Silhouette

First animation of the year, could use some tweaking. So much workkkkkkkk.

Mood Swings from Bryan Locantore on Vimeo.

Frist DFA assignment

So in Drawing for animation we had to create a bunch of characters, so fun especially after this summer. Heres my characters.

JUNIOR YEAR!!

Cant believe I'm a junior in collage, this is crazy. Looking forward to the work, but dreading the lack of sleep.

Character Design

So this class was obviously all about character design, had it with David Colman, great teacher. I never really drew cartoons before so this class helped me a crap load. For this class we did a lot of sketching I have yet to scan in but I'll post the designs to the projects we had.

 Frist assignment was to design three chef with the personality given. One must be free spirited, with no cares. Another needed to be stable and set in their ways. The last needed to be vicious and mean.

Second Assignment was redesigning the snow white cast in a Tim Burton style.

Next assignment was expressions, I did not create the character we had to use a default one. 

Last assignment was redesigning oldest scrooge film, with scrooge being a girl and one of the ghosts being an animal.

Zbrush Character Creation

This is the second  class I took, was soooooo much fun. Liked modeling in zbrush 10x better then maya.

We had a few assignments for this class. The first was bust sculptures, we had t design 3 alien busts from scratch no pre drawing. The point was to design with the clay.

Here are my three alien,  1hour each.

Next assignment was to take one of these further, I chose the first one. He felt like some sort of water breathing alien thing which I liked. 

Next assignment was basically the same thing but to create an angle or demon, I decided to do a demon.

We then had to take it further and add color. After we had to composite it using Photoshop.

Composited image

Environment Design

Here is a bunch of paintings I did for environment design...

First things first, I never really "digitally painted" up until this point, always used traditional mediums. All of these assignments were done with no line drawing. So we started off with just basic black and white value. The whole point was to create depth and a light source without color. Roughly 1 hour each.

After learning the basics, we have an assignment to redesign a fair tale of our choice. I choose Hansel and Gredel. We first had to do multiple thumbnails so we can take 3 of them further. 15 min 45 min each. Had trouble with compositions in the beginning but later started getting the hang out it.

Here is the final product for our class, spent around 1 hour on the top one and 3 on the bottom. After the thumbnail stage. 

Over all I learned alot and i encourage everyone to go and take these classes.

CDA

This past summer, my roommates and I went to the CDA in california. I took the zbrush character creation class, environment design, and character design. It was an amazing experience, although I wish i could of been home. I still learned so much. Will post work soon...

First Blog

Hey everyone, I've been saying this for a few years now and I'v finally done it. Finally got a blog up and running. When I have time i'll begin to post my work from school or anything else that I feel fit. I'll most likely start with my work from sophomore year and up. Thanks for viewing!