Status Report: working hard

Howdy everyone!

Just here to show some of the awesome stuff I've been working on, recently.

Lately I've been rather busy. Due to schedules being mucked around, deadlines have gotten pushed forward, while some stay the same, making it less time to work on some. Less than I'd like. Currently, I have one quadruped walk I have to work on, along with a redo on the action line biped assignment I worked on last week, along with clean-up animation on all the animation for my 2D Animation final. This is all due this Tuesday.

That's three, Mr. Disgusting Orlando Drawing. Learn to count.

First off, let's see that Action Line assignment I'm redoing. I mean, it can't be that bad, can--?

AAAAAGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!

But yeah, I'm redoing it. There were many problems with it, the most notable of which is the crazy walk at the end.

CRAZY.

Meanwhile, for my 2D Production class, I've got all my animation pretty much done. Just a couple of holds I need to move. I'm entering clean-up, and it seems to be coming along. Furthermore, my friend Charlie is providing some music for the project, which is sure to be spiffy!

Can't wait to see it finished. It'll be my most finished animation ever.

Also, I'm doing a doggie for my quadruped animation assignment!

So yeah...

I said I'd be updating this blog pretty often, but it turns out that didn't happen. School did, though.

This quarter's pretty heavy. I'm taking three studio courses, and that's tough I guess. Really, the funny thing is that the extra studio I got has been the least troublesome of my classes, and the two animation courses I was gonna take anyway have been time consuming to the max.

Anywho, one of the classes is Action Analysis, which is a class for analyzing/animating realistic human bodies. We also get to animate a dog or cat. I figured I owed as much to post something from that, so here's my completed hand animation.

Obviously, it's in rough animation mode (no clean up) and it's less than perfect. I got a really good grade for it though. Still, I am currently working on the redo for the assignment to refine it. No more jiggly thumbs and shrinky palms.

The other is 2D Production, in which we get to pre-produce, produce, and post produce a short 15 second animation. I'm excited, because this means it's the first time I get to go into clean up and color in my animations for class. It should make for another neat portfolio piece.

Here is the visual development I pitched to the class.

One diligent, exam-studying-for, magician-in-training. One annoying ass of a roommate. Let the wackiness ensue.

In any case, I hope to update with other stuff soon. These are but tidbits of things to come.

It got cold!

...I can't feel my legs..."

So to save on heating water, my family only heats it prior to someone bathing. Which is a fine idea, I guess... except that the other day, it was so cold, that after we turned off the heater the water got cold quick... and this happened.

Winter's awesome though. I'm much more active outside during the cold, I think.

BAM! DEAD.

Or other people are, anyway. The only one of these that wasn't a pose I found on the internet is the first one, which is my little brother playing video games.

I'm gonna have to apologize for some of these scans. I mean, I tried scanning them in on this scanner we have now, but the blue pencil hardly showed up.
So instead of, you know, taking photos or trying something else, I edited them with photoshop to make the blue stand out more. I'm still "enngh" about the result...

Creeper hand

...sometimes the lines just didn't show up at all.
These are a few highlights from the hand drawings I've been doing. See, I'm taking Action Analysis class next quarter, and I thought some hand and body gestures would help warm me up for it. It's all animating realistic human bodies... I am nervous.

Try to make sense of anything in this.

And finally a page of character sketches. Again, not the best quality, here.
Two of the characters here some of you might know. Heroman and Assistant-Lad, his devoted sidekick  (they're almost entirely invisible down there...) There's also Kid-with-enormous-arm, an alien, a magnificent seagull, an outlaw cowboy guy, and some zombie guy, too, for the hell of it. The alien makes me sad, because I know he'd look so much better without a pea-shaped body, but hey, you experiment.

Also, before I forget, hope everybody had a very merry Christmas!
and Hanukkah!
and Festivus!
and Kwanzaa!
and any other holiday!


Also, Happy New Years tonight!

Spirit Pokemon!

So as usual, I'm REALLY late to the party. I first learned this thing was going around weeks ago, but never uploaded anything.

Other people who have done this are as follows:

http://secretcat.tumblr.com/post/1655382586/life

http://catsnrats.tumblr.com/post/1657540260/ripped-off-of-inspired-by-dis

http://catsnrats.tumblr.com/post/1657803069/spirit-pokemon-comics-gaze-books-edition-ok-i

http://messiahcarey.tumblr.com/post/2074146250

http://www.drawbrandondraw.com/index.php?date=2010-12-08

http://1minutesprout.wordpress.com/2010/12/13/spirit-pokemon/

I dunno. I had a lot of fun with this.

Hey look, a blog!

Hello, and welcome to Oddity Stew!

It's my blog, and it's great! Or rather it will be, as soon as I actually post stuff up.

So without further ado, here is a drawing I did of a Blue and Yellow Macaw while I was vacationing in Colombia this summer:

Now it's great.

I'm starting this blog up to try and get some of my work out there in the ether of the internet, and by that, I mean besides Deviantart. Not that I won't be still posting stuff on my DA, just that I'm branching out. I thought it was high time, anyway.

Most of the stuff here will probably be sketches, side-projects, and mini-comics I draw. Now and then I may write about something or other... like opinions... yeah, I might do those.

Anyways:

That's right, fan art happened.

Fullmetal Alchemist fan art, to be exact. It's one of the biggest drawings I've ever done that wasn't for school... I think around 11x17 or something. Anyways, I had no access to a scanner (and in any case my scanner is too small), so I had to make due with photos! Hope to maybe scan it in in a better resolution when I get back to school.

It was a good exercise in inking something. I guess.

Also, more fan art.

Some sketchings I did today. I was watching the Studio Ghibli film Whisper of the Heart, and felt like... drawing the characters...

Let me say, it was a wonderful movie. Throughly enjoyed it. Enough to draw fan art of it anyways.

And finally:

Scientists!

These are some character designs for an animation me and my pals back at school are planning. We're hoping to get some work on it done over the rest of the year, but that remains to be seen.

Later, everyone!