Figure Drawings Say YEAH

Nudity Beware

Film!

Let's make a film! I thought that I had an idea, but now I'm kind of scrapping it.

Glen Keane came and talked last night. He shared some Rapunzel stuff with us, like I had been hoping, and I'm even more excited then I was before. I found out that he had been working on this film since 1996, which is pretty damn crazy. He showed us some rough animation he did of Rapunzel and some sketches of her that showed how her hair is really apart of her and her personality. How she would talk with it, think with it, and walk with it.

He got all of us excited to work on our films, and thanks to Kyle's question we got to see some sketches from his sketchbook when he went to the United Nations.

I'll be posting some projects that I've done soon.

Winter Break

Happy 2010!!

Let's start with another picture of Tiffany and her obsession with the curtains in the cubes back at CalArts (look for the foot at the bottom

and the arm sticking out at the top).

My poor animation disk.

Tiffany Ford & Keane Street

If you're ever on Keane Street and you see that. It's because of this.

(Tiffany ((left)), Hyojin, and Sammy Jo ((right)))

Tiffany Ford makes forts using the curtains on Keane Street, she gets better and better every time.

Here's Sophie and Hyojin, they were eerily like the twin girls in The Shining. One day they were wearing the same clothes, so I had them pose like this. Sophie got a haircut so they're no longer twins.

Catching Up: Visiting Artists Post

What is this madness. Winter break is almost here!! When did this happen?

I love CalArts and I love this giant dysfunctional family. Here's a picture of a group of Character and Experimental Animation girls and a Tom.

I've met so many people and experienced so many things that some people will never manage to do during their whole life. The visiting artists and opportunities that CalArts has produced has been amazing.

Visiting Artists:

Tina Price, the head of the first ever animation expo, CTN Expo, was our first visitor. The first 25 people to show up got free 3 day passes to this amazing event which happened 2 weeks ago. What an amazing experience that was, a room full of our idols were there for us to talk to, get criticism on our portfolios, and look at their work. There are already dates for next year and I'm so there.

Mark Andrews from Pixar came next, and he storyboarded for over 3 hours. He was very funny and sarcastic, and whenever he thought that we were getting bored he created his own theme music and sound effects for the scenes that he was working on.

James Gurney came next, the creator of Dinotopia. It's great hearing from all these artists and seeing all of the different areas that they specialize in and seeing their techniques. In order to figure out how lighting would hit certain buildings or objects, or figuring out how some made up object would work, he would create models. He makes tons of models to figure out what they would look like in a real environment so that his paintings would look realistic.

Up next was Shane Acker and Joe Ksander. Shane Acker is the creator and director of 9, and Joe was the Animation Supervisor. They gave us probably the most realistic talk that we'll ever get out of our four years here. They were thrown countless obstacles but they made it work. I will never feel hopeless if I come across some issue, because I know that if Shane and Joe could make it work, then I sure as hell can. Those guys did an amazing job with 9.

Then we had Lindsey Pollard, John Holmquist and Greg Colton from Family Guy. It was cool to see how they directed certain episodes, how the humor would be changed, and obstacles that they had to deal with. For instance, hundreds of people in wheel chairs coming together to form a giant man.

Gil Kenan who directed Monster House and City of Ember came next. He showed us the process of creating a scene in Monster House, and he also showed us his film that he made when he was a student.

Randy Haycock came but I was at CTN so I didn't attend. And the last visiting artist that we had was Pete Sohn from Pixar, creator/director of Partly Cloudy, the short that showed before UP. I had forgotten that he was the voice of Emile from Ratatouille also. I remembered once he started telling stories about how he got the part and so on. He was a really funny and genuine guy, he talked a lot about love for animation.

NEW POST TOMORROW

I PROMISE TO UPDATE TOMORROW. I'M LAME IT'S BEEN A MONTH.

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Hey boys and girls!

(My schedule is at the bottom)

I'm in my dorm room at CalArts! All of the orientations and registrations finished yesterday, so today I've been relaxing probably for the last time. I wanted to come on here and post my classes, I'll do a post where I show pictures of how I was surrounded by my stuff in the back seat of my parents car on the ride up here. And more detail about orientation/registration, the naked parade and such (hahaha, don't worry about it, I'll explain soon). Oh, and also pictures of my dorm room. SO, first, here are some drawings I did during one of the orientations.

During our Character Animation orientation, Leo Hobaica, our Color & Design teacher, really made me realize that I'm at CALFREAKINGARTS. He told us that for each butt in a plastic chair, there are 4 or more people per person that want to be in that seat. I am so excited and happy to be here. I'm so ready to learn, I don't understand how kids skip class. When we checked in we got a free CalArts bag. This bag symbolizes a lot, especially for the freshmen that had been trying to get in here for a long time. We're finally here, at our dream school, getting to do what we love.

Everyone at CalArts is so happy and so friendly. We all smile as we pass each other in the hallways, and talk to each other even though we're complete strangers because we're all so damn happy to be here. I love it.

Here's a pic of the bag, and a little coin purse type thing that you can put your ID into if you want (we got it at another orientation). I wanna paint the lettering.

Alrightly! Here's my schedule. There's a class here called Film History, it involves writing a 2 page essay a week (that was the first thing I heard and I was just like no way). I have a schedule of all the films and dates we'll be viewing them, and I am so excited. I wasn't at first, but I was able to make a copy of the course syllabus and such and reading through it I can't wait to "examine the visual language of the medium." I think (dare I say, know) this will help me with my film making. I know it'll change how I view films and criticize them. Bring it on Film History!!

***HIGHLIGHT MY SCHEDULE WITH YOUR MOUSE. THE TEXT WONT CHANGE TO BLACK FOR SOME REASON***

Class	Title	Instructor	Units	Schedule	Room
CS110	WRITING ARTS: 20TH C. ART & SOCIETY	Nelson, Maggie	3.00	T 4pm to 5pm & W 10am to 12 Noon	BIJOU
CS175A	FILM HISTORY I - 1895-1950	Mairs, Gary	3.00	Th 4pm to 7pm	BIJOU
FC100A01	BEGINNING TRADITIONAL ANIMATION (A-K	Nguyen, Mike	2.00	Th 7pm to 10pm	PALACE
FC101A03	BEGINNING COMPUTER ANIMATION	Domingo, Robert	2.00	M 7pm to 10pm	A109
FC105A01	INTRO TO DIGITAL PRODUCTION	Metzger, Ethan	1.00	T 1pm to 4pm	A108
FC110A01	BEGINNING LIFE DRAWING (A-K)	Brown, Steven	2.00	Th 9am to 4pm	A221O
FC115A01	BASIC PERSPECTIVE (A-K)	Hansen, Dan	2.00	M 1pm to 4pm	PALACE
FC140-01	COLOR AND DESIGN I (A-K)	Hobaica, Leo	2.00	T 9am to 12 Noon	PALACE
FC155A03	BEGINNING STORY DEVELOPMENT	Stillwell, Jennifer	2.00	W 7pm to 10pm	F200
		Total Units	19.00