Lil Sketch Book

In lieu of missing the summertime, I remembered that I never scanned most of the sketches I did. So here are a handful of them! Enjoy!

I'm Still Alive - Pig Turnarounds + Backgrounds

June has been busy with CCAD Orientation-Leading, starting a new part-time job, and drawing.

I made it a goal to finish my HARDCOW short, and I'm sticking to it. Here's a turnaround of the pig that GOES HAM! in my short. The last scene I need to animate is one which involves this fella and our star cow dancing head-to-head: which I gathered some long-awaited reference for, thanks to my boyfriend and another one of our friends who is actually very talented at hardcore dancing!

Ah, why not. Here's a slight bit of proof of reference:

Happy Violence from Jon and Ben!

Here's a handful of the backgrounds I have been creating. When I animated for class, I had basic background layouts that I planned to follow until I finally got around to making backgrounds. I plan on approaching backgrounds very differently (sooner!!) next time around - it's funny that after doing it super-backwards, I have really learned from the challenge of "dealing with what you already have" - they are simple and angular (to contrast VS the organic characters), made in Illustrator.

Soon, I'll be updating with a stupid-big sketch post to catch up with sketches from the last semester (!) as well as the sketchbook I started at the beginning of this summer.

Hardcow Cow Turnarounds

I have been working on some character turnarounds for my Hardcore-Hardcow character.
Next up: a pig, a chicken, and a grab-bag of barn-yard citizens.

Finals! Summer! Hooray!

Haven't updated with proper gusto in awhile - a lot has happened in the past month. Namely, finals. But it's finally over! Summer is finally setting in. Some big things that happened, that I need to put up some posts about:

- Updated Experimental Animation Cat Project, a final project gif/video
- Handful of passes of animatic for Layout and Timing Class/"Space Puppy"
- Handful of passes for Animation III/"Hardcow"
- Rigged Character for Animation III
- Finished/Updated project for Motion Graphics, Demo Reel for Motion Graphics
- "Forthmade" t-shirt screen-printing experience

In the meantime, here is a gif experiment I made in class a few weeks ago of my friend Jeff Ockerse (http://giantfrogfish.tumblr.com). He and I collaborated on a magazine cut-out animation a few months go (http://sarahmaeschmidt.blogspot.com/2013/02/rager-rick.html), and it actually got recognized in the CCAD 134th Annual Student Exhibition.