…and if you don’t want him to devour you, you’d better go to his concert!
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CALARTS Character Animation Gallery!
This Thursday (tomorrow) the party’s on from 10 AM till the wee hours of the morning!
CalArts Main Gallery…. awesome art from all those awesome CalArtians listed on the right side of this blog.
I’ll be drawing caricatures– if it’s not raining and if you’re in the area…. show up! 😀 It’s gonna be busy!
Oh yeah– and that’s the hanging zoetrope in the middle, everything else is a whole bunch of new art 😀
Tales from the Cube!
So I figured I’d inform the blogosphere about current cube life.
My film this year (which shall remain a secret as to surprise said blogosphere come late April) has 51 scenes… including full-color and dialog! Yippee! (Not yippee that there are only 130 days to do all this! AAAAAAAAAGHHH!!!) I figure I can do 5 scenes a week and have a month saved up for post production (translation: technical difficulties). I’m really excited about this year’s film, but still… That April 26th deadline is scaaaaryyy! (just for comparison, last year’s film, VALUE BLiND, had 19 scenes and it took me an entire 2.5 months from start to finish– and I completed a week before films were due, hooray for avoiding crunch time!) This year’s film has 32 more scenes and an extra minute of animation! But, this marks the last week of my third semester at CalArts! I can’t believe how quickly this semester passed! And I’m sure it’ll only get quicker!
Anyway, here are some shots of my cube in its current state of filmness.
Completed scenes are hanging out on the left side, field guide in the middle and a life drawing on the right.
Progress of a scene that got completely redone!
Scenes to-do and notes on the work-in-progress scene… Along with a mini candy cane! 😀
How the Stars Happened
Gabby pwezentz da foh-tee ate ow-oh fiwm fo’ too-thowzan’-niiiine!
The Goatinnator
Here’s a flipbook I made for my History of Character Animation class. Ever wonder what happens when you cross a green laser?
Algebra
So it dawned on me that life drawing–fine art, in general– is nothing more than algebra.
“But Tahnee! That’s ART, not MATH!” you exclaim.
True, dear reader, in the academic sense– but here’s how I like to look at this. I may be a lousy mathematician when it comes to numbers, but not when it comes to visual algebra.
X = Y.
You’re trying to make both sides equal. Look at this equation in a life drawing session. X = the paper in front of the artist, Y = the model on the stage. The artist is trying to make the page in front of them resemble that model on the stage; trying to make it equal what they’re seeing. When the page’s drawing = the model, or when X = Y, the equation is balanced.
I now declare myself a proficient algebratician.
VALUE BLiND site is now up!
http://www.tahnee.org/valueblind
One Year Down, Three to Go!
CalArts, you are awesome.
Besides being an excellent work environment with excellent people to be inspired/work with/goof off with, there were all sorts of shows I made it to… Peter’s Shadow (puppetry/theatre), Lost World (Theatre), Pure Grit (Theatre/Puppetry), the World Music Festival (Javanese Gamelan, African and Indian music… involving a robotic Indian set of drums), the Balinesian music performance (involving a robot that played gamelan– yes, robots are taking over the music department! Aaah!) two dance performances, the Open and Producers’ Shows, and probably a few other things I missed (those are just performances from the past month or so)!
I am proud of this:
Granted, that’s with all the 2’s, 3’s, 4’s and up… but STILL! 11 full minutes of pencil tests… yay 😀
