If I tried to draw an attractive Hyde.....

.....he would look something like this.

Pretty nervous about going up to Emoryville!

Freaky Scary

Big end-of-year post time!


So it's the end of my second year at Calarts. I'm halfway done with college--that's freaky-scary. (Anyone who knows what movie that little phrase is from gets a cookie.)

Incidentally this is the little poster-y image I used for my film. 8| I made a bunch of little cards of it for the Producer's Show and job fair. I never went to check to see if anyone took any at the show (there's a big reception afterwards and tons of important people packed in together with a ton of students in a small space = uncomfortable awkward time!) and I plum forgot to put any out at the job fair. Grrr! I spent most of that morning freaking out as to whether my computer was facing the right direction for enough people to see my film. I ended up actually having a good response overall, which I imagine means I had the monitor facing the right way.


(A commission, me trying to do the style of Japanese brushwork I did last summer.)

A lot of freaky scary things happened this week. Despite being rejected from it two weeks before, I got the Pixar internship in Story after the job fair. I'm going up there on the 5th, a little bit terrified.

THEN I was chosen as the student who gets to go to Gobelins school of animation in Paris for the spring semester. 8| Totally surreal!

As it were these incredibly fortunate things were coupled with some pretty nasty icky gross personal life events. The less severe but still awfully saddening one being that my little pet mouse Hiccup died.




Okay so ummmm end of year things:
1. I'm pretty sure I learned the most from layout class.
2. Anyone familiar with our class's animation teacher drama knows how crazy it was. Second-year traditional animation has been the Defense Against the Dark Arts of Calarts. It seems we've finally hit upon someone awesome, and I seriously hope she doesn't leave :\
3. Story class: character arcs character arcs hahahahahahahahaha *shoots self*
4. Pro-tools was a lot easier to learn on my own. 8| Those giant microphones we had to use got on my nerves.
5. Lotsa fun freshies this year!
6. I barely used my cube at all, lol. I have a desktop computer and my film was all digital this year, so I worked at home.
7. How To Train Your Dragon <3
8. Acting for Animators was . . . interesting . . . Same goes for Directing for Animators.

NIGHT PARADE

Night Parade from Sabrina Cotugno on Vimeo.

My second-year film. :)

I got into the Producer's Show, I'm very happy!!

And you'll need your mind for later on

MORE LAYOUTS. These are actually reworkings of shots I finished ages ago but am deciding to redo, because the original ones were a bit sloppy.

ARE THOSE YELLOW EYES TOO SILLY I DON'T KNOW. I'll fix it in After Effects.

Hyde break

Okay, I was a good animator today and worked through the morning, so I get to take a break and draw a silly picture of Hyde listening to "Where is My Mind?"

I would really prefer to be watching Fight Club right now. Oh well, back to work 8D

(This is possibly the girliest Hyde I have ever drawn)

I've been spazzing out all semester about how my story portfolio doesn't have anything really funny in it (normal funny, as opposed to "wow that owl is really being eaten alive that is funny" funny). I also don't have anything that could really be considered "rough". These.... aren't really rough either, but I resisted the urge to tone the crap out of everything.

ADELE IS MY PET MOUSE. SHE LIKES TO BURROW. I SWEAR THESE BOARDS LOOK BETTER IN AN ANIMATIC WHEN THEY'RE NOT LAID OUT SIDE BY SIDE LIKE THIS.

....I just realized that ALL of my storyboarding projects involve a small creature running away from a big one. Uh oh.

Layoutpalooza

As I get less and less confident in my grasp on storytelling, I compensate by making COLORFUL LAYOUTS.

The idea is to give everyone who passes through the Mac labs the idea that I must be making a good film because I'm using so many CoLoRs, and then to disappoint them majestically at the open show when they find out that actually the film as a whole is completely incoherent.

My boss made fun of me, saying that I must not have spent enough time on story if I have so much time to color my film (which I....don't, really). This is actually the opposite of true. I had a much firmer grasp of what the story was when it was simple than when I tried to screw around with it all first semester and ended up with something confusing and overly complicated.