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Inking in Illustrator

Something I recorded for high school seniors entering college. If more kids drew from life before freshman year, teaching life drawing would be a lot easier. I did and went through the arc of not seeing value in it early so I would not torture my college Something I recorded for high school seniors entering college. If more kids drew from life before their freshman year, of college teaching life drawing would be a lot easier on the professors and more progress can be made. I did so. my senior year in high school, Therefore, went through the arc of not seeing value in it early so I would not torture my college professors. No wonder I had such a large scholarship! Draw from life. It’s good for you!

Maya tips I made for my high school class. Setting up Maya projects with the Project Window is important not to skip lest you wan’t your files to end up on Neptune.

Folder hierarchies are essential to a streamlined production environment. An artist or a even a disorganized producer can waste a lot of time by not having a consistent filing system.

One of the first things a beginner should do in Maya is create a shelf of favorite tools. Maya is very dense, which is intimidating, so to avoid getting lost in the interface your first year, isolating these basic tools will take the pain out of searching through a thousand drop down menus just carve a simple model.

Ah, 2D. Be it analogue or digital, is fun to watch DRAWINGS come to life.

Teaching animation: The High school Class Room. Eldorado High School.

Teaching first and second years story development to high school students at a Title IX school was a challenge. However, I hope the lectures on Maslowe’s Hierarchy of Needs and the eight beats (some say 12, but externally there are 8) of a dramatic structure will be helpful for students who want to develop their own concepts in high school and are moving on to film school where Maslowe may not be part of the liberal arts curriculum, but the first years story teacher will expect you to know the concept.

Medieval Hero’s Journey principle line up compared to situation comedy/relational conflict line up. My legacy to Eldorado High. May the character design segment of class never be confusing again.

Character design assignment. Always work with a story, even if you only have the theme or premise. What are the character functions? Hero and Shadow: Platypus loves Oreo cookies, but the jerk Cassowary neighbor likes to steal the cookies from the platypus.

The Muppet lecture paid off! This is, like, the cutest talking tomato. “Wow, I’m a tomato!” You should see all of the talking bananas and toucans in progress 😀
WTG, class

Oh, no! It’s the dreaded dialogue assignment! Since my students hate Illustrator so much(their loss), I’m letting them draw their assets in Flash (Animate), so they can work in one program for this task. I told them to keep their character designs simple just in case the program gets peckish with their files. Save the anime line mileage for Illustrator and Toonboom…if my school can get a class license for the latter.

It was a good week.

What a fun day! Painting for the VFX students in the morning and ceramic sculpture for the 3D students in the afternoon! There’s nothing like fine art to better understand digital graphics programs. #fineart #vfx #painting #digital #students

Studying character design with the Muppet Show today.

Jinkies, whatta year! This was the year of structure and introducing the production pipeline as well as the basic programs game houses and film studios use. Next year we shall delve deeper in visual effects, modeling and very light rigging. My only regret this year was the lack of critiques. I was overwhelmed with making tutorials (high school no longer uses books nor do students take notes!) and students were getting the hang of beating deadlines. High school students are different than college students on honing that hard deadline muscle. Ah, well we went with the flow. Next year: more critiques. Even if everyone is behind again. We’ll just critique the work completed the previous year!

Eldorado High school Show Reel

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