Summery Winter Holidays

Hey everyone,

I've returned to the 40 degree heat that is Australia, from the 2 degree frost that is Japan.

We've started a weekly drawing project so I will be posting about that on a weekly bases hence forth =P

For now, I've done a quick sketch that I will finish ~

Also, I've decided that i will be (attempting) to enter Tropfest 2014 so you will be seeing more posts about progress and other such things. 

So until next time, 

Ariane 

Christmas and New Years

Hey everyone,

This is officially my first post outside of tafe studies ~ yay =D

Sorry its been a while,
I have done some work ~

i did this sketch :

I know its not very "christmas-y" or festive, but thats what came out when i said to myself "draw whatever you feel like" 

Anyways, I plan to be doing a drawing (fully finished) each week next year, so make sure to look forward to that. 

Also, I will be going away for the new years holiday (and a bit after that) so i won't be able to post anything for a little while =) so i apologise in advance for that. 

But you should be able to see lots of stuff after that holiday.

Anyways, thats all i really had to say,

All the best, 

Season Greetings~!

Until next time, 

Ariane

New Webpage, New Showreel, New Drawing & End of studies !

Firstly, I apologise for such a long absence but the end of tafe has been taking my attention ~

SO much so that i don't even know where i should start =D

~ Soooo much exciting news =P

I guess i'll start with the most important, my 2013 showreel =P

There were so many stumbling blocks to get this showreel together, so I'm just happy that it's done xD

Next, My new Webpage ~ www.apicsstudio.com

It's finally done =D! it took soooooo long to get this webpage up and running ~ once again, i kept running into walls with it, but its finally done.


Next, My drawing -
I've finally finish this drawing :

=D yay =D

Lastly, tomorrow (wed) and thursday ~ are my last two days of study =D yayayay =D 

Also, here is my guardian character that i made in 3D, i've finally put him together: 

Thats all i really have to say right for now 

~Until next time,

Ariane ~

Setting

Just a quick post this time :

My setting is slowly (much slower then i wanted) coming along ~ 

i've still got lots to do, but its looking a lot better then yesterday =)

I want to add a layer of subtle fog on the ground as well as having some fog light coming through ~ but anyways, thats all i wanted to post for now =P 

Until next time ~

~ Ariane

Nearing the End

Yep, thats right, i'm nearing the end of my 3 years of study in animation. Only 2 weeks left to go before the Expo. 

So for things i've done since the last post : 

As you are all aware of, we are working together with the film students in making them an animated title sequence. 

This week i worked on our new version of the animatic

this is the direction guide and shot guide that i drew up quickly (the drawing is also mine) 

Also, this coming monday we have to do a presentation on something we learnt during work experience. I've decided to do mine on DaVinci Resolve, a software that we do not have at tafe. 

I've also made a drastic decision to stop my idea of using 3D characters for my short story, instead using 2D characters for my short story : 

Also, i took a break and started a new drawing : 

Obviously its not finished yet but I hope to make this the best drawing yet =P 

Thats all i've really done this week. Hopefully i'll have lots more to show you by next week. 

Until then ~ 

~ Ariane 

The past three weeks

Sorry i haven't posted in so long, but i believe it's all worth it ~ because i have some awesome stuff to show you =P ~!

So i'll start with some stuff that is unrelated to TAFE and study. Last saturday i attended a fashion show for charity that i was commissioned to do some work for.
I did a quick video and three pieces of artwork (all wearing Mauricio Alpizar, the fashion designer's, clothes) ~

This one was just simply one of the commissions ~ the red dress is one of his dresses ~

This drawing (minus the dress) had been in my mind for a while, so it was good to get it out of my system ~ i enjoyed it.

This one was the drawing used for the invitations and tickets. It was based off the model he used in his photographs ~ I had quite a lot of fun drawing this because it is a completely new style to me. Usually i draw more like the one above. But in turn, i've learnt how to make a digital drawing look like water colours. I really enjoyed this one. 

So back to tafe ~ 

Something i was quite excited about ~

I've finally finished modelling my Guardian Character ~!! yay =D

Now to rig, and then begin animation =P 

I used Maya to model him. I will also use maya to rig and animate, but i will most likely use Max to texture.

Next, i finished modelling the tree for the end of my hallway ~ I used Max for the base shape and then mud box to finish it ~ 

I've also started to fix some of the modelling of my setting as well as thinking about the texture of the setting ~ although i'm still not entirely sure what type of colour's i'd like to use ~

Lastly, I've  finished one of Anthony's assignments ~ a robot animation. 

The basic plot was set out for us already ~

 the robot walks in, light bulb breaks (or something along those lines), robot can't reach glob, robot gets chair, something happens, ends. 

this is what i did (sorry no audio) : 

The Beginning of the End

Hey everyone,

So this week at tafe was the 'beginning of the end' ~

What I mean by that is, i've started to finish the final assignments of this term =P
~ yay ~

there is still lots to do, but i'm a lot closer than before.

But before that ~ We are having an EXPO soon ~ and i made the Facebook page for it, so go take a look, and perhaps have a look through the student gallery ~

the link : www.facebook.com/Ethereal2013

Going back to assignments ~

This week i finished one of anthony's assignments ~
the rigging and skinning assignment ~ it's my first time rigging and skinning in maya so i was pretty happy with the results ~

This photo is to show the way the arms bend without horrible disfiguration

This is to show you all the controls on the rig (the foot can be IK and FK) 

The way the back bends

How the leg bends and moves without disfiguration

and what the entire rig set up looks like 

The other thing i did lots of work on this week is the Green screening we did at ABC with the film students. 

I've done an Style Guide - 

and a very very rough animatic in Nuke X -

I also started building the teleportation machine in 3D, but i didn't take any screen shots of it. 

Lastly, I got some audio examples from the sound students that are doing the audio for my short story ~ i'm so excited, it's finally coming together slowly haha =P 

My goal is to have all modelling, texturing and lighting done by the end of these holidays coming. 

anyways, 

Thats all for now, 

Until next time ~ 

Ariane