Tangled up and Espadas

So, I saw "Tangled" the other day. Nothing truly ground-breaking to be completely honest. I can't really say a whole lot about it without giving away story and plot elements and the quality in which I viewed it was not all that great so I'm sure I missed out on quite a few visually enticing elements. Also, I was watching it while doing some interning work at Bunko Animation Studios (cool studio with cool people that I intern at now, not a paying job but a foot in the door nonetheless), which really means I spentmost of my time listening to the movie rather than actually watching it. The story was well developed but the songs within the movie seemed to me to be waaaaaay too forced. I kid you not, almost every 5 to 10 minutes in the movie some character would break out into song for almost no reason at all. Now, if this had been a Broadway musical (not Broadway musical turned movie, just Broadway musical set on the stage) I would have totally believed the entire production because it seemed like it would have fit more as a Broadway musical.

Understand that I am aware the Disney made a killing in making musical films back in their glory days but it was not in the same manner as Broadway musicals are done. There was a fair bit of dialogue and exposition into the story and characters before the next musical number was done and was almost always a build up of tension and emotion before doing so. In Tangled, it just seemed like they decided songs would go wherever the hell they wanted regardless of the fact that whatever was occurring could easily have been described within simple dialogue.

All in all, it was alright, but in my opinion "The Frog Princess" (yes, I'm calling it its original freaking title, deal with it) kicked its ass.

In other news, one of my friends asked me to design a tattoo for him and one of his friends (as a surprise) based on the Espada from the anime "Bleach". The goal of the tattoo is to incorporate the number, mask and some third element to aid in identifying the Espada in question. The one that I finished was for my friend's friend and I am still figuring out the kinks in my friend's tattoo. Now, the friend's friend was so impressed by what I made for him, he decided that each person in his group of friends should have one done in accordance with which Espada they most resemble. So, it is my task to now design 10 more tattoos (including my friend's and an extra one for an original Espada character) as awesome as the one featured below. Gods help me.

Espada 6, Grimmjow

Whole New Year...

Hello again great vastness that is the interwebs. How are you doing? Me, I'm fine. Were it not for unsurmountable amounts of stress that I am keeping remarkably stable due to my Animation class and teacher just being an all around...- well, let's just imagine the string of curse words that just ran through my head to describe an immensely unlikeable person shall we? Anyway, not much really to update also considering that the only person who probably reads this is my older sister (Hi sis :D). Just stress, focusing on not letting it get to me, and lots and lots of work. And even more not working to cope with the stress. Fun no?

Anyway, to the point of this post. Two things really. The first being the animatic for this year's final project for Animation class. I would be looking more foward to it if only my teacher would stop being so...ugh. Let's not even go there. Anyway, here's the animatic (If it loads -_-): And of course it didn't. *sigh* I'll upload it as soon as I figure the damn problem out....W00T! Problem solved!

Now, second part of this post. My drawing teacher gave us paint pigments (No, it's not paints. These are pigments, there is a difference which I really don't feel like going into right now because I'm not sure how to describe it and my brain hurts enough as it is.) So while in class the other day I took some of the red pigment and decided (as I usually do when left with paints in close vicinity) to mess around with it and see what design I come up with. Surely you must be wondering what I mean by design. Well, it's really best if I just show you.