senior film and Ottawa

some updates! (It's been a while)

first! my classmates and I attended the Ottawa International Animation Festival. SUPER FUN. amazing films, amazing artists, amazing people. my favorite? "I am Tom Moody," by Ainslie Henderson, hands down.

second! it is now go-time for my senior film, and it's been crazy and stressful trying to narrow down my idea, deciding how to go about producing the damn thing. i'm going to try to get a kickstarter going, because materials and general cost will be very expensive. i'm worried about a camera, too, because my department's resources are not enough for the amount of students who need to use them.
i'd like to order parts to put together a ball and socket armature for my puppet, but I suspect it'll cost me around $200.
any opinions/advice about kickstarter or indiegogo? ideally a $1000 goal would be great.

third!
my classmates and i had to do an assignment called animation-a-day for 5 days before our trip to Ottawa. here are a couple:

Black from Ana Kim on Vimeo.

Bolt from Ana Kim on Vimeo.

Trio from Ana Kim on Vimeo.

doodles

and, just took this of providence a few hours ago.

trying not to get bummed about my drawing skills, haha. i can only keep trying, right?

the school year is about to start, my last year in college! OH MYYYY.

Belly by Julia Pott

an unexpectedly powerful short animated film i saw featured on vimeo.

Belly from Julia Pott on Vimeo.

i have to practice life drawing....so much HAHA. 

but you know, i kind of like that my department doesn't require life 

drawing or character animation or storyboarding.

because that direction is only one possibility of animation. animation does not belong to one group of people to be defined. it is one art form.

it's hard to find your own style....requires a lot of confidence and tenacity.

but we can do it ^^

came back home from LA on sunday! 

learned many things, and i'm really excited to start working on my senior film.

not sure where this will go, but i just spent an hour or so playing with this in photoshop. i guess tomorrow it may end up looking completely different! i started with a bright red background.

wish i had real paints with me here ^^

painting is one of the few things i can do digitally for honest fun. drawing/animating is more difficult/frustrating for me. prefer paper and pencil.

sketch dump

had a mini doodling breakthrough this week. i get caught up in expectations easily, and there are so many great artists who upload their gorgeous doodles/drawings/sketches that it's hard not to feel as if their styles are what i should be emulating.

plus, you know. heading into senior year of undergrad, who doesn't feel the pressure.

but the best results only come from really honest joy and exploration of art-making. my goal is not to be the next greatest animator, etc.etc. but the best artist i can be. so i honestly don't know what i want to be when i "grow up" after graduation. and i feel better about that than feeling pigeon-holed before i even get out there.

maybe in a year i will feel very differently.

if any professionals ever see this, thanks for posting your work. i look forward to your posts every day. thank goodness for blogger, hehe.

had another freaky dream last night