Dota 2 MS paint - Queen of Pain

Another Dota 2 pic in the card format like the Jakiro one. This time of Queen of Pain.

Dota 2 MS paint

MS Paint doodles I did for Dota 2 heroes that I play/played. 

Venomancer

Lesherac

 

Jakiro

Animation WIP Happening

Youtube link (might be better quality than this embedded upload):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_Xqfc_aepI&feature=youtu.be

Trying to keep my animation skills alive since I haven't really worked on anything in awhile. It's hard to find jobs in Hawaii. :(

I already had critiques from my friend Don, but haven't addressed them all yet.  Felt I should upload though in hopes that I will continue.

Why do Mosquitoes buzz in people's ears*?

So all last week Ryan and I haven't been able to sleep well because of mosquito's buzzing around our ears. Right when we're about to drift off.... BZZZZZ!!! It was so bad that sometimes we weren't sure if we were hearing things or if it was actually another mosquito. O_O I ended up doing this a lot in an attempt to amplify the sound to figure out which direction it was in. I kinda went insane. The picture doesn't show enough of my insanity, but it was great color practice.

I am pleased to say that I am the mosquito grabbing King, and have grabbed more mosquitoes than Ryan (Cherise 10: Ryan 1... or something).

Lineart and color done in photoshop. Art by me.

*http://video.nhptv.org/video/1689064464/
Anyone else remember this book? I do. Stupid mosquito.

 

Color practice

Coloring attempt that failed. Used free version of OpenCanvas.  I'm bad at backgrounds, and since I didn't plan it out, there is none here. :3

Gesture Drawing

Haven't updated this blog in forever, and I don't know if I will keep it up, but I will try...

Practicing my gesture drawings. First batch were 30s, 1min and 2min. Poses from: http://www.pixelovely.com/gesture/figuredrawing.php

2nd batch that I did today, all 30seconds. Poses from this site:  http://www.posemaniacs.com/blog/ This site uses 3D models however, so there is no weight to the people you draw there. I used it for pose and perspective practice.

O.o;; Moar!

Here's 3 more animations/keyframed animations. All need work. :(

Lizzie (scarf girl) comes into scene and tells Milly she has work to do. Milly not yet in scene. Neither is the counter:
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~cherise/cherise-igotwork.mov

Getting the beginning of the cake climbing scene done:
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~cherise/cherise-ClimbA.mov

Getting one of the other shots of the cake climbing scene done (very rough keys and not all keys either:
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~cherise/cherise-ClimbB.mov

Cherry and lean in animations

Two animations. After having uploaded the cherry one and putting it together, I realize how much more work it really needs. T_T

http://www2.hawaii.edu/~cherise/cherise-cherry3.mov
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~cherise/cherise-leanforward.mov

More turnaround tweakage

http://www2.hawaii.edu/~cherise/cherise-testfinalturnaround.mov

I need help with making the layers all pretty and without dark stuff. Helpz me! D:

Plan of action!

Okay, so I really gotta work hard on various things which have deadlines coming up. So what I need is a plan of action! :D

1.) Make my turn around animation awesome + attempt to do my final scene with Milly's interaction with the guy who likes her cake (over the weekend!)
2.) Finish cosplay outfit for Kawaii Kon (Do some sewing over the weekend)
3.) Decide on game idea for Kaveh's class (email before Monday)
4.) Finish resume and demo reel (sometime in the early part of next week)
5.) Buy a DVD to put demo reel on (sometime in the early part of next week)
6.) Call Pixar to find out the recommended method of mailing my stuff for internship app (today, weekend or Monday)
7.) Write 1st draft of screenplay for oral tradition class (sometimes next weekend)
8.) Schedule a time to interview people for my folklore class (idk when!)

I think that's it, relatively in order of importance/time schedule. So this weekend is all about animating and cosplay stuffs. Yar. Tonight I'm going to work on adding more frames to my turn around, and check the timing on my acting for it. Hopefully I can get that goal done. And if I can actually do more than that, I'll try to figure out my acting forthe last scene and start thumbnailing the poses out in my sketchbook.

Row Row, fight da powah! XD

...and it's over! :(

EDITED 4/21/2009 - took down link

So Spring break is over quite quickly, and it was off to school today. Anyways, posting what animation I was able to do with the short amount of time.

http://www2.hawaii.edu/~cherise/cherise-walkby.mov

I think I need to change a lot in this scene due to the size of Milly. I had to animate her in a long shot, which doesn't do so well when your character is a few inches tall, and you have to still frame another character who is normal sized...

Also the arm of the scarf girl needs to change. It's all weird like in the walking. I wanted her to walk quicker than that though, so I think I messed up already (ugh, gotta redo all that I think...). I wanted it to be a quick walkby, but I guess it's alright... Darn it Milly; why are you so tiny. T_T

THE ENEMY!

So developing my rpg game for Kaveh's class. Trying to figure out scenarios that the players will encounter and trying to make sure that the encounter isn't too difficult in the beginning but still challenging. My friend showed me this penny arcade comic:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/3/4/

THEY ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS! XD

Layout of the turnaround

EDITED 4/21/2009 - took down link.

http://www2.hawaii.edu/~cherise/cherise-LayoutTurnaround.mov

So this is the scene nearer to the end. The previous scene was a longshot of Milly on the cake after it's completion, with the other cakes of students around her so you can see how cool Milly's cake is. She then turns around (my layout scene) to her partner. I'm going to have a cut in this animation around the part where she first turns around and is staring up to the partner running off looking at her watch, then I'll cut back to this scene again to see Milly's reaction.

Needs more frames near the end half for some painfully long moving holds and such. Also, she loses her ears after she turns around. XD I'll have to go and add those in. Oh and her doink of hair. I didn't even draw that. Oh and also don't look at her changing hat size... durr... o.o I need to fix that. >.< Man, I'm taking forever on this one scene, and I have so many more to go.

Layout...?

I have the images in my camera. I was going to put it together this morning, but forgot the cord at home.. T_T You can see the animation on my camera more or less at least.

Going to upload it and put it together tonight. Sorry Linda.

Final Animatic... I guess?

Um.. Idk what we were supposed to turn in, so here's a redo of my animatic. We can call this my "final" animatic in that I don't think I'll be doing anymore of them for this film, even though I still need to change stuff. :D

http://www2.hawaii.edu/~rhigashi/cherise-AnimaticFinal2.mov

It's not clear just yet, but Milly's partner tells Milly she has to study for a test and so Milly tells her partner it's okay and that she can handle the baking.

I also worked on my turn around, but I didn't have time to put it up as well, so just this animatic will have to do. I worked on my other character's designs (may still need to mess with them) as well as designed a better cake. Also deleted and added scenes for cooking. I have Milly trying to get flour out of the bag, and a scene of her stirring and mixing the batter with difficulty. I wanted to add a scene involving the baking and/or decorating but it's already long with the flour part. I might need to change that and get rid of the elaborate scarf toss and just have Milly in the flour bag from the start.

Turn around - every now and then I get a little bit tired of listening to the sound of my tears...

I love Total Eclipse of the Heart. Great song.

http://www2.hawaii.edu/~rhigashi/Cherise-MillyTurn.mov

Anyway, so here's my character turning around. I'm missing frames to make this look smooth. T_T Hence the tears in the above mentioned song.

Also I didn't allow time to show her expression change from happiness/excitement > realization > hurt

*sad face* :(

Cool animation - Fumi and the Badluck Foot

http://www.awntv.com/videos/fumi-and-the-bad-luck-foot

Found this animation while searching for some inspiration. Cute story about a girl who was born with a badluck foot. :D

Animatic = Fail

EDITED 3/3/09 - removed for space.

http://www2.hawaii.edu/~rhigashi/Cherise-MillyAnimatic.mov

Ugh. I'm glad this won't be the last animatic, 'cause mine turned out wrong. I turned my touching story into story full of lulz. T_T

The middle part is especially undeveloped, because I couldn't figure out how exactly to show the different things she tries to do to bake, to show the effort and care she puts into it. I also didn't figure out how to show her partner still doing work (right now it appears like he did nothing to bake the cake). I think I ruined it...

I just pray that I can figure out how to fix it before it's over with...

/emo

Slightly more concrete story...

So with lots of help, I'm slowly fleshing out my story bit by bit.

The story starts off with a cooking classroom setting. We show a close up of a little girl, Milly, who's bright eyed waiting at her desk. A student walks in and, Milly waves at the student. The student pauses, and smiles awkwardly and waves back, then quickly sits down. Another student comes in, and Milly waves at this student as well, but he/she doesn't notice and instead begins talking excitedly with the first student, whom is obviously a good friend. Milly, lowers her hand slowly and tentatively, somewhat dejected and embarrassed. More students come in, and then finally the teacher who begins class.

The teacher announces that they will get into teams of two and make some sort of food (haven't decided what yet). The teacher pairs up one of the students (maybe the first or second one), with Milly. We see a shot of the student's reaction; a mix of uncertainty, unhappiness, possibly irritation. Then a shot of Milly's reaction, which looks happy and determined.

So they get into their pairings (I think at this point, we can show the size difference between Milly and the other student). We can see Milly trying her best to make friends with the other student, and the other student giving weak smiles at her, but nothing more.

Milly and the student begin; Gathering ingredients, preparing them and finally cooking. Due to her size, we see the difficulty this gives Milly, but she still works her hardest. The other student is a tiny bit more warm with Milly, but there's still that feeling of awkwardness between the two.

Finally, we see the end product, which turns out really good looking. Milly is proud and happy, and looks to her teammate to share in the pride, but her teammate is already going over to talk with his/her friend, leaving Milly with the cooked food. Milly looks disheartened, slumping in her chair a bit and looking down.

Someone clears their voice or taps her on the shoulder, and Milly looks up. Another student from class begins talking to her, at first shyly, about how he/she thinks the food that was made looks delicious. Milly is surprised at first, but then smiles, and replies back with some words. Maybe she compliments the other student or makes a small joke about her food (I'm not too sure just yet about what is said back).

Alternatively, I had the idea that after the food is cooked, Milly kinda digs into her food eagerly, but her teammate kinda looks at her funny, smiles awkwardly, then goes off to meet up with another person in class. Milly looks dejected, when the other student begins talking to her, about how she would like to try her food or something. She does and really likes it. Then the two begin talking.

From this point, eitherway, the final shot will be something like showing Milly smiling maybe.

This ending sounds weak to me, so I'll probably have to tweak. Idk, maybe it'll come to be better as I animate the scenes. The parts I want to emphasize anyway is Milly's emotions, so maybe it'll make the ending turn out better somehow... ^_^;;

Time for storyboards I guess.

Movie Posters - Milly

Okay, so I was playing with a vector idea, 'cause originally I was thinking it'd be neat to do paper cut outs. Since I was at school working on this, and didn't have my construction paper on hand, I thought I'd play with the design in photoshop. In the end, I just did vector like graphics. The first one I designed was the close up one of Milly. She has longish black hair that goes over one eye. Graphically, this is the feature that catches my eye first, and thus I created the design you see here. The problem though, was that I wasn't sure about the mood that it captured. In general, I'm still not sure about the title. I just put that up there for now since the most finished part of my story is my character.

The second poster I created because I had some sort of shadow idea. Originally, I was thinking it'd be neat to see her actual sized compared to another person or some object. I started off by just creating a vector of her. After I did that, I felt like she needed a shadow that enlarged behind her. However, after I did that, I felt the feeling it gave wasn't what I wanted. It had more of a feeling like there was more to her than meets the eye, or something more ominous, when I really wanted people to sympathize with her. So I thought of the idea of having others in the background talking and having fun, and casting their shadow on her. More of the feeling I was trying to get at, although I might still be off on that. DX

Anyways, it was my first time trying vector art, and I'm somewhat happy about it. Whether or not it speaks about the theme I want to get across though is a completely different thing. Tra la la... XD