Life Drawing Week 2: Grilled Cheese Night

Shut Up Bird Game

This is my first project in Interactive Design class. I plan on revisiting it soon to add a fun way for one of the characters to interact with the main one (here's a hint, the guy is hungry). My goal was to have some real fun with this. Basically, if you are ever in need of a stress-reliever, or if you ever just wish you could tell the world to shut up... well, here you are.

This project has been super interesting and makes interactive design seem much less intimidating. http://scratch.mit.edu is a really impressive place to experiment and get a feel for what types of things can be done with the right coding beneath them.

Here's a link to my project: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/12247483

Semester Sketches: Week 1

Week 1 and 2 of the school-year are behind me, and I decided that I'd try to make it a point to post the sketches that I do throughout the week up here to keep my blog alive. This would mean I am a week late, but that's okay. More to come!

Bats and Bands

I've been doing my best to keep up with my Character Design class and the new blog we've been keeping for it. Here are some of the updates from my first character post and my first life-drawing post. Homework includes a silhouette dump and more life drawing... more to come!

In-Class: Bugs + Bull

In-Class: Mickey and Pluto

Viktor the Bat #1: Initial Design

 

Viktor was a working-class, office-dwelling vampire in-hiding. Since he had spent so many years repressing his powers, he got himself stuck as a vampire bat one late night while working overtime for a client. Now that his secret is out, he must work late night after late night in order to keep his job. He is sleepy, clumsy, shy, and quietly eccentric. He is also driven, hard-working, and helpful.

This is the first character design for this class. I once had a conversation with some fellow strange art-school friends about the bats that flew around our giant ART sign at night. We discussed the necessity of an urban legend regarding students that never slept enough while attending school would inevitably turn into vampire bats and fly around campus's sign for the rest of eternity. This character started more so as an Vampire-art student who pulled one too many all-nighters. Due to his hip vegetarianism, he never had enough energy to change back into his more human-friendly form. After more drawings, I felt more attracted to getting him out of the same setting I was in and into a work environment - picturing a bat trying to do office work among normal, much taller human beings seems very funny to me.