WHY ME !?!?!?!?!?

So right now I'm in my Digital Illustration class trying to load my homework from my portable drive. AND IT DOESN'T WORK!

Normally I wouldn't care, so what if my portable drive breaks and I need to pass in something late. But today isn't a normal day, after this class I'm going to a BIG CRITIQUE WITH THE ENTIRE ANIMATION CLASS!

I have to show everything I have for my degree project... but today I wont have anything... Of all the days of the year my thumb drive had to break today (and it was brand new and very expensive, its only 3 months old)... I feel like an idiot, everyone will think I have nothing and that I'm just some slacker.

Worst of all, during our last big critique I had compiled everything I had in Final Cut and it somehow had a bug in which whenever I went to export all the video edits I made would jump around to random places, it almost jeopardized the critique but luckily I could just play the video through final cut itself. But still, it made me look like an idiot. And now, with my broken thumbdrive, I'll look like an idiot all over again.

I think I'm cursed.

Maybe my thumbdrive will spontaneously start working again right before my critique.



*** UPDATE ***

It turns out my thumb drive actually works!!! it just happens that part of it was corrupted, and so when I tried to load my digital illustration homework it would lock up. LUCKILY my degree project files were unaffected and appear to be able to open and work fine.

Yellowstone

For my environmental science class we were asked to make a PSA poster for Yellowstone. Just thought I'd throw it up here since its art related.

BRANDZ

Today I've been working on my Degree Project some more and comming up with more branding idea's as well as fleshing out my older idea.


This is a DVD cover version of the other brand I posted earlier.



Here are some business card ideas that I liked but probably wont end up pushing further.
and my favorite ...


I have a couple more business cards made out, when I finally choose one I'll post it up!

Degree Project n' things

I'm deep into my Degree Project but yet there is still so much more to go, as you can see below it is very animation heavy. I need to triple my production speed if I want to finish this on time!




Below is a mini character sheet of this vampire I drew a few weeks ago while riding on the train. I took the time to color him in and arrange the different poses that I like. I still have loads more characters sitting in my sketchbook waiting to be colored. Of course I'll post them as I get more colored.




Oops, almost forgot this last vampire pose.

sketchbook colored

Here's something that I colored from my sketch book. I think I want to go back into this at some point and flesh the idea out more, but for now its as is.
I might do a recolor of this too. The inspiration of this is a high school reunion, I've had this idea brewing, which is a BAD THING because I should be thinking of my DEGREE PROJECT (thesis animation). I think I like designing characters and coming up with the concepts more then anything else.

Back to animating!

the colors!!! part 3

I've decided that I need more work on my color. The only way I know how to get any better is just practice! So every day I'm going to color at least one of my characters that I have in my sketchbook.
Here is a new set of characters I colored, I tried to keep it as different from my other work as possible. I tried to paint a background for them in "ArtRage" and failed miserably. I definitely need to work on making backgrounds, its something I'm not used to and it would definitely help with my DP.

Speaking of my DP.... its time I throw down some serious production time!

branding

So I came up with this brand for myself, took me a lot longer then I thought it would (partially because of files getting corrupt and having to start over) but it turned out quite well and I really like it. I'm still debating if whether or not I should add some color, if I do Im thinking of highlighter colors, like pink, green, and yellow. Also I'm considering adding somthing to the top left of the image but I'm not sure what its going to be yet.




So I still need to come up with two other ideas, eventually I'll pick one and adapt them into a dvd cover, business card, and a post card.