Blocking blocky block blocking

Started blocking this week, and I got pretty far! Rigging and the short film I'm working on have ended up eating a lot of my time, but I'm content with where I am.

Happy Valentine's Day

I found the set of search terms to use! The answer is "Six-year-old (or whatever age you're looking for) meets". No quotes. So I found my reference! It took three weeks but I've started, so yay!

Here's my new little-girl reference:

Finding Refrence

And the work continues! This week I stagnated a bit, the reference I shot of my self didn't really feel like a little girl (which makes it a bit of a wasted reference injury). So, I set to the internet trying to find and excited little girl. The best I was able to come up with was this one:

Which I started blocking based on and it just felt flat. I have yet to figure out the right set of search terms to get what I'm looking for. Turns out most excited little kids on youtube are sitting. 

Si je t'exile te catapulte Vers d'autres galaxies

The shot I'm currently working on. 

For my portfolio class this semester I've decided to start working on a new two person dialogue shot. I set out to find a sound clip that was appealing and featured a kid (as I have never ever animated a child before)

I ended up settling on the following clip from Bridge to Terabithia:

I then spent some time thinking about the back-story for my characters (Which is where the wonderful Rex Grignon and Todd Waring taught me to always start a shot). The little girl, Jenny, is an extremely hyperactive child who no one can keep up with. She has worn out several babysitters with her large imagination and boundless energy. Her new babysitter is Sara. Sara is extremely disinterested in baby sitting and begins the shot texting a boy she is very interested in. As Jenny's explanation gets more big and bizarre Sara is slowly drawn away from texting and ends the shot fully paying attention to Jenny. 

I shot some reference, but as it is with any reference worth using it is far too embarrassing to share.

See you all next week! <3 p="">

(Title is a line from the song "Ex" by french artist Camille)   

Hello world

I have been away from this blog for quite awhile, and a lot has and has not changed since I was last here. I graduated Animation Mentor in 2010!

I'm returning to my blog to chronicle my final semester at CSU Chico. After graduating AM I decided to return to school to finish my BA in English Literature as well as to continue my education in Animation. I'm thrilled to say I will be graduating at the end of this semester with botha BA in English Literature and a BS in Applied Computer Graphics (which is basically the Chico academic name for animation and video game design).

I will be linking to my current demo reel at the end of this week, and hope to keep everyone updated as I progress through new animations during the upcoming semester.

J'aurai p'têtre moins envie de faire la fête.

Happy August everyone! Getting started on my short film (OMG I can't believe I'm already working on my short film! AAHHH!) And my mum requested I put my Animatic up on my blog, et voilà!

Animation Mentor is made of Pure Awesome.

In case you didn't know already though. So, this last weekend I got to participate in the filming of a lecture at the AM offices in Emeryville, taught by the truly fabulous Bret Parker, an animator at Pixar studios! The lecture was organized by the terrific Luci Napier, who I couldn't possibly thank enough for inviting me to be apart of such a cool experience!

Bobby Beck has more about the lecture on his blog, so I will leave a link to that, so I don't have to explain everything. (I'm afraid most of what I would say would be "and then it was cool, and awesome, and super cool!)

http://bobbyboom.blogspot.com/2009/07/animation-mentor-new-lecture-with-bret.html