Finals week and possible comic concepts.

Well finals week has finally come and gone, this was by far the toughest most mentally/physically straining quarter I've had while being in school. I had four project heavy classes and I couldn't put 100% into either of them because of time and program availability. Many sleepless nights, issues with money, Life in general got in the way as it usually does. I overall only came out with mediocre assignments that I'm not all too proud of and barely passed my classes by the skin of my teeth. Not too happy with myself at the moment.

I already put up my Materials and Lighting final a couple days ago so here's my Advanced 2D Animation final and my Intermediate 3D animation final.

Advanced 2D is far from being finished and it's very unpolished. I have to step away from it for now because at the moment I'm tired of looking at it.

Advanced 2D animation final from Christa Carpenter on Vimeo.

Intermediate 3D final actually didn't come out too bad but I still think it could be improved on.

Lipsync Final from Christa Carpenter on Vimeo.

In some lighter news a friend from school and I are planning a comic project. It was actually from a group project from this quarter and we liked the premise and the idea so we decided to take it further. Here's a few sketches I drew up, it was originally for the group presentation, these aren't final designs for the possible comic but something along the lines I was thinking for these two clans. Anyone from DA might think these look familiar to the Civil War Red vs. Blue idea but...that was purely coincidental. These guys aren't really fighting each other anyway.

Graduation

A couple good friends of mine are graduating this quarter and I just wanted to give them some spotlight here because their demo reels really rocked the portfolio reviews last week. One of them will definitely get best in show I'm not sure which one because that's really a close call but it will almost undoubtly be one of these badass folks. Check out their sites and demo reels if you get the chance you won't regret it.


Minapaulos.com

SMALL -HD from mina s paulos on Vimeo.

Mina! Who's gonna keep me from going AWOL on 3D stuff now? Whooo? I'm gonna miss you, go out there in the real world and kickass and take names.



Rickquemado.me

Demo Reel 2010 from Rick Quemado on Vimeo.

Hey Rick! You definitely showed the school that 3D animation was not the be all and end all of the animation industry. You have some really slick stop mo pieces. I am jealous!




One last epic artist who is graduating this quarter. I didn't know him too well I've really only passed him in the halls on occasion but his demo reel impressed the hell out of me and should really be seen by more people.
Alimination.com

Ali Minaian Website Demo Reel from Ali Minaian on Vimeo.

Suuuper impressive stuff. I think this is one of the best reels I've seen come out of the school in the Game Art program.


Again if you get the chance check out these guys' websites and demo reels. They really have some impressive work :]

Materials and Lighting

My final for Materials and lighting. I really really don't like how it came out, It's garbage ugh... I'm definitely NOT a modeling/texturing/lighting artist, but I spent alot of time on this and stressed for eleven weeks over this class so I figured I may as well put up what I worked on. The model itself is not mine it's from 3Drender.com. The texturing and lighting was done by me.

There's artifacting on the walls and table because I didn't have final gather turned up high enough X[

Kitchen from Christa Carpenter on Vimeo.

Watercan

An assignment for class. Basically light and texture a simple exterior scene with a water can.

I'm pretty satisfied with it. The shadows got a bit blown out I'll need to adjust those later but for now it turned out ok. The textures were nabbed from CGtexture.com

rough animation and sketches

Here are some scenes I've been working on recently. These scenes are about ready to be cleaned up and composited.



I have some minor tweaks to do for this one


This was the walk cycle I was working on in the previous post. Turns out I'm still going to have to revisit this one as the instructor wasn't quite happy with it. *sigh* I've redone this cycle about 5 times now...ugh



Here's a sketch I did while waiting at the doctors office the other day. Just a little something for my Sociology class for my group's Nation project (create a fictional nation and the people that populate it)
she's an engineer chick for a ocean nomad fleet.

And Robin because I felt like it.

animation WIP vid

Hey! So I was working on a scene for my Advanced 2D class and I figured I'd record a bit of it. I'm animating in Toon Boom and the animation itself is just a pretty basic walk cycle. The video is about 8 minutes long. There's also a point in the vid where I stop working for a minute or two because I was at work at the time and I had to ring someone up at the register lol So here it is!

Animation in progress from Christa Carpenter on Vimeo.