'Stripes' goes to Annecy Film Festival!

BIG NEWS for my animated short work-in-progress, "Stripes"!

STRIPES is a winner in the Annecy Animation Festival Call for Projects Competition 2011! Woohoo!

The Call for Projects competition is meant for people STARTING animation projects and could use help getting it off the ground. Back in February, I submitted a package of materials regarding the Stripes projects, including an essay of intent, artwork, storyboards and more.

I recently learned that I am one of five short film winners. We will present our projects at this year's festival and be evaluated for further prizes by a jury. One possible prize is 6500 euros!

The presentations will take place Wednesday June 8th, 2011. 10:00 am - 12:30 pm. If you are going to Annecy, please check it out!

Check out all the winning projects on the Annecy website: here

I'm so excited, I can't tell you! :D Yippee!

To learn more about my Stripes project, check out the production blog.

There is never an end to learning ...

Zebra

The stripes and colors got away from me a bit, so now it looks like a tiger! It's supposed to be a Grevy's zebra.

Kitty

Drawings Galore!

I've been on fire, drawing up a storm!

Sketches done while watching Arrested Development:


Sketches while watching the film, Agora:


Sketches while watching Dexter. Dexter is so cute!

Sketches from Gladiator:


Random ink and watercolor sketches:
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Kanook sketches


Sketches of lions from the zoo.


Sketches from my trip to Lynchburg, Virginia.


Sketches of me as a kid


Sketches from "Myst the Book of Atrus"


Sketches from pictures on Piccsy.com:


Random sketches:


Sketches done while watching Spartacus: Gods of the Arena and Spartacus: Blood and Sand:

How I spent my time

This is how I spent most of my time as a kid. Drawing. Surrounded by friends.

Happy Valentine's Day

Expressions and Body Language practice - Arrested Development

I've been trying to work on being able to draw more "strong, specific acting." I tried doing some drawings from arrested development. This was the result:

"The warden was intrigued. Less about the stunt and more about the prison beatings this brash young magician was sure to receive":


"Gob set about swallowing the key ..."

"Anything for a buck, Michael. You are so materialistic"


Buster: "Mom said you could tie this for me."
Lucille: "Make it long ... so he doesn't seem so ... round."


Marta: "I said ... career is one thing, but family is forever."
Gob: "To prove that no prison can hold me, I will incarcerate myself in the same penitentiary that holds my father. Only to escape 24 hours later ... No shackles can hold these hands!"


Michael: "I bet you don't even know what the auction is for tonight."
Lindsey: "The Wetlands."
Michael: "Yeah ... to do WHAT with them?"
Lindsey: " .... dry them."
Michael: "SAVE them."
Lindsey: "-from drying!"

(It was soon to be midnight and my boyfriend was starting a movie ... so I got a little lazy on the last few panels of the last one ...)

Acting!

So, yesterday I sent the scene 2 storyboards to a recruiting rep at Disney who I met last April. I said I wanted to re-apply this coming April for their "Talent Development Program" and asked if he could take a look at the boards and see if I was going in the right direction.

He replied pretty quickly and said that the loose drawings and the staging were good and clear. He said I should work on the 'acting', saying that they like to see "strong, specific acting" that would be clear to the animation department further down the pipeline.

This made sense (or at least I think so).

Myst Story Art

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In the Myst script that I'm writing, Anna first exposes Atrus to the D'ni when he shows her an unusual rock that he's found. She hesitates, then decides to show him a big D'ni volume on geology. This book ignites his interest in the D'ni, and goes with him to D'ni when he finally travels there many years later ...

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