4.18.2012
4.17.2012
Rebel Yell
This week marks a huge milestone for Ubatuber Productions and "Jenny Greenteeth". For the past six years I have been animating on this sturdy and dependable giant dinosaur of a camera:
Now I'll be using this:
Canon Rebel T2i with Nikon lenses, so far I've got a micro Nikkor 55mm and I'm on the lookout for a reasonably priced 24 or 28mm wideangle. I'll have to finish Unearthed with the old cam, but once I finish that (this year? I think so...) I can start plugging away at Jenny Greenteeth full time, with an appropriately awesome camera :)
Nola, all freshened up and ready for an animation test, hopefully tonight if there are no techie snafus with StopMotionPro...
2.24.2012
I'm an Animator in Reel Life...
Just finished and uploaded a new animation reel. My first edit was almost 4 minutes long, but I chopped it down to 3. It could probably be made even more concise, but I've spent a few days on it and decided to move on. Sometimes you just have to say "Its done!"
I'm very proud, watching this. Seeing how far I've come and looking towards the (very green toothed) future :) Thank you for making the journey with me!
I'm very proud, watching this. Seeing how far I've come and looking towards the (very green toothed) future :) Thank you for making the journey with me!
2.22.2012
Is it almost March already??
I've added a view of my twitter feed over on the right of the screen, and also a window for window shopping at my Etsy store, which should be down at the bottom of the page. It occurred to me yesterday that I haven't made a new Reel since 2008, so I started working on an up-to-date one last night.
A few weeks ago I put together a little animation of Doug Jones ("Hellboy", "Pans Labytrinth", "Buffy", three of my favorite things). I met him at New Orleans Comicon last month and can't say enough nice things about him. He was a real sweetheart, and a pleasure to talk to. I bought a copy of his new book, "Mime Very Own Book", a hilariously irreverent photo book of mime satire, and was excited to see a little mime flipbook in one corner. So I scanned and animated it :)
A few weeks ago I put together a little animation of Doug Jones ("Hellboy", "Pans Labytrinth", "Buffy", three of my favorite things). I met him at New Orleans Comicon last month and can't say enough nice things about him. He was a real sweetheart, and a pleasure to talk to. I bought a copy of his new book, "Mime Very Own Book", a hilariously irreverent photo book of mime satire, and was excited to see a little mime flipbook in one corner. So I scanned and animated it :)
1.03.2012
Happy 2012!
*whew* Sorry I haven't posted in so long! Its been a busy couple of months for me. Let me catch you up...
Around midway through November, I signed up for a spot in an arts and crafts show. Once I was officially invited to participate, the month that followed was pretty much a non-stop factory of crafty goodness. I made tons of hand-painted magnets and ornaments, learned how to cast soap to make streetcar soaps (more coming next year, I have tons of ideas now that I know how to do it...) and created new charcoal art and paintings that I could peddle :) All with a local flair, New-Orleans themed.
The show was extremely successful for me, I made enough money to give Roman an awesome Christmas, and look forward to participating again next year!
Next came two weeks of Christmas crafting for family gifting. Every year I gather all of the memory cards from family members and edit together about an hour of footage of everyone, videos & photo slideshows. Christmas, birthdays, events, funny little vignettes, all compiled on a dvd and given as gifts. That takes a ridiculous amount of time, but I always manage to finish burning disks late Christmas Eve!
And now I'm back....sort of....all that crafting has created piles of stuff in my studio that needs to be cleaned up. I can't even get to my sets for "Unearthed". Cleaning it all is like staring at the rings on the stump of some gigantor tree, each layer of "mess" tells a different story, a snippet of the last couple of months of labors of love. Once that is all cleaned up, I'm back at it. I'm probably going to put away the marionette for a bit to refocus on animation, because thats where my mind is right now...
I am really proud of this drawing of a bit of wrought iron in Lafayette Cemetery, I used a reference photo that was blurry at the edges and decided to try to capture that blurriness in spots by smudging the charcoal, a nice effect...
Around midway through November, I signed up for a spot in an arts and crafts show. Once I was officially invited to participate, the month that followed was pretty much a non-stop factory of crafty goodness. I made tons of hand-painted magnets and ornaments, learned how to cast soap to make streetcar soaps (more coming next year, I have tons of ideas now that I know how to do it...) and created new charcoal art and paintings that I could peddle :) All with a local flair, New-Orleans themed.
The show was extremely successful for me, I made enough money to give Roman an awesome Christmas, and look forward to participating again next year!
Next came two weeks of Christmas crafting for family gifting. Every year I gather all of the memory cards from family members and edit together about an hour of footage of everyone, videos & photo slideshows. Christmas, birthdays, events, funny little vignettes, all compiled on a dvd and given as gifts. That takes a ridiculous amount of time, but I always manage to finish burning disks late Christmas Eve!
And now I'm back....sort of....all that crafting has created piles of stuff in my studio that needs to be cleaned up. I can't even get to my sets for "Unearthed". Cleaning it all is like staring at the rings on the stump of some gigantor tree, each layer of "mess" tells a different story, a snippet of the last couple of months of labors of love. Once that is all cleaned up, I'm back at it. I'm probably going to put away the marionette for a bit to refocus on animation, because thats where my mind is right now...
10.28.2011
10.18.2011
Mardi Gras Marionette - The Mask
I've been working on carving the hands and feet, which is time consuming. Periodically, I've switched over to painting the head and sculpting/embellishing the mask. She has taken on a bird-like quality which I love, and I will be adding feathers to her gown as well. Her mask is removable right now, but I will probably glue it down when it is done. I've considered putting magnets on it so she can remove it during performance, but I'm not sure yet...
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