dailies 8/13-8/19.

here they are: the last dailies of summer. tomorrow, i go back to school. wah.

 (sunday, august 13th)

 (monday, august 14th)

 (tuesday, august 15th)

 (wednesday, august 16th)

 (thursday, august 17th)

 (friday, august 18th)

(saturday, august 19th)

on that decidedly mature note, i'm off to watch the newest episode of breaking bad because, let's be real, IT'S AWESOME. have a great week, everybody! i'll try not to mourn the end of summer too dramatically. 

dailies 6/5-6/11.

so it turns out i am accidentally working two full-time jobs this week thanks to the overlapping schedules of my regular teaching position and my summer program coordinator position so WOW time is a premium this weekend! let's get right to it:

 (sunday, june 5th)

  (monday, june 6th)

  (tuesday, june 7th)

  (wednesday, june 8th)

  (thursday, june 9th)

  (friday, june 10th)

 (saturday, june 11th)

not to mention the mental and physical energy required to close out my first year at sudbrook! WHOA WHOA WHOA gotta go! have a great week, everybody!

dailies 10/31-11/6.

oh sweet jesus i love daylight savings time! it snuck up on me and totally rewarded me with a legit extra hour of sleep this morning. WHAT A GREAT PRESENT. 

 sunday, october 31st: "woke up from a saucy jon stewart dream lingering from an incredible yesterday."

 monday, november 1st: "turns out i have a on/off switch for rage."

 tuesday, november 2nd: "wow i'm the worst host ever."

 wednesday, november 3rd: "physically unable to get out of my warm, cozy bed."

 thursday, november 4th: "there's always something else."

 friday, november 5th: "snacking my way through every moment of the day."

saturday, november 6th: "me and television have a very satisfying relationship."

enjoy your extra hour, and have a great week everybody!

dailies 9/19-9/25.

hi sunday, hi dailies. i don't know if you heard, but this weekend was official BE A REAL HUMAN weekend. maybe you're familiar with such a thing. as such, i have a very long to-do list to tackle, but with a renewed sense of positivity and good cheer. you simply cannot have a day as lovely as my yesterday and feel anything but warm and happy and satisfied. thanks sara, andrew, and company. now on to the dailies:

 sunday, september 19th: "achieving a tenuous balance."

 monday, september 20th: "sweet jesus i love tv."

 tuesday, september 21st: "starting things in motion."

 wednesday, september 22nd: "i guess it's kind of okay to ask for some help sometimes."

 thursday, september 23rd: "cross off two, add five."

friday, september 24th: "i had to use my serious face. i mean really serious. too serious to show you here serious."

saturday, september 25th: "perfect pair, perfect love, perfect day."

have a great week, everybody--- i know i plan to!

dailies 8/1-8/7.

dailies are a little late this week because i, um, forgot about what it's like to have a life!  let's get right to work:

 sunday, august 1st: "they consider me a regular at the farmer's market."

monday, august 2nd: "i swear, door, that i am the one with the brain in this scenario."

tuesday, august 3rd: "my tried and true method of procrastination."

wednesday, august 4th: "self-control and patty melts are incompatible."

thursday, august 5th: "HEY my very favorite coat was on tv!"

friday, august 6th: "a lovely last day."

saturday, august 7th: "OH MY GOD I LOVE SUMMER."

the walters wrapped up friday, and i have just two short weeks before i report to duty at my new school! how incredible and exhilarating and terrifying all at once. have a great week, everybody; i will be making maximum use of mine.

done and done.

this is it: the culmination of all my work on the pitch package for my animated television show. in order, we have the title page (or potential opening credits still frame), a "screenshot" from the show, with all characters in their environment, and the synopsis for the show and character bios. these, combined with all the other full-size characters, costume changes, turnarounds, facial expressions, etc., make the entirety of the packet. it went over well enough in our quasi-crit, which was us basically playing show and tell, passing the packets around and writing commentary.

i felt like a toolbox because i completely spaced the whole, "hey, you need a synopsis/character info" part of the packet, so if people hadn't heard my original pitch, they were basically lost. but the aesthetic response was mostly positive, so that was nice. ultimately, i like my solution for the character bios, a solution born out of the unfortunate issue of having already printed the character designs at a rather steep price, i could not afford to reprint them all with their bios attached, nor did i like the idea of sticking/taping on an bio addendum sloppily to each page, so, instead we have plan c, seen below, which i rather like.

for your eyes only.

so i know, lame, lame, just a sketch. but i had double-sketch week last week for concepts and character development, and this sketch got a big, fat, emphatic thumbs-up from brian in the context of a slew of "eh, c-minus" hand-wavering sketches. i was both shocked and ecstatic. full color final is finished but TOP SECRET, for no particular reason other than i haven't turned it in or printed it yet. mild changes to nigel in the front (his fatty arm is out of the frame and he's leaning on his other regular-sized one instead). otherwise, it's essentially the same, and digitally colored to keep it consistent with the rest of the packet. i'll post the finish on tuesday-ish. whoo bravo-sketch crit! that never happens to me in that class.

who needs subtlety anyway?

just a little quick post for you, with the facial expressions of my main character for my animated tv show pitch package. we have, clockwise from the top left:

1. grimace-y unpleasant situation face
2. lovelorn sheepish smile face
3. "i just said something awkward" face
4. surprised and possibly distressed face
5. sad and lonely isolation face

not a real optimistic bunch, nor are they very disparate from one another. but luke is not a "wild-and-crazy rollercoaster of emotions" kind of kid. so i feel like his face shouldn't look like it's made out of jello, jiggling and jostling in all directions at once to show how crazy everything is. i guess it's back to that subtlety thing that i so desperately seek, but is not so much congratulated.

the elusive profile view, or the magnetic three-quarter view.

more animated tv show pitch package material for you, this time, a costume change for luke, in winter-wear, and three rotations each of nigel, olivia, and ashley, aka, fatty mcfat-fat. hilariously enough, i stole his sweater from tyler's wardrobe (and changed the colors) and then coincidentally used a tyler-ish button-up underneath, so as to inspire a wave of curiosity about why luke stole tyler's clothes. oops. i guess he just had the urge to dress like a snappy graphic design nerd.

these went over well in crit, and i was really happy with them as well, since i am generally, um, not real strong when it comes to technical anatomy with my characters. the fact that they were specifically noted to have interesting but well-rendered poses was a big victory for me, a rarity in this class. the only glitch in the system was that, try as i might to put these guys in profile for the center drawings, i always ended up with a smidge of three-quarter view in there, so they end up in like, i don't know, seven-sixteenth view, or some such nonsense. nigel's big arm now prominently featured as a means of causing him some serious anxiety and also giving him a bad-ass left hook.

working title.

so here are the initial character designs for my animated tv show, "the not-so-secret diaries of luke merriweather". from left to right in the group shot, we have miss ray, the mentor; olivia, the love interest; luke, the hero; nigel, the best friend; and ashley, the bully/nemesis. i would give you more show details, but i'm short on time and will have more posts on this later this week, so for now, stick with "malcolm in the middle" meets "x-men: evolution" and see where your imagination takes these guys.