The Animation Academy is now on Facebook

Check out their cool Facebook page! I really enjoy looking at the artwork over there and reading their news!

http://www.facebook.com/TheAnimationAcademy

The Animation Academy Goes Online!!!

The Animation Academy Goes Online!!! They're going to start doing online classes soon!

For more info go here: http://theanimationacademy.blogspot.com/

Bad Animation Test lol

Just something that I did, without thinking too much. Tried to experiment and have some fun with it.

Watch it move - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OXVX9hLKyE

Some More Stuff

Did these in like 10 mins, I was trying to work on facial expressions using squash and stretch, I'm pretty happy with the result.

Some daily sketches. Did these on the back of my notebook, that's why the paper is brown.

Sketchbook Stuff

Did most of these drawings and sketches while I was at school yeserday, during class. Had a lot of fun with these. I used blue penciel and Prisma markers.

Dedicated to Charles Zembillas

I'd like to dedicate this drawing to Charles Zembillas -- Designer of Crash Bandicoot and best teacher in the WHOLE world. Charles used to be my teacher over at The Animation Academy. Thank you Charles for everything that you taught me. I appreciate it more than you'll ever know.

It took me almost all day to draw and paint this. I really tried my best with so I hope you guys like it.

Merry Christmas

Well, tried to draw spyro from my memory, I know there are a lot of mistakes but still I really tried. Used Prisma Color markers on this.

I'd like to dedicate this drawing to Charles Zembillas (Character Designer of Spyro)

Merry Christmas

Check out my new DeviantArt Page http://animationgirlart.deviantart.com/gallery/

I was just trying to have some fun with these designs, I'm aware of all the mistakes that I did with it but still I was just trying to have some fun.

I've been working on a project for school today, I tried to do something different than what I usually do, it really isn't my style and I'm not sure if I'm happy with it or not, but I think it came out pretty ok. We had to do a short stop motion\animation film about dreams, so I basically did what I had in mind, again, I was trying to do something different so I hope you guys like it.

Here's the link to the film http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEJ1rPPiA4U

Other than that, hope you guys have a nice weekend. AG

Just trying to have some fun

Some Sketchbook Stuff

Why So Serious?

So, I've never tried to draw Batman before and I think it came out pretty cool for a first time. I started with a blue pencil, then scanned the actual drawing and colored it in Photoshop. I really like it, I think the composition is pretty cool. I really tried my best with it. I really hope you guys like it too, AG

By the way, I don't know if it's interesting, but I always like to see the process of how things were being created on other artists' creations, so I thought it would be nice to post the process of my work as well

I'm going to Pixar's Masterclass!!!

So, I got some great news! I'm going to Pixar's Masterclass on April '11! It's going to be a 3-day seminar with some of the best Pixar artists\animators ever! I'm really excaited about it all and I can't wait! I'll post some more info about it soon

It's important to mention that the seminar is open to all of the computer animation students at my school, the only thing is that it costs a lot of money lol. Pixar did the same thing last year in Canada and now they're coming over to my hometown, so it's really exciting!

I don't have any info about the seminar yet but I will post some once I have it. Here's some info about Pixar's Mastersclass of last year: http://www.awn.com/news/events/masterclass-pixar-artists

Happy Birthday Gran!

So we were celebrating my grandma's 80th birthday this week, every memeber of my family showed up to the party and it was a blast!

Happy B-day gran. I love you!

The gang, my grandma, sisters and I

Gran and I

And some more cool\funny pics. lol --
Yes, it's me goofing around... Again

Umm, me goofing around I guess, just experimenting things, and besides I really love my shoes so it makes this picture perfect lol I thought it would be cool to take a pic next to this cool motorcycle lol

Me and my sister on our way to my grandma's birthday party

Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde

Quick sketching and coloring in Photoshop

Last Assignment at Schoolism

Man, I can't believe it's been two months since I started taking online classes with Steve Silver over at Schoolism, It's been such a great experience and I'm really happy for taking this class. Steve gave me great direction and advices and I'd like to thank him for that, I learned the fundamentals at The Animation Academy though, Charles Zembillas really helped me to understand the basics, and that basically the most important thing for me, so I'd like to thank him, it's really all thanks to you Charles.

The assignment was to create a character by Steve Silver's description, so here's the description of the character I really tried to do the best with it.

Description: Jerry Loomy. used car salesman boss. New York.2008.A cruel, moody ,high strung, dishonest man. Wears a cheep button down shirt with a vest or sportscoat and a greecey tank top underneath and a tie that doesn't fit. Middle aged, White male Negative attitude towards life. Stocky Build around 5'4". A patch over one eye and missing a finger due to an angry employee biting it off.A large round head with deep set eyes and sunburned skin. receding hairline with a pony tail. mouth with yellow stained teeth.

Fireman

Ok, so this was an idea I had in mind for a real long time. I did a really quick sketch of this character while I was in class and then when I got back home I scanned and colored it in Photoshop. I'm really happy with the result, it's exactly what I had in mind so I'm very happy. I'll upload some more designs of this character soon, I can't wait to start modeling this character in Maya. Hope you guys like it. AG

Some more sculptures

Quick Sculpting

So today was my 2nd day at school, I really enjoy it. So they gave us like an hour to sculpt one of our characters and I really had no experience with sculpting, but I think it came out real nice for a first time. Sorry for the quality of the images.

Well, I'll post some more stuff later on, when I'm done. Hope you guys like it. AG

First 2D Animation and Stop Motion

Click on image to watch the video

Click on image to watch the video

It took me a few minutes to create this cute little bouncing ball, I wish I had more time to work on it, the only time I can actually work on these assignment is usually at nights since I work full time everyday. I see all the mistakes I've done with it but still I think it came out pretty well for my first time, plus it makes me laugh every time when I watch this video.

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As I promised here's the first stop motion film that we've been working on our first day at school, we were a group of 4 students and we had only 2 hours to create the whole film with no previous experience. So I think it came out pretty well for a first short stop motion film. Hope you guys like it. AG

P.S Check out my new cool lookin' Youtube channel

http://www.youtube.com/user/AnimationGirlArt

Suddenly So "Popular" lol

First of all I'd like to dedicate the following drawings to my friend K from work, K and I are overworking together lol. We work almost 12 hours every day and it's crazy hours but it's a lot of fun thanks to you and N. K, don't forget the house with the squares! lol I will never forget that, it makes me laugh every time I think about it. Anyways, here are the drawings.

It's important to mention that I'm trying to develop all sort of different styles when it comes to my drawings, I really want to grow and be able to create all sort of things as an artist so I really think it's important to be open to new styles, basically, the style of the drawings above is really not my style, I usually don't draw like this but I thought it would be nice to try something new for a change.

And as for the designs below, it took me about a few minutes to do the following designs, as I said before on my blog, I started my animation studies and I'm working with a group of cool students on a short stop motion film and I was chosen to design the characters. So I did some VD as a start and created these characters, again, I really did it fast just so we can have an idea of the the character is going to look like in general, it's not the final character.

Well, about a week ago I started school and our instructors gave us an assignment even though we didn't have any experience, they asked us to create a short stop motion film and they gave us about 1-2 hours to create it, they told us to create something really simple and easy so that's what we tried to do. I was in charge of the VD/Character Design and Story. It came out real nice for a first stop motion film, again, we've never done that before so it was a challenge. I will upload the film later on. Check out the stills from the first film we made.