Some renders of the consorts, their replaceable heads and a camel with fully moving hinges. Designs of the main character (Leila) was posted a long while ago here!
All puppets are first designed on paper, then scanned into the computer, colored, textured & rendered with each part as a separate piece. They are then printed out, glued to cardstock, cut each piece with an x-acto blade, and finally sewn together to create the puppet suitable for animation.
Hello 2009, I hope you're treating everyone kindly.
Hello Mister Robot. He wants to present to you some shoes. Shoes. With legs in them.
A sculpture in collaboration with my good friend and fellow animator/designer Amanda Loka!
We combined different elements of our film ideas for the concept of this installation piece at the CalArts Character Animation show last week. Amanda designed the robot, I designed the tree legs, and we both designed the sun & cut out the entire sculpture with exacto knives. It hurt. It took longer than we expected. But we definitely had a ton of fun doing this and would totally do it again!
You can click on the photos to see larger versions.
After this project, I've realized how much I miss doing paper cut-outs and mixed media work inspired by cultures and fanciful ideas. And so, I am very much here and going about business.
And the stuff below to post (some went into my portfolio). But first, here's my film for this year, called 'Lilium'. It's still in progress - gonna keep working on it!
The best thing I love about being in college is that you can make mistakes and learn from them, and it's OKAY!
^ Marie Antoinette, Supah-style, as an assignment for my Super Heroes class this past semester. Best class ever! About Marie: Given a second chance at life! Happy with her now fortunate circumstance, Marie still wanted to keep an extravagant way of life, but improved upon it by throwing parties for the underprivileged, giving fashion to the fashion senseless, and let’s everyone actually eat cake... including her opponents!
Oh hey look, I added a goat! Not quite so lacking, but still. Hmm..
Currently meditating on my next course of action. Summertime is awesome for focusing on what needs improvement!
