Iteration H

Here's the newest iteration.  I'm thinking about giving her an animal, like an owl or a mink.  If you have an animal you think she would look good with, let me know.

Other iterations [HERE].

Thoughts?

Time for Feedback

Okay, so here are a few possible iterations (sorry, nothing on shoes, yet).  There are things that I like about each set, so I may try different combos or even a couple of new ideas.  We'll see.  I'll have to redesign once I get my general direction tacked down so I can try more for the Disney style rather than my own.

I need your help--let me know what combo you like best (either choose A, B, or C or you can say 'I like the hair from A, girl from C with the clothing from B.' etc).  Remember, the idea is to take the final design into 3D.

Thanks for your help!  Cheers!

Here are some iterations I've made with some feedback I've gotten on Facebook:

D:

E:

F:

G:

Neon Lights

I've started working on the sign today.  I have a long way to go before I feel like I can say it's done, but I'll likely be moving on to other things in the meantime.  Eventually I'll be getting into tweaking colors and materials, but I would love your feedback on anything that you see that I could tweak to better match Renee's original design.  I totally love it, so I want to uphold the original's integrity the best that I can.  I hope you like it!  Cheers!

Sketchbook

I posted these a little while ago on my Instagram, but totally spaced it when I wanted to post them on here, so here we are!

Staff Meeting

"Staff Meeting"

Last night, I was the official photographer for a staff meeting held at a closing retail store at a nearby mall.  I was wondering if they knew they were being photographed, but I don't think the dummies knew any better.

And there's the "butt" of the joke.  I hope it made you smile.

I shared this on my DdyBlgr and thought I'd share it here, too.  I may have laughed a little too hard when I saw the mannequins and thought someone else may enjoy it as much as I did.

Quicky Time-lapse

Howdy ya'all!  I wanted to share a time-lapse of a character design I did.  It is based off of a silhouette study that I did in Ryan Woodward's character design class at BYU in 2011.  Fun stuff.  It was funny, so I screen-capped this using QuickTime's screen recording feature, and the footage looked fine, but when I imported the footage into AfterEffects to make the time-lapse, the footage would shrink horizontally.  It took me a few times redoing it to figure out that the document's pixels were not set to square.  It made for a good laugh . . . for myself.  I don't know if anyone else finds it as funny as I do, or if anyone even cares.  I'm done.  Watch my video.

Of course, blogger did some funky things to the whites . . . ugh!

Cheers!

My Chula

Quick Sketch from last night.  I just love this gal!

The Doberman

Okay.  We were assigned in our ward as ward missionaries.  Our first assignment was to visit a few families.  So in going to try to visit one of those families (note: these houses/multi-plexes were really annoying from the standpoint that there was a long row of them and the entrances were only on one side . . . not terribly convenient . . . but oh well) we were walking toward the row where we were supposed to find one of the people we were assigned to.  The sun was in our eyes, so it was terribly hard to see, but then Nini said--backing up in the meanwhile--that someone around there seems to have a mean looking dog.  I only assumed that she had seen the dog because she said that it looked mean.  Yeah, I shielded my eyes and looked in the direction of an adult doberman pinscher walking our way.  I about wet my pants, and at the same time I felt my heart stop.

I kept my eye on the menacing-looking dog while I pointed Scarlett's stroller in the opposite direction (back the way we came), and I told Nini to take her and go.  I couldn't move.  My feet were as if they had been stapled to the ground, but not with any of those crappy office staples, I mean the kind of staples that could hold a building together.  I was scared senseless, but the only thought that I had was that if I turned to run, the dog would chase us and it wouldn't end pretty for someone.  I was terrified, but my brain kept saying, "if you let that dog know you're afraid, he'll eat you like kibble on toast."  Instead I did the smartest thing I could think of and reached my hand out and started to call to it.

WHAT WAS I THINKING!!

Here's this killer dog advancing toward me and I'm moving toward it?  I must have been outside my head!!  The dog kept coming closer, and my legs felt like jelly.  OY!  That felt like an eternity waiting to see what would happen!  I've never seen my life flash so slowly before my eyes . . .

What happened next was so out of the expected and all the while was so surreal that I'm still not quite sure I believe that it happened.  The dog came up to me and sniffed my hand, licked my fingers, and I was thinking to myself, "GREAT!!  He's taste-testing me!" But then he rested his head against my leg and let me pet him.

That was the moment I knew . . . I didn't ever want to own a doberman pinscher of my own.  He was sweet, but I'd be so scared to death of him during the whole man-dog relationship.  I just couldn't live like that.

Anyhoo.  Fun story, I know.

An Ode to Love

My sweet wife is the best.  I'm so thankful for her and the firm support she gives to me.  I could never have imagined a better wife, and the Lord never made anyone better.  The other day, I wanted to do something fun to say "I love you," and did this animation.  It loops, so I hope it comes across well.  Cheers!

2 Lip syncs!

This is for the sake of testing both the blendshapes, the rig, AND the jiggle deformer that I added to his cheeks and lips to make them feel more fleshy.  Let me know what you think!