A small news update, I’ve made rough boards of both Carl and Scribble.  I’ve also started rough character sketches of all of the above.  Hopefully I can get critiques and polish them to get going into more pre-production work.  I’ve also written up a rough outline of my possible thesis, which has been posted.  It’s nothing great yet, just general ideas I’ve thought about discussing in depth.  More to come, as always.

~Sarah

I’ve been working two retail jobs to keep up my income as of late.  Leaving me very little time for professional work of any sort.  I’ve been tooling around with my Nintendo DSi’s “Flipbook” application on my lunch break and it has inspired me to do a new animation about one of my 2D pieces.  It’s the creature titled “Carl” and I want to hand draw/animate him in flash I think.  I hope to start storyboading soon, maybe the end of this week.  Other than that, I’ve seen the movie “9″ and really loved it.  Maybe it’s just me but I really felt a connection with it.  :D  Maybe someday I can be involved with a project like that.  Here’s hoping!

~Sarah, Still At It~

The problem I’m having with my quadraped rig is that, after putting all controls under the master control, when I rotate on the Y or Z axis the entire rig does not rotate together.  I believe it has to do with the IK spline I used for the spine of the character.  Something about clusters doesn’t want them to rotate nicely.  I’m trying to add rig buffers between them, their controls and the master control, but so far I’ve had no luck.  At this rate, rebuilding the spine may be my only option.

~Sarah is rigged up~