Heather's Blawg

New Blawg

2010-09-23T22:32:00.000-07:00

http://heatheranimation.blogspot.com/

Intended mainly for potential employers :)

I will continue to post to this blog as well, and vow to start doing so more regularly!

NEW Demo Reel 2010

2010-09-21T00:08:00.000-07:00

Featuring scenes from Big Bad Boo Studios' new show, 1001 Nights.

New design portfolio on the way as well!

Character Cleanup

2009-12-07T16:32:00.000-08:00

Designs

2008-12-17T18:14:00.000-08:00

Some more web comic designs! The big lineup at the top are the designs I'll be going with for now after I make a few fixes, but I've included a couple earlier ones that weren't quite as cartoony as I wanted, just to show the progression a bit (the one of the guy standing alone looks a bit too much like my Artemis Fowl design, the face anyway).

More to come! (hopefully a few comics next time)

Webcomic Designs

2008-11-19T21:50:00.001-08:00

They haven't been approved yet, but here are some designs I'm doing for a webcomic I got hired for. Still working on making them more original, and more cartoony.

My Animation Demo Reel

2008-06-13T10:33:00.000-07:00

Portfolio!

2008-05-17T00:11:00.002-07:00

Weekly Illo: Medieval

2008-03-12T13:05:00.001-07:00

I'll finish these designs eventually. This one's late too, hehe.

Weekly Illo: Retro

2008-03-12T12:21:00.000-07:00

Finally, a few weeks late, but done.

Weekly Illo: Steampunk

2008-02-14T20:44:00.001-08:00

Better late than never ..... Steampunk maid! Because I wanted to do something different.... I need to do a closeup design of her duster - the feathery part is supposed to spin, powered by a little clockwork motor thing, with gears and everything. And her vacuum cleaner is steam powered, of course.

I might do a better version later, cuz I kind of like the idea, but didn't have time to finalize a working design... I'd also like to add a background.

Weekly Illustration - Funny

2008-02-11T11:55:00.001-08:00

I just watched this movie for the first time a few days ago.

Totoro can just sit there doing nothing and it's hilarious... it's that blank stare of his.

3 coloured characters

2008-02-08T14:45:00.001-08:00

I might refine their designs a bit more later, do something a bit more stylized.

Circus Performer

2008-01-30T14:33:00.001-08:00

Not sure which idea I'm going with yet.

digital painting assignment

2008-01-22T19:02:00.001-08:00

First assignment for digital painting class..... still needs more work I think...

Weekly Illustration

2008-01-22T13:05:00.001-08:00

Flash project

2007-12-17T12:15:00.000-08:00

Here are my layouts and character designs for this semester's flash project.

Weekly Illustration: Me as a Villain

2007-11-27T10:36:00.000-08:00

Rar. Fear me and my black leather Murder Gloves.

I'll colour this later....

Weekly Illo #8

2007-11-06T16:00:00.001-08:00

Fear

Weekly Illustration #6

2007-10-23T17:13:00.000-07:00

Topic: Sexy Beach Party

I thought I was being original doing a retro sexy beach party, but others had the same idea, hehe. Oh well.

This is not done yet .... I could probably spend at least a few more hours on it - and I will - but .... I gots other homework to do .... so this is it for now :D

Weekly Illustration #4

2007-10-09T08:27:00.000-07:00

Topic: Greed

And it's the character Greed, from Fullmetal Alchemist. Yay! I could have drawn him doing something greedy, I suppose, but nah, bad guy pose is good enough for this week.

Weekly Illustration 3

2007-10-02T09:33:00.000-07:00

Classmate as an animal.

Sigh, it was gonna look so much cooler than this, but I didn't have time XP This was just a concept doodle ... I'm gonna redraw it sometime and make it look more like Dan...

Illustration Week 2

2007-09-25T10:13:00.000-07:00

This week's topic: Creepy

More life drawing

2007-08-07T00:09:00.000-07:00

As that's all I've been drawing lately... :) And I'm a poor judge of my own work, so I posted almost all of it, hoping that some of it's good-ish.

Monday's life drawing

2007-07-21T23:26:00.000-07:00

Life drawing from Monday, July 16. I never have time to proportion the heads properly :(

nothing original :(

2007-07-21T22:06:00.000-07:00

Behold, my mad copying skillz!
Gar, I just haven't been drawing enough to be capable of doing my own designs lately (recent attempts have produced copious amounts of lame!), so um, yeah, I did some copy-off-the-screen exercises to warm up my drawing hand. I will post original stuff when they start looking decent again, hehe, but I wanted to update with something today (been so long).

Ironic that Hook's on the page with all the animal characters... Yar, me like Prince John's square head structure, fun

Markers!

2007-06-21T23:53:00.000-07:00

I was playing with markers today at ... work ... And yeah, 1st one's a random 50's chick, cuz 50's dresses are sooo pretty and fun (plus a clean-ish version beside it), and the 2nd one's Gainsborough's Pinkie, stylized (and by memory ... so not completely accurate) I messed up the eyes completely, but marker mistakes are permanent so I couldn't fix em ;_;

And a few life drawings that looked decent enough, considering how little practice I've been getting ...

More old doodly-doos

2007-05-23T19:47:00.000-07:00

I was flipping through last semester's sketchbook and thought I'd post a few I like, and might like to fix & finish if I ever get around to it:

First, random girl .... I like it cuz it's purty, but I needs to fix the icky anatomy flaws sometime.... and I'm sure she'd appreciate another hand.

Book-version of Howl, doodled while watching Howl's Moving Castle. Oh yeah. And a nose.

These guys were doodled separately, but I thought they looked good together ... the odd couple kinda thing. (I've been told she looks a bit like 355 from Y: The Last Man) I need to draw more dreads.

One of many versions of Holly Short.

Luke from Tales of the Abyss.

Next time, I'll post something new, I promise ;)

old doodle

2007-04-27T14:07:00.000-07:00

Here's my version of one of Emily's Blue Sky Dining characters ^_^ I drew this a few weeks ago, when I was busy drawing everyone else's characters ... but not my own ... (which was fun, but not a good idea) So, designed by Emily, posed by me :D

2007-04-26T22:39:00.000-07:00

Got my files off the school's network today, so might as well post the whole thing. The colours are different on every monitor I view them on, so hopefully you're lucky and have the good stuff 0_0 (it's sloppy and needs to be redone anyway)

And, um, prop design .... it's not an accident that this one's tiny ....

Flash Animations

2007-04-26T15:36:00.000-07:00

Here's a dialogue assignment, first time using cutouts this year.

And another one, older. Just practicing lip synch in this one, there's not much real animation, and it's pretty messy .... The sound clip is Cary Grant from Arsenic and Old Lace, by the way.

And for our special effects assignment. I wanted to do it traditionally, with pencil and paper, but I wasted a lot of time with my first idea (I wanted to do a campfire, with a bucket of water being thrown onto it .... but it was a little too ambitious....)

Yeah, that's it for now.

Once I figure out what format to convert my videos to so that Youtube will play them, I'll post more of my traditional stuff ..... they're a lot better, me no flash pro yet .... that's what I'll be doing this summer :D

Final Design Project

2007-04-22T21:28:00.001-07:00

Some pages from my final project for design class. Artemis Fowl characters! Squee!

And a Flash build for Artemis. I should try animating some scenes from the books XD
I'll probably end up redesigning Artemis slightly.... he feels kinda generic to me, maybe it's the hair ... I didn't give myself enough time to do much experimenting.

Rough Model Pack Lineup

2007-04-08T23:14:00.000-07:00

From left to right, Artemis Fowl, Butler, Holly Short, Commander Root, Foaly :) I'm still not happy with Butler, but I don't have time to make him perfect. I'd like eventually to design Juliet and Mulch and a few others, and maybe do some animations with these guys over the summer.

I'll put my poses up too once they're all on model.

Quadruped Animation

2007-04-02T23:54:00.000-07:00

Big kitty :P I hate the way its tail wags like a dog near the end U_U But I like the rest of it.

Bella & Henry

2007-04-01T23:31:00.000-07:00

These are the two characters I did for a 2-character dialogue assignment, supposed to be UPA style. Bella looks a bit like Fred Flinstone and a bit like Wilma, so perhaps this is really Pebbles in her later years? Heheh.

I'm working on a Flash builds for both of them, which I'll post when they're done.

Life Drawing, yay

2007-04-01T20:31:00.000-07:00

Huge life-drawing/anatomy class dump :D Mostly from second term.

Yay, I've finally figured out how to post pictures! More to come later~~