Tiny Costuming for Stop Motion

This quarter, Dan Mackenzie of Mackmation asked me to make some tiny clothes for his next stop motion project. Here's what I came up with!

Snowman Animation

In my 3d Production class, I've been working on a 15 second animated film. Here are three frames from my animatic. The entire animation will be rendered out (tomorrow by the latest) with Maya and SCAD's Renderfarm, composited with Adobe After Effects, and cut together with Adobe Premiere. I used the opensource Blake rig.

Color Scripting for Characters

During this quarter, I've been trying my hand at developing some different color scripts for senior films that are in production here at SCAD. The characters above belong to Zane Yarbrough and will be used in ThisSideUp^ and Ilona, below, belongs to Tyler Kupferer (Base 14) and are for The Girl and the Fox.

I find playing with variations of color to be extremely relaxing. After hours of creating Maya snow- (using MEL- which means Maya Embedded Language), working out an X-sheet, or animating with the Graph Editor... there's nothing like sitting down and coloring.

More Yeti Color tests

The Friday Arts Project in Rock Hill, South Carolina is having a show called "Red & Green" (Tonight) Saturday, December 5th. I submitted a digital painting to the gallery- It's the beginning of Mary and Joseph's journey to Bethlehem. It's red and green! (Those happen to be two of my favorite colors, if you didn't know that. And not just because I love Christmas.)


Come out and see us if you're in the area! It is rumored there will be fun people and yummy snacks.

Yeti Neutral Color Test

Emma and Molly's Pet Yeti Color Tests

Pixar at SCAD 2009

*my sketchbook is still in Savannah so the notes portion will have to be scanned in later. Sorry about that!

Molly and Emma's Pet Yeti

A friend of mine, Matt Doering, is creating a short film titled "Molly and Emma's Pet Yeti".
Here's a piece of felt art I created for his characters!

Pixar is coming to SCAD

Hark! Listen! Hear this!
Pixar is coming to SCAD!! If you missed out on last year's visit from Pixar, there's still time to rearrange your schedule, finish your homework, call your parents on the telephone, just DO WHAT EVER IT TAKES to get out to the Trustees Theatre at 8:00 on Thursday November 12! I will NOT accept any excuses- especially you SCAD animators who I know read my blog.

I mean, look at this list of presenters:
Robin McDonald- Sr. Recruiter/Technical
Pam Zissimos- Sr. Recruiter/Creative
Shawn Krause- Supervising Animator/Cars 2
Nigel Hardwidge- Supervising Technical Director/ Currently in Development
Mark Holmes- Art Director (Graphics)/ Currently in Development
Tim Best- Lead Technical Director (Lighting)/ Bear& The Bow



Of course I will be there, so check back to see how it went!


P.S. I promise I will post an update (or 10) of what I've been up to this quarter.. You'll just have to wait till finals are over. Then get ready for an avalanche of catching-up posts!! Yahoooooo!

Feature Detection Boy

Here is my homework for Psychology class. We had to explain how a neurological sensory system works. Mine was feature detection.

Illustration Friday- Wrapped

Here's my submission for this week's Illustration Friday. The theme was "wrapped" so I wrapped one of my monsters in a towel!

Last Song photos from July 23

I took a break from animation and began browsing around on the internet, when lo and behold: I found some photos of myself and some extras from the Last Song.

Here we are finished with costuming, hair, and makeup and sit waiting for more directions.

I had forgotten about this photo completely. This lovely image of the back of my head was taken just after they had finished my wedding updo. She had just said, "Your hair is so pretty!" (complimenting both me and herself!) when someone came up and took the photo! I'm glad I got to see what it looked like back there because at the end of the day, I looked and felt like a mess so I never got to see what she had done.

(Photos courtesy of SavannahNow)

The end of filming Last Song

Yesterday was my last day on the set of the Last Song. They had us in the church that was built especially for Miley Cyrus and her cast on Tybee Island.

In order to not get in trouble for telling movie secrets and/or ruining movie magic endings, I won't tell you anything! Except for the sentences under the pictures. Which won't tell you much either.

Here is Tybee Island First Baptist Church.
Stuff happens there. And more stuff happens inside of there.

This is the side. Stuff happens in there, too. Just at a 3/4 angle.

I will say though, we were BAKING outside (and inside) on the shoot. We were called in at 5:30AM and left for home at 9:30PM. Not only was it the hottest day all summer (said one of the crew) but we were roasting under the biggest lights I've seen in my entire life. I watched the monitors whenever I got a chance to.. was able to ask a few questions when we weren't rolling.. and I'm dang excited to see all of it cut together. If they can make it look like we weren't dripping with sweat, I'm sure it will be pretty.

(Photos courtesy of here.)