Fun with Stumpy

Yeah, I couldn't resist trying (and loving) Stumpy Pencil after everyone was raving about it :P

Was drawing one of my characters in cut-out style. It's been a long time since I've done anything that way. Takes a bit long for my liking (so like...the normal amount of time a picture should take, haha), but I really like the results.

My little snow leopard, Irbimon <3 Wanted to draw him not in Digimon style.

It's been soooo long since I've done something that isn't style imitation, hahaha. I should prooobably do it more often.

Sorry, I don't post very often

Was working on ye olde website and realized I needed to get my blog at least somewhat up to date! So here's some puppet progress I never posted:

Her body is made of make-up sponges. Kind of hard to trim to a smooth surface, but very soft and squishy!

This was where it got really exciting!


Her skin is pantyhose. The thread is there to hold it against the sponges while the silicone cures


And my incredibly messy studio. I opted for the take-home kit because it would be the easiest solution for everyone. But the only space in my house for it was the sewing room in the basement. Had to take over the sewing machine's table.


Now have some random film stills! :D

Oh my god. Oh my god a POST.

HI I'M NOT DEAD, REALLY.
Here, have some production/progress work for my film, to prove that yes, I am in fact making a film.

These are my characters. The fire elemental isn't set in stone yet, her design is troublesome to me.
Um so anyone who saw pre-production work from my group's 3rd year film might remember there being a belly dancer + fire thing going on, just an FYI that this was not at all because of it. The basis for my story was the background I made up for my WoW mage the summer before, who was a belly dancer with a water elemental (mages don't get fire). So it was either hula and water elemental, or belly dancer with fire, both didn't work for me outside of WoW. And I tried the water way initially but decided A) Belly dancers have way more interesting costumes and B) Water is a bitch to animate.

Here is my set design. It's really simple, which is very good.
Head sculpt turnarounds. Initially it was drawn just to have something done for the milestone but it ended up being immensely helpful for the actual sculpt.
My armature! It's oak blocks, a very "home made" way. But just as good as aluminum blocks. Shouldn't there be a second 'i' in aluminum? Aluminium...
And the most recent progress. This was the scariest and most difficult part of the puppet and now that it's done I can be super excited about it (again)! Really looking forward to painting her makeup.

derp derp

(If anything looks mismatched I'm editing the layout)
Hey I'm posting stuff!

For whoever hasn't seen her full image yet, my Shifter character for the DnD-ness

Helga~! With more detail than I ever draw her with. Yeah she's not very pretty, she's a manticore >.>

Kapira looking all voodoo like. Debating between coloring it or just throwing grey tones over it...

This is my wallpaper right now >_<;

Here have some mayan cave drawings (Digimon)