Did this for a class to get used to the Canon50 DSLR. Which are pretty sweet and take amazing pictures, but I wouldn't use as a downshooter again. There was problems with the lens- it was so heavy that it couldn't stay zoomed out, so unfortunately I had to work around it and be zoomed in the entire time, with the camera MUCH farther away from the sand than it had to be. Color is slightly off on purpose, the way I shot the images. I let the Whitebalance be off purposefully.

life drawing goodness.

some 5 minute drawings. unfortunately they had to get cut-off because I had to take photos, and the set up wasnt great. Will take better photos soon.

Wednesday Morning Fog

It rained for two days here in Valencia. Wednesday morning I walked out my door to this amazing sight. Chiaroscuro baby.

2009 Demo Reel

Vanessa Buldowski Demo Reel 2009 from Vanessa Buldowski on Vimeo.

Durrrrr

I actually had these scanned for a while. But I forgot I had them. So enjoy now, please.

I like this guy. and his mushrooms.

this is a character design for my upcoming submission to 11secondclub.com

This last thing is just a little 10 second short I had to animate for class. We had to do the sound first, then animate what we thought the sound was. It was great fun. The whole process took 3 days from sound to finish. Hoping I can keep up this quality of work for my film when I do it. Ahhhhhhhhhhhh. oranges.

10 Seconds of Fun from Vanessa Buldowski on Vimeo.

Adventures in Calartia ( 01 )

Yaaay more pictures! Some of these are more than a month old, but I was being lazy with uploading/ busy with other work.

There is this great door at Calarts. If you enlarge it maybe you can see that it says " Mickey Mouse Jr. Creative Director". It's silly. That's me in the picture for scale. Unfortunately, the door is always locked. =PAND LOOK! this is my personal cubicle. I love it. I live there. It happens to be the oldest lightdesk in A115. I am proud of this fact. Here is a crazy awesome hummingbird that was hanging around the first week of class. There were like four of the crazy beasts, and I was lucky to catch this one. I went out one night early in the semester too (its still early, what am I talking about!?) and walked the walk of fame, looking down at my feet the entire time, like the tourist I am. Had to take a snap shot of this, the animation geek in me flipped out. Those are Jenny's boots and Paul's hairy feet. haha.
While we were at a really small pub, I saw the walls and flipped out. Original artwork by Al Hirshfeld.
Another weekend I went to LA again, with Jenny, and we stayed at Amanda's. Here they are enjoying tea and coffee. Mmmm. Jenny was caught off-guard. Muahaha. I like Amanda's maniacal grin.

glass woman and some sketches

Some character sketches, and a character design for my Glass Woman, something I'm working on for my next film. I really want to work on a character that you could see through. The idea of glass, and the complexities of animating something like that really intrigues me. I'm going to continue tweaking her design, but I want to keep the feeling that this sketch captures.

Imagine her passing infront of trees, and those trees being refracted in her glass. Experimenting is fun. and damn hard. Any tips/ ideas would be great. <3