Easter and the Sniffles

Happy Easter everyone!!! Thank you Jesus for conquering death and for giving us a new hope. :)

Not going to lie, coming back from spring break was pretty hard, and somehow I managed to get myself semi-sick, so I've had to miss a couple of classes here and there, which was a bummer. I'm supposed to be a volunteer for a mo-cap session at Dreamworks tomorrow though, so I'm REALLY hoping that I won't have to miss out on interning tomorrow because I would be super sad. Also my head is kind of spinning soooo if this post seems all over the place that's probably because my mind isn't functioning at it's 100% right now.

boo for being sick on Easter

At least I'm glad to say that I've been pretty productive in spite of sneezing/sniffling/coughing/drinking massive amounts of emergenC and tea! I've been working on this game called Thralled, which is a trippy ios game about the escape of a Brazilian slave, Isaura. Most of my week has been focused on that, and slaving over internship applications. It's making me wish that I had some kind of a "fast-foward" life remote control thing so I can just skip over everything and go right into summer.

However, in the little spare time I had this week I stumbled upon some pretty cool animations...

-which blogspot doesn't seem to want me to upload, so here is the link to "Under the Fold" (thanks Willie!) by the animation workshop (creators of the Backwater Gospel)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aoi8F-tRW-w

and here is the Croissant de Triomphe by Walt Disney Animations! This one is particularly cool just because it makes me really miss Paris :3
https://vimeo.com/62299762

And I also stumbled upon Chris Sander's blog and spent about an hour obsessing over how incredible his drawings are. Some people are so talented it's just not fair!

I feel like I have a lot more to say (and it's only 10:00pm) but my body seems really eager to be dragged into bed, and also my head seems to be wandering to another planet... so I'll leave with a fun little concept art I did for Thralled today. Throughout the game Isaura always seems frightened and unsure, so I wanted to see if I could play around with lighting and colors to transform her into a strong woman who is ready to face any storm in order to save her child.

I also forgot to mention how I was really surprised at how many pageviews my blog got after I posted it on facebook! My views totally tripled and I think I had around 300 views... from 8 different countries?!? I didn't even know I had friends in switzerland or wherever haha! And thanks to everyone who gave me such nice feedback and comments and are just as excited about my upcoming project as I am :)

Ok I think that's about it. Good night world!