Taffetas Studies

 My pal Yesenia Carrero and I have been at work studying up on mythology, independently producing animation, and pitching for the last few days. We still have quite a lot of books to get through before we're done.

It's driving me crazy not really drawing anything for the project since feel like we're stagnating somehow, even though I know this writing/research part is of the utmost importance. So here's the drawings I've been doing in the down-time, some studies, practice and silly sketches so that I'll be ready to go when the concept art portion hits.

Taffetas Poster Work

Well, today was the last day to vote for the online reader's poll of the Animation Magazine contest! Jess and I won't know how we did with the competition until mid-July so we'll just have to wait and see. I'm so thankful for each and every person who helped out and voted and spread the word. As I have said, this contest is not Yesenia's and my only opportunity, but it is a fairly good one and we are excited to be participating.

In the meantime, here's some behind-the-scenes stuff of the poster we did.




After many concepts, thumbnails, and a few rough sketches, we narrowed our choices down to one poster.... which then later split into two posters because we freaked out near the end and our first poster wasn't good enough auuugh, so we tried to see if we could fix it (shown above), quickly grew frustrated with lack of sleep and a disappearing sense of self-worth, and went with a slightly altered version of our original poster.

Taffetas Sketchbook 07 + Upcoming Test Animation Boards

Taffetas Sketchbook 07

Oops! Didn't have this one set to automatically upload on the blog. This was the sketch for The Taffetas poster, which was then colored and graphic design-ed by the amazing Yesenia Carrero for our new 3-D poster Ad Campaign, "The Birth of Something Beautiful". You can see the final result, as well as what we're looking for for the project, HERE.

New Taffetas Boards

I'll probably be animating this one myself because I'd really like to do it, however there will be more assignments on the way for CHARACTER ANIMATORS as we test out our puppets and just try to have little scenes and animations to really wow people and strengthen our pitch. I am also in need of assistance from an EFFECTS ANIMATOR for this one and many of the other tests for Gemini's flowy hair, so feel free to contact me and co-creator Yesenia Carrero at ycarre20@student.scad.edu if you're interested in helping out.

Lace Sketch

Think I'll clean up and ink this one and see it to full completion later tonight or tomorrow evening, but I'm in conflict whether it's good enough to do so or not. There are some weird things going on, but I don't think the weird things are all too blaring, or even matter. I'm afraid of re-drawing it and losing some of the life (as I'll already lose some in the inking process). Soooooooo we shall see.