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Cuddly and Feminine, like a teddy with eye shadow.

Lysergic Bliss: vulcanoes: “After spending all day in school, our children are forced...

vulcanoes:

“After spending all day in school, our children are forced to begin a second shift, with more academic assignments to be completed at home. This arrangement is rather odd when you stop to think about it, as is the fact that few of us ever do stop to think about it. Instead of…

As someone who never had a problem with homework, I agree. The whole concept of homework is stupid. It should be for 2 things only.

1. Making sure something has been understood (I.e Math formula’s/scientific principles) and HELPING the children who don’t understand, not punishing them for not doing it.

2. Finishing work that was not finished in class IF it contributes to your final grade (I.e Coursework)

That is all it should be for, and showing understanding doesn’t take much.

(Source: thislifeunforgiven)

for a project, based on real photos of my family.

stuff for school things. very rough.

what I have of my film so far. Just bits and pieces.

Sticks and stones may break your bones but words will never hurt you”
Saying this to someone is like telling them that being hit with a bat won’t hurt if you just ignore it.

What you are actually telling kids when you say this is “It’s okay to make fun of people because you’re not physically injuring them.

—Fucking Me

Some backgrounds for a short animation I’m working on, I love making backgrounds as it turns out.
Made models in maya and drew over them in photoshop. 

I added the images they’re based on for comparison. I just create the bare bones of what I need for perspective and such  and add other (less easy to create stuff) after. However, if it can be made in maya I make it in maya. Making a couch, I’m immensly proud of my couch.

I make the greatest 3d radiators. 

arythusa:

Have some work warm-up drawings! Sort of!

This is a variation on a character design I was working on—I ended up referring to her as “fat Wendy” because otherwise other people would often redraw her skinny when they gave critique on her design. :|a Her size was hands down the most controversial thing about her or any other design I did because … I didn’t have a specific story reason for MAKING her big. Rather, I decided to make her big because the original story (she’s based on Wendy from Peter Pan) never stated that she was skinny. So, why shouldn’t she be fat?

I think what makes animation artists shy away from drawing larger characters—especially female characters—is that there just aren’t that many examples of it in past animation art. Most examples in Disney (and, I figure other companies?) history are middle aged villains (Madame Medusa, Ursula, Madame Mimm) who, while possessing appealing designs, represent a pretty narrow range of personality and body type.

And modern attempts to forcibly introduce more realistic female bodies into comics/animation such as Escher Girls—while admirable—often completely ignore appeal, giving the unpleasant impression that we must choose between two extremes: either appealing but over-sexualized skinny women at or relatable, realistic, yet dull and lifeless women. I know that most of the contributors to Escher Girls are not professional artists, so I don’t blame them for not understanding drawing principles, but I will suggest this—if you ARE someone who studies character design, you should make an attempt to design characters with a wide range of body types!

[/tl;dr thoughts on character design]

From one of my favourite artists and animators, hope she goes on to do great things.
if I ever own my own animation company I’m hiring twenty of her  

My two pieces of concept art for a character design project. Looking good.

On the subject of Ambition and Goals

Every time I think I have everything figured out, something comes along, something changes my mind, and suddenly the world is more wonderful than I could imagine.

In Britain we have a funny education system, at the age of 14 we take GCSE’s, we are told to choose what we want to do. At this age we pick the things we like or that we think will be easy, without knowing this choice can influence your entire life, GCSE can effect what you do at A-level. And A-level effects university.

If you don’t do well in specific subjects you may not get to do your chosen subjects. We are given this choice with no understanding of the consequences, for those of us who were not ready to take things seriously at this time it effects your life. Many people I know are so intelligent, but were lazy then, unmotivated, not ready to take life seriously yet, as teenagers are. All these things they could have done, could have been, were thrown away for the sake of choosing a subject, for just getting out of the school system. 
There were so many a-level subjects we didn’t even know about.

For many of us, deciding what you want to do with your life isn’t something that just happens automatically at 14, for just as many this decision isn’t made when you hit 16 either. For a lot of us… it may not be for a long time.
I was lucky, a strange set of events, my confusion over this choice, led me to where I want to be. 

Since I was a child I was always changing what I wanted to be. First I wanted to be an artist, but the world was quick to shoot me down on that. An astronaut, a racer, a director, a comic artist, a chef. I tried to head for all these things but was always brought down. In the end I decided to be a chef, purely on the basis that it would make more money, but that was not a good reason. I trained but I couldn’t handle it, I didn’t like it.
One day I broke down, I panicked, I didn’t like cooking and I didn’t know what to do with my life. I was so scared that not knowing what to do at 18 would ruin my life. My mother came and talked to me, she suggested I just spend some time looking around, if I didn’t like this cooking course how about another? or perhaps a different subject all together. As she left the room she told me the one phrase that has stayed with me since.

“I always thought you were a better artist than a chef anyway” And suddenly there it was, no matter what I was doing in life I was still always drawing. In my theory lessons for catering, I was drawing. In film studies I was drawing, throughout every aspect of my life I was drawing.
So I sat down and had a think, what can I do with it? What do I Want to do with it? I looked at some courses and came across “Illustration and animation.” to which I thought, ‘Well I can have a go.’ And the closer it got the more excited I got, I realised that animation was something I have always truly loved without realising. I had sometimes done it in my spare time as well and loved it but not thought much of it. It was the route of two of the career paths I had been most serious about, Art and Directing. 

And here I am, 2 years later and still so happy with the decision. The funny thing about school is that they are meant to prepare you for the world but they don’t truly prepare you. At primary school they say there are 3 jobs to simplify things; police, doctor, fireman. If at some point somebody had told me all the amazing things I could be, that all of us could be, things you don’t even realise are jobs; maybe it would have been easier.

But it does not end there, since deciding to be an animator I’ve wanted to work for Disney, but after seeing rise of the guardians for the second time today I realised. I love Disney films, but they have never tugged at me, never engaged me, never made me want to watch them over and over as well as Dreamworks have. Sure they make a lot of sequels but that is the business aspect of them, their first films are always made with something more. I respect their good business sense.
They love what they do, and although they only work in cgi they make beautiful work they push it to its limits, their stories are wonderful as are their character design.
What you want to be can come to you at any time, because it’s there whether you’re 14 or 44. Know that it’s not too late, just because you didn’t decide when you were 13.