Finally!

I made an animatic about something new I've experienced lately...    Contacts!

Some studies I did.

Hope you enjoyed it!

Story Portfolio 2013

Hello Hello!

So I sent in my story portfolio to Pixar for their Story Internship Program! Come check it out: 

lmarkp-story-portfolio.blogspot.com

It'll be so awesome to learn from the Pixar masters. Hopefully something will come out of this but if not, I'm just glad I took a chance :)

Unlucky Leprechaun Creative Challenge

My entry for LAIKA's creative challenge this month:

The writing part probably took longer than the actual boarding but I learned a lot :). Emma Coats, former Pixar and Dreamworks story artist, and her tips on storytelling really helped.

Rad Sechrist's character design post was very useful in helping me design the character:

Failed Fairy Tales Creative Challenge

LAIKA'S challenge this month was to put a bit of a twist to an old fairy tale.

Here's my entry for the challenge:

I figured this is a failed fairy tale because Humpty didn't end up getting smashed to the ground :)

Hope you enjoyed it!

LAIKA Seven Deadly Unicorn Sins Creative Challenge

Hi there!

I entered LAIKA's Seven Deadly Unicorn Sins Creative Challenge. Please vote for me whenever you can by going to the link above and hitting "Like" on the image! I hope you like the story I made haha :)

Here's a high res version of the boards in case the Facebook image is too low res to see:

Let me know what you think if/when you can! Thank you for visiting!

Gesture Drawing and Storyboarding for Animation

It's been such a great honor learning from Steven Macleod (Dreamworks Story Artist) and Louis Gonzalez (Pixar Story Artist) these past couple of months! I learned so much from the classes they taught.

When you can, please let me know what you think :)

I boarded out this story, "Scared to Swim", from Steven Macleod's Storyboarding for Animation class.

Here is the script and thumbnails I worked off of.

One of our assignments in the class was to make single image gags.

Here are some drawings that I did from Louis Gonzalez's Gesture Drawing class:

Our final assignment for the class was to use gesture drawing to tell a story:

Gesture Drawing class and Storyboarding for Animation went hand in hand. Taking both classes at the same time really helped me better capture each emotion within a pose and use it to tell a story.

It was a great challenge taking these classes and I'm glad I did :)

I hope you enjoyed the drawings! Thank you for stopping by!

Droplet of Life

Enjoy!