Chronicles of the Past: Part 1

Well now I think it's time to show my chops, and give you a little taste of what you'll be seeing on this blog. I have been attending school for over a year now, learning all different aspects of Computer Animation, from Modeling, to Rigging, Animating, Shading and Lighting, and even some Tradition all classes here and there. All of these skills have been important to me, and have only helped build up my knowledge to the vast world I have stepped in to.

WARNING: Longish post ahead

Unfortunately I don't have too much of my old work, from my time early on at Full Sail, and that makes me kind of sad, but I never would have thought that I would be starting this Blog a year ago. What I do have is work that I have done later on in my time at school, so there isn't really any way for me to show you where I started from... Let's just say it wasn't all too pretty haha

Art 1

So this was a piece that I did for my first Traditional art class at Full Sail, but not the first one I had ever taken. In the class we were tasked to make a two IDENTICAL characters, with the only difference between them being their colors. By changing the colors we were supposed to show how the color palette of characters can change the emotion that the character convey's to the audience. For the project I choose to make these Flower Girls (original I know haha), after a long, long line of pre-production. I cannot honestly tell you how long it took me to nail down an idea for this project, but I know that I had a few long nights debating over what to do.

This class was also my first introduction to Full Sail's famous 24 hour schedule, as I had classes that ended at 1am 3 days a week, and had 9am class on the other days. It was chaos, and my body didn't know how to react, but I have since gotten used to the craziness.

Art 2

The above piece was one that I did for my second Traditional art class. This assignment was a lot of fun, not just because I enjoyed working on the piece, but because of the the way that our teachers prepared us for the assignment. Just to give a little explanation we were told that we would have to option to choose from two different assignments, but it all fell under the guidelines for the same project. So for this project in particular, we were taken to the Zoo, and given a black 20 page sketch book, and were told that we have to fill up both the front and back of the book with animal and plant studies. It was a lot of fun to get to wander around the zoo with some of the friends, and study the animals and their habitats. We saw everything there, and I mean EVERYTHING! haha we left no stone unturned, and no animal house unvisited, but I have to say the most memorable thing I have from that trip was the reptile house. It was by far the single exhibit my friends and I stayed in for the longest. We were captivated by the snakes, lizards and frogs, and best of all we even got to watch the handlers feed the snakes. Man that was vicious!

Anyways, after our time at the zoo was done, and our sketchbooks were filled we had to make the choice if we wanted to come up with an creature, spliced together with at least three different animals, or an environment that one of the animals from the zoo could live in. Obviously I choose the latter. I've always had a soft spot for environments, and I wanted to make one special for all the reptiles that entertained me during my trip to the zoo, so I made a swamp land just for them <3

Look forward to the rest in my next "Chronicles of the Past: Part 2"