Settling In

Hello World!
Long time no see. Well, after four years of getting my butt kicked I finally graduated! Yaay.

Now I'm catching up on some well deserved relaxation and it feels great. I'm chillin' with my sister, catching up with friends, and petting my kitty cat who I missed too.

With all the free time on my hands (joy!) I'm trying to get everything nice and organized. Updating my website, making a portfolio blog (!), trying to decide what project I want to start on next (Storyboard project? or Visual Development? decisions....) So yeah.

I'm also trying to catch up on all the sun I missed out on :D haha!
Hiking and Rock Climbing are WELL on my to do list XD!!!

My film is here if you wanna see it, just click on 'Thesis':
http://webspace.ringling.edu/~spavula1

For some reason my animations don't have sound (grrr!!!) so I'll have to fix that somehow. Strange, cause the sound worked on my school computer. It lied, IT LIED!!! Enjoy it anyway though, I'll fix it soon enough (hopefully . .;;;)

No art this time. But there will be some soon enough, promise.

Tale of the Tailor Premiere

Coming to a College Auditorium Near You........


P.S. Here's the poster it's mocking. I <3 Coraline

Thesis.... DONE

'Nuff said.......

Pudgy Adorableness!!

Thesis is ALMOST done! Deadline is Sunday. I personally think I'm dead.... I still have TONS to do. I still try to find ways to have fun here and there:


Both of these were made while waiting for nCloth playblasts to happen. I'm multitasking like it ain't nobodies business! I'm rerendering frames, while also animating, and drawing, and lighting and reviewing playblasts and calculating nCloth, AND getting together portfolio's for recruiters all at once. It sucks...



I can't wait for thesis to be over.

Alice Sketches

Alice in Wonderland sketches. Thought I'd add it to the pot of Alice art:


The March Hare


Two versions of the White Rabbit, with pants and without, hahaha


Dormouse!!!


And last but certainly not least, the Cheshire Cat

Pie...

I'm happy the big crit came and went. But now the big deadline is coming up fast! I only have a week to animate and nuke everything! SO WHY AM I HEAR!!!! Taking a break....



This is Elda, the tailor's wife actually. No not in my thesis, in another one of my stories I made called, Sleepy Willow. It's about a Victorian town where strange things happen. I like town's where strange things happen in them. To bad my town isn't one of them! GRAH!

But yes, Elda's story is she's a nanny who hates kids with bad habits, especially thumb sucking. So she sends her husband out to get them. Hence, that's how that tale came to be about the Thumb Cutting Tailor. yup yup......

As for that pie..... it's blueberry, bleck!!! (in my opinion at least, I'm a personal fan of apple thank you very much :p )

Some Paintings

I never posted my DFA paintings! Criminal! Well here they are...


This is my first DFA painting from Junior year. It's like little red riding hood. Except the wolf doesn't want to eat the girl, she wants to eat her sheep doll.



And this here blue one is my second DFA painting from Junior year. It's the Sandman and his daughter, Sandy. Now we all know the sandman can put anyone to sleep. Except for his own daughter. Kids... haha!



Now this onw I didn't make Junior year. I actually made this one while lighting my thesis. Waiting for renderman to render one image takes so long. So while it would render the one still image, I would color and work on this. This one is redneck Hansel and Gretel, and instead of the witch being a witch, he's a cannibal hillbilly in the backwoods with a meat house. No the house itself isn't made of meat, but he's got a meat yard full a beef jerky and bacon and all kinds of things country folk like. Anywho.... yeah. ENJOY!