Monday, October 31, 2011

Character Sheet/Bio and Inspiration




            Bea – short for Abby – is a 9-year-old girl with light rosy brown hair in a bun, green eyes, and tan skin from playing outside every day.  Bea is very scrawny, she wears a red and lavender ringer t-shirt with light denim shorts, and red striped tube socks with flip-flops.  She is almost always smiling and positive about everything.  She is always curious; asking questions, and has a very active imagination.  She stands up straight and looks like she is always full of energy and excitement.  She is a student in elementary school and enjoys going to classes and playing at recess.  She is an only child and has a nice home life; she and her parents like to spend time together.  Her favorite things to do are playing outside, recess, finding bugs, daydreaming, and talking to all kinds of people.  She is very open and not afraid to talk to anyone or ask any question, sometimes she may talk too much when she gets excited or meets someone new.
            She is not interested in boys; she just wants to make friends with anyone who will be her friend.  Her goal in life is to make friends, she currently only has one.  She sometimes gets frustrated when she realizes that making friends can be hard.  She is always nice and friendly to everyone, she can be affected by other people’s moods, and she is very sympathetic to other people’s feelings.  Bea almost always thinks positively about everything.   Her ambitions don't reach very far into the future, she is only thinking about the present and how much fun she can have playing and being around people.
            Bea’s is good at having fun and talking to people, she is also good at helping people out.  However at times, she can be insecure about feeling lonely, she tries really hard to make friends, but sometimes she may be too confident and friendly.
            Her only friend is the little boy down the street named Timothy.  He has a red bowl cut, freckles, and is short.  He is 6 years old.  Timothy is always in a bad mood, and he is demanding and bratty.  He lives with his grandmother who cuts his hair and makes him wear a navy blue sailor outfit because it makes him look “so adorable”.  Bea doesn’t mind his attitude; she is always nice and doesn't really realize how negative Timothy can be. 
            Bea’s parents are very nice as well; they raised her to be kind to everyone and to not take life too seriously.  They rarely punish her because she hardly does anything bad.  Bea is pretty naïve about most things and she is usually in her own world.




My inspiration includes:






and others that I can't think of...

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Spring Semester Sophomore Animation Final: The Introduction of Milk and Hubert Tittybottom





So, this is my final film of sophomore semester. It took about 6 weeks to animate, I used my animatic story for this.  It was a lot of fun to do, stressful at times, and difficult. However, I am pretty happy with how it all came together.  This is the uncolored version, I am planning on doing a completed color version of this film.  Enjoy!

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Milk AfterEffects Puppet



This is my first attempt at an AE puppet.  It was difficult at first but it became a lot easier to do as i animated.  Once again, this is my awesome character Milk!!

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Freeform


Freeform from Lua Pettit on Vimeo.

For this assignment we were allowed to do anything we wanted.  I decided to try doing 2d animation over video.  It was a lot more complicated that I had originally thought, putting the two together.  The end product came out pretty nice, and it was a lot of fun to try out.  I definitely want to do more of this in the future.

Monday, March 7, 2011

Animatic!


Animatic from Lua Pettit on Vimeo.



This is my Milk animatic! I am really leaning towards doing this scene for my sophomore spring semester final project. :)

Energy Cycle - digital color


Energy - Digital Color from Lua Pettit on Vimeo.

Added in some color in Photoshop! I'm really into flat and bright colors right now. :)

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Model Sheet



We had to design our alter egos for this assignment.  Mine is a weird circus person who behaves erratically and strange/silly.  Her name is Milk.


oh...and that guy in the corner is just a secondary character that is pretty much certain to be in my animatic.

Monday, February 7, 2011

"Energy" Assignment


Energy from Lua Pettit on Vimeo

"Energy" Assignment for second semester sophomore year.
We had to make a 30 frame loop, the subject being "energy".
I wanted to show energy by drawing a bunch of moving things and with color it will be bright and flashy.

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Colored Fishman!


Purple Fishman Walkcycle from Lua Pettit on Vimeo.

aaaaaaand....Here's a nice colored version!!


I don't know what I want his final coloring to be yet, but this is fine for now.


also...I have no idea why vimeo makes this video look so blurry, it actually looks much sharper.

3/4 bird's eye view walk cycle...fishman


fishman walkcycle from Lua Pettit on Vimeo.


This is a bit of animation I worked on during winter break.  Something fun to practice, with a bit of perspective.
Final colored version will be up soon!