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.

Crew of You

The idea behind this project was to split yourself into into 6 different characters, then put them in a situation to see how they'd interact. 

Tombow pens on Bristol, with a few Photoshop touchups.
I've been trying out limited color palettes lately.

The story I ended up with takes place in a modern fantasy world: Fairly similar to our own, except a fraction of the population has elemental powers. The little girl is a water elemental, and melts when she's nervous (which is most of the time). The story is focused on her impatient mother Adria's attempts to help her daughter, even though they don't really understand each other.

The Interrupting Cows did not make it into the final.
I felt like it was getting too busy already. 

A little extra Riley <3 She's so cute.
I wanted to draw her happy for once. 

My Name Is

Our first senior project was to make a 1 minute video introducing ourselves. Here's mine!

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.

Timeless

Done as part of for my 116 class "Generations" Project. For my project, I'm doing 3 of the the different houses I've lived in. My middle house used to have a pool, and I wanted to represent that feeling I got when floating underwater, like it was a different world. 

Found inspiration in the photography of Elena Kalis (specifically, the photo 4 rows from the bottom of the girl with the red ribbon).

It's interesting how rotating the image gives a different feel. When viewed "properly" so that the surface is up, she looks like she's drowning (not what I was going for). With the surface on the bottom, it's like she's falling into a portal (which I liked, but wasn't quite right either). The surface to the side feels more like it's her choice whether to go through or not.

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. 

Robining!

My modeling final for this semester! 

This version of Robin is the Young Justice design by Phil Bourassa. 

I want to add texturing and some color variation so he doesn't look so plastic-y. Still, I had fun working on him and I learned a lot, so I call success! 

Fall 2012 Final Animations

Ani 114 Final: "Hat Trick"

Behold the short tale of Travis the flour sack, and his very first magic show since graduating from Magician College!

Maya 51B: Beginning 3D Animation (Final Reel)

I turned out to like lighting more than I did in the beginning though it's still a pain.

Thanks to Fernando for letting me use his gun model. 

SpideyBats: A Stop Motion Animation Spectacular

Stop-Motion assignment for my Physics of Animation class, a collaboration between Anh and I! The plot came about after he broke my Batman figurine in half. But from adversity comes innovation!

Summer '12 Sketchbook!

Here are some selections from my portfolio sketchbook I did over the summer. :) Despite the stress, it was good times. I like the result, and feel like I learned a lot.

Portfolio: Tentative final draft?

Submitting this tonight! Fingers crossed... 

Thanks to everyone who gave feedback! Leaving the old post up for reference of what I changed from beginning to end. 

  

Portfolio: First Draft

Hello all! I am applying to the portfolio review this semester. Tonight's the peer review, and I want to fix up a few things before then (some things need to be re-scanned, lighting on the Maya project needs to be fixed, and I still have some figures to go over), but here's what I have so far. There are purposely more pages of figure drawing than I'm planning on having in the end. 

Critiques are more than welcome, tear it apart!