Graduation in two months!

So this is whats on my mind at the moment. First off, Im excited to be done with school. Considering that I have been in school, continuously, my entire life. Basically. Secondly, Im terrified of not being in school. Because I have never had a real job. I mean freelance is fun, and a few days of this and that is good. But I have no concept of actually doing what I love to do, and getting paid for it. A job situation is going to be so much different from the school experience. I mean, Ive had jobs, harsh ones, but I need to do this! Agh! Im freaking out. Basically.
Wow, that was alot of rambling.

updates:
Senior Studio-School is going good. 10 week review for senior studio is next week. I need to put everything together and start to see how it will work with the song by owlwood. Im pretty sure itll be good. Im exciting to get them all into the right format, and add doodads and bushes and trees and things. I think Ill feel like I accomplished something.

Pitch-Im reworking the Maudies Closet character designs in Illustrator. I feel like the pitch is better formed to a flash program, or after affects. Ive got one down and Im pretty happy with it. Im kind of nervous about approaching the environments though, just because its something new. The story is fleshing itself out nicely. Ive been writing a short story which introduces all the characters and their background histories. Everyone seems to be relating very well to Katie, the main character. She has a great sense of sarcasm and is very practical. This is why it is so difficult for her to have moved on top of a vintage clothes store surrounded by hippies. The adventures that Katie, Evie and Jack go on are going to be really great.

Practicum- This is a great lesson for all of us in class, so we can learn how to respond to clients. Its interesting how difficult it really is. I know that if someone was paying me to continually redraw characters, it would be fine. Its very hard for the team to understand why we havent decided on a style or main character. But its hard on their part as well, With different opinions about the sketches. I guess we will just keep giving them what they want. Hopefully, the plan is that we will spend extra kind reworking this character style, so that it can continue through the total 8 films.

pitching..any advice?

So im looking into pitching my story to a few places. Im looking into contacting Cartoon Network, because Ive already had communication with them before...and I figure it is worth a shot, but the smaller studios will probably recieve it better. Im still in school with only a few months left, so I figure it is a good time to get ready to jump into that part of my career. Not that Im expecting it to get picked up immediately, but it is a very solid idea and Im pretty confident in it.
Anywho, so that is basically where I am at in the whole scope of things. My senior short animation is finally on the ball. Ive had some pretty serious health issues Ive been dealing with and it threw me off for a minute, but Im happy to get started on it all again. Im planning on having it fully animated by the middle of May and hopefully be well into coloring. Ive decided to color with colored pencil, which sounds crazy even to me....but I think it suits the style of my animation better than any other option.

Anyways, about the pitch, if anyone has some advice for me, as I dive head first into this idea, please let me know. Im currently working on character ideas and each character Bible is almost finished. I have about 3 different ideas for plots and Im hoping to come up with about 3 more. This will hopefully cement the themes behind the show, as well as the characters.

So. What Im up too......

Ill be posting some of my Flash rendered traditional animation, as soon as I figure out how to do that. lol. Im still teaching myself Flash, its a labor of love I guess. I have some more character and environment design that I am working on rendering in photoshop, painter. I usually do my final renders in colored pencil, after all I am a traditional kind of girl...but this time Im going to try and keep up with the generation of today, plus I think itll go alot easier. Here is a link to the deviantart account of a fellow student here at CCS. Shes brilliant, check her out.
http://anathemasremedy.deviantart.com/
continuing to push through my last smester....and loving it.

staying busy....

ive been getting alot of work done, on my film and on my other work...trying to mix things up so i dont get too bored, i just uploaded a few older pieces, that i never got around to putting on the internet....im proud of them. colroed pencils are fun!

i think that i found my soundtrack for my student film. its by an artist called Owlwood, from Toledo. The song is called "wolves", ad it basically embodies the idea that Red Riding hood was wronged in more ays than one. Im really excited to start arranging my shots with the climax of the music.

I will keep you all posted on how my progress is going!

new photoshop and stuff....

me.

shannon smith. my pal

kimo...my bf.

been having fun with photoshop pictures and my friends pictures. Here is some of it! i should be getting my scanner next week. I have 2 HP scanner printers, but neither of them will work with my mac. Apparently there is a big problem with that. O well, im gonna buy an epson.

Freelance possibilities.....

So today my practicum class sat down with the Toyota/Detroit Science Center Engineering Theater Team, and discussed our opportunities to be involved in 8 short shows that high light the possible engineering careers. I am really really excited about it. The animation is going to be fun and slightly campy. But the real kicker is that this is a gig that could continue after I graduate. It is some animation that will be shown to thousands of people who visit the Detroit science Center each year. Its a really great chance for all of us to get some work and stay in the Detroit area. Im really really excited to get to work on the project.

In other news, classes have begun again, and Im very excited about all 4 of them, Senior Studio, Creative Writing, Advanced Environments and Characters, and Practicum. All 4 classes are going to keep me on my toes. But my creative writing class is going to give me a chance to write short stories about the characters in my environment and characters class. Well the semester has begun and it is my last one...So i hope I dont get behind, and make it count.
More Artwork soon to come.

this is it.

yay! i finally am up to date with today! i got my iMac in the mail the other day and am set up with my high speed internet and all. ive got to buy my programs tomorrow. thank goodness for student loans. by monday i should have my flash, adobe after affects, photoshop, and illustrator all installed and working.
i am so geeked to be able to work at home on my senior project. i think it really is going to give me an advantage this next semester.
i cant wait to start school again, and i can believe that i am done in may.
alright. thats it for now. more later.