The Underwood Typewriter

Made a typewrite that will soon make it's appearance as part of a banner for The Rooney Report, which for the moment has a following on Facebook.

A great new expedience in making art, this Underwood typewriter was much fun to make with a great learning experience. It was made with black India Ink and a calligraphy pen. Using the calligraphy pen was a completely different experience as it forced me to slow down and be more precise with each line being laid down.

An even more challenging part of the piece was the usage of different line weights in order to distinguish all the different feature on the machine.

Overall, this was a great learning experience and I hope to do this more often.

Eye of the Turkey Film

WHOOT! Finally got this done! Now it's on to film festivals and the like!


Eye of the Turkey from Gladys Contreras on Vimeo.

Lil Rough Animation

I don't know, but I think only I would think of doing a rough animation as a winding down from the day. ^_^

So this was Step 1 in animating something completely in ToonBoom... Good god I wish ToonBoom would treat the pencil and paintbrush tools the way Photoshop does instead of this awful solid brush stroke.

Eye of the Turkey Anamatic

I found this while cleaning out space on my harddrive. Ahhh, this was so much fun and so much uncertainty at the moment. But once I got a clear view in my head, it all came together!

Eye of the Turkey Animatic from Gladys Contreras on Vimeo.

Demo Reel

So I made a quick demo reel of some of the stuff I've made over the past few years. I love animating. I loved staying up days on end just to get projects done and I hope that this will be something I will be doing for a living.

GladysContreras DemoReel from Gladys Contreras on Vimeo.

Google Sketch Up Awesomness!

Been playing with Google SketchUp and I must say that it's fun as hell. Other then a few annoyances with shortcut keys and the rotate the world tool, it's a great program. I LOVE THE TAPE MEASURE! OMG! If Maya could have one of these it would be AWESOME!

So, started out with a Victorian style house as my introduction into the world of Sketch Up. Found the picture of the house online and just eyeballed it.

Next up I took a few measurements of my own house and started building away. Everything is to scale and since everything was simple geometry, it was easy to build. The only thing I didn't make was the computer screen, mouse, and the keyboard that's on the floor.

 

 Next up in the house came the bedrooms. The walls still aren't up, but that's because they will be the last to be placed in. My room is the one on the right-front with the single bed and art table in it. The dressers were a bit of a hassle to get down, but they're done!

 

Finally, the bathroom... again no walls yet.

 Overall, I'm begining to think that perhaps I should have become an architect instead of an animator. I truely am enjoying building stuff in programs like Maya and now Sketch Up.

Rough Animation

Finally finished my student film. WHOOO!!!!! Only thing left is to adjust a few colors and sound. And then finally, put it on a reel and some film festivals so I can get my stuff out there! Wish me luck!

Anyways, after having finished everything I was left with this need to start animating again, and made this. Just some really rough and quick animation for the character Mako of Nick's Legend of Korra. It was fun.I should probably make some more.

No, I don't work for Nick (maybe, hopefully, someday I will...) and this was just done for the heck of it. I just needed to animate and this is what happened

So the animation was done in Photoshop (never tried this before...) and brought all the layers into After Effects. It was an odd way (I think) of animating. I prefer to draw on paper, but seeing as how I don't have a lunchbox to check the animation, I figured, I could just use the layers like paper and just put it all together in AE. And it worked. This was pretty cool. ^_^