Ident Name

Seeing as we have to come up with our own idents I've been thinking about it all the time.
All I was doing at first was redesigning how I could write my initials; seeing as I have a separate signature which I put on my art, so thought of keeping that theme for making an animation ident.
Well it sucks.
I knew it did but I couldn't think of anything else.
Then our tutor said it could be a name we go by on the internet.

Well I go by KJay now, but I did always go by Toonz.
And as perfect as it is, it WILL have been already taken. I mean, it has to have been. It's too obvious.

So my next thought was using my deviantART name. Threatened Angel.

I actually quite like it. And if you google that all you really get is my art; so it seems no one else is using it, for anything.
So I'm gonna start working around that....

I hope it's along the right lines.

New Header

Decided to add a header to my blog.

It's the same kind of idea I want to apply to my CV

Having thumbnails of my Characters.

I will change at least 2 of these as I don't have that many 'finished' looking drawings of my own characters, but for now these will do; I will tell you a bit 'bout them as well.

The first one is Aiden P.Kin

He's a grim reaper I created back in 2010. I was writing a short story for Halloween based on him, and have drawn him every year since. This image is from 2012's annual drawing.

his name was meant to be a play on the words -A Pumpkin- ...I know... I'm hilarious...

The next is a revamp of my Zombie character Ray. First designed to be a very simple character I could make in 3D. A combination of wanting to redesign him a bit and actually being able to draw better lead to this.

The 3rd one is a character called Yeshin. Over the summer of 2012 I had the idea of creating characters which were in a band, or more accurately, a Korean Pop boy group. 

Yeshin, real name Shin Yehgyun, is the youngest of the 5 member group; the others being Jongsoo, Sam, Kaeil and Dongmin. I picked Yeshin to put in my header just because I think this is the best drawing of the 5 realistic ones I did of all the members.

Lastly is Lock, the character in the animation I'm working on now. A vigilanty/ serial killer who gets caught up in a gang after he unknowingly kills one of their members.

I realise I'm not very creative when it comes to thinking of different styles to draw characters in. (Like my tutors say, I have a container character I keep reusing). But I like drawing humans and I still think I manage to have some diversity it their faces.

Monday Update

Everything I planned to do over the few weeks we have off, I can safely say, I've done NOTHING.
Well, I planned to play Zelda and I definitely did that!
But when it comes to art and college work I haven't done anything.

I will get something done over the next week before we return, fortunately I have already done a lot of my story board, I just need to make assets for the animatic because I have no way of animating it at home.

Also for Christmas I got 3 LOVELY sketchbooks, one of which I plan to carry around with me all of next year. Which I'm looking forward to.

On another note;
I will be leaving this year the same way I entered it. By myself watching TV (I planned on watching Jools Holland like last year, but apparently they are doing another House Party thing on TV so may watch that instead.) in front of the fire with my dog :)

Last day of the year.
Quite sad to see 2012 end.

For the Holidays

Handed in our final project of 2012 today.
It was the most relaxed I have ever been on a hand in, seeing as I finished everything a week ago, today was literally just a case of handing in, no quick finishing off (in my case I mean, we all kinda left Liam to work on the animation).

So over the holidays, apart from the set tasks of generally working on our main animation, I want to do SO much art.

I have a list of paintings I want to start/ finish, and generally drawing a lot more.
I'll also will be practicing modeling stop motion dolls..... and just normally try to get better at sculpting.

I also want to start playing Zelda again, but that's not art related..... but I'm really looking forward to it :)

Sculpting

Kinda celebrating finishing my part of the project, decided to sculpt something.

    

 The actual sculpt is terrible and I can't make clothes to save my life. But I really like his hair.
His arms can move but that's it. Making this, while frustrating at times as I don't really have the skills, was fun and really makes me want to get into doing stop motion models. While this one obviously can't be used, if I keep practicing and actually make it so more joints can be moved I think I can get some form of model to practice animating with. 
I also really need to learn how to make clothes.

To Do List

Just seeing what else I need to do on my own part of the project.

So today I have been typing up my research, which I've finished. I've been typing out annotations to explain my thought process when I've been doing test. Think I only really need to finish 2 of those pages, everything else seems to be done
I've started my evaluation and apart from the fact we haven't finished the project yet, so I cant call it finished, I have pretty much done it. Just the case of updating it over the next 2 weeks.

I need to draw up the storyboards neatly.
Find the member of our group who has the Style guide frame.

...

That's it?
That'd be sweet if that is it.
Just need to see what the others are doing and just be around if they need help. But I don't think I'm needed now my part is done.

Monday Update

Well I've finished my part of the project.... for now

I've rotoscoped 2 scenes of the skateboarder doing 1 trick on each. At first I did in every 3 frames to make sure I got it done, but I realised I had plenty of time so went back in did the inbetween frames. So now both are frame by frame rotoscopes of the footage.

So I'm hoping that's me
I'm okay with doing more if needed, but as I said I doubt I will have to.

On a side note, everyone in our group is in since the very first day of the project, which I am rather happy about.