"FairyVille" A personal project

So I've been working on a personal project called "FairyVille"...OBVIOUSLY highly influenced by Zynga!!! Woot woot! :D

So this fairy deal was actually something that's been in my head since...since I did the Hallmark workshop, which was...wow when was it? Hahaha! Well ok after I post this I'll look at my archives and pull out my original fairy painting. (EDIT: Ok I have too many archival posts...forget it!! LOL) Been developing it in my head and playing Zynga games just totally made it come together I guess ;).

Now my goal over the summer would be to vector and color all of these suckas! My friend Eric Neto, a programmer, may be interested in Flash programming, so it'll be ready for him to mess around with. I may have to make a User Interface thingy too then.


So in FairyVille you can choose your professions...it's essentially the profession part only from World of Warcraft hahaha!! You will go out and gather things to make and either sell or gift your friends.


You can custom your Fairy...


Choose his/her wings...


Different clothing and accessories...


And stuuufff!! You can tell that the artistic style is very curly and curvy! This will reflect on like pretty much everything in the FairyVille world! :)


More stuff!! Hahaha!


But yea...I'll post more as I draw them... they are usually doodles I do during class or when I'm bored :).

Stay tuned for moooorreee~!! :D

Characters for 118

So we're onto our final stories for 118!
My story briefly is the retelling of Orpheus' trip to the Underworld to bring back his dead girlfriend Eurydice. Only that Orpheus is a famous rock star with a lyre-guitar. He battles Hades and wins Eurydice back.

I will have to revise Hades, he's too similar and friends have suggested to make him much bigger and buffer, and use different shapes language. I was looking at Rob Zombie pictures, and he's definitely not very buff at all hahaha!


This was a back-up plan. The retelling of The Gift of the Magi with 2 homeless children. More "doll-like" so-to-speak I guess.

Anyways more to come soon! I'll see if I can color Orpheus and Hades if I have some spare time...supposed to be vectored and have flat, graphic colors with textures and what-not...


Stay tuned! :)

Stuffs

As promised, here's some stuff I've been working on: finishing up storyboards, making new ones, some sketches done during classes, vector clean-up for an internship, etc etc.

EDIT: Just tried to upload a video of a new storyboard, but it's the one-frame version where it's not timed out. Yea it didn't work out with Blogger's video format. If I have time I'll time it out and post it :).

I'll try to post more diligently like I used to do! :P
























Uh I'm sure I have more...but I some Art History research to do...Hahaha!

Stay tuned! :)

Been forever...

Been forever since I've posted huh? Now that Spring Break started I promise to dump a huge post on just a bunch of random stuff I've been doing: sketches, vector clean up and animation stuff I'm doing for work, storyboards, etc.

For now you can check out http://artoflauralee.blogspot.com for an updated portfolio: it really does some of my most recent stuff.

But of course it doesn't have all the casual sketches I've been doing along the way...so stay tuned!! :)

Revised Animation

Been working on the animation test and touched up on a looot of stuff like timing, weight, balance, etc etc. It's definitely getter better I think, but I still gotta work on it more!! :)

Updated Animation!

So after a crit on Tues I got this so far:



I changed around a lot and it's muuuch better than the previous version, but it also created new things to fix! It's always like that of course :P. There's a lot of fast movement that I don't want in there so I'm gunna touch up on that, along with a list of other things to fix.

Oh yea did I mention that my teacher is Rex Grignon?? Head of Character Animator at DreamWorks/PDI! Suuuch a great teacher!! Yaay!! :D

I think after the weekend I should have another updated one to post!


Stay tuned! :)

Animation!

As promised here's an animation test I've been working on this semester. It's a 6-second limit test of a person in an idle state to noticing and realizing something. In other words he's in one state of mind at first, and then it changes because he hears something.



There's tons to fix but that's what I have so far. I'll post an update once I make all the changes.

Stay tuned for more! :)

Another greeble

This time it's a "hero" greeble. But yea we're going to now combine everything and make the Death Star trench!! Yay!!




The next post will be animation, promise!! :P

More Maya Stuff!

For the lack of updates I'll post some of the Maya stuff I've just recently finished. These 2 are greebles from a Star Wars module, or in other words some parts of the surface of the Death Star. Working on a "hero" greeble now and I'll post that up soon. Otherwise I've been working on an animation but I don't have something put together to post up here, but I will very soon!! So stay tuned!! :)

Jenga!

Here's a falling Jenga tower!



More to come! :)

First Maya Model!!! :)

I'm finally taking Art 51! (Intro to 3D modeling)

Here's my first model!! Yaay!!




More to come!! :D

Quick post

So I'm not quite back in the bay area yet but will be this Thurs! CSU Summer Arts was a fantastic experience!! I wish I can post some of the things I did there but they're mostly cleaning up Motion Capture data and editing, so I'm not really sure what I can post... I'll figure it out!

In the mean time...I've been lacking some posts here so I did a quick sketch:




Hope everyone is having a great summer so far!! :D

Nina

Hey guys!

Alas I was unable to do a small illustration this time... just way too busy! So instead here are some pictures of my new kitten Nina. She's about 2 months old now and I had her since June 1st :).

Update! (Sort of...)

Hey all!

Sorry I haven't been updating my blog lately! It's weird cuz I usually post something pretty regularly.

My summer's been surprisingly busy! My parents finally cut the financial cord so I've been working a lot- a part-time job on the weekends and freelance. I've been so busy that I had to bring my freelance work to my trip to L.A. (I'll be driving back down tonight)!
Production for Dave's new summer film should start on Monday so it will be even more super busy after that!
Next Saturday I leave for Fresno for the CSU Summer Arts: it's a 2 week "boot-camp" style summer camp where I will work with around 30 other student animators and guest artists (like Trevor Tuttle and Charles A. (Chuck) Harvey). I'll be learning motion-capture style and working with Autodesk MotionBuilder. I'm soo excited!! :)

So I apologize for the lack of updates! But I do plan to do what I started last Winter, a small illustration per day! So please stay tuned for some of those! Hope everyone is having a fantastic summer! :)

Last Day of class!

Today was the last day for my Maya Animation class. Primo Navidad was an awesome teacher, and for my first semester in 3-D animation I learned so much and still have so much more to learn! Well here's the demo reel I had to turn in for class:




Huzzah!! Stay tuned for more stuff! I'll be animating over the summer :). Man this semester is almost over...crazy!!

Animation Update

Hello hello! Been working on the dialogue test.... here's an update! :)




This semester's wrapping up!! It's crazy it totally zoomed by!!

About time for an update!

Hello hello! It's been a while since I've posted. This semester is zooming by!! Well here's an update on the dialogue test:



Well that's what I have so far! I'm also working on a mechanical test where a character climbs a table and jumps off of it. I'll probably switch out the table with something more exciting. The plan is that he'll eventually be a character where he's running from something. I'll post it after I touch up on a few things!

That's about it for now! Stay tuned for more! :)

Finally An Update! (Dialogue Test)

Here's a test I've been working on. It's our last test for the semester so I'll be working on this for the next mmm how many weeks do we have left... around 5? So yuuup! Here's my first shot at a dialogue test!




Stay tuned for revisions and hopefully some other stuff! :)

Birthday Gift

Here's as far as I got with this test. Too bad huh haha. But I'll keep working on it over the summer, but for now I gotta move onto a dialogue test.



(I didn't get to work on the timing i.e. Graph Editor at all. It's just keys set to plateau.)


Zooming through the semester!

Finished Pieces

I'll keep updating this post as I finish things up!