Ideas floating in my head

So I drew this guy at work on Thursday, off of a very Al-Herschfelt-like drawing that was lying around of a crow. And then yesterday, I got a little involved in his existence, so I drew him again... and spent way too much time on one drawing. Which is nice, every once and a while. His legs look a little wonky. More than a little.

Finally here's a close-up of his face, because he's pertyful. I might take this into photoshop and play around with it some, adjust the colors. Who knows?

So how's your day been?

11 second club "finished"

Ruff v.02 11SecClub Oct. from Vanessa Buldowski on Vimeo.

So the results are in for this month's competition! And of course I lost, I was expecting to lose! The one I voted as my ultimate favorite won, though! ITS SO GREAT!! Watch it here!

I did, much to my surprise, place 33rd out of 213 entrants. Which is like woah! to me. I'm going to keep working, take the feedback I got from commenters on the site, and work hard on the November entry!!

You can call me Vee.

Remember remember the fifth of November, the gunpowder treason and plot...

...Happy Guy Fawkes day.

Bears

Bears. I've grown very very fond of them recently, and its not because people told me my animal was a bear. Several people.

I just like them. I animated a bear earlier, you can see the post here.

The sunbears and the grizzlies where most fun to draw. You can tell.

Panning Animals

So recently I've been pining over the fact that I never get any chances to draw any animals. In the morning and when I eat I specifically make myself do figure drawing, but there is NO TIME devoted to animals. I also believed that Calarts was devoid of them. I, however, was being foolish as everyone and their mother has a dog here. So, I am taking it upon myself to draw any dog I see if I have the spare moment.

Dog's aren't the only animal out there though. I've been trying to plan out a trip to the zoo for a while now, and I decided come hell or high water I'm going this weekend. Alone or not, I'm going dog gawnit. I'm sure someone will tag along, which will be massive fun.

A short explanation- The fish is Tomy, a beautiful little Koi owned by Zoe's housemate. Russell is the entirely cute little dog you see there, who these are 10 second drawings of because I've never seen a dog who fidgets so much while lying down. Lastly is a thumbnail sketch-layout of a pan I will be shooting sometime Thursday, after I create the rough sketch on actual panning paper, which will eventually be transferred to nice Ingram panning paper to be watercolored for my film.

yes and thank you.

Glass Woman update

Glass Woman Raindrop Test from Vanessa Buldowski on Vimeo.

playing around with camera moves and getting to know my glass woman some more. A rough shot from my film, first take on it. Match cut on the action of the raindrop, which needs to be resolved because it feels like a jump cut.

I need to think of a name for my film, and a name for her. I feel like "Glass woman" is too...i dunno. but I feel she's so unique I almost despise naming her anything. A Charolette or any other name wont do. She's a goddess, beautiful and carefree. Naming her feels like claiming her, or a lie. At least Glass Woman is honest, because that is exactly what she is. Its not labelling, its just stating.

Conundrum.

October 2009 Entry 11 Second Club

Hey folks! I submitted my clip to 11secondclub.com! If you want to see it and vote, click here!

You do need to register to vote, and also, you cant decide which video you get to see, so if you only want to vote for mine, just press the "Next Animation, Please" button. THERE ARE SOME AMAZING ENTRIES this time around. Alot of 2D work, surprisingly. One in particular blew my mind and I hope it wins.

All in all, this was a great learning experience, and I want to keep working on them!

I'll post the actual animation up here after the contest is over on the 5th.