Intro to 3D

This is work from my intro to 3D class taught by Greg Foertsch, who works here. This class was difficult, but definitely worth taking. 3D max is a good tool to know, or at least experiment with as an art tool. I found out that I like texturing a lot. My models weren't that great, but lighting, color, and texture can improve a lot of things. I'd definitely love to learn other programs, or continue exploring 3D. I miss 2D animation though. I'd like to continue with either, but I'll have to see what I can do in my schedule. Again, starting with the most recent work. I'll post the final later. (the progressing is very obvious because I'd never used the program before ^_^):

Creating an environment, first animation (moving the camera and object in the scene) I never figured out why the oyster edges don't connect....anyways, the video looks better in higher quality...if you feel like going through the link to youtube.



Midterm. YUM.



More organic materials, playing with the terrain.

More detailed objects, addition of textures, pelting.
Basic shapes, lighting, color.

Character Developement Final: TV Pitch

Here's my character development final, the TV Pitch packet. This was a fun and exhausting project. One note, my teacher suggested that “Gastronauts” (the show) was--instead of Kid's Next Door meets food channel, more like children's Indiana Jones, which actually makes more sense. It would be awesome to be able to work on an animated tv show, but I know I'll never come up with anything as awesome as Tek Jansen. I did watch some clips of Chowder, since my classmates said my show was similar to it, or at least it deals with food. Now I wish I had cable so I could watch more.

The Pitch/Plot:

Characters in an Environment:

The Characters:




Extras:

Concepts Class

Work from my Concepts class, taught by Rebecca Bradley. It was pretty difficult working more...commercially(?), but I know it has to be done. I think I learned this year that I prefer 1 week assignments over anything longer—otherwise I end up overworking/thinking things.
Also, I think my problem is that I don't have a particular style and I like changing up my materials depending on the subject and/or aesthetic I'm aiming for. I'm not sure how that will work for me when I graduate...but here’s the work, again starting from the most recent pieces:

My final illustration assignment. Each of us had to write an assignment for the whole class and then we randomly were assigned what other people had written for us. My assignment was "Sinister Aladdin". It was one week, and one of my favorite assignments. Especially since I got a chance to work in layers traditionally like back in sophomore year. Used charcoal, ink, acrylic inks, gouache, shimmery paint, gloss medium.
Movie spot illustration for Burn After Reading. Had some trouble with George Clooney and Tilda Swinton. Actually I have trouble with portraits in general, but this was a fun assignment, I liked the sketches I did in the theatre too, so maybe I'll post them later.
Map assignment. My idea was "Miss Ann Thrope's Maps", maps for other misanthropes, ways to avoid people, places to go, etc. The idea may have been too complicated for a two week assignment. I liked my line work (almost died drawing it all) but not so much the coloring. Maybe one day I'll revisit this........one....day..........
Gift wrap assignment. My theme was spring. I missed doing brush painting with sumi ink and rice paper.

Poster design assignment that was actually used for these bands at the 8x10 club in Baltimore. Didn't get at chance to attend the concert though, got caught up with work. It was a difficult illustration to come up with, each band was so different (Higher Hands, The Grilled Lincolns, Sara and the Help).


This assignment was to make an illustration based off of a statement from "Overheard in NY". Then we had to turn it into some type of product. I thought this would be a fun billboard. This was cut paper, sort of a continuation of a design I did for the HHF, right here. I admit, it's a little hard to read, my quote was "Chicken is the enemy of man."
First assignment, which was an op ed piece for the New Yorker. Requirements were black and white. My piece is based off of an article on how the pop memorabilia of today is equal to the value of religious relics in the past. Also, I am apologizing in advance for the guitar not being left-handed.

Character Development Class

Here's some work from my Character Development class, which was also taught by Brian Ralph. I also had trouble with color in this class, actually maybe it was just during this semester in general, but I tried really hard, so I hope it shows. Again, starting with the most recent work before the final assignment, the TV Pitch, which i will post eventually:

Toy Design Project. The Advertisement and the Product. I think kids would love to play with a dead body containing alien parasites.
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Character Design for Charm City Roller girl. Her hands came out too small. I like my sketches better, I might post them later, but here's the character in her environment. Not as successful, maybe because I need to stop coloring at night.


Character redesign assignment. I did two designs for the Pillsbury dough boy, but I went too far in both extremes, but it was fun. People said they liked it, but maybe not for the right reasons. Just like how I like this video.


The assignment was to do more than 10 characters.
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3 characters in an environment. No more religious warfare, just DDR. like Rain and Stephen Colbert.

Designing a single character in an environment. This isn't so much a character as an illustration of Takeru Kobayashi. The perspective is funny at the bottom, but it's still one of my favorite things I've done this semester, subject wise at least. I should do one for Sonya Thomas too, she's AWESOME! I love the commercial they're in together:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz57jWsiNDk

In class sketch, morphing a character, "cute to brute".
In class sketch, making a character based around a shape.
Silhouette assignment, designing a character while carefully considering their shape, the silhouette ended up being more interesting than the actual design, but that's okay.

Sequential Art Class

Some early work from this semester's Sequential Art class taught by Brian Ralph. It's not all perfect, but I tried to play with panel layouts, onomatopoeia, overall narrative.
Had some trouble with color this semester. I can't help it, I am drawn to neon urine yellow. The most recent ones before the final come first:

This was the last assignment before the final, it's a comic for kids illustrating the Bean Song.
An in class assignment where one classmate did the sound effects and then we traded them around and other people would make up a story around the sound effects. So someone else in my class, Erik Schmalz, did the lettering for this. It's just a sketch, but I really liked it.
Two page narrative about an ordinary object. Actually, now that I think about it one page is similar to my flour bag assignment from Intro to 2D:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZZULnEaFd4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNVCaN78H8U


One page narrative about roomates/two characters.

One page narrative.

Assignment on a doing a sequence on falling.

Final Sketchbook Page Concepts

My favorite sketchbook pages (see last post) were for this story about the Death of a Cactus and his mysterious briefcase.

Sketchbook Pages for Concepts Class

These are the sketchbook pages I did for the Sketchbook project in my concepts class. Each person was supposed to come up with a story for their sketchbook and each week we would trade off sketchbooks and illustrate a different story. Even though it got a little difficult each week to do this side project along with the main projects, I found it fun and refreshing playing with different mediums. Anyways, here they are, although I don't remember whose story was whose:

A mouse in search of berries in a grocery store.

A man in search of his face in his dreams.

A girl in search of exotic foods (my story.)
An old lady in search of an invisible bird.
Astronaut bird exploring the universe and fighting aliens.
A man who lost his memory and wants to find home.
A hedgehog searching for his umbrella.

Cover for a story about an albino hamster (?) vs. his shadow.

Story about an astronaut cat going against NASA.