From one coffee addict to another

I don't smoke, I drink only occasionally and I don't ever touch drugs. If you don't count caffeine, that is. :)

This little animation, by Stephanie Marguerite and Emilie Tarascou, based on a song by the French band Oldelaf and Mr D, describes very clearly what my day is like. It's a caffeine fueled crescendo. :)

Progress reel so far from class 1

These are some examples of what we have been up to so far in class 1 of animation mentor. There are a lot of bouncing balls here, as we are learning the fundamental principals of animation. SO... better keep it simple, stupid!  The "real" characters are coming up in a half year or so...  :-)

Nice to do life drawing when you have a talented model

Here are some more sketches from the life drawing class I'm taking outside the AM curriculum. I stick to charcoal pen, trying to concentrate on body shape, line of action, proportions...  But when I look around me among my classmates, who are pretty much more advanced than me and work in all kinds of different techniques and materials, I really feel like a hopless beginner.  :-)
They are sooo talented, some of them! I hope I will develop some kind of drawing skill too, eventually.