Three new pic­tures are up in the con­cepts sec­tion.  Two of them are views of the set I’m design­ing for my own short.  The last is a model sheet for one of the char­ac­ters I cre­ated for my sto­ry­board­ing class.  His name is Joey, and he’s the vic­tim of his older brother’s bul­ly­ing.  My story focuses on poor Joey being bul­lied out of his break­fast one morning.

I’m learn­ing quite a bit in this class, and I’m glad I waited before rush­ing into the plan­ning stages of my short.  The class is teach­ing me how to plan shots and show how the cam­era will move in thumb­nails and sto­ry­boards.  Both of those skills are going to be essen­tial to me telling the story effec­tively.  The final sto­ry­boards and ani­matic (where all the stills are put together with music and vocal work) will be a nice addi­tion to my port­fo­lio, too.

Well, my ani­ma­tion class is done, and I’ve since moved on to my first 3D class.  As of yet, it hasn’t been quite as demand­ing of my time, but the new pro­gram is very over­whelm­ing for some­one like me who’s never used it before.  The book for it looks like it could also dou­ble as a very deadly pro­jec­tile weapon.  Still, it’s kind of excit­ing ren­der­ing mun­dane objects.

I’ve got a cou­ple pic­tures I’ve been work­ing on.  My most recent is another pic­ture of my rogue, which will hope­fully have a lot more detail than the last.  I was also work­ing on a pic­ture of Dier­dre and Trance going to see Eleri, but I just can’t get the back­ground to look right.