New Sculpt / Photography Project

So, I tricked myself into sculpting a maquette this quarter. I had to design a personal project around a topic that related to my major, Media Arts & Animation. So I decided to photograph my entire process of sculpting a maquette, from start to finish. The character is a revamp of an earlier character I made into a stop-motion puppet. Thanks to my buddy and awesome character designer, Heather Nesheim, Reggie the frog looks way better than he did last year.

Here's a bunch of the photos I took:

Me Behind the Scenes on "Community"

Here are some photos of me working on various parts of "Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas", Community's recent stop-motion Christmas special! I got to be an animation intern!

I Got to Work on Something Cool!!!

It's been a while people! But only because I have been super busy making a stop-motion short at school with a bunch of my classmates. I can't post anything about it yet, but I will once it's completed in April. We are starting the post-production stage in January.

On the other hand, I CAN talk about the amazing internship I just had! I got to venture down to Burbank, California to be an animation intern on the NBC show "Community". They made a stop-motion Christmas episode that airs TONIGHT AT 8 PM!!! It was loads of fun working on this project. I got to meet and work with a lot of cool and talented people, including Teresa Drilling. She has been my stop-motion instructor for the past year and a half. Teresa offered the internship to myself and four other classmates. We all also worked on the short together that we are making at the Art Institute of Portland.

Anyways, here is a short article that was written about the Portland animators that worked on the "Community" Christmas special in The Oregonian:

http://www.oregonlive.com/movies/index.ssf/2010/12/portland_animation_talent_behi.html

My name is in there! AWESOME! I got to help organize the puppet hospital, make props, and even help an animator or two with some of their shots. I'll even get an IMDB page out of this. Haha. It was a great experience that I will never forget! Being a stop-motion animator is one of the coolest and most challenging jobs there is. That's why I love it!

Here is the crew credits list too:

Glorification

Here's a digital painting I created this weekend. It's me. This is what I look like in real life.

Behind the Scenes

Here's some "behind the scenes" photos of the construction and animation of my Jack puppet: