Sunday 18 May 2008

Check my AM blog instead!

um just thought I'd give SHOUT!!! out that I'm really basically only updating stuff on my AM blog.. (wwww.animationmentor.com is an online animation program, and now apparently biggest animation school in the world. Check it out!!)

So go swing over there if you really want to see what I'm up to... :P
http://mariyawantstobeaninja.blogspot.com/

Tuesday 29 April 2008

Robert De Niro - Taxi Driver

Another slow day at work so I've decided every time this happens I'm gonna use my time a little more favorably.. practicing sketching. Here's my practice from Robert De Niro from Taxi Driver.


Monday 28 January 2008

old.


some old pictures I found on my ipod before I'm about to format it! hazzah!

Sunday 20 January 2008

Not Quite Done


I don't really have time to finish this one right now, so here's it so far.

Thursday 17 January 2008

Lighting/shading mock up






Here is a picture I am working on now. Ignore the not done hair and the terrible 3d/aliasing, it's a just a mockup so I get the lighting and shading right, I'm still working on the 'moon' light source.

Monday 14 January 2008

Scared girl close up

sketchy sketch scared girl






Stayed up last night to draw.
Just trying to learn how to draw on my wacom and not look too terrible doing it.

Friday 21 December 2007

Pillsbury Man






Sadly here is the most creative thing I did this week, a Pillsbury man I made out of leftover Pillsbury pie dough... well it made my sister happy.

Wednesday 5 December 2007

Doodles

Couldn't sleep last night so I stayed up and read.. and made some pictures.




Saturday 1 December 2007

November 11 second club

My final entry for the November 11 second club.

Wednesday 28 November 2007

Shane Prigmore you're my hero!

I was looking at fantastic Shane Prigmore art with that broken-hearted I'll never be able to do that feeling, so I decided to fix up some nicer photoshop brushes and draw the snowman outside (in true aussie fashion he does like his beer).

More work in progress for November!

Tuesday 27 November 2007

November - 11 second club.

So basically the idea of 11 second club is to animate to a predetermined piece of dialogue. You can listen to it here:
www.11secondclub.com

So I've decided to animate an angry little Napoleon, talking to some pancakes.. sort of. Here are pictures of Napoleon and said pancakes.


More work in progress on the november entry.

Blocking for November 11 second club

Friday 23 November 2007

Andrew Gordon makes things move!



Some notes and sketches from Andrew Gordon's amazing workshop. Check it out:
http://south-apac.autodesk.com/sap/masterclass/animation/pixar_workshop.html

Sunday 28 October 2007

11 Second Club - October



here's my work in progress october entry for the 11 Second Club competition. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Monday 13 August 2007

sketches

just some sketches...







Tuesday 24 July 2007

shading




some fleshy-painty shading tests... sorry a bit boring.

Thursday 19 July 2007

Shots... grr argh you're dead!




Some shots I've been working on, though getting the lighting right between monitors is a bit of a pain.

Wednesday 11 July 2007

Mushroomy men v.2





3d version... rigged and ready to go.. just need some hair and moustache.

Mushroomy men






The beardy face is the one I'm using for the final leshii.. though he can turn into a wolf with a suit on when he pleases, that'll be a bit hard to animate but what the hey! Right now I'm texturing the little mushroom men that live on his back.

Saturday 7 July 2007

Leshii drawing




A Leshii is a kind of forest spirit in Russian pagan belief. Some people still believe in him but mostly it's just a part of fairy tales. He's usually a little old man who seems mischievous and sometimes evil, only because he's protecting his forest. In fairy tales he'll often help the hero so long as he doesn't harm the forest.

I'm not great at long drawings, I get bored too fast, as you can see there are bits that I just got sick of, you can tell what I did last cuz I couldn't be bothered. It's one of the first drawings I've done completely on the computer though, a bit weird but good practice.

Sketchy Leshii













Sketches before drawing Leshii.

Sunday 1 July 2007

Panasonic Love



Here she is, if my camera was a person... hang on I'll draw a picture :)

Saturday 30 June 2007

My Two Favourite Melbournians


Here are my Two Favourite Melbournians. Shubs and Jacky.

Boots


I bought some groovy new Docs in Melbourne kind of on a whim 'cuz the salesman knew what he was on about. Nice detail!



This is my favourite photo from Melbourne. Look look they're pushing, he's a-coming to Australia.. oh and there's a seagull on 'is head.



Here's some pictures from the Pixar exhibition in melbourne. I'd put up some photos from the Pixar speakers' presentations but I'm not sure that's allowed.

Panasonic FZ7






YAY I finally got a camera.. an uber cool camera. Here are some photos displaying its sheer superior beauty. Funny thing about cameras is you can't use them to take photos of themselves.. aw

Tuesday 26 June 2007

Sheep Man



A sketch from this morning of a character for my animation, inspired by Shaun Tan's cat-thing from 'The Arrival' and the many sheep on the drive home from Melbourne.

Festival Doodles




















Didn't really do any 'drawing' while I was in melbourne, just doodles, mostly of speakers from the animation conference. Here are a few.

Tuesday 12 June 2007

Sparrow!




This is a drawing I did for Jacky's birthday. I started with the sparrow, which I got the idea for from 'Mindgame'. It's pretty dark and it's got a lot of detail so look at the full picture instead of the preview. I wish I had time to put in a lot more snakes.

I probably won't have time to do anything exciting drawing-wise because I'll be marking class stuff, and then going to Melbourne for MIAF. But see you after that with some Uber-inspiration!

Monday 28 May 2007


old drawing.. saved from the clutches of myspace, drew it when I was in Canada.