Well, my semester is over! These were some extremely challenging classes. I took three classes, and two were drawing classes. My drawing skills are not what I would like them to be, so it was tough for me. I learned a lot though. The instruction at AAU so far has been fantastic! Here are the presentation storyboards all colored. I did the coloring in Photoshop, and I am still quite a noob with digital painting, so this was a great learning experience.

These are halfway done presentation boards for my storyboarding class. They will be colored soon. They are from an idea I am considering for my thesis animation, a short about fatherhood comprised of a series of humorous vignettes progressing as my son gets older.



Comforting him when he wakes up in the middle of the night.



Playing together.



Foam sword fight!!




The ol' rubber band around the sink sprayer trick to get mommy!

This is an assignment to work on the proper way of doing reflections in perspective. The woman is too close in the reflection, sometime I would like to fix that.

Yesterday was a sad day. Budcat, the studio I used to work for, was closed down. I worked there for four years, and only left because I needed to go back to school. A lot of great friends, talented people, are out of work. I wish them all the best, and pray they find good work soon.

Here are the gladiators in an environment, it's a practice area.

This is the previous drawing I posted with the characters clothed.

My instructor gave me lots of great feedback on the combat drawing I posted. Here is an updated version based on his comments.