Moonrise Kingdom

Commissioned by Erin Sam + Suzy

F'Real

Hey Guys! Sorry for the looooong hiatus, been pretty busy with projects I can't post much about lately :( But as a little update, here are a couple snippits of props and backgrounds I did for John K.'s F'Real project. More in the future once things launch :) -Sarah

Tinkerbell Commission

Commission from Mike P. of his lovely wife as Tinkerbell

As always this piece is property of myself and the commissioner. You may not copy, trace, print, distribute, or otherwise use this image in any way without the written consent of myself and the commissioner. Thank you!

Our Newest John K Cartoon!

Its up! Check out the Stussy website to see what Kedzie and I have been working on with John K. for the past few months!

NEW JOHN K CARTOON

You can also check out John K's Blog for more info about the process of the cartoon and some behind the scenes looks!

John Kedzie and I had tons of fun on this-- Kedzie did lots of tech stuff, editing, the CG parts, and the tee-shirt sequence.

I did lots of general animation assisting including in-betweening and clean up as well as painting the backgrounds (minus a few color cards that John K made).

Check out these very talented kiddies that jumped on the project to help us out as the deadline drew nearer!

Geneva Hodgson

Sandra Rivas

Amir Avni

David de Rooij

Ben Anders

And Voices By Our Good Buddies...

Eric Bauza

and

Jim Smith


Here are a few panning BGs:






And here are a bunch of production stills... but you could just watch the damn cartoon instead!



















And finally... they way we all felt when the cartoon was finished!:

Mermaid Commission

Commission for Mike Post of his lovely wife as a mermaid!

Tooth Tale Backgrounds

Here's a very small selection of some of the backgrounds I did for "Tooth Tale", an independent animation made by one of my teachers from Columbia, Ron Fleischer. To see all the others, catch "Tooth Tale" at a film fest near yoooooou! ;)

Stout Trout Background Copy

Hey guys, update time:

Kedzie and I are working with John K. on some tech support and CG experiments for a project hes currently working on!

Kedzie is doing some CG modeling (might post some progress soon, so check it out if he does!), and I've been working on making a good brush set for painting some classic looking animation backgrounds.

To help me get the right brushes and to start learning about John K.'s style, he suggested that I do some copies of old animation backgrounds and golden book illustrations. I decided to start with something more "simple" and work my way up... but even simple is pretty difficult when you actually turn your brain on and try to figure out why and how the original artist did what he did! It took me awhile to start to understand the colors and shapes, but I think I'm getting there, and starting to understand brush stroke placement.

My copy turned out a bit more stiff (and maybe a little over-worked?) compared to the original, but I think that has a lot to do with this being my first attempt and my working suuuuper slow to try and understand everything. I'll keep doing a few of these each week to help me get faster and understand the color, shapes, and textures of this style.

I really liked making the tree in the foreground, I think I'll be stealing some of those techniques for my personal work!

So anyway, sorry for the book of explanation... heres a BG copy from Yogi Bear "The Stout Trout"





EDIT:
Below is the original, so that you can see what I was working off of. I kinda messed the mountains up composition wise... oops!

Day 12: Most Recent Accomplishment

I took this literally...
My most recent accomplishment: I went out, and bought dog food with the dog and the boyfriend :)
(Oh-- and I have new hair! As illustrated here )

Day 7: Favorite (Live Action) Movie

Day 7 is favorite movie.
My favorite movie is definitely The Little Mermaid... but since there is a day for animation, I decided to change this to favorite live-action movie. Which, for me.... Princess Bride is up on the list.

Day 4: Favorite Place

This was ssssuuuper quick, sorry. My favorite place is the sea, especially at dusk.

Green Night

Just playing around with composition and colors here...
I'm also starting work on an art book to sell at conventions. Its so, so hard not to post the work! But its only fair to those who buy... the book will be a combination of seen and unseen art :)

And We Filled Each Other's Footprints In the Snow

So, I FINALLY got my Cintiq, after many moons of saving :)
I did this as a warm-up today and to get familiar with the feel of the tablet. It ended up kind of interesting, so I thought I'd share it :)
Its inspired by a line in Carina Round's song "Backseat" which goes:

"And we filled each other's footprints in the snow, full of warm, red alcohol. We were learning to make the world stand still, and it will, but until do I lie in the backseat of your mind?"

I think its a beautiful song, and it reminds me of some of the fun times I've had in the past few years of my life :)

(P.S.- The guy in the foreground isn't a stalker, I swear D: )

Go Frogs!

I thought I'd post the background I made for my previously posted flash final, in case anyone was interested :)

It was pretty quick, but I think it still has some fun stuff going on.