Chimaera was already featured on a Flash animation site? WHAT. WHAT. This is awesome!
I think I'll be working in this program a bit more!
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
Chimaera already made print?!
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Senior Thesis Animation 2 - Chimaera
Senior Thesis Project #2 is complete! And just in time for Halloween. :) This was a way of forcing myself to get more familiar with anatomy and moving volumes around in space. Adding the sound changed it from beautiful to gross in no time flat. Ew...
27 seconds, 10 days.
Frame-by-frame in Flash.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Postcard
The UPenn art department sometimes distributes postcards advertising certain classes/concentrations. This year's animation postcard features some familiar faces!
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Thesis Anatomy Sketches 1
Next thesis project is going to be a forced attempt to get better at anatomy. Will I succeed?? ...Who knows, but here, have some skeletons. This is gonna be a very Halloween-y project.
Monday, October 10, 2011
Selective Echo Blog - Utah Arts Festival
How the Coyote got his Cunning was featured at this year's Utah Arts Festival in Salt Lake City, and a visitor outlined some of the entries of the show on his blog. Nine different showings, based on the Nine Muses, were the basis of the festival, and Coyote was put in the Comedy section, which was entirely kid friendly — the selections of which were determined by the curator's own kids!
"COMEDY
This provided the ideal opportunity for Horman to give the Art Yard its first kids’ version of Fear No Film. A half-hour screening of seven clever, cute, and whimsical pieces will screen every hour while the venue is open. All the films are suitable for children ages three and older. Horman screened the selections with his children, who gave their rousing endorsements.
All of the selections are as charming as one can imagine ... [including] ‘How the Coyote Got His Cunning,’ a definitive example of soundly executed old-school animation from Pennsylvania."
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Interview with Michael Ryan - YoungCuts Film Festival
YoungCuts is a Canadian film festival for filmmakers and animators 25 and under, held in Montreal in late September. How the Coyote got his Cunning was chosen as one of their top 100 films, and they did a blog feature on it back in July.
Being mentioned in the same sentence as Co Hoedeman was very VERY awesome.
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Interview #2 with 34th Street Magazine
34th Street did a second interview with me after I won first prize at the College Houses Film Festival.
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Interview #1 with 34th Street Magazine
My university's weekly arts and culture magazine does artist features from time to time. They asked me for an interview back in January, after I had gone to my very first festival.
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Sunday, October 9, 2011
Obligatory ReBoot Fanart Post
I want to keep this blog from being too fanart-y, but these paintings are so important to me that I have to post them. It's what most people know me for. Some of my best illustration/painting work is fan art, and the majority of the work I do outside of animation, schoolwork, and personal character designs is based on my favorite cartoon of all time. ReBoot. I've never been able to get tired of it; it's a bit of a guilty pleasure!
The first four were featured in ReBoot Forever, the second ReBoot artbook from Beach Studios. A call went out for anyone - fans, old crew members, established comic book artists - to submit art for the book's fan gallery. I originally thought only professionals were allowed to submit, until the editor messaged me asking to feature a few of these pictures! It was an honor to be featured and I'm so proud of being printed alongside some industry giants. It blows my mind.
Much love (and many apologies) to Alphonse Mucha. :)
Swan - Rough Animation
Did this outside of class to experiment with camera movements. Someone once commented that it looks like the swan is sneezing. ...They were totally right.
Black Samurai
Computer animation class assignment: create a short animation based on the name of an alcoholic or non alcoholic drink (Fuzzy Navel, Gatorade, etc.) A 'Black Samurai' is a mix of sake and soy sauce. Gross!
My Home, My Burrow
Also for Paul Fierlinger's class. Make an animation about your sense of home.
My home involves rabbits.
Duke Ellington
My hand-drawn computer animation class was taught by Paul Fierlinger, master animator behind My Dog Tulip and Sesame Street's Teeny Little Super Guy. Our final assignment was to take a passage from Jules Feiffer's autobiography (we were all given the same passage) and turn it into an animation that involved both images and words...
Blast from the Past: How the Coyote got his Cunning
This was my first full-length animation. And it's still my most successful one. My baby :)
Coyote was done for my final project in my Mixed Media Animation class, Spring 2010. The first animation course I had ever taken. I first submitted it to the OIAF, where it was rejected, but I couldn't have predicted how far it would've gone beyond that. It's been in six festivals around the US and Canada, and will probably be shown at a festival in San Francisco next spring. I still need to send in a DVD!
I had visited Canada for the first time the summer before. It was a SUPER brief trip (only 2 days and extremely last-minute) but it left a huge impression on me. So when we were given an 'open' project for our final... I was stumped. Then I suddenly thought of the Pacific Northwest art style. And that was that.
This is all digital; I did a test in cut paper, an actual stop motion, but with only 2 weeks to animate it, it would've taken far too long. So this is 100% Photoshop.
Graphic Design - Train Schedule
For graphic design class we had to take an everyday thing and break it down, then make it into something brand new.
I took an Amtrak train schedule and totally destroyed it.
I started out associating different colors with different parts of the schedule... times, locations, whether the station has wheelchair access, etc. So it no longer looked like a schedule, but just a colorful painting.
I took those colors and distorted them even more, added some text, and made it... nuts. :)
Senior Thesis Animation 1 - Remedy
The Remedios illustrations led to this. I simplified the story and took out some major characters, just to streamline the process and make it less of a literal interpretation. And the art style became a little messier and more gestural than in my original illustrations.
I wasn't sure how it would be received in critique. It's bright, colorful, and bouncy... everything the book isn't. Would it be 'artsy' enough? I mean, animating a naked lady should give me some artsy points, right?
They liked it a lot more than I thought they would. :)
51 seconds, 5 days.
Animated in Flash, each frame painted in Photoshop.
Lute music from freesound.org.
Remedy - Illustrations and Sketches
Our first project for senior thesis was inspired by Gabriel García Márquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. We read it during the summer and had to incorporate some sort of theme/character/scene from the book into our first project.
It's such a dark and unhappy book... so I used happy and bright colors for my illustrations. Makes sense to me!
I decided to focus on the story of one character, Remedios the Beauty. She's the most beautiful woman in her town, probably in the whole world, and just being in her presence makes men go nuts. She's incredibly naïve, though, and doesn't realize the power she has. She doesn't care about social conventions — she runs around naked because she hates clothing, she cuts her hair so she doesn't have to comb it every day, and she uses her excrement to paint little animals on the wall in her house. She's a bit of a wild child, and that makes her even more tantalizing to the opposite sex.
One day, without any warning, she is lifted up into the sky along with the laundry, never to be seen again. Maybe heaven wanted her back?
I first thought I wouldn't have enough time to do an animation based on this art style. I had just come back from the Ottawa International Animation Festival and had less than two weeks to animate something. I was going to keep it to just a series of illustrations, and that would be fine.
...Couldn't resist. I did an animation in five days!
BEHOLD MY EMPTY BLOG
WHAT IS UP, INTERNET!
So it's my senior year of college and I've (finally) opened up a sketchblog/projectblog/rantingblog to post all my random sketchings and musings. And my student animations will go here too. I'll be doing a full short animation every few weeks for my senior seminar class, so those will pop up every now and then, along with process work and sketches. Also planning on revamping my original website, so this will be where things go in the meantime. A mini-portfolio, I guess?
I'm also, to a lesser extent, a graphic designer, so some slightly-less-animated things might show up too. I'll try and keep things organized between the two concentrations.
I've never blogged consistently before, so maybe it's time, eh?
Hello!
CKN
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