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master study

2011-10-03T23:01:00.000-07:00

Do do dee doot. Master study.
One day I'll understand contrast and colors and flippin' skin tones.
And/Or how to calibrate Monitors. Good lord. My cintique is much brighter than my monitor.

Doesn't help that I don't swap monitors as much as I should. I paint and program at the same time. Because I'm silly.

Canyon pass

2011-09-27T20:12:00.000-07:00

Nonsense. Too many colors yada yada...

Ah' dunno'.

2011-08-17T16:50:00.000-07:00

tired of fire

2011-08-12T20:45:00.000-07:00

Forgot what the hell I was doing with this one.

whose counting..not me...

2011-08-08T19:31:00.000-07:00

I have discovered independent large scale ARGs.
I think I have found my next project.

VOLCAYE-BAH-NOOOOS

2011-07-19T19:51:00.000-07:00

...and yeah. Lava is..tricky. But hella' fun.

Do I still number these? Kinda.

2011-07-18T17:09:00.000-07:00

30 minutes * Wanders away*

derp

2011-04-09T10:47:00.000-07:00

Turtles from animal anatomy, and a few weeks of speed paintings. I determined to get better.
*angry face*

A quik scene set up.

2011-02-04T19:21:00.000-08:00

MAN. it's been forever sence I've tried to do spot blacks. trying to do something different with the midtones other than CROAWSHAYTCH. Kinda suceded. mostly failed. FURTHER EXPERIMENTATION SHALL COMENCE.

....you guys know the drill

2010-12-22T00:02:00.000-08:00

*shrug*

actauly...

2010-12-21T01:49:00.000-08:00

I stopped and re-started this speedpainting, so it no longer gets to be one.

speed paingting ........

2010-12-19T22:53:00.000-08:00

speed paingting ...err..what.

2010-12-19T02:24:00.000-08:00

I don't know what happened here

speed paintng hotel

2010-12-18T01:03:00.000-08:00

g is in fact, not gamma, but golf...who new? Not me.

speed paintng..stilll truckin

2010-12-16T23:11:00.000-08:00

In which there are more speed paintings

2010-12-15T22:52:00.001-08:00

Sheep walk

2010-12-13T02:24:00.000-08:00

Ramsputin Walk from Amanda Moody on Vimeo.

That's right. REAL TIME BLOGGING.
He's Eustace Ramsputin...DICTATOR OF SHEEP.
And he has the lamest headquarters...he spends all the Military budget on big ass guns.
Or something.
Or power-armor.

I should draw a sheep in power armor.

Abstract music video

2010-12-12T19:00:00.000-08:00

We no Speak Squaro from Amanda Moody on Vimeo.

I'm pretty sure everyone who watches this blog has done one of these.
Spent way more time than I should have trying to get the DAMN .mpeg compression in premiere to sync and stop leaving artifacts EVERYWHERE. Shape tweens(don't mock me) don't take well to mpeging apparently.

speed painting foxtrot

2010-12-11T23:13:00.000-08:00

speed painting epsilon

2010-12-11T01:55:00.000-08:00

forgot to time it.

Speed painting Gamma

2010-12-09T21:05:00.000-08:00

OKAY. I officially have an even WORSE sleeping schedule during break.

speedpainting delta

2010-10-03T20:29:00.000-07:00

...I ment to animate...and this happened.
Also. I'm going to Pretend that this Summer didn't happen at all.
NOPE.
Also, I couldn't decide what to do with those hands so ...LAST MINUTE CLAWS.

giraffe

2010-04-10T22:47:00.000-07:00

It's one of those things that is better to let lie and move on- to other winged giraffe things.

LALALA.

2010-03-29T20:34:00.000-07:00

I used some of the patterns on my business card, hence why I scanned it.

sketck again

2010-03-12T22:28:00.000-08:00

I ment to have some speedpaintings. but my computer decided that NOW was time to explode, so I spent most of the day troubleshooting it.

dragon walkin' sketch

2010-03-10T20:23:00.000-08:00

More overdetailed pen doodles

mo' stuff!

2010-03-03T19:31:00.000-08:00

some quick sketches from lunch, and another 5 minute speedpaiting

speedpaikjlkl

2010-02-27T12:57:00.000-08:00

done while on the phone with my mom- 10 min. mighty MIGHTY broad shoulders!

speedpainbljj789ujo

2010-02-26T17:01:00.000-08:00

trying a random technique- would have worked out bettr if my tablet's pressure sensitivity was working, 5 minutes.

mosketches.

2010-02-25T16:04:00.000-08:00

SpeedPaint I lost count by now

2010-02-24T20:49:00.000-08:00

Le sigh. I wanted to do some fun doodlin' or I'd go crazy. 'bout 15 minutes.

giraffe a waf

2010-02-22T15:05:00.000-08:00

Some thumbnails and the like for a landscape...thingy. I'm currently coloring it in a style similar to the stylized background.

I found this while looking for the file I just scanned- it's my thumbnails for animation 1

mo BGs

2010-02-21T16:26:00.000-08:00

Huh. I can't find the version of this with the textured balls. (Yes I chuckled when I typed that) I only have the small .jpeg. the H drive seems to have eaten it.
This is the stylized background for 2-D animation production.

backgrounds

2010-02-20T12:56:00.000-08:00

Realistic background for 2-D production. I also just finished a sketchbook, so now I have no excuse for not uploading sketches.

UH more stuff

2010-01-30T17:43:00.000-08:00

Anybody read Perdido Street Station? Anyone? Jack-Half-A-Prayer?

NEW WORK

2010-01-29T16:03:00.000-08:00

WOW. I Just got this scanned.

2010-01-28T19:28:00.001-08:00

ARCADE. I still like this. Unfortunetly the scan is hokey. It's a home, so the file had to be small enough to e-mail.

This is where my winter break went

2010-01-15T19:06:00.000-08:00

Yeah. It's that wacky draw-one-frame-a-day-and-capture-it-later-and-see-what-you-got.
It's crazy.
And I'll be putting up more of my older animations up on youtube(possibly vimeo as well) as time goes on.

Mo' work.

2010-01-12T12:21:00.000-08:00

Old things I found. Wonk composition though.

Swing n' sketch poster

2009-10-28T09:47:00.000-07:00

The image for the swing n' Sketch even poster...uhh...as for why you haven't seen them around.
So the event starts at 8 and runs till midnight, you lot should come!

let's not talk about her left arm either.

Study VI

2009-10-27T22:41:00.000-07:00

Studies for a dog animation....yes even more!

Study V

2009-10-26T08:14:00.000-07:00

Wow, I'm being unusually good about updating!

Studies III and IV

2009-10-24T19:03:00.000-07:00

Study II

2009-10-23T16:09:00.000-07:00

study I

2009-10-20T21:45:00.000-07:00

Trying to get better control with my tablet by doing some Jeno Barsay studies- expect a bunch more. And some master-study paintings.

mornin' speedpaintin' ( 71)

2009-10-04T15:15:00.000-07:00

Errk. All my sketchbooks are too big to scan! So I'm gonna try and bring back the morning speedpainting.

I did manage to remember how NOT to get my akward angular sketch style- both in this and in my sketch club sketches.

Finals you say?

2009-05-24T17:54:00.000-07:00

Old stuff from Drawing for sequential I forgot to scan. There still one more, but it will have to wait.

Character sheets

2009-04-27T19:23:00.000-07:00

One of the original drafts on my Character sheet.
Errors abound. Not happy with it. Still, the leason is learned.

and we still go on!

2009-04-09T19:45:00.000-07:00

and some gestures done during class.

more...apples

2009-04-01T22:21:00.000-07:00

And we all run along...

2009-03-29T17:57:00.000-07:00

Gestures from river street...

...And a doodle of the character I want to animate.

mo' gestures.

2009-03-19T21:05:00.001-07:00

YAY pose maniacs. While I try to work on larger things. I have a butt-ton of thumbnails done, but I keep fiddling with the larger image. We shall see.

BIG blue book backlog

2009-03-18T14:57:00.000-07:00

Gesture nonsense from today.

Check that pseudo-code on the sketches! Classy no?

even more more blue book

2009-03-15T20:52:00.000-07:00

more bluebook, because I lost the speedpainting I was working on, along with some other stuff I was working on.
New computer time is coming up soon-like!

speedpainting 69

2009-03-14T21:26:00.000-07:00

Done in 15 minutes, with an arm brace on. Which is increasing them amount of typos I make 10fold. DAMN YOU MAYA for messing up my wrist.

blue book ...3

2009-02-23T06:53:00.000-08:00

Temporary Portfolio

2009-02-19T19:23:00.000-08:00

My current animation Demo Reel.

traditional work

Environment paintings done in Photoshop.

Tea party doodle

2009-02-15T19:28:00.000-08:00

Doodled during the tea party the we hand instead of going to sketch club.
Because boys are icky.

sketch post 7

2009-02-11T18:47:00.000-08:00

Sketch club 6

2009-02-08T08:56:00.000-08:00

2009-02-07T14:02:00.000-08:00

I could piddle with this one more, but I have stuff to do. And calling it quits means i can get that stuff done faster. And start on more stuff like this.

This is th best scan I could get..sorry. I'll probably fiddle with it in Photoshop later for my own amusement.

Sketch club...post 5?

2009-02-04T06:42:00.000-08:00

Seen the pattern yet?

EVEN MORE

2009-02-02T07:16:00.000-08:00

From this Friday's sketch club. This time we didn't run into a train, but I did have to walk back from Monty becuase the bus was already full.

More sketckes

2009-01-30T07:53:00.000-08:00

Stoof from sketch club

2009-01-22T18:08:00.000-08:00

Stuff from sketch club.
I'll try and remember to scan the blue book soon!

....stuff

2008-12-20T23:32:00.000-08:00

okay, so my extension cord was likely confiscated. In which case I am gonna raise HELL. My room does not have enough outlets

THE BLUE BOOK post #1

2008-12-19T23:03:00.000-08:00

FINALY. The bluee book! The blue book has a story. But thats for another time.

I want to color the perpectivy one- there's a story with that one*

* There is a story with everything I draw, an uncanny soul is the one who wants to here it

speedpainting 68

2008-12-18T22:39:00.000-08:00

I had the blue book on the scanner bed and everything, so of course the scanner doesn't work, and I forgot the cord for my camera, so you'll have to wait untill tomorow to see my silly christmas ornaments.

I should have just dug up some Rembrant to do studies of. OH WELL.

2008-12-17T23:54:00.000-08:00

SHIT. WHY AM I AWAKE.
Ah. Yes.

I'll post pictures of the silly whacha-ma-doos I built for my mum's office war.

SO. Have some bouncing balls from ANIM 1

2008-12-16T21:14:00.000-08:00

I was going to do more stuff today, but I fell asleep on the couch again.

So here are the old designs for character from a porject I'm working on.
All of these are more or less "first thoughts" and aren't designed with the projects parameters in mind. Or the characters finalized personalities for that matter.

speadpainting 67

2008-12-15T21:06:00.000-08:00

Somewhere in the middle of this I decided that it was a racing house.
Then I got bored and started coding again.

I swear I was gonna post more...but the scanner had a hissy fit.
..... I poop colors. I need to dig out some Hudson river school paintings* to study, but right now my speedpaintings are just downtime in between coding and website-ing.

so this quick-ey abandoned sketch is all you get. she was a character for a animation that I shelved. Another project has eaten it so...onward.

* despite having a rather impressionistic style, I really don't care for impressionism. Hudson river school is where it's at.

I have an excuse this time

2008-12-14T22:55:00.000-08:00

scanners wigging out..so have more 3-D stoof!

3-D stooff

2008-12-13T22:20:00.000-08:00

Alrighty'...today was mighty unproductive.
But I saw Cuppa' Coffee's new stop motion Christmas shot " A Miser brother's Christmas". And drew lots of stuff I would scan- but I can't find the sketchbook.

so have some 3-D stuff instead.

speedpainting 66

2008-12-12T20:35:00.000-08:00

speedpainting 65

2008-12-11T20:49:00.000-08:00

'nother speedpainting

speed painting 63+64

2008-12-10T17:14:00.000-08:00

Speedpainting, not much longer than 20 minutes.

'Nother one...been a while since I've bothered to paint someone with no ref.

crummy character sheet is crummy

2008-12-09T19:28:00.000-08:00

A golem girl drawn on a sketchbook WAY to big for my scanner. It's also one of those sketchbooks were the first 2 sheets aren't the SUPER AWESOME paper found in the rest of it- so my eraser kept tearing the page.
So I haven't worked the anatomy as much as I should have.
But, she's an Hindi-inspired Golem ...with a staff...with sharp rock crystals for a weapon.
This isn't as crazy as my usual stuff.

more oldies

2008-12-08T22:15:00.000-08:00

Sketch club stuff from the begining of the quater.

digital form stoof

2008-12-07T22:02:00.000-08:00

Some stuff from my 3-D class, stupid mistakes and all.
I want to re-touch the projects from that class, I learned a ton, so I know that if i re-did them....say over the summer I'd blow the originals out of the water.

MO sketcherros

2008-12-06T21:49:00.000-08:00

except my tablet pen died...so here's the flop that resulted.

sketcheroos!

2008-12-05T18:16:00.000-08:00

GOOD LORD. I'm DONE. I didn't even like this when I started it.
I refuse to touch this EVER AGAIN.
it was supposed to be one of my Moster-beast God characters from Headworld 2.34Alpha % 9.b3. But that died halfway in.

Sketch club stoof from mid quater.

Katie doodle, and... what most of mysketchbook looks like, but with more random comic book script rough drafts.

From last night when I was ANGRY AT COMPILIER.FOR NOT...COMPILING. The book never states that it wasn't a complete code. I didn't figure it out for a while.
DAMN BOOK.

today. Or one from today. there's a ton of other ones. But I HATE scanning 11x14 stuff because I have to use scan-and-stitch and it's a PAIN.

Spent the Day sketching and C++in' and now I'm gonna ILLUSTRATOR.

V1.2 is up

2008-12-04T11:11:00.000-08:00

Still fiddling with the placeholder site, I figured out how to make in centered, so missed accomplished. V2.1 will likely have a feathered white background.

Background for my animation 1 project, now in TECHNICOLOR!
I didn't want to speed too much time on it- it's about the animation after all.
So i called it quits after about 30 minutes of fiddling.

I need to scan some sketches, most of the stuff I've been doing now are just studies and no one wants to see boring' ol generic studies.

It's UP!

2008-12-03T21:55:00.000-08:00

floursackstudios V 1.1

Verson 1.1 is up and running at last!
I completely forgot about the flash website I made in CMPA almost a year ago, so I slapped that up to figure out how to...we.. put a flash page on the internet.
So keep in mind that it's all work from almost a year ago.
Verson 1.21 will go up soon, and will fix some of the obvios errors(centered page anyone?) as well as add some added actionscript nonsense,

OLD. But I haven't posted it here, so here have it! I keep meaning to touch it up, but I'd rather plow forward than dwell on past works.

Same and oldie that could use some work, but I'm keepin' on moving.

In liew* of mah website....

2008-12-02T14:32:00.000-08:00

...I am most likely going to abandon the Livejornal and move here for the "sketch blog". Blogger looks a lot more professional than livejornal.
SO onward to business. the posting of artwork not yet posted here!

SUPPAH old. And super Cintique-y!

something super old, that I dug up and slightly fixes before I said "TOO HELL WITH THIS"

speedpainting from beging of the quater, 20 or so minutes

speedpainting, 20 or so minutes.

Stay tunned for animation and 3-D work.

And a website! floursackstudios.com watch it!

I am also queen of the obnoxiously large images, someone recommend a fix for me, ya?
EDIT: WELL THEN BLOGGER, Fancy alowing me to upload stuff via ...blogger and not telling me!

obnoxiously large images to be fixed in a Jiffy.

* I am positive I used this word wrong.

Comic (dandilions)

2008-06-27T09:40:00.000-07:00

comic I did for my intro class, inspired by running across Enrico Casarosa's "The advenures of Mia"* which involves quirky planes, adorable charaters, and inkwashes.
So In some way this is a bit o' homage or somesuch to his work.

* I have yet to get my grubby paws on a copy of one, my paypal never works.

mo' arts!

2008-05-22T20:46:00.000-07:00

snippets from life drawing I photographed to enter in a show.

Bloggin'

2008-05-15T18:16:00.000-07:00

Here have some keyframe illustrations from Drawing for storyboarding last quarter untill I can scan some new stuff.