Class 5 final assignment!

I know it's been a while, but I'm posting now! I've been updating my website a lot and am slowly moving my blog to that site. That blog will be more of a current events and headlines type of blog, I'll still keep this one for art though! Head on over there to see my latest post about getting to take a tour of Pixar!!!! It was such an amazing experience, and I've never been so happy in my life.

Here's my last assignment from class 5. Since I haven't posted any progress so far, you can basically see it at its finished state!

Last Assignment for Introduction to Acting!

This is it! The final assignment for my introduction to acting class! It's amazing how far we've all come! I looked at my first lip sync from college, and it's embarassing how bad I was, and had absolutely no idea. I can't believe I actually applied for jobs with that old reel haha.

We're Getting There!

Slowly but surely, if you keep chugging at it, and work in small sections, you'll get there! This week I had to continue out my blocking pass for Jules, and then start converting him into spline. Spline is always such a daunting process, it can be extremely discouraging and really make you feel like you've spent all of these endless hours and gotten no where. I decided to go at my shot one chunk at a time, and really refine everything. It definitely helps, and makes you actually feel like you got somewhere. This is what I've got so far!

Lip Sync Blocking

I started blocking out my lip sync for this assignment! Jules is working behind the counter at a tanning salon. This is what I turned in so far!

NesCafe Commercial

We submitted to another commercial contest again! This time it's for NesCafe Coffee. It was quite the experience! For the first video, the basic premise was to pass it forward. Ashley Jane from http://www.artsyash.com/ and I were passing out coffee to people walking by us at Lake Eola in Downtown Orlando. On the first cup that we handed out, we wrote inspiring words to make peoples mornings better on it. Every person that took a coffee, had to write something nice on another cup, for the next person! It was so nice spreading joy, and so many people were affected by the kind words from others!

Our next video was about inspiring young people to make a change in the world. For this video, we started out at with Rebecca Hodges from https://www.facebook.com/Rebecca-Hodges-Hodges-Film-365776613435485/, and she wakes up, has a cup of coffee, and then decides to take on the day, and do something amazing! She then goes on to cook pancakes. And I mean a ton of pancakes. It's pancake after pancake after pancake. Once the container is full, she drives off to downtown Orlando, and hands them out to people around town who aren't as fortunate to have daily meals. It was pretty fun to work on this shoot. We definitely ghetto rigged the car up. Since we didn't have any sliders or steadicams, I drove the car while Ashley Jane sat on the trunk, and filmed Rebecca walking by. My first ghetto rig experience! This shoot was such a satisfying shoot to work on. Everyone was so grateful and sweet for the pancakes. It definitely changes your view on helping out the less fortunate that's for sure! It was so amazing hearing everyones stories too, and what they used to do, and how they got to where they were today. 

Finished Shot!

For the past 2 weeks, I've been working on splining out and polishing my bellhop shot. Here's what it looks like so far since I turned it in! There's a big difference between the blocking story ideas, and what it inevitably came down to.

Pantomime Blocking

It's been an extremely busy week for me! I've been on a lot of fun projects recently. My two production friends Ashley Jane http://www.artsyash.com/ and Rebecca Hodges https://www.facebook.com/Rebecca-Hodges-Hodges-Film-365776613435485/ and I created a commercial for a Mountain Dew contest. The theme of the project was, "It doesn't exist until you dew it." So we went out and filmed a bunch of super fun stuff, I'll be sure to post it once the contest is over! I also helped out on another shoot this past weekend where we got to film a chef make instructional cooking videos. I've learned that the best shoots are the ones with food...you get to taste it all! I added some photos below as a sneak peak for our commercial! We're basically an ad for Lake Eola now.

My assignment for Animation Mentor this week is blocking out our pantomime assignment. As I was working along, I would get all these new ideas for actions, so it's pretty much nothing like my planning. I'm digging it so far though!

Class 4 First Assignment!

I just turned in my first assignment for the new class! This is introduction to acting, and our first assignment is to complete a pantomime animation. Pantomime is anything with a change of feelings. So basically contrasting between sleepy, and startled, angry and complacent, or even scared then brave. I went through a lot of different ideas this week. Basically I fianlly came out with one, where I used the Stella character as a bell hop. She's delivering customers luggage to their room, but while she waits at one door, she decides to play with a teddy bear. All of the sudden, the door opens, and she doesn't realize it. When she finally notices, she jumps up, contrasting to a serious business personality, and hands them their luggage. The whole time she's hiding the bear behind her back. Here is my quick and dirty sketches, and 2 poses of the contrasting reactions. Next week we'll get to start blocking!

Back at it!

I'm officially back in class! I'm in class 4 now, which is an introduction to acting class. I've already had my first mentor meet up, and I'm in love with my new mentor! As I mentioned before, he worked at Pixar since the original Toy Story, but what's great is that he also is a stop motion artist. He also worked on the Nightmare Before Christmas, which is super cool! I can't even begin to imagine what that must be like. But I've already got ideas for my next assignments, and I'm gonna get straight to work!

As for my professional life, I'm still saving up money getting ready to move out West! I got all my photos back from New York, so I figured I would share a few right now! Obviously Ashley Jane (my director from Celestial) and I did a lot of sightseeing, hanging out, and pure best friend bonding.