Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Wall-E Widget

Disney is getting totally psyched up for the release of Wall-E. Case and point, this widget, which you can grab for yourself to put on your blog, or email it or even put it on your Facebook profile (I've got it on mine :D). Pixar and Disney are also doing a bunch of other cool things like little Wall-E vignettes which can be found on YouTube or on Disney.com (the latest is Wall-E Meets a Hula-Hoop).
Check out pixarplanet.com for more things Pixar!

Friday, April 25, 2008

Fred | Nebula designs

Characters I'm working on for an animatic I'm doing. It's about a superhero teen named Fred aka Nebula. His best friend is CherryB. These are just some character designs I did today.


Jenny the Vole. Completely unrelated to the above drawings. Unless she somehow features as a super sidekick pet or something. But I doubt it. It was just something that Jenny (my friend. Who is a human, not a vole) commissioned/asked me to draw.

Animatic and Flipbook

Puss in Suit Animatic for DMA 269


The Jason Brennan Flipbook Animation

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

WOO! Tablet!

I got a tablet today. It's actually really awesome. I just have to learn how to handle it properly. I've also got to get used to the annoying noise that "Ink" makes when it writes. It's like this annoying scratchy sound. Anyone on a mac who also uses a tablet will know what I'm referring to. I've gotta turn this noise OFF! Anyway, here's some drawings I colored in and traced today. They're the sketches I posted earlier. So, enjoy, I guess. :)

Ps: It took me about a gazillion tries to do that colon/bracket emoticon because the handwriting recognition thing wouldn't read it. Awesome ;)

My Workspace

I have a lot of crap on my desk. Here's a sample.

I made this following some instructions I found on The Mike Matas Blog. Check him out. His blog is so awesome.

Sketches + Bobblehead Awesomeness

Sketches, as promised:


Plus: I got the Dwight AND Michael bobbleheads from my sister for my birthday.
Best. Present. EVER.
I love them so so so SO much.

Monday, April 21, 2008

No More School!

I woke up today thinking two things:

1) "Haha, Laura, you're 20. Hahahaha! Happy birthday, self!"

2) "Why the hell am I up at 8 AM? I don't have school today."

That is right, my fine friends, I am done done done-zo like dinner. SWEET SUMMER YOU ARE MINE!!! BUAH HAHAHAHAHA!

I had some whole "reflection" on the past year planned for this entry - I even started writing it on the bus last friday - but I decided not to go that route. Not only does it scarily hark back to my Catholic School religion class days, but I don't really believe in what I wrote anymore.

Plus I lost it. So some lucky punk is gonna have a good laugh when he finds it.

So plans for the summer:

In addition to working at the theater, I'm going to be doing some work for my friends building websites and such. Like one for Jenny who GOT INTO YORK'S ACTING CONSERVATORY! (and also !!!!!!) I really want to do one for Joe for his photography but I know he has issues with putting his work into a public venue.

I've also got an art project to work on which involves me drawing 42 cartoon versions of the people I work with at the theater.

I've already done some random drawings and stuff. I'll scan it in later.

And I'm planning a screenplay that I really want to write a first draft of this summer. Like, I ACTUALLY want to get it done. Now if I could only get this bloody TREATMENT out. Arg!

HAPPY SUMMER PEOPLES!!!

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Hey! It Looks Like a Website Now!

As opposed to looking like a DVD menu, like it did before.

I can't believe that I've color branded myself with pinks and purples. I think I'm pretty much crazy. That is the only explanation for it. I plead temporary insanity.

But cool thing, I used GIMP for this project which is like an Open Source version of Photoshopola (sort of). I find the Mac version kind of annoying because everything is separate windows and I accidentally minimize things to my task bar thingee. And you have to double click the windows - one to activate the window and one to choose your tool or start painting or whatever.

But it gets the job done fairly well, and if you can't afford Photoshop (like me) it's a great altertnative.

See also, Inkscape, which is like an Open Source version of Illustrator and actually IS awesome. I didn't use it for this, but I've used it for other things and it's pretty great to use. Thought I'd just mention it anyway.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

"I just feel better when I know what's going on, that's all," the Turk mumbled. "People are always thinking I'm so stupid because I'm big and strong and sometimes drool a little when I get excited."

- William Goldman, The Princess Bride p. 94, 30th Anniversary Edition

Things...

Things I want from the NBC Store include...





Yes. The vegetarian wants to buy this last shirt.

Saturday, April 5, 2008

The other day, I was talking to my friend Corey and he suggested to me, as a Harry Potter fan, to find the "alternate soundtrack" to the first movie called Wizard People, Dear Readers. It's one of the funniest things I have ever watched in a long time. Basically, you burn (or buy) the CD with the commentary on it and play it on a CD player while syncing up the DVD with it.

It is a new form of art that, I think, should really take off. You can find it here: http://www.illegal-art.org/video/wizard.html

I also found this site: www.illegalart.org (I'm not sure if they're related to the same people who have posted Wizard People, but whatevs). I really like some of the experiments they have done. Particularly, the Suggestion Box and Personal Space. I actually want to give Suggestion Box a try for myself just to see what I can come up with at the end.

I want to get involved with something artsy. Maybe start a sketching group or a writing group. Or something like Illegal Art where you do interactive art projects.

It kind of reminds me of my FACS class last year when I went to York.

SHUTTTTTERRRRRR.

Friday, April 4, 2008

ARG!!!

SEND ME MY WALL-E POSTER, ALREADY!

I still haven't received it and I am becoming very impatient.

Dammit.

HURRY UP AL-FREAKING-READY!!!

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

The Niddy Griddy

We had to create a three, two and one column layout for typography, and here is what I did. I used the same copy about Michael Buble pulled from his website, but this is what I came up with.

For what ever reason, with the two column, the JPG rendered outside the artboard. This the random picture of Michael's album cover.

 
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