FLASH!

Here is a website that displays collection of flash work I did in the past 10 weeks. It was incredibly fun and engaging. I really enjoyed coding as well as making vector art. Creating game was a lot more complex than I had imagined first but I am proud of myself for sticking with my initial idea in the end.

http://animation.filmtv.ucla.edu/students/sigarashi/

Marker fun...

These days, my hand is stuck with mouse pretty much all day every day. I got some new markers for a change and tried out some doodling today. I like the simplicity and soft texture of them.

I'm learning FLASH!!

It's much fun but i have no idea what i am doing yet. :)

Making characters!

Funny thing happened today...

Some displacement accident. I kept the image because it was kind of cute on its own :)

Characters

Designs are changing constantly, but color are still pretty consistent.

Storyboards of Merman

It feels like a whole lot more than what it is.

Drawing rehab. one day at a time

While I was in Japan over the summer, I had a cool job at a CG company working as a lighter/compositor for a TV show which will be aired soon in Disney Channel.
That was all great and I learned a whole lot, but the problem was that I stopped drawing almost entirely during that time. Now I am back in school trying to start my own animation realizing how far I had become from drawing.
When we had a first class of figure drawing class with infamous professor Vilppu, he looked at my drawings for 5 seconds and said "You are just copying. Have you ever seen my drawings?" I was super-embarrassed by the fact that one, he didn't remember me from last year at all and two, I was totally copying like he said. It was a loud wake-up call for me.

I have been presenting my storyboards with my colleagues these days and that really stimulate me because everybody draw really well and they each have their own styles.



Anyways, so I am slowly slowly getting back to drawing each day. Here are some sketches I did at Page museum by LACMA. I don't like bones too much because they are just sooo complicated and I always run out of patience before I finish the whole body. That day was better because I had some friends to chat with while doing them and kids came around and entertained us.

And, since I have a new film to focus on, I have been doodling my characters bit by bit. I still don't quite know them yet, so I hope to spend more time with them and get to know them. You can kind of tell that I can't distinguish them yet. They look way too similar when I draw them now.
I have been having a hell of a time modeling them also. It is good to get back to Maya.




The last thing, I did a character sketch and storyboard with Kartika Mediani for a short film script called Terminus. They are trying to get funding for it on Kickstarter. I hope they get the money!!