Highly Animated: August 2014

Monday, August 25, 2014

Ada

In celebration of Highly Animated's 3rd year I'd like to tell you a story. Long time ago(last year) I was working on a big secret project that I hinted here and there and for some time consumed my every waking moment(fun times) well that big sooper project was a portfolio for The WB Reach program where you could be awarded both a scholarship and a internship at Warner Brothers studios( awesome right).

So part of the application was to provide some samples that pertained to my interest in animation; I'm interested in becoming a character designer and a storyboard artist so a did just that. I was already starting to work on my AP art project which was based on Utada's Exodus album so I decided to just create a character based on Utada.

Her look based on her old hair style

Her name actually came out great because Ada means noble/happy

The face is the most important feature for a character, I wanted her to be attractive & distinct and that goes for pretty much every other character I draw. Really proud how this came out considering how I wasn't use to drawing the same character and then having to do it with different angles.

At that moment it had been awhile since I drew women and certainly never to this extent(definitely a learning curve)

Definitely wasn't good with the expression sheet(dear god these are hideous) glad I didn't include this

Instead of the god awful expressions I wiped up an attitude sheet for some different poses and an alternate wardrobe

Once I got the designs done(to the best of my ability) I started doing the story boards and I gotta say I do enjoy looking at these(even though this was my first time doing it(and it shows))

I love movies(can't say that enough) and my favorite part of going to the movies is the trailers so I wanted it to be more of an animated drama so I referenced scenes and camera angles from some of my favorite trailers.

Even though I know this is far from professional I thought this was really cool & had that cinematic quality I was looking for (especially when you play the music I chose for the trailer).

Pretty sure it's obvious I didn't get in( I would be fucking bragging about that all day) but I'm truly proud of the material I worked on and the that I tried. This gave me an opportunity to incorporate my way of thinking in to a visual story and push myself at drawing different things(besides a floating head). So again happy anniversary Highly Animated folks.
Hope You Enjoy

3rd Year of Animated

3rd year of Highly Animated!!!! I honestly can't believe that this thing got started back in 2011(Damn I'm old). Stay tune for the special post right after this one.
Hope You Enjoy Another Year!

Saturday, August 23, 2014

It's Morphin TIME

I love almost everything that's Power Rangers so I'm going out of my mind that Power Morphicon 2014 starts today!!!! The Comic-con of Power Rangers. Everything you could want as a fan; Past rangers, panels, toys,& EXCLUSIVE SHIT(yay). Well because I live in The Big Peach I cant go but because of Shout Factory they'll be broadcasting the event live from 11 AM – 5 PM(Cali time) plus it'll be hosted by Power Rangers Super fan Andre of Black Nerd Comedy. Until later

Hope You Enjoy

Friday, August 8, 2014

Im sorry Utada

Dear lord this is embarrassing(haven't let that shied me away from still posting), but this was my final for my drawing class back in the 11th grade(before the dicktator came in). The challenge was to make it only using color pencils which I wasn't good with(still not) at the time. The drawing is based on the Utada album cover photo "Heart Station"(great album); the shirt came out great, her face..oh God HER FACE!!! Well..Oh well enjoy some music