of your own in drawing...
Scott Wright, my animation teacher did mention the same thing when it came down to animating characters, where he gave examples of how other people he worked with animated, such as some would draw the contour straight on, some with the exact construction of how the model sheet shows, and some just started all the way back to primitive shapes.

So yeah, I need to have MORE structure in my work.

So I did some animation tests of my own to find a language that kinda worked for me, which was in order
1. Animate the wild gestures
2. Animate basic shapes such as spheres, boxes
3. Go back to each frame and add more complex shapes
4. Go back to each frame and animate smaller details such as eyes, mouth, hair, etc.

Background for Jimmy

Starting to color backgrounds for that Jimmy animatic I did a while back.
Also, here are some drawings from good the old Serpent's concept.

Speed paint practices

Here's a speed paint I did a while back and forgot to upload.
I've been practicing in become a lot more diverse in colors, and experimenting with the idea of choosing and blending earthy with none earthy colors to make things feel more natural and alive... I dunno, hah.

Visual Development... or speedpaint, concept, I sometimes lose track of the difference because the way I approach these things is mostly the same So all in all, they feel alike to me.

Various Walk Cycles

Tyrannosaurus Rex Walk Cycle from Toniko Pantoja on Vimeo.



Miette Walk Cycle from Toniko Pantoja on Vimeo.

Coming soon:A red cat with a green bag

The concept art to my part in this collaboration.

Basically here at Calarts, the 1st year seems to developing a collaborated animation, where each student animates their part with the character, and tries to match it with the next animation.

I was given the number 2 in class.

Cats n Horses

For Rik Maki's class, we submitted cats and horses for our second to last assignment.

So in summary, I guess the best parts he liked were the expression of the horses, and the female cats - and he said that the anatomy for the horses need to be defined more, and some parts shortened. It's all good

Cat thumbnails

It seems that my teacher wants cats and horses for our next assignments. Did thumbnails in class for the cats...

Cats can hiccup and fart at the same time.

Observational + Cafe Sketches

Cafe and observational sketching is a lot of fun, and is very useful in understanding drawing both interpretively and technical - even in gestural form. It's something I do from time to time, but my sketchbook is mostly filled with rough sketches for bigger assignments. So, here are some of the ones I am proud of.

Some of my classmates:

 Takehiro Nishikawa (http://tn-portfolio.blogspot.com/)

Jason K

Michael Piazza (http://michaeldraws.blogspot.com/)

Jason Reicher (http://jasonreicher.blogspot.com/)

Hallie Willson (http://halliewilson.blogspot.com/)

Leon Alexander

Check these guys out.

On the upper right, you can see a huge tally. That represents the number of time my Contemporary Literature teacher says "RIGHT". In this count with a 1 hour lecture by him, it was 160 times. I shit you not.

So here you see again my literature teacher and my classmates:

Zach Nock

Taylor Price (http://taylor-price.blogspot.com/)

Jacob Streilein (http://jcstryline.blogspot.com/)

And so yeah... went down to the little area down the street and sat in Starbucks. Drew with Taylor. Ate Subway. Watch south park. What a way to spend a few days of thanks giving weekends.

Nicholas Marlet inspired monster's inc. design

So, one of our in class assignments was to draw our own monsters studying from Nicholas Marlet's model sheet. These are some of my studies.

Imaginary Friend (calvin and hobbes influenced) part 1

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So, another assignment was to come up with a new version of Calvin and Hobbes... That's a harsh and impossible assignment since something already made so great can be so hard to turn into our own versions. Two of the drawings are missing, but I am waiting for them to return from the class.

Corpse Bride/Tim Burton inspired character designs

Assignment from Rik Maki's class. Draw ghouls in the corpse bride style; adults, children, and animals in a creepy ghoul way. I think I did okay... I guess.