This is the art blog of Sheridan College animation student Vanessa Stefaniuk, who is currently in her third year of studies. This blog contains silliness of all levels, and may include a generous helping of eye candy and animation.
Hey bloggers! I just realized I neglected to update you with all the work I did over the break - no worries, you’ll have a huge treat right now instead! I finished compiling my demo reel (that is, until I finish my current assignments, and then some rearranging comes into play). Enjoy!
The above is mostly work done for the aforementioned Hiccups project. See previous blog entries if you’re unsure what this project is!
Thanks for stoppin’ by! I appreciate the comments, and visitors! It’s always fascinating to see on my visitor map where everyone is from, <3.
It’s finally break time, which means I get around to updating my blog with shtuff. Sorta feels like bragging. Ahwells. That’s why I pay for webspace, after all!
Artwork:
All were drawn for the roleplay I run on the side, to keep me doing work that isn’t school related.
And this was drawn for the wall theme at school, where I pushed together two existing cartoon characters into one. Unfortunately, I didn’t realize mine was actually covered in Animaniacs as it was. Pooh. Here is my interpretation, however, of.. Rugmaniacs!
Animations:
Walk-run, with opposing characters. Mine were eighties/early nineties themed: an exercise obsessed fat black woman wearing a fanny pack and probably a lot of neon, and an unobservant little punk with a boombox and srs dancin skillz.
Expression change, featuring my character April [only super simplified, obviously]. I wanted it to fall into a cycle, so.. she loops! Hehe! My idea came when I basically realized I was burnt out as it was, and this was pretty much how I began to feel near the end of it, anyway. I love her rage face when she realizes what she drew was utter crap.
And then comes.. my leica reel!
This was a big challenge, but I’m quite happy with the result. And all feedback henceforth has been really positive, so, all the more reason to be happy with it! Besides the characters sliding on and off model severely, and my desire to have added more to the dance sequence [where Stormy, the female lead, tries and fails a few times to swipe away the cash], it pulled through as a pretty decent storyboard timed with music.
So what am I going to do with a month off, you ask? I already typed up my To Do list, and let me tell you, the artwork section alone spans more than 11 pieces of artwork I owe others, or myself. Yeesh. This, and I have to crack down and study the muscles in prep for next semester’s brutal life drawing. Hate that class, and it loathes me in return. Gah.
Well, now that I’m appropriately discouraged, it’s time to press that little publish button and wait to see if it makes any difference that I did, ;D.
Reading week update! Wow, more frequent updates. This’ll never happen, haha.
I’ve kept myself busy, that’s for sure, but certainly not with things I should be working on. Somebody kick me for being so behind. I feel so irresponsible! Augh!
Storyboarding assignments:
We were provided with two nursery rhymes to change and adapt as we see fit. Mine wasn’t a far cry from the original provided, but I at least came up with a sort of premise: the dog acts as a nanny for the boy, who is probably a spoiled brat. I based him off my brother in some parts, ;D..
Character design:
She was the one used for my weight lift toss animation, as seen in the previous post. She also accidentally resembles my late grandmother, on my dad’s side.
Crappy quick digital stuff for online purposes:
Work for an online roleplay called the Eden Project. Just really quick doodles.
Thanks for stopping by! I’m working on a whoooole bunch more, so stay tuned.
