Aaaaand Back to Work

Just got back from my spring break, where the first half was spent on an art dept. trip to action-packed New York and the next half was a leisurely trip to Savannah Ga. Watch for more entertaining and lengthy posts on the subject, but for now, I leave you with a Jackson Pollack and me.



We're bffs you know. ;)

Carriage is a Lost Art

You would think someone going to the Oscars would have learned to carry herself like a lady. But alas, this was not the case for a certain merch-generated pop 'star'



Seriously. Her posture was better suited for standing barefoot in cut-offs with a baby on her hip. Not that glorious dress. The example for good posture was based on Julie Andrews. MY role model growing up, not some vapid child.

Because We Need Another Reason to Love John Lasseter

I thought there was something vaguely familiar about the new Toy Story 3 trailer.



Enjoy :D

Can I Get an Amen!

I have been dancing and grinning for three days straight since I heard the news. For those living under a rock. Pixar's Up is nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars, as well as best animated feature. (First time that's ever happened, and only the second time an animated film has been nominated.)

Also Nominated for Best Animated Feature is Princess and the Frog (evidence I may have employment one day), Coraline (pulling on my Gaiman allegiance), The Fantastic Mr. Fox, and the Irish dark horse The Secret of Kells.


I have been lucky enough to see The Secret of Kells recently, and I was absolutely in awe of the quality of animation. It was gorgeous, done in the style of a medieval illuminated manuscript.


The character designs were to die for. Very shape oriented and simplistic, each character had a distinct silhouette and dynamic lines.


There is also something sorely missed in the world of animation these days. It doesn't happen in 3D animation, and rarely happens even in anime. In a good feature animation, there is a quality of the movement that always takes my breath away. When I first saw Tiana and Charlotte moving around on the movie screen, my heart nearly broke for joy. Their movement was so pure and free. I was even more in awe at Kells. Their characters moved like dancers or water. It was so lyrical and smooth. I miss that. I may have become an artist because of that beauty. The world needs to see more of that movement.

Gunslinger

My friend actually wore this the other day. Sans revolver, of course. She just looked like she should be slaying monsters.

The Long and Short of It

I am not Pika. I do not churn out a widely popular, hilarious fan comic. Neither am I a regular updater. Oddford is chugging along perfectly fine on DA and attracts a bigger crowd. I need a sketch blog and a place to advertise to potential commissioners. Whole thing to say, Oddford continues on my Deviantart page but not here. Here will update around once a week with sketches and life blurbs and random things. To start off, here are some snippets from my sketchbook from over Christmas:

Oddford 14 Applying Gravity

And now the man-fishing. We've all wanted to shut our guy friends up at one point, the girls are actually doing it.

The colored panels are four different instances happening semi-simultaneously. Blue should be read last, preferably.