Aesops Illu

Did this for illustration 1 in Barron's class. We had to pick up an aesop's fable and make a poster for a company that does stuff with aesop. We also had to add a 3d element to the final version. I picked "The Trees and the Axe":

A Man came into a forest, and made a petition to the Trees to provide him a handle for his axe. The Trees consented to his request, and gave him a young ash-tree. No sooner had the man fitted from it a new handle to his axe, than he began to use it, and quickly felled with his strokes the noblest giants of the forest. An old oak, lamenting when too late the destruction of his companions, said to a neighboring cedar: "The first step has lost us all. If we had not given up the rights of the ash, we might yet have retained our own privileges and have stood for ages."

In yielding the rights of others, we may endanger our own.

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2nd semester cca

In about two weeks spring semester at cca's animation program and I've got to say, it is awesome:

Animation 2 -Hans Brekke

3D Animation 1 - Edward Gutierrez

Ethics - Stephanie Ellis

Illustration 1 - Barron Storey

Bodies in Motion - Jean Opperman

Quick rundown: Brekke makes wolves and other stuff move at Tippett he also worked at Massive Black which is soo sick. Gutierrez has credits in tons of Disney movies and he graduated Calarts, which is pretty cool. Barron Storey is Barron Storey, seriously, his students include Dan Clowes and Scott McCloud! How sick is this?! His work is insane and he's always telling awesome old school illustration stories, favorite part: you tell him how you were referencing some old school illustrator/comic book artist and he replies: "oh yeah, I knew Jimmy"- calls em by their first name all nonchalantly. Lastly, Jean Opperman, this class is like figure drawing on speed. It's also more focused on the constructionist aspect of figure; a bit different than figure drawing last semester.

Also, I'm still geeking out about this: I'm totally kind of auditing Visual Storytelling with Mark Andrews. Yes, it is awesome and still can't  believe any of this.

Alright, anyway, hopefully some of the awesomeness rubs off in my work; here's a sketch dump:

Animation Snaps

Been meaning to post this for a while. Took some photos around the CCA campus around the end of the semester and thought it would be cool to post them up here; virtual tour!

Entrance to the animation building

Lobby area where they put in some sweet new light tables and stools.

More light tables, we call it: Peg Bar.

Took this one later, right before the animation pizza party at the end of the semester- thought it looked cool...

We got four huge white boards in the animation halls that are wicked fun to draw on. Just recently the shipment of earth magnets got in; too exciting.

Another board down the hall.

Storyboarding room! They used to have corked walls, but they took them down and now we're supposedly going to get some white boards with some small strong earth magnets to go along to pin up the boards.

Soundbooth- never been in here but I hear odd noises coming out of here all the time.

This is where most of the animation classes are held, they all have intuos 4s on them

Some have small cintiqs

StopMo Lab where we shoot pencil tests and other animation classes are held. No lunchboxes, but we shoot with Flipbook/iStopMotion and it works well.

Senior Lab! Cozy place fully equipped with huge cintiqs and some sweet macs. For some reason my key card worked at the start of the semester, so I snapped some pictures- can't wait to work from here some day. For now, the general labs on campus will have to do.

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CloseUp to Cintiq

That's it!