This movie is definitely worth seeing, especially in 3D. It was the first animated film I’ve seen in 3D, and it was a pretty neat experience. I can only imagine what it must be like for the animator’s to see there ugly render tests polished up and bulging out of the screen at them. They must be proud.

Overall I thought that it was the best Disney CG film I’ve seen so far, and they’ve made strides towards catching up with Pixar in that department.

Check it out if you can. It’s worth a look.

I fed off Wednesday night’s gesture session, and stayed loose for my first 1 minute warm-up. Unfortunately, it all went down hill from here.

I also finally produced a full set of color pieces worth posting. Who knows, maybe one or two might make it into the portfolio.

Here’s a couple gestures from last night. I decided to work in charcoal. It’s the first time I’ve been able to get this loose with the medium. It’s pretty exciting.

I never really achieved that sense of flow for the rest of the night, but here’s two more that show a little emotion. It felt like the model always had his back to me, no matter where I sat. When I finally got to draw his face, I got so excited at the rare opportunities, that I bombed them completely.

Here’s a festive color spread from Tuesday morning.

Off to my Thursday morning session!

There’s a great mini-interview with Richard Williams at Spline Doctors:

http://splinedoctors.com/2008/11/richard-williams-spline-cast/

This is almost identical to the stuff Richard talked about when he came to Vancouver recently. It’s great that it’s all online now. I knew it would end up online eventually, as he mentioned he was on his way south to California, where animator’s are smarter, and carry recorders with them everywhere

I got off to a good start this month with posting, but it’s been a while. Here’s some of the work I’ve done since last post. This first one’s my favorite.

I like the composition of this one:

The expression in this one:

The looseness of this one:

The expression of this one:

And the color of this one:

I’m putting together a gestures spread for my portfolio. This is not an easy task. I’ve been narrowing down nine months of gestures to a two-page spread. In the process I discovered some gestures I haven’t posted before. Here they are:

As I venture into pastels, this is great stuff to look at. The simplicity of it is what strikes me the most; So much with so little. I find it easy to get mucky, and confused with this medium. But these drawings teach me to take the time to analyze the pose so I can reduce my line count and express raw feeling.

It’s all there, what’s missing isn’t necesarry:

Here’s her website:

http://www.patriciaahannaway.com/

A couple of 2-3 minute gestures from this afternoon:

This was one of those times where I got looser and looser with every drawing. That might sound like a logical progression, but it doesn’t always happen like that for me. I’m usually either on or off; I’m able to connect or I’m not. I thought I would have a ton of gestures for this post, but when I got home to check them over I was only happy (barely) with these two. At least I was having fun!

Here’s a couple from last night’s horendous gesture session. I didn’t connect with the figure at all despite some interesting and lively poses. Back to color for this morning’s regular session.

I’m getting better at spreads, though I still have a loooong way to go. Here’s three from yesterday morning. I have a gesture session today with (hopefully) something worth posting tomorrow. These are all incomplete. As in, I might spruce them up if I decide to put them in my portfolio.

This one’s my favorite:

All NuPastel on Fabriano.