Art of Stephanie D

Recent Figure Drawing

2011-07-15T14:29:00.000-07:00

So, it's been... over a year since I've posted? What with finishing schoolwork, graduating, and getting a job, priorities shifted for a bit. I'm back, though, and I'm ready to work with all this creativity I've got stored up.

My work holds figure drawing from time-to-time, and so I've decided to post some of my better sketches. I'd like to go in and paint some of these at some point when I've got the time.

More to come, hopefully soon!

- Steph

2010-02-16T00:30:00.000-08:00

Completed Neighborhood Stills

2010-02-14T22:51:00.001-08:00

This is my neighborhood scene complete with lighting and texturing.

Dialogue - Blocking Pass 1

2010-02-11T02:07:00.000-08:00

I've just got one 2 more seconds left of this to block, but I like the way it's coming out. There are a couple minor changes I'm going to make before I switch to linear and workout the animation, timing, and lipsync.

Updated Work in Progress Demo Reel

2010-02-09T13:42:00.001-08:00

This is my work in progress demo reel. There is still a lot of animation to be done, and I need to tweak sounds, so I've got a lot of work head of me!

Neighborhood Stills

2010-02-09T13:25:00.001-08:00

These are production stills for my demo reel scene. I'm working on finishing up the textures and lighting the scene.

First Section Blocking Pass

2010-02-01T23:17:00.000-08:00

This is my first blocking pass for my demo reel animation. This is just the beginning of it, and it's not timed out yet. That's coming next.

Toybox Storyboards

2010-01-23T17:31:00.001-08:00

Everyone in class had to do their own storyboards for our short animation, and these were mine :) I had to do most of them by hand.

Work in Progress Demo Reel

2009-11-20T22:47:00.000-08:00

Go to the link below to view my work in progress demo reel that I made for the expo! :)

http://sed303.aisites.com/DemoWIPsmall.mov

Business Card Designs

2009-11-19T22:02:00.000-08:00

These are the business card designs I came up with. I really like the first one, but on a card so small, white with a shadow didn't work, so I ended up going with the bottom one.

Gesture Drawings Spring Quarter

2009-10-03T13:24:00.000-07:00

These are some old gesture drawings I did earlier this year for spring quarter '09.

We've Got Something!

2009-09-30T01:01:00.001-07:00

This was my final for my Character Animation class. Still needs a lot of smoothing, but at the time, I was ready to be done.

Adv. Materials & Lighting Final

2009-09-22T13:17:00.000-07:00

This was my final for my Advanced Materials and Lighting class. We did still renders at higher quality and then 90 frame (3 second) renders of a camera move around the bug. Both are below, and I'm really proud of them!! :)

Still Render:

Animated Render:

Visual Effects Final

2009-09-21T20:44:00.000-07:00

This was my Visual Effects final :)

Updated Work in Progress

2009-09-02T19:29:00.000-07:00

Updated poses for my Character Animation final. Everything is still in stepped keys. Almost ready to move to linear keys :)

Mechanical Bug - Work In Progress

2009-09-02T16:37:00.001-07:00

This is just my work in progress, there is still more to be done! I modeled, textured, shaded, and added effects to this assignment.

"We've Got Something" First Blocking Pass

2009-08-26T19:47:00.000-07:00

This is my first blocking pass for character animation class. I have most of the key poses in, I'm going to go back in and make another pass. After that, I'll really start animating! :)

Big Rig Crash

2009-08-25T20:58:00.000-07:00

This was an assignment I did for my Visual Effects class. I did everything from the modeling to texturing (which is really just shaders), lighting, particles, crash, etc. I realize there is a lot wrong with it in terms of the way the particles move, the way so...me of them look, etc, but overall, I'm happy I just finished it and got it to work :)

Updated Walk Cycle

2009-08-18T12:54:00.000-07:00

This was the walk cycle I did last week for my midterm. :)

Quick Life Drawings

2009-07-13T12:41:00.000-07:00

These are just quick life drawings done to get the gesture of the human form down quickly and effectively. Some were done in 10 seconds, some in 30, and some in 1 minute.

Adv. Drawing Final

2009-06-19T23:41:00.000-07:00

This was my final for my advanced drawing class. We chose a sketch from the previous week and turned it into a render. This was the one I chose because I liked the composition. There is work that could be done to improve it, but I'm fairly pleased with the way it came out. I really wanted some high contrast and I feel that I was able to accomplish that.

Adv. Drawing - Character Drawings

2009-06-19T08:54:00.000-07:00

This week for advanced drawing we had to draw sketches of characters based on basic shapes - circles, squares, cylinders, triangles, etc. I really played with the types of characters I chose to do and wanted to draw things that were different from what I would normally draw for a character myself.

Adv. Drawing - Basic Shapes

2009-06-12T09:32:00.000-07:00

This week we were focusing on basics shapes and arranging them in interesting compositions using light and dark. We will be doing a full render of one of them next week.

Adv. Drawing - Life Drawing Wk 8-9

2009-06-05T09:21:00.000-07:00

This week we focused on life drawing again. I tried to be looser with my drawings this time around.

Adv. Drawing - In Class Work

2009-05-29T11:48:00.000-07:00

These are scans of drawings done during Advanced 2D Drawing this week. The model posed in each walk pose for 30 seconds each = 2 minutes total spent per page.

Adv. Drawing - Life Drawing Wk 7-8

2009-05-29T11:40:00.000-07:00

This past week's homework was the same as the week before; life drawing. All live references.

Quick Animation

2009-05-23T23:01:00.000-07:00

This is a quick animation I did just to test out dialogue. I haven't animated in a couple quarters. A bit rusty.

Adv. Drawing - Figures and Gesture

2009-05-22T09:19:00.000-07:00

The focus for Week 6 homework for advanced drawing was to focus on drawing the figure, especially in motion. I captured both figures that were mostly still and figures in motion. It was all drawn from live reference.

3D Anim. Final - The Push

2009-05-18T08:49:00.000-07:00

This was my final for my 3D Animation class in Fall Qtr '08. Obviously there is a lot that could be improved, but this was my first real attempt at a push.

Weather Change

2009-05-17T11:04:00.000-07:00

This was a simple flash animation assignment for Web Animation class Winter Qtr '09. The character animation was all drawn animation.

First 3D Walk

2009-05-17T10:27:00.000-07:00

This was the first 3D walk cycle I've done. It was for my 3D Animation class about 6 months ago (Fall Quarter '08).

Leg Turn

2009-05-17T10:16:00.000-07:00

This was a quick animation I did for my 3D animation midterm about 6 months ago (Fall Qtr '08). The prompt was simply to turn the model around.

Adv. Drawing - Life Drawing

2009-05-16T01:00:00.001-07:00

Reference for these came from action figures and life.

Materials & Lighting Final

2009-05-15T12:10:00.000-07:00

This was the final that I did for my Materials & Lighting final Winter quarter '09. I did the modeling, texturing and lighting for the scene.

Old Gestures

2009-05-15T12:03:00.000-07:00

These are some of my favorite gestures I did based off of a live model while in Gesture class in Spring Quarter of '08.

Adv. Drawing Midterm - Haunted House

2009-05-08T11:36:00.000-07:00

In addition to sketchbook this last week, we also had to do an 11x17 rendering in graphite of one of the "haunted house" concepts we came up with last week. Even though there is more work to be done on this project, this was the finished assignment that I turned in.

Adv. Drawing - Interiors

2009-05-08T11:26:00.001-07:00

This week the sketchbook focus was interiors. Though I found online reference, most of the drawings were done based on real life interiors, including my own apartment.

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Adv. Drawing - Haunted Houses

2009-04-27T08:10:00.001-07:00

In this assignment for Advanced Drawing we were to explore the concept of haunted houses.

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Adv. Drawing - Pipes

2009-04-21T21:25:00.000-07:00

This week we did a study on piping and pipes in general. It was a good week to play with ink and water pens to get the desired effect. I took several pictures for photo reference; however, I have lost my flash drive so those won't be up for a few days.

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Adv. Drawing - Alleyways

2009-04-18T00:28:00.000-07:00

The following works were done for Week One of my advanced drawing class. The idea was to work through ideas and concepts for alleyways based on reference and then develop them into our own creations.

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