
Christmas cards are going to be sooo cool this year.
Just did a print-a-thon; hopefully 100 should be enough for family and friends ๐
Tech Review: WD Portable HDD

Slightly smaller and slightly heavier than a Moleskin, this little hard drive (Western Digital’s Passport Essential) has been the handiest porta-memory that I’ve ever encountered.
Butterflight :: First Semester Film
There you go, and there you have it! My BFA-1 first semester film here at CalArts!
Total frames: 330
Total hours: …………………a lot!
Fun factor: 9.5, easily!
Happy holidays, everyone! ๐
Food for All



This piece is 10″x60″. Drew it with NuPastel; ~8-9 hours or so. (Final for my Color and Design class!) This piece had to have rhythm, repetition and draw the eye through the piece as it progresses to the right.
Life Drawing Day :: 12 4 08










“Butterflight” flip test
NOTE: Please visit the video’s YouTube page itself and view it in High Quality to see the actual animation! Otherwise, the default lo-res version doesn’t portray anything but a moving muddle of mush….
A quick, not-too-terribly-smooth flip test of my soon-to-be-uploaded-to-Youtube-so-the-world-can-see first semester film, Butterflight. This is only a minor cleaned-up segment. Check back next Thursday for the entire film ๐
Valerie Turn-Arounds

The last project in our design class is a character maquette; this week we had to paint a turn-around of our character in gouache.
Dancing Figure
This was our sixth project in our animation class, for which our teacher provided us a simple stick figure character, gave us some music to inspire us to dance and then made us animate him dancing. What a tough one this was!!
Fox Tail
Our fifth animation was to make a fluffy fox tail wag about.
Can and the Ball
For the fourth animation project, we needed to make a living can interact with an inanimate ball.