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