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Shannon O’Leary did a great article on how a lot of recent animation is influenced by independent comic artists.  I love this! Because as an animator, this is the world I’ve always looked at for influence in on how I design my animations. 

Shannon O’Leary did a great article on how a lot of recent animation is influenced by independent comic artists.  I love this! Because as an animator, this is the world I’ve always looked at for influence in on how I design my animations. 

Izzy Stage 1 Izzy Stage 2 Izzy Stage 3

So with my main character in Chocolate Milk, I made 3 different Character Model guides to chronicle her change in appearance.  (Her name is “Izzy” BUT you never hear her referred to by name in my film!  A lil trivia for you ha-cha!)   

Her changes in appearance happen every time she enters the teen rehab center to signal she has gotten worst in her addiction.  Personally, I really love the hair design in the 3rd model sheet.  

In animation, a character’s look often stays the same as to not confuse the audience and for continuity purposes especially in TV shows.  So I’m always excited when the opportunity comes up to go against the grain in animation.  And this worked especially well with my film “Chocolate Milk”!  

PS In other news, I’ve been pretty busy as I’m gearing up to teach an animation class at UCLA in July.  So unfortunately some work on the film has been delayed.  But its still moving along and will hopefully speed to the finish line in August!!

So here are a few final stills from my film “Chocolate Milk”.  For the look of my film, I wanted it to feel vintage, be very murky, sepia tones similar to chocolate milk and look like teenage doodles. 

I used a mixture of digital, watercolor painting and hand-drawn to create every shot.  I used an old brick for the Rehab, just cause that idea always made me laugh.  Because I feel like a lot of buildings in Texas just look like a big brick.   I got  the brick from someone on Craigslist . They were trying to sell a ton of them but were nice enough to leave me a few outside their house for free.  I had emailed someone else about a brick but they said me buying 2 bricks for a dollar wasn’t worth their time. lol    

I’ll probably put a separate section on my site next week with more info about the film. Stay tuned…

I still struggle a lot with overthinking…..but then I just draw the worst thing ever and always feel happy afterwards!  

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