117b Portfolio

Hey everyone! So I'm about to graduate as a story artist! :D If you want to check out my boards, I've got a shiny portfolio site up at http://veeotto.weebly.com/

That being said, here are a few things I did in my vis dev class this semester.

Helen was originally supposed to be a side character,
but the farther I went into the project,
the more interested I was in her story. She yearns for more. 

I'm not happy with this, but I learned an important lesson from it.
I was trying to make the original design work,
when what I didn't like about it was it didn't work. 
What I should have done was go full force starting from scratch. 

Bonus final day activity:

Did you ever think you'd see Helen from the Iliad as a sloth? Well, here you go. 

Zine

Our grand finale project for 116 was the zine! Our theme was the somewhat nebulous "Dreams/nightmares/guilty pleasures of children." Here's where I took it. The vertical format was a fun change.

Generations

The first project for Barron's class is called "Generations." You choose something that evolved over three stages, and then make 6 "bits" (2 for each evolution), which you then assemble together into one in the end. It can be your family history, or the anything that's evolved.

I did my project on 3 of the the places I've called home: My house growing up in Minnesota, the one where I lived with my parents until I came to SJSU, and my place with my current roommates (who are some of my best friends).

While cutting up my bits to make my final, I ended up drifting a bit from the actual places themselves, and it ended up being more about the feeling of home that I got from each place.

This project was a a lot of fun to experiment with. I tried watercolor again, made a stamp, even did some 3D (2.5D?) stuff with fabric. The quote in the main area is part of something I wrote before we left the MN house as a message to the new residents. It was a wish that they would love the new place as much as I had. I edited it a bit here, and maybe it's a little cheesy, but I like the idea of my 9-year-old self sending current me a message. She had a lot of faith in me.

The only bit I thought lost something in the cutting was this one, based on my door/wall back at my parents' house.

Stuff I've done recently!

In Greek Mythology, Epimeliads are
the guardian spirits of apple trees (and also sheep).

My second Shepard from Mass Effect.

An attempt to get myself to stop blending so much too early in the process.
Partially based on Frances McDormand.

Screenshot redraw from Green Lantern: The Animated Series.
It's such a pretty show. 

Dumbing of Age is a fantastic webcomic about college students and shenanigans, and you should be reading it. Dorothy is predictably my favorite. 

117a Kitchen

  

For this project, we read a few short stories by Gary Soto about his childhood, and then had to depict either his kitchen or garage as if it were vis dev for turning it into a live action movie. The parts that stuck with me were of his mother working in the kitchen, so that's what I decided to go with. 

There are things I want to fix, but this is what I turned in. I'm proud of it! Though I enjoy rendering, coming up with a layout out of nowhere is difficult for me, so this project was a good challenge. We'll see if I can put to use what I learned here on the next project! 

117a Still Life: First assignment!

This was fun! I forgot how much I missed digital painting. 

We'll see how I feel about it in a few weeks.