The Wine

He told the man that the joke had gotten old, but there they were, standing in a pool of wine that was worth at least twice as much as the carpet.

The Curtain

"The room was unnaturally cold. He offered her his jacket but she declined, softly brushing his arm away. She didn’t want anything to dull the experience. At long last the curtain was being drawn."

Oh yeah

I've been doing things, I promise. Here are some backgrounds I've been working on for my thesis project. OH MAN OH MAN, working title is "Virtually Famous" (GET IT, GET IT?) I give mad props to my bro Daniel Krall for that rad and tubular title. Also it's 90's week in my brain, we watched some Sailor Moon last night and listened to Limp Bizkit.



Mac's Garage where they practice


Ji's bedroom, where she tries to teenage rehab her little girl bedroom

Other characters!

More secondary characters from my thesis pitch!

Here are the Rock Band in-game avatar characters that the main characters created. They describe a little more about each character's personality...


And here are Ji's angry Korean parents:

and her annoying little brother who also happens to be a super genius:


AND MOST EXCITING OF ALL, THE RIVAL BAND!!! They are jerks sort of.

Left to right they are the ranked Korean Starcraft player, the Rebel girl (who Ji not-so-secretly wants to be), the pushover GameStop worker, and the douchebag guy who plays his guitar in the cafeteria and has a gig playing bad RHCP covers at the local coffee shop.

OH MY!

thesis work!!!

I started my thesis work a few weeks ago! After three weeks of sketching and fiddling and fine-tuning and writing tons of episode ideas, I am almost ready to finalize my character designs.

What's that? You want to know what my thesis is about? WELL I'M GLAD YOU ASKED. I'm doing a pitch book for a kid's animated series, like something you'd see on Cartoon Network or Nickelodeon. It will include character designs, episode synopses, environment studies, and a little bit of promo art, all bound neatly into a delightful little booklet that can be given to art directors to pitch my idea. Along with this, since I am an animation concentrator, I will be doing some animations, either for the cut-to-commercials or for the opening theme song. COOL, HUH?

The show follows Ji-Young Kim (Ji) and her best friend Aiden Wier, the two best Guitar Hero players in the state, as they discover the video game Rock Band and create their own ragtag team of gamers to compete in the arcade's Rock Band Tournament. They meet their drummer, Mac McMurphy, and their vocalist, Rosalyn "Raz" Stimpson, through some very strange circumstances, and have to grow together to become the ULTIMATE VIDEO GAME BAND!

I started with the character designs, because without characters, where would an animation be? I did a ton of sketching, and when I had a good idea of the characters I did a test group illustration to test colors with. Here are a few that made it to the finals:





After a lot of helpful advice from my crit group and my thesis teacher, Whitney Sherman, I finalized the characters to theseeeeee:



From left to right: Raz (makeover edition), Raz (normal), Mac, Aiden, Ji

I have gotten a ton of mixed reviews on Mac! What do you think, internet?


AND SO IT BEGINS!!!

YAY

What's that you say? The last post was the most boring post ever, you say? YOU'RE RIGHT, I'M SORRY. But HOWEVER you are now in for a treat. And this treat is Harry Potter and other sexy people.

Harry Potter and Ron Weasley are the best. Hermione is there, too, I guess.

Ink~

Pompadours. Big eyes. Glasses.

Beautiful people.

NOSEBLEEDS. BRUISES.

Two characters from my senior thesis~ MORE WORK TO COME!!!