Bleh

Had a great valentine's weekend with my boyfriend and work has been going really well. I'm struggling to be motivated to animate in my spare time lately, or to do any school related stuff in general haha. I finished editing together a video for our comic class' anthology kick starter, which I'll post here as soon as I am allowed to. 7 months and 1 week till my projected graduation if all goes well. I can hardly wait.

Delicious Valentina's dinner at Sakura on waters ave! First time trying sake and I love it haha.

Commission for a friend!

This has been a pretty great week! I took my reel to have it reviewed by some of my profs and Professor Wright really liked the videogame animations I had done. He said that was my strong suit and that I should do more and to apply for a game company like Blizzard! I'm still feeling really happy about it days later haha. My post school career is FINALLY materializing... I'm really glad I took a relaxed semester to spend more free time working on animations. 

Here's a photo of the really cool 4th floor professors' offices.

Dreamworks also came by this week and I snagged a front row seat. They mostly talked about their internship and post grad program, but I found the reels and portfolios of the recent grad hires they presented to be very informative. Maybe one day...!

Career fair is on the horizon... Gotta keep animating!!

This quarter

So this quarter I'm taking Drawing for Sequential Art and World Cinema History. Getting a few electives out of the way and giving myself a little more time to think about my thesis project. I was told when researching scad to take at least one comics class while I'm here, and it's really been great so far! Everyone here is sickeningly good at drawing. At the end of the class all our comics are going to be published in a book, so that's really cool. The alumni list of comic artist pros that even *i* know is a mile long, and the building is really cool too. Right around the corner from the Pirate House!

World Cinema is very thought provoking too. It's cool to see how other countries make films in response to the European/American styles. It's a little bit dryer that Cinema History from last quarter, but the prof and film students are very nice and Arnold hall is a great change from Monty hall. I literally had every class for a full year in Monty! Arnold hall has windows too, which is really nice. Also the Butterhead Cafe and Foxy Loxy are right next door. Foxy Loxy is a great artsy cafe that every student should visit, and their coffee is, in my opinion, the best coffee in savannah!!

Dreamworks is coming for a visit next week. Pixar was supposed to come a week ago, but got cancelled because of the weather. Total bummer! Hopefully they'll try to reschedule 

Arnold hall windows!!

Coffee fox!

Well that certainly was a year!

So it's been about a year since my last real update. Not exactly how I wanted to run this blog haha, but I have 3 quarters (9 months) left to go before my graduation from the SCAD mfa animation program. I start production on my thesis film soon, and so I've been working hard to refine my storyboard and animatic. It's internship season now, and so my prime focus has been on animating things for my reel.

Gosh where did the year go? It seems like last week I was posting about riding the scad buses for the first time. I worked at Utrecht art supplies for a whole year and a half but finally decided it was time to move on this month, so I've been working at a new place much closer to my apartment. 

School has been... Intense. Perhaps the best class I've taken here was by Scott Wright over the summer who worked as an animator for dreamworks. To be honest, I didn't think I could be an animator because all my work before that was so bad, but he really worked with us from the ground up. Totally turned my doubt into hope and I came back to school last fall with a renewed zeal to work. I've also had some fantastic classes by Mrs. Mooreshead and professor Silva. 

I should also mention I've been taking some cinema history classes as well to round out my knowledge on filmmaking. Replacing my required art history course with cinema history was probably the greatest idea I've had here at scad. Seriously recommend it to any animation students out there. There's so much to be learned from live action filmmaking. 

Also I made a trip to LA last November to attend ctneXpo, the animation convention. Had a fantastic time and got my reel reviewed by some pros! The Ted Ty talks were all incredible.

So that's kind of been my year. I'll try to update more and more often, and ill try to post some of my recent work next week. I'll leave you with a few photos!

Savannah's hidden mural! Never would have found it if it wasn't next to Utrecht.

My apartment trees at night

A pretty sunset by the tracks next to Monty hall

My first time in the green screen room! My goofy friend heather here with her roommate. :)

A relaxing summer day at tybee island

Awesome bluesky presentation!