Day 23

Day 22

Found myself continuously fixing my shoe throughout the day.

Day 21

Was gone for the long weekend so I'm starting right off where I left today. The other sketch is me just trying something a little different then what I'm used to.

Day 20

Day 19

Had plenty of time since we got out of work early today, so I decided to try making today's in illustrator. This one definitely took the longest to finish.


Couldn't come up with anything that i really loved, so here's the sketches I made. think I'll stick with the top one.

Day 18

Day 17

Day 16

Inkling

This looks promising

Wacom Inkling Trailer from Robert Hranitzky on Vimeo.

Day 15

Day 14

Not a big fan of this one. Playing around on my iPad. Also the heat here is insane.

Day 12

finish for Day 7

Day 11

Day 11

Just in case I am unable to work on this tonight. Today's drawing is the one on top, the others are just for fun.

colour

Day 10

Dropped a heavy object on my foot today. Hurt like the dickens.

Day 9

Day 8

Couldn't decide which one I wanted to go with so here are two different versions of today's outfit. The first one is just plane fun while I liked the overall look of the second. Will fix the leg problems in the clean up phase.

iPad app

The iPad app that we created at Lucky Kat TV has been released. It's an educational game with a take on hangman called Daren's Donuts. I did all the animation of Daren the Lion in the game. I'll post some pictures to go with it shortly.

Day 7

Went to a Japanese festival in Little Tokyo this afternoon thus the bowing pose.

Day 6

Day 5

day 5

Ok it's just the sketch today, but I'll post a finished drawing tomorrow along with tomorrows what I wore post.

Day 4

Day 3

Day 2

2 down, 28 to go.

Day 1

Here is the first of my 30 day challenge of drawing and posting what I wore today. The idea is to post that days outfit before midnight that day and that I can not use the same pose twice. Here is yesterdays and todays will be posted a little bit later. The idea came from seeing this done on a couple different blogs that I watch and thought it looked like fun.

Stop Motion

Found a great stop motion video that came from Aardman animation. The whole thing was shot on a Nokia N8 (smart phone). Here's the link to the page that shows the video and a making of video to go along with it.

2011 Animtaion Demo Reel

Untitled from Melissa Goodway on Vimeo.

Shot List

shot 1: Lucky Kat from luckykattv.com- character animation, built character rig

shot 2: Seagull - animation

shot 3: Walking figure - animation and design

shot 4: Walking figure - animation and design

shot 5: Lighthouse - responsible for all moving objects

shot 6: Sam - character animation, built character rig

shot 7: Vinny - character animation, built character rig

shot 8: Boo - character animation, built character rig

shot 9: Jet - character animation, built character rig

shot 10-13: Excerpt from short film "A Windy Day" - layout, bg painting, character animation

shot 14/15: Cat - layout and animation

shot 16: Child's Play - only the traditional animation

http://luckykattv.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=261

Here is a direct link to the Meet the Characters Page on luckykattv.com. You'll have to copy the address into your browser in order for it to work. I did all of the animation and designed the set they are in.

first pass of witch animation

As the title says this is the first rough pass of my witch animation. You can see her if you scroll down a couple posts. Going to try and post this in stages so my dad can see the process.

Rocker Kids

The current line up of my new band. They were originally intended to be purely flash characters, but I'm enjoying them so much that I may animate them the old fashioned way. The blond boy at the end will be seen half the time with his hood on and half of it off. No names for the characters yet. Each character's personality is starting to develop nicely. Left to right: singer is the most aggressive (14 yrs), guitarist is bubbly, overtly happy, easily distracted (12 yrs), bassist is crazy, up for anything and erratic (15 yrs), and last is the drummer who is the shy quiet voice of reason (14 yrs).



p.s. There's been a slight change to the bassist hair color making it a more vibrant orange.

My coworker came up with the idea of turning the rocker kids into a band, and the idea took hold quickly. Here is the rough line up of these characters. Instruments for each from left to right. Guitar, bass, drums, and singer.

Here's some random sketches of them to go with it.

Video found on John Celestri's blogspot that I wanted to share.

Rocker kids from the earlier post. Can't decide which shirt I like better on the boy.

rocker kids sketch

Just a quick post to show the character I'm getting ready to animate. Still need to make her broom, wand, and black cat.

The amazingly talented Andreas Deja has started a blog of his own. Everyone should check it out. http://andreasdeja.blogspot.com/

New ID

Couldn't decide what to draw so when in doubt make a self portrait. This will most likely become my new DA ID. There are some mistakes, but it was fun.

The videos are great. If anyone knows how to download these for future reference please let me know. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/12/12/magazine/14actors.html

quick sketch

Saw this girl dancing last night and couldn't get it out of my head.

Sketch and finished piece.

Go check this out

There's a new blog/site called Living Lines Library that anyone interested in hand drawn animation should really check out. The site is well organized with a ton of useful features such as pencil tests, boards, model sheets, links for some other great animation sites, etc.

http://livlily.blogspot.com/

New pin up just in time for Christmas.

Found this on the Character Design Blog (http://characterdesign.blogspot.com/2010/12/character-design-is-back.html) and felt that it needed to be shared.

Thought of You from Ryan J Woodward on Vimeo.

Thought of You - Behind the Scenes Preview - ROUGH CUT from Cambell Christensen on Vimeo.

Dec 1-3

I've decided to do a drawing a day till Christmas, and since it's already the 3rd I'll just post all the little sketches I doodled earlier. There has been no editing of any sketchbook pages. I may or may not take some of these a bit further later on.