Lofty Looters Pre-Revision Animatic

Lofty Looters Pre-Revision Animatic

This is the animatic put together using the backgrounds I posted before.  It was a lot more fun than the first animatic of this term, and probably a lot more fun to watch.  I'm doing thumbnails for a second part to this same animatic, so just wait and see…….

The Sum of my INKtober

As far as keeping up with doing INKtober drawings… I've done them every day so far.  This is one of the ones I'm most impressed with.  It's been a fun challenge, something I'd like to keep doing in my free time.
Say hello to my impression of Nico Marlet's concept art style!  The How to Train Your Dragon movies are incredible, right at the top of my favourite movies list (with some others).

"Lofty Looters" Background Sketches

As you can see, I like to draw outside of the lines.  Can't leave any leak space, after all.  Drawing backgrounds and making animatics is becomes more fun as I get better at them.  These backgrounds are for an animatic pre-named "Lofty Looters", and shows pirates escaping from the onslaught of angry tribesmen with treasure and  a surprising discovery.  I had to edit my original story, otherwise I might have had a feature-length amount of story sketches.

The first background is one I will be using to animate a heavy lift (of a pirate lifting treasure into a boat), and a push/pull animation (where the pirate pushed the dinghy out to sea).  I get to do a lot of fun research, and have discovered the names to some ship rigging and sails.  My favourite rig style is the brigantine!

Unbelievable Animatic

This is an animatic I made as my first project of my last year of college: http://youtu.be/MafPQTJb38I. I had great fun putting it together, all while trying to keep from snickering too much.

Ultimate YES!

I made the ultimate find today.  It's hard to see, but on those two rocks are imprints of fly wings- Fossils!  It was just after watching a parade in the Tri-county area, and there was still an hour to kill, so we went to a rock beach.  I happen to see this sign with trails marked, and one of the locations happened to read "Fossils".  Anyone who knows me would guess right away what I did.  For those of you who don't; I made a beeline to that location on that map.  I wasn't disappointed!

Exploration in the Dark

About three weeks ago now, Hurricane Arthur paid a visit, and took out our lights.  With trees.  The upstairs part of the house got a healthy dose of sunlight in the day, but the basement was another story.  The perfect setting to do an exploration; particularly where the freezer was concerned.  I had to identify which were supper items, and which were not.  It was a frosty experience, and most of what was on the top layer was easy to identify.  English muffins, ice cream, and packaged meat.  It was more difficult to tell wether the meat was ground beef or chicken.
Bedtime was also fairly interesting, after the candles had been put out.  I got into a habit of laying my pjs in a particular way so I could remember exactly which piece was which in the dark.  Nine days later, the power came back.

Time Exploration- Garden Version

Look at this scrappy bit of border.  Early in the spring, things are just poking up from the ground.  The snow is gone for good.  That's when my green thumb gets itchy, and the only cure for it is to get outside for once!

Here we've decided to make the border slightly bigger (and I'm also renovation the rock garden at the end there, right out of sight).  It's at this point that I find strawberry plants, and feel the need to inform mum of each and every one of them.

Mulching is a must-have.  Once it decays, it puts nutrients back in the soil.  Well-rotted compost or wood chips work well for this.

Let the planting commence!  There are a few new-comers here; itty bitty pansies/violas which are just the right size to plant close to stepping stones.  I've also saved a fern from somewhere to put next to the eaves tube drop-off thingy.

Suddenly everything is super green!  My favourite colour!  and of course all the other colours that go with it.

Maple Exploration

Being away during the week means I sometimes miss fun stuff.  Like a newly-developed family hobby of making maple syrup.  For now I'll show you what I discovered about it with my own pictures.  In this photo we see a modern tap on a tree with a tube leading into a recyclable container.  The sap which comes out of the tree should be clear, and doesn't have much flavour.  Collecting sap from maple trees takes place in early spring, when the days are above zero, and the nights below.  Sap collection ends when bud begin to form on the trees, or when the nights are no longer cold enough.  

The next step is to boil down all the collated sap.  There may be multiple boilings during the sugar season, and at the end you get different grades of syrup.  My uncle has a good picture of different bottles lined up which shows the different shades of sap representing the different times during the season when sap was boiled down.  Since it's just a hobby, we don't need any full-sized production equipment; an old stove in a woodshed and a couple of boiler pans are good enough to get the job done.  The lower pan holds the more concentrated sap, and the top pan is used to pre-heat the sap before emptying it into the lower pan.  Once the lower pan gets too full, it is emptied into a pot (which can be brought into the house) where it is boiled down further to the final grade of syrup.

Here the syrup is strained into their final resting place (in bottles- traditionally glass) before they are left to cool, and then gobbled up with pancakes.  Fact - natural syrup does not taste like the sugar liquid you get in the store.  it has a more distinct flavour (which differs depending on the grade and wether or not you burned it), and is possibly an acquired taste.

Exploration Tree

This is the only picture that turned out from an exploration of tree parts I did a while ago.  Our mission was to collect as many parts of a tree as we could from our Exploring the World 'textbook'.  If memory serves me correctly, I got around 68 items.  I don't remember counting any higher than that anyway.  I had to stop collecting as soon as my hand couldn't hold any more sticks while still being able to open the door to get back inside.

Unicorn VS Spatula!

Everyone has to face some sort of battle.  Right now, this unicorn and this transformed spatula are duking it out for some reason or another.  Who will win?!

Polar Bear Dragon

I was playing around with the different brushes in Photoshop, and thought that some of them looked like they could e used as feather textures.  This dragon breathes ice!

Animation Layout

This is a quick digital layout painting for a yawn animation I did recently.

Illustration Assignment

A little assignment for class where we painted a picture in photoshop using local colour, shadows, highlights, reflected light, and textures.  I really really like how it turned out in the end!  Yay!

Lady Knight Drawing Jam

'Nother drawing jam to post.  Tried something different with colouring, not sure it was super effective…

Run Cycle

Here is the pencil test video with the chicken run cycle that I posted earlier.  It took me a while to figure out how to make the background loop properly, but now I know how it's done.

Chicken Run

These are the frames to a chicken run cycle for animation class. 

DP

It's just me, practicing the use of colour and shading… I want to get better at it, so the only remedy is more practice...

Class One Piece

I drew my classmates in One Piece style; all members of a crew.

RPG Characters

Here's a quick little painting I did on a scrap piece of Bristol paper.  In class a while back we had a fun question for attendance asking us to decide what kind of RPG character we would be.  I don't play RPGs besides pokemon (if that even counts, haha), so I asked the class which class would have the closest connection to dinosaurs.  They came up with an Argonian Necromancer (Skyrim), so I could be crocodile-like while controlling dinosaurs.  Win.

Layout Design

Some study pages and thumbnails for layout class.  Went for a Tang Dynasty theme for a dragon's cave/palace hidden in the cliffs surrounding a lake.  These thumbnails are a closer study of the garden beneath the palace.

Dinosaur the Marvel way

This is a digital workflow excercize for clean up class.  My original intent was to do a person, but then I made it more complicated than it should have been…

Anne

Something happened, and I don't know what it was.  I thought I would just putter around some, and then this popped out at me.