Fresh Snow- Concept Sketches

Here are some concept sketches I did traditionally for Fresh Snow. Trying to get in an essence the sense of what it is going to capture and what not. 

Fresh Snow- Pavel - Anatomy Exploration

Fresh Snow- Background Exploration

Aaron Blaise's - Fundamentals of Animation Courses - Diving back into Animation

So, starting this month I am diving back into Animation. I don't have the necessary software but, I am going to be getting it soon. I am working in Adobe Photoshop - Animation for now but, that doesn't mean I can't learn about animation right? I also have downloaded the student version for Autodesk Maya for a few years. As I am studying to re-learn 2d animation from a fresh perspective from Aaron Blaise- An animator who worked at Disney for years and from my previous college knowledge as well as I am going to be re-learning the interphase for Autodesk Maya as well. I am hoping to build up my portfolio and demo reel. My drawing for animation class and 3d class had some set backs and I've come out of trying to be a perfectionist stage as well.

I had previously purchased the fundamentals of animation course and scene approach course from Aaron Blaise. Today, I watched -Solid Drawing and the Squash and Stretch and Timing video.
In solid drawing, Aaron taught me that I need to continue to draw from life so that I can build a visual library in my mind so that will help me not only draw and create my own characters but, so that I can animate using that library. I need to draw from life, draw people especially is what I need to personally work on since I am good at drawing creatures and animals. I need to go to zoos, cites, study landscapes, etc. He said if you struggle with drawing then 2D animation will be a struggle. Most 3D animators don't draw but, if you know how to draw and do 3d than it is a great thing.

The second video He taught me how intertwined squash and stretch and timing is. Squash and Stretch is exaggerating the motion and sometimes impacting it for effect. Timing can be slow or quickly depending on what the action is. He demonstrated the basic ball bouncing tutorial but, I appreciated his approach. He explained more about the drawing spacing of things. He said if something is moving faster than there is going to be a much bigger gap between drawings where as if there isn't as much movement the drawings tend to be closer together. When you draw you want to keep your volume consistent even if it squashes and stretches. So, I am going to be doing a quick ball bounce exercise and hope I can try my hand at it. I plan on posting more tutorial lessons that I have learned.

Here's some work of Aaron Blaise:

Saber- Fate Series- Sketch

I could not help but draw Saber from the Fate Series. She is such a wonderful character. I love her character design, hair, and personality. I could not help but binge watch the entire series ahh :3

You can find the higher-resolution photo here: https://cheddarpie.deviantart.com/art/Saber-Fate-Series-Sketch-722540620


Here is the colored version in progress:

My Facebook Page

I've got a facebook page that keeps up with my art kind of like my blog does.  If you'd like to like my page that'd be cool. :) Here it is:

www.facebook.com/CheddarPieArt

Senior Gallery Artist Reception!

This past saturday was my senior gallery exhibit artist reception! It was such a blast getting to have people come and check out the 2014 graduating senior's work.  It was a pain to hang them all up but, you can see here some snippets of my work. I'll be taking a better photo of my section of the gallery soon.  I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.  These photos were taken by Bryan Ballinger. He is my senior project class teacher and he teaches other classes here at the university. 

                         The wall with the children's illustrations and animal drawings and the sculptures are my artwork. :)

Sr. Project Poster

Here is my Senior project poster that I designed for the Sr. Gallery.  This is the poster for the spring showcase at the end of the semester. :)  I still have to adjust some text. 

Senior Project- Turnarounds

This week I've been busy working on my character turnarounds for senior project.  They are going well so far.  I also did some more exploration art with all the characters in the scene. I have already started my rough storyboarding too. Please visit my site and take a look. :)


                                 http://gawkandgasp.blogspot.com/2013/07/turnarounds.html

Exploratory Sketches

Over the summer thus far, I have been preparing for my senior project. I've been writing a short children's story about an all animal circus that is run by the animals themselves.   I have been making a lot of progress. I have the story completed it just needs a little bit of revision.  I have been exploring character design and possibilities for these characters. I have a few animals left to do and i'll be posting them next week and I'll be refining some the exploratory sketches and come up with my character's final designs.  This project will be an animated story book using the toonboom puppet tool and after effects. I'm pretty excited and hope that it will get green lit.  Here's just a taste of some early concept work and there's much more work to come!

 

 

 

 

Hello and Welcome!

Hello, and Welcome to my blog! I've never made a blog before so this is a first.  On this blog, I will be posting artwork, things that inspire me, and just about what I've been up to with my artistic journey.  My name is Catherine Esch. I am in college about to be a senior this august. I am pretty excited that I am almost done. I am studying animation at Huntington University.  I've always loved animated films.   I never thought I would get into it as a career but, I decided that there is nothing else I would rather do then something that I enjoy doing.  I am fairly decent at drawing. I enjoy drawing  more than I do shading and coloring.  I would say my strongest areas are drawing animals and creatures, life drawing, and animating.  I also enjoy sculpting.  I am a slow artist and I am striving not to be a perfectionist because, that is where I struggle.  I have finally gotten to a point where I have gained a lot of my confidence back and I am ready to start living and stop thinking about where I stand with the rest of the other artists. I would love to get more experience in 2d tradigital animation, z brush sculpting, traditional sculpting, and possibly even some 3d character animation. I hope to do a lot of personal work and personal animations after college to work on some things that I've wanted to work on.  Right now, I am on summer break and I am relaxing and working on some pre-production work for my senior project.  I am working on a children's circus story animation.  It deals with an all animal circus where the animals are running the show.  I will be posting stuff from my projects, and just little fun things I've been doodling soon.  Keep an eye out from my work and I thank you for visiting my blog, there will be much more to come.