Threadless-Lion King

Guess who has another Threadless design up for scoring... :)  This one is for the Lion King design contest, and I decided to do one of Timon and Pumba.  A more realistic version anyways.  You can find it here.  If you have a moment to score it (preferably a 5) I would super appreciate it!!!

I originally wanted to do the whole cast, but I was only able to get Timon and Pumba done before the contest deadline.  I did a Simba and Nala after I submitted it too.

Also, I have a TON of new stuff to post about, which I should hopefully get to over the next week or so!

Thorsday

It's been so long since I last posted something!  I still have a bunch of AM stuff to throw up here, but first I have another Threadless design contest submission!  This one is for the Thor contest.  My love of terrible puns definitely played a hand in this one.  I called it '5 Day Forecast' and realized afterwards that I could have taken it a step even farther by calling it '5 Day Thorcast'.  Oh well.  It's still up for scoring, so I would very much appreciate it if you could (hopefully) give it a 5 for me.  I also love comments and facebook likes/etc.  Thanks in advance!!!!!!  You can find it here! 

Threadless-Spongebob Squarepants

Aaaaaaaaaaand another Threadless design contest submission!  This one for the Spongebob challenge.  You can find it here.

Voting is open for 1 more day!  It has been doing decently well so far, but every vote counts!  If anyone else sees this in time to rate my design (preferably a 5) it would would make me a very happy camper.  Thanks!

Threadless-Odd Couple

I submitted a design to the Threadless 'Odd Couple' design challenge, and here it is!  I had to make sure that the title was sufficiently pun-y, so I called it A Match (Mer)maid in Heaven. 

I would be super appreciative if y'all could rate it (a 5 would be preferable) to help it get picked and printed!  If you want to like/comment on it as well it would be lovely!  I believe that voting is open for 6 more days.  You can find it here.  Thanks!

New Shots

I've been a Busy McBusy-son lately, animating up a storm.  As well as my Animals and Creatures 2 class (which I will try to remember to post about soon...) I've been working on some new dialogue tests.  One of my classmates from last term, who is a super awesome animation supervisor at Nerdcorps in Vancouver gave me some great advice about tailoring my demo reel to studios.  I asked him about applying to Nerdcorps which does a lot of work for television, and he suggested that I try animating 3 different dialogue pieces in 3 days-1 day for each shot.

I chose a fairly short clip for the first one, as it has been a while since I last animated a dialogue shot.  It turned out ok, I ended up spending a good portion of the day trying to figure out how the handcuffs were going to work though...

questions from Erica Miles on Vimeo.

For the second one I picked a longer clip, with two characters.  This one took me a bit longer because of the two characters, one of which being a dog (and a rig I had not used before as well).  This one could still use some work (and I haven't had a chance to upload it yet).

For my third shot I picked an audio clip that I've been wanting to animate for a while.  I think that this one turned out the best of the three.

Quarter from Erica Miles on Vimeo.

I've definitely noticed myself getting faster working on these shots and I'm going to work on a couple more over the next little while.

AM-Animals and Creatures 1 Week 3-6

Our post walk cycle assignment was to animate a type of quadruped locomotion be it walking. running, trotting, leaping etc.  I decided to do a smaller cat, because I thought it would be fun and the majority of the other shots being done were of bigger cats.

I watched a LOT of cat videos on youtube and found a bunch of this adorable little kitten.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYk07KFWPZ8 (the part that I referenced starts at about 2:08)

Then I did a bunch of thumbnails.

I wanted to tie in this shot and my third shot is a sort of anim-jam with the cat/kitten walking over and sniffing a sleeping ogre, then end up playing around the ogre and jumping on him-waking him up.

I blocked out the cat prancing/trotting over the ogre (which would be added later).  The tail was also hidden in this pass so that I could focus on the rest of the body.

I did a couple of more passes on it and ended up with this more refined version.  I also added in some tall grass to make the high steps the kitten is taking more believable.

Blind Contours?!

In my mountain of old life drawing I also found these ridiculous blind contour drawings.  

This first one looks like it's terrified and maybe in a strait jacket.  My friend Kendall thinks that the face looks like a mushroom cloud.

Most of my blind contours seem to end up having 'elephant feet'.

I really enjoy how this guy's fingers seem to be turning into root vegetables.  He seems totally relaxed and fine about it though.