Woot Woot!

Getting up BRIGHT AND EARLY tomorrow to head off to NYC! Animation workshop starts tomorrow! I'm really looking forward to this opportunity! I think it will be a great learning experience, and I can't wait to hear from people who have made it in the industry. Plus it's a great way to meet new people!

I will post again later with any cool factoids or interesting stories :).

ALSO I am in the middle of making my own website, where I can post art in a more organized way, change the layout, etc.  I will put a link up here as soon as it is ready!

Update!

Sorry I've been so MIA lately! I'm in the middle of starting my own website to display my portfolio and such (finally). I'm also attending a workshop/masterclass if you will in NYC next month! It's being taught by 3 artists from PIXAR and I'm ECSTATIC! It's a 3 day event 9-5 so I will be exhausted but my sleep deprivation will be well worth it :) We're allowed to take notes so I'll be sure to post things I found really interesting here. They're also going to be talking about their work making Monsters University (eeeek!) I think this will be a great experience and definitely a great way to meet new people who are already in the field.

Really gotta get back into the swing of Maya. Hopefully it's like riding a bike, you never forget, right? RIGHT?!

PS like the new header? I've been practicing painting in illustrator, so this was my attempt at a self portrait. SO much different than painting in Photoshop! On one had, I love how smooth it is, and I like that you can paint in the lines. But at the same time I'm still not as familiar with the program so getting more brushstrokes than the simple 2 they give you, for example, I have no idea how to do. 

More updates to come soon!

Storyboard

If there's one thing college taught me, it's that storyboards are REALLY important!!! They help you tell your story shot by shot, as well as establish the camera angles. They do these for live action movies and music videos too, not just animations. Pixar takes it a step even further and makes 'color boards' (painted storyboards that show what color everything will be in each scene)

This is a color script from Toy Story 3, which by the way this scene in the day care is one of my absolute favorites from a visual standpoint. It's so unbelievably rich in color and the attention to details are incredible.



 I said I would post my storyboard for my senior project so here it is! Ignore the high quality web cam and random hands..I was having some computer issues.

Also I should probably note the reason why there's a picture of her in what appears to be an alley is because I wanted to have a scene at the end where she's in a different place outside the studio, outside her alternate reality, without the bag.  I wanted to show the dance goes on even though the music has ended, the curtain has fallen.

I'M ALIVE!!!

Heh heh...have I gone almost a full year without posting? *sadness* I'm sorry!!!

I can OFFICIALLY say I'm a college graduate :D ! It's the best and the worst feeling I've ever had, but I know once I find a good job in an animation/illustration field things will fall into place.

ANYWAY I should have posted this months ago, but this is my senior project I spent my last school year of college working on. It's not quite where I want it to be yet..the bag had an ncloth shape on it (along with her ponytail), but it didn't work for some reason I can't figure out yet :/ SO besides from getting the ncloth to work right, I also wanna fix some of her weights to make her move a little more fluidly.  Also given the time constraints I was under, it's a bit rushed. I want to make it a good minute longer if I can.

Here it is for all it's worth :) I think after a little tweaking here and there, I can really have a solid piece (and hopefully it can be the first movie on my future demo reel) I'll post some story boards for this as well, maybe some rendered images of the dance studio and all that jazz.

AND of course I can't forget to post some things I did in painting, drawing, and photography :) Stay tuned!

PS. Thank you to all my friends and professors at Montclair for giving me the best college experience anyone could ask for :)

~~~~Krista

Say Cheese

One class I had last semester I really enjoyed was Black and White Photography (so much in fact, I'm doing Photo II this semester) I thought I'd post some of my favorite photographs I took throughout the semester. Click on them for a larger view.

 

Technically this one is a photogram (made by putting objects on a sheet of photo paper and exposing it to light)

These next few are of my friend, Drew, who was my awesome model :) She wore the plaid shirt without me knowing, and I really liked how it looked in the leaves.

This one down here is my favorite one of Drew (also my professors) The white dots are from my scanner, not the negative being dirty. I have another version where you can see more of her hair laying in the leaves that I'll post later. One of the reasons I love this photograph so much is because of how intimate it feels, as if it was meant for a lover. And the background isn't too distracting that it takes away from the main subject.

 

 

Made abstraction-Colored Pencils

2 abstractions of a garden hose

 One of the photographs I took for our time and motion assignment. My professor talked a lot about motion blur, and panning the camera to make the background blurry and have the subject in focus. Not quite what I got, but I still like how this one came out.

This one was an open choice assignment. I took this after the bizarre mini snow storm we had last October. The town over from me had a scarecrow contest which evidently turned into a snowman display.

 

Self Portrait for your mother

 

Self Portrait for a lover

 

This was our last assignment. We had to photograph a common object, and the class collectively chose brown eggs. What you did with those eggs was up to you. So without further ado, meet the egg family :D

Again, I apologize if some of these look dirty, they didn't all scan as well as I had hoped.  I do have a few more photographs I'd like to put up as soon as I get my hands on them!

Happy New Years!

Sorry I've been on such a long hiatus with posting, but it's a new year and I have new art! My stuff from last semester will probably be posted gradually as I get things scanned in.

 These 4 images are part of my Drawing II final. The assignment was really open ended,so I decided to draw 4 self portraits in completely different styles.

 Traditional self portrait in graphite

 Abstract/Cubist inspired done in colored pencil

 Illustrative/Cartoon with a pop art background done in Prismacolor markers

 Pointillism rendered with artist pens

Paintings and Such

Hello world! Sorry it's been so long since I updated. Saying I had computer troubles over the summer would be a complete understatement..but I'm back with a new hard drive and ready to get Senior year off to a good start :D


So I figured why not show some paintings/illustrations from previous years

Illustration II assignment in which we had to create 3 illustrations for a movie but make the characters in a different style. Of course I had to go with Finding Nemo!

 Self portrait from Painting I. Oh my gosh, skin tones are HARD to mix! I had some difficulties with the right side of the face, but overall I'm proud of what I achieved.

I appoligize for the weird lighting on these 2 images, this painting was really cumbersome to carry into my house and the basement was the only spot it could fit. It was my final project for Painting I where we took a previous painting and made it our own (a road map as my professor called it) This painting is about 46x50, I hammered the frame and stretched and prepped the canvas all before even doing the actual painting. I've never done anything this big before in my life so it felt REALLY good to accomplish this :)

A few detail images of the painting

The Boer War by John Byam Shaw was my "road map" painting for this assignment. I used a reference photo I took of my beautiful roommate, Julianne wearing one of my dresses.

And last but not least this was one of two paintings I did for my Illustration III final. There is an Alice in Wonderland statue in Central Park and we had to illustrate a scenario of the characters interacting with our world..what they did once they came to life was up to us. So my interpretation was Alice as a bartender working in a small pub when The Mad Hatter and The Rabbit come in to a booth (you can almost make them out in the reflection of the mirror) This is illustrated more in my other piece, but basically Mad Hatter had one too many to drink, and Alice and the Rabbit are looking at him like he's insane (which he probably is).

That's all I have for now folks! I'll be updating through the year with progress on how my senior project is going! I also plan on giving this page an actual theme (sketchbook pro is opened on my desktop as we speak)-I haven't had a lot of time to test it out!