Art Updates

Here are some birds we had to design for Character Design class, I had fun making these...

Below is a storyboard I made for an in-class pitch on Tuesday. We were assigned to board a scene we made up, so I turned it into a little fishing mishap, see if you can tell what's going on...

And I Got a Pen

Last week, Nathan Stanton visited CalArts to talk about the Pixar story team. It was fantastic talking to him about working at Pixar, along with plenty of invaluable story advice for we future film-makers.

Best of all though, he gave us all Pixar promotional pens. John and I don't write with them. Instead we put them in a place of honor above our desks like the picture above. It's a constant reminder of what we should be working towards

Arctic Expedition

For story class, we had to create characters for a pitch for the class. My characters were developed as a forgotten expedition to the North Pole, assumed to end in disaster.

 Major Wick is the fearless leader, plagued with insanity, and his closest companion is a frozen herring named Dima. His crew includes Pook, the silent but friendly Eskimo, Mr. Scwitz an ice-fishing tourist who got more than he bargained for, and Dr. Merriman, the crew's navigator, who was swallowed by a polar bear.

Meeting John Musker

Last Friday we had a presentation by John Musker, one of the Disney directors for Aladdin, Little Mermaid, and Hercules to name a few, he's hidden behind the CalArts animation gang...

Keane Street

The work has just begun here at CalArts, and all of the freshman in character animation have been assigned to our cubicles. Fortunately enough, my friends and I managed to get our "cubes" in the main animation building, in a place called Keane Street, named after the legendary Disney animator Glen Keane.

 The cubicle I'm sharing with John.

 An illustration I managed to make in my free time

 The elephants are part of an assignment for my character design classes, one of the tougher courses faced by the budding CalArts animator.

 

Hoping to stay posted, the workload is starting to pile up

CalArts

Made it to CalArts

Flew in from the Oakland Airport and classes are about to start. The weather has been hot, but even now, the rainy season is starting to come to the high desert. The classes are looking to be helpful, but brutal; some sessions go from nine in the morning to four in the afternoon, either drawing or animating. Hopefully, I can keep updated to the current events here at CalArts. The work is about to begin...