La Vie Bittersweet

Music by Alex Khaskin, provided through Media Music Now.

This film was such a learning process, and I loved every frustrating minute of it. Goodbye, Pierre. You were such a fatty.

Animation Reel

Since I put it up on my website and stuff, I figure I might as well also put up my animation reel on my blog. I finally feel like I have stuff to show people what I do now, and it feels quite nice.

Website!

I officially have a website! Sorry I haven't updated with anything; I have sketches I want to upload but I need this site done for class so it took priority. But seriously, check it:

Charapoo's Website!

Stationery

The biggest thing I'm working on in class right now is creating a submission package to send to studios when I'm job hunting. The package includes printed materials like business cards, flatbooks, resumes, and letterheads, as well as long and short reels and a website. An important part of the package is essentially branding myself so I have a constant "look" on all items that people can recognize. My look is turning quite pink and sparkly, as was expected:

My business card (with contact information removed for privacy reasons: normally I would have my phone number, website address, and email going along 3 rays):


My flatbook front/ back cover (same thing with contact info, with the back cover being the same deal as in my business card and on the front cover I have the same info written on the bottom white bar):


My letterhead (contact info normally written in white on bottom bar):


I'm actually pretty excited to have this all printed out at the end of the quarter; I feel so professional already! ;)

Sketch Dump

I had to scan a whole bunch of drawings to put into my flatbook, so I'll post some select pages here:



Some 2 minute gestures. There's this one model we have who's really good, and gives us some really dynamic poses to work with. It really bums me out when I go to a session and find the model is not him. :(



A collection of animal sketches. I'm really bad with drawing animals, so I hope to keep more of these coming. The hamsters on the bottom right are mine, and the rest are animals I saw on Planet Earth.



An assortment of Cleo sketches. Some are just sketches for fun, others are thumbnails for my animation assignments.

Storyboards

I'm currently in the process of putting together a flatbook and recently realized that all the examples of storyboards I've done are all sketchy and unimpressive to look at. So to fix this I took some boards for my senior film and added color and re-worked the layouts to make them read clearer.



In the next few days I'll definitely be putting up more portfolio-related stuff, so I suspect there will be more boards, sketches, etc to come.

Commission comprete

Just an update, since I uploaded the lineart a few days ago:



It's been a while since I drew such an anime-like character, but it really provided a nice break from all the school work. Also, I've really fallen in love with pink shadows. So much fun!