More More Taffetas Work

"Crow" the cross-dressing bat-man and Cypress the adopted son.

More Taffetas Work

Tom Wooley, the anti-conservation sunflower (and the Taffeta's lawyer), and Elena, the young siren.

This almost wraps up all the little side characters and such I have to do. This is an animated soap opera so we have a lot of characters, even though in our pitch we're just going to try to focus on Veil and Gemini.

Busy Week

here's the puppets so far for Test Flight! You can see some of the technical tests I did with them on the blog and more will be added soon. I'm always a little nervous people will be turned off by the puppet-style of the film, but I'm hoping they'll come to like it for it's ease-of-use and time-saving nature. It also doesn't have to be of poor quality if it's a puppet animation, you know? Just look at My Little Ponies: Friendship is Magic!



I've only seen the first episode because I'm too busy to watch TV ): but I really want to watch more (love the Byzantine/Medeival art prologue)!




Here's something I whipped up over the weekend for my portfolio to the Hallmark Internship! It's something I've wanted to complete for a while and this gave me a nice excuse to finally just do it :).



Here is one of the first Veil expressions I drew to have come back from cleanup and coloring by the amazing Yesenia Carrero for our pitch project. I totally love it and wanted to share.

Here's rough sketches for some of the antagonists from The Taffetas pitch. From left to right we have Luke the cult leader, Gabardine Taffeta the jerk, Lace Taffeta the baby-eater, a demon-like creature from Gemini's island, Kristina the whore, and Matthew the sadist (who is not facing us intentionally).

compare and contrast Lace and Gabardine from a few years ago (the ones at the very end)

Well, it's been a little over a week since I updated this blog. Things are going to be a little slow here for a while, I imagine, as I'm super busy with my film, Test Flight, Jess's and my pitch to WB, The Taffetas, among other projects. But here's some sketchbook-like things I've scrounged up in the meantime:



Here's a sneak peek at the puppet for Mabel for my film, Test Flight (http://tesflight2011.blogspot.com/). This is actually an outdated screenshot as a few things have been tweaked now.




hand studies for an animation I'm making for my internship




Study sketches I did today for Luke, one of the main antagonists from The Taffetas. We're going for a very James "Jimmy" Jones feel (the cult leader of Jonestown). I kind of like it because we technically have a world of monsters and magical creatures (in a modern-ish setting), and things get serious because of something/someone very real and human. We also have a pretty cool idea for his big sunglasses in that we hope to often show them reflecting whatever he's looking at, but there's always something off in the reflection that is more telling of his mental/emotional state than what he is actually seeing. So it's like his glasses are not really reflecting the real world back to us, but the world as perceived by this man. I think it should be really fun to play around with, especially with this lineless, texture-based style we're going for. I hope to illustrate the idea myself sometime.



here's a line up of our main Taffeta family, excluding Licorice Taffeta. We're changing Cypress Taffeta (the red-head) though to be an 11-13 year old boy.


some studies I did in photoshop for Ronnie, the Golem character. There's more on paper but, you know :)

Veil Poses

http://thetaffetas.blogspot.com/

Here's some poses for Veil I did for the pitch to WB. I'm still getting used to Veil's lankiness, but I like where he is here in these drawings. Jess and I like to joke that he is like a spaghetti noodle to Gemini's meatball-like form.

Here's some Gemini poses I drew for the pitch of The Taffetas to the WB. I have to have Veil done by Friday, so stay tuned!

Speaking of which, Check out the amazing blog Yesenia (that's Jess) made for our pitch to WB:

http://thetaffetas.blogspot.com/

Keep it on file, we'll be updating with more information soon!