Cup O' Bears

After a really long time, I finally did another Cup O' Doodle thingy. Eventually, I turned off the original doodle and ended up getting a little far away from it. But eh, it's ok. Things I learned from this: drawing is hard, bears are cuties. 

Character Design Dump

Herro! So I decided to do one big update with the rest of the character design work I've been doing this  summer. This was my last week taking CGMA's Fundamentals of Character Design class and it was a great experience. I barely found any student's reactions to the courses so I'll talk about it briefly, just in case some of you might be interesting in taking one of their classes. Basically, it's an 8-week boot camp  and you get pre-recorded lectures, live Q&A sessions, and personal video crits from your teacher every single week. I really liked the experience and I feel like I did learn a lot; I am glad I actually decided to take it. It's great because the way it's structured feels like an actual classroom: you get feedback from your classmates, you get to crit their work, and you get to actually talk with your teacher. Overall, it's just pretty cool and I highly recommend it.

The dragons above were done for an assignment where we had to design a dragon and its rider using both a realistic and graphic approach. As you can see, my realistic one turned out to be more cartoony and my graphic one to be more realistic. But, oh well, I still had fun. Also, I still don't know how dragons work, sorry.

I also forgot how to perspective, that's cool. But it was fun working on compositions and experimenting with negative space, yay.

 I didn't know how raccoons worked either, so I did a bunch of raccoon sketches before even thinking about designing one. Also, they walk really weird.

And then I did some stuff for fun, like this buff, badass chick. 

...and these Frank Franzetta master copies. 

Yeah. 

My face, animated

I found my old tablet and was able to use Photoshop again while my Intuos 5 is waiting on repairs. So, I doodled and didn't do anything productive today. Yay.

Also, I still don't know why sometimes it doesn't work unless you click it, so. Yeah.

¡Olé!

Sit Stand from Millie González on Vimeo.

Just realized I forgot to post my final assignment for the Spring semester on here. An over-confident matador doesn't realize how scary his new job is. Tons of fun modeling, rigging, animating, and texturing this guy. Definitely a learning experience for upcoming animations. Things I'll never do again: animate cloth.

Cowgirls and lazy puppehs?

 Was inspired by my dog's utter laziness sometimes.

...and a cowgirl I did for class. She was fun.

And some quick pool/beach sketches + iguana loving. 

ANDDDD lastly, some Carter Goodrich master copies, because he is a boss. 

That is all for now, I must return to my home planet. 

I still draw sometimes.

Hey everyone! Summer is here and I actually have time to draw again. This is just part of an assignment done for a Fundamentals of Character Design class I'm taking with David Coleman through CGMA. It's been a pretty cool experience and it's a nice break from animation. Speaking of, expect more for-fun animation exercises in the next couple of weeks!

In other summer-news, I'll be going to Siggraph 2013 as a Student Volunteer in July! I'm pretty stoked and can't wait for that. Expect many pictures, but for now have my poop-drawings instead.

Animatics?

Pass or Fail - Montage Animatic from Millie González on Vimeo.

I don't usually post my concept assignments, but when I do, they are pretty ridiculous.

I've been enjoying Concept class a lot more this semester. It's loads of fun coming up with characters and stories!