Thesis Film - Belief

Hey guys. So I haven't posted anything in a while mostly because I've continued to be a lazy ass about doing anything creative or productive. I'm really hoping to fix that soon. 

I moved back to PR recently and am hoping the change in atmosphere will help me get the creative juices flowing again as it were. I'm going to be looking into what college programs there are over here to see if there is another degree I would want to get that could get me more stable employment. For the time being however, I'm going to try and get a part time job anywhere I can just so I can start earning and saving money. 

I'm posting my Thesis Year film from SVA titled "Belief" below. It's not done and I've been trying to motivate myself enough to actually do something with it, at least pick out some of the better pieces of animation in the film, clean them up and finish them to put them together in a reel to post on here and my portfolio website. Any feedback on the film is greatly appreciated tho I'm sure most of the people who watch my blog feed have already seen it. Credit should be given to the amazing Kat for her musical contribution to the film, if I get around to actually completing the entire thing I will definitely want to work with her again for the musical score. Thanks should also be given to my fellow Thesis companions for their support and all the crazy times we had working on our films and Shelley Low, a great friend and the best shoulder to cry on I could have hoped for for those times when I lost all hope in being able to complete the film or graduate. 

(Pardon the blurryness of the flm but it was the only way to be able to post it online considering the original file was somewhere around the 4GB file size line.)

Animated Projects Re-dos

Hey guys.

I know, I know, I haven't posted anything in a while. I've been busy with personal matters lately and haven't really had a chance... Ok, that's a lie. I've had plenty of chances to draw new things or finish the previously posted images. Truth of the matter is I've been in a rut for a long time now and haven't been able to properly dig myself out of it. The details honestly don't matter because, quite frankly, it is not the business of the great wide web to know what's going on in my life. So let's just leave it at I haven't been feeling well for over a year and am attempting some changes in my life in order to remedy that.

So, I finally managed to get my hands on my first year film from SVA, which I thought I had lost to be completely honest. It wasn't until my mom phoned me asking me about a VHS she found with my name on it that I knew the film was actually at home under a pile of boxes somewhere. My mom had gotten into the habit of converting old family movies into DVD's and decided to convert this to DVD as well (Bless her). She tried sending it to me thru the post but somehow the file got erased from the disc, we have no idea how but I'm gonna go ahead and blame magnets. I've been home since Friday and remembered that my mom had an extra copy lying around somewhere, so I found it and copied the film onto my computer. I decided to upload it because after watching it I felt kind of proud of the little thing. I'm thinking of importing it into Flash and re-doing a good bit of the animation and adding a couple of scenes into it that I really couldn't do at the time because I was extremely ill.

The two characters featured here are Valdrake Rose and Dante. Original characters created by me and my older sister whose story is still being written.

I'm thinking of re-doing a couple of my old animated films and posting the originals up alongside the new ones just for comparison. Granted, there's probably only two I really plan on actually re-doing since one of the ones I have I don't really care for because it was a retarded project from my third year animation teacher (-_-;). The other one from that year is in my blog posts but I can't seem to find it anywhere else and have a sneaking suspicion that it is inside my broken portable external hard drive. Depending on how much it would cost to retrieve data from it I might be able to retrieve the contents and maybe that film along with it. We'll see what happens I guess.

Cheers.

Old Wallpaper Idea

I found this image while looking through my drawing folders in order to add more images to my portfolio (found here) and remembered I had a really cool concept for this and found myself wishing I had actually finished it. I plan on finishing the illustration as an actual digital painting, the first one I will have ever done to be completely honest. Just putting this up to get some feedback from a couple friends and anyone who wants to put up a comment.