Ghost and the rose

Actually, the name of the blog title is from a game I love called "Secret of Mana". Besides that, these are just character designs I'm experimenting for an upcoming pitch. This year is so different because I am clueless in what I want to do for my final short.

I've also been playing around with a Selkie for a film idea too. It's just a thought, but I think girls are so hard to animate and portray, even if they are somewhat animalistic. Still thinking, wondering how my peers will find it when I propose some of these ideas I have in mind.

I can't draw animals to save my life.

And here's a bit of me... A cartoon version of myself for Phil Rynda's character design class. Yeah I don't really wear great clothes anymore since I bike uphill to school nowadays. Man, I need a car pretty badly.

More studies

I have a few ideas I would like to do for a film. Right now I think I'll just experience with the visual aesthetics first so I can get a better grasp of what kind of story I want to tell. I have some, but I can't really say much about it.

...Because as of now, it sucks.

I've always wanted to play more with dramatic values.

Jesutaruuu + 11 Second club

I have been drawing a lot of gestures lately, and it feels great. I have to admit, my motivation of drawing kind of died down when I was in second year, but I think its been very meditating in a way, but still retaining the challenge of getting down what I see as quickly as possible.

The biggest challenge and goal I need to work on for this year is probably solidifying my drawings. It's either I lack the understanding of structuring things, or that I'm a lazy son of a bitch to even fix the drawings. Its good to hear people say I'm the lazy one... Kind of. But in all fairness, I really do need to treat my work a bit more academically- especially when it comes to traditional animating.

I forgot to mention I participated in the August 11 second club.

Click here to see it!

Unamed 3rd year film exploration

Honestly I can't say much

Since things are looking very floaty here.

...I had a lot of sausages just now, and I think someone here is going to destroy the toilet.

Figure Drawing

Back for another year in school! My official first class was actually Film Workshop, but I actually started work within my new figure drawing class. I really enjoy it so far because I think it will give me more time to really enjoy quick poses, at the same time focusing on form! As you can see, I'm very rusty with my life drawing right now, so I really need to teach myself to get back to it properly. I hope this year will be a better year!

Sketchbook aug-early september

Here are some pages from my sketchbook after I returned to LA from a lengthy stay in The Philippines and Indonesia during the summer! I've been using the pen more to become more bold and decisive on my strokes, since I tend to focus too much on tone when I use pencils.

Familiar old friends

Boy Cried Wolf

Been sketching characters for possible third year film idea...
I'm not sure what kind of film I want to make, so I'm still tapping into that. I'm not sure if I want something funny, moody, whimsical like crayon dragon, or action.

I'll give it more thought.

Sandy

Sketches and shape experimentation for another dialogue musical lip sync I might tackle. If you guys remember that god forsaken John Travolta animation test I did, I want to try Olivia Newton John's side. In the movie in this song/sequence, her hair is like all over the place and doesn't exactly fit the 50s era (more like the 60s since it was a 70s point of view of the 50s) so I wanted to make the shapes of her hair in between the start of the movie and the end of the movie.

Just me trying to find shapes before I tackle this test!

School Kid

Really a new take of an old character I did.
I will develop more sketches of this concept.

Animation Demo Reel 2012

Featuring mostly animation from Crayon Dragon, and pencil tests from Serenade to Miette!


Toniko Pantoja - Demo Reel Spring 2012 from Toniko Pantoja on Vimeo.

June 13 2012

Some drawings I just did today. Need to keep my mojo and continue to get better. I made it as a finalist for the disney animation internship, but I did not make the internship - so I'm working hard to have things prepared to atleast gain an internship.

My third year better mark something, so I'll work and see how that goes.

Just moved out

Private Detective Hammer.
Kiss me Deadly is probably my favorite Noir film so far... The characters, the style, and the fear of the nuclear war, its great stuff. But there is definitely a lot more to check out.

Also, here are the color thumbnails I prepared when tackling the background and colors for my film. I definitely have the Blue and Green curse. Although there are blues, I wanted to emphasize Green Orange and white, and the use of a shamrock (although I accidentally referenced the clover leaf more) to represent the irish flag. A little fact: My film does take place in Ireland. The murals are heavily inspired by celtic art.

My thoughts on Don Bluth, and the "Animated film"

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