The never-ending conundrum….

Posted on December 22, 2011 by John Hill

When you submit the freelance quote that isn’t high, but you wouldn’t be surprised if they rejected, but then they accept it, and you instantly think….

“oh. shit. I should have asked for more.”

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An animation with love and kisses.

Posted on December 14, 2011 by John Hill

This is my final for Grad Level Traditional Animation 1 at the Academy of Art University. There are some timing and spacing things I would like to adjust, I just want the acting to be more subtle, but that is something I have struggled with forever. The walk in is too rough (and was rushed) but overall I think it turned out well.

I’m too tired to do much more elaboration, maybe over the Christmas break I’ll do some sketching and regular “blog” like posts?

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Hey guys, they are some drawings.

Posted on December 12, 2011 by John Hill

So here is my final for Drawing from Imagination, and the constructions, cause you know, students might see this. There are of course, a ton more bits of construction, but that would look like a mess to show you. I also had to label and sort the construction for the shadows, and the Beast’s reflection. Let me know if you are interested in that. I got an A-.
It was based on this passage of text:

Every night Beauty and the Beast would sit by the hearth in the ornamental great hall and talk. The Beast’s stories were fascinating to Beauty and his smile was kind in the firelight. Soon she found that she was anticipating her evenings with the Beast all day long.

One, summer night the Beast dropped to one knee and looked into the eyes of his companion.

“I know I am ugly – horribly ugly – but I have to ask. Do you think that a lady as beautiful as you could ever marry a Beast?”

“Never,” Beauty said with a tear in her eye. “I love you for the honest, gentle soul you are but, no, I could never marry a Beast.”

At that, the Beast fled the hall and Beauty did not see him again for many nights.

I got an A-.

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I got EatSleepDraw’d…

Posted on December 10, 2011 by John Hill

Thanks to all the new tumblr followers! I hope you enjoy the rest of the blog-thing I do.

What a pleasant surprise when I took a break from working on my finals. Apparently one of my grad-school illustrations got featured on EatSleepDraw and 140 people liked or reblogged, and then a bunch of them added my tumblr. That’s pretty cool. It’s like I figured out the secret codes.

The internet. It’s really not all bad!

Looking forward to uploading these finals sometime late next week.

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