Stopping for a bite to eat

Sumatran Elephant

To read about Sumatran Elephants, check out the World Wildlife's website:

http://www.worldwildlife.org/species/sumatran-elephant

2014 Inktober Amur Leopard

For 2014 Inktober I was planning on doing one sketch a week from the endangered animals list on the World Wildlife Federation's website. This week's sketch is of the Amur Leopard. 

https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/amur-leopard

speed paint - beach and stars

Green Arrow Doodle

Pandas!

Production Schedule

I took the summer off from working on my thesis film 'Tethered.' It was a much needed break, but I am ready to tackle this project again. Im in the process of putting together my production schedule. The next week of editing my animatic, and adding a rough cut of sound will help me determine the final length of the film and also the rest of my schedule. Revisiting my animatic will give me a chance to reassess my asset lists that I've created using Trello. I've also started a blog for the film specifically, but I'm not sure if I want to use wordpress or blogger yet so I just made the bones of both blogs for now.

tetheredshortfilm.wordpress.com
tetheredshortfilm.blogspot.com

More updates soon to come! (... or I'm in trouble for finishing this on time...)

Dragon Con 2014

Cardinal Speed Paint 30 min.

This little guy was outside my window this morning which lead to this 30 min speed paint. First time I have been able to keep it down to 30 min. which is encouraging for doing more of these. :)

Sketch of Kara

Sketch of my sister Kara from life. It's nice to take a minute and just draw what's around you. 

Effects Lightening Test

Two ways of how to approach animating lightening. One more approach to try out!

UPDATE:

Card captor Sakura for Fan Art Friday

Bradley... Cooper

Animation effects test of lil' Bradley showing up on the scene.

Master copies of Water

Here are some master copies of water from the "elemental magic vol II" book.

May the 4th/May the Force be with you

In celebration of May the 4th, here is a sketch of Nate and I as Jedi.

The Jackalope is alive!

I can not believe how long it took me to throw this little guy into flash. But he now has a fully operational rig. Now to actually get him moving. But here is a little blink and mouth chomp. 

Fan art Friday

Quick fan art Friday doodle of sailor Jupiter!!! 

Tumblr

I started a tumblr! No posts yet... but if I update tumblr, I will also be updated this blog. In case, you care to follow me on another social media website here is the link:

http://jennazona.tumblr.com/

Character Design: ink and color options

The next step will be to create secondary poses of the character with various expressions. As far as the color goes, I'm leaning toward the 2nd option on the bottom row. Grey fur with a black vest.

I think in this ink version he got a bit thicker in his chest then I initially wanted. I'll be doing another revised version with the decided color scheme.

UPDATE:
Here is the ink version, with his upper torso a bit thinner then it is above.

Character Design: Sketchbook Assignment 5: Full Figure

This assignment was another full figure, but I went rouge on this one. Heinrich Kley has some incredible pen drawings, but he also is incredibly dated with some of his images. So BEWARE if you decide to google him. Here is the very short wiki article about him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Kley

Here is an ink drawing by Heinrich Kley from the book "The Drawings of Heinrich Kley" page 74:

My Copy: