One Month Later...

Technically two? Did I really not post a single thing in November? Ah, well, Finals does that to you. I actually did do some stuff for Production Design that came out...well, I think it's okay, but my professor thought it was stunningly awesome. Here are my costume designs for a hypothetical remake of Romeo and Juliet, set in Gothic, medieval England (c. 1300). Tybalt and Friar Lawrence meet to converse about Juliet's marriage, shortly after Lawrence marries Romeo and Juliet to each other...only Tybalt thinks the marriage they're going to discuss is Juliet's pending marriage to Paris.

Long story short, Friar Lawrence tries to convince Tybalt not to kill Romeo for marrying Juliet. Hilarity ensues. Okay, not really...more like death, actually. You probably know the story.





So...uh...yeah. Friar Lawrence has been upgraded to a Catholic bishop. I jacked the Montagues' and Capulets' social status to royalty in rival kingdoms, so I figured Romeo wouldn't be chatting up just any old monk.

I had more fun with Tybalt--I mean, Catholic Clerical Garb hasn't changed much in the past thousand years--but now that I look at this again his one visible leg looks waaaaaaay too small. Face, meet desk.

EDIT: Blogger thinks I'm in Pacific time for some reason. Trust me, it's really December.

Back at Monty

The Performing Arts Midterms Madness is officially over. Apparently I've got the right stuff for production design. What she doesn't know is that I learned it all in animation. In Character Design and Layout.

Personally I can't understand why so many production designers come in not knowing how to draw.

Campy Green Cowboy Hats Still Rock

I'm still yanking hair out over my production design project, but at least the campy green cowboy hat with the tiara on it boosted my sadistic professor's morale during Production Design's tech week. And rightfully so. That hat is fabulous and it's only logical that the citizens of Crites should give it such amazing reception. Colin thought it was cool too.

If that entire building starts wearing absurd lucky Midterms Week hats, I am going to giggle incessantly. I swear, everything that Monty finds annoying and redundant about me, Crites really gets a kick out of. And vice versa.

I wish I were animating right now

I am never taking another quarter without animation classes again, ever. This week got so midterms-crazy that I can't even drop by Monty to animate, just write up a slew of journal entries for Production Design. I mean, production design is great and all, and I'm actually doing REALLY well in that class, but it's so much work. My professor works us so hard she makes Troy look harmless, which should say it all. She's having us come in on Friday morning to present a project two classes after another project. Which Troy totally did, just not on a Friday. Okay, there was one time in Animation I but that was only at 8AM because my class was actually at 8AM, this class is at 2. You'd think we'd be meeting at 2. This isn't the first time I've had to present on a Friday morning for this class, either.

I mean, I know I shouldn't be whining about work, but it is seriously cutting into my animating time! I have got to finish Jacquestar before I get too much better than I was to keep the style consistent, and this department is entirely oblivious to the fact that I don't relegate my animation to my classwork.

Thirteen Days

I made it thirteen days without drinking any caffeine. That's a new record. I probably should've saved that bottle of cherry coke for my 8AM tomorrow though. Caffeine deprivation impairs your thinking a bit.

I Wish I could Quit Vault

Debber actually showed up at the CAS Meeting where I was screening Pasta Perils. He didn't come to watch the short films though, so he missed it entirely. It would have been absolutely hilarious if he'd seen it there, with sixtysomething people in the room laughing maniacally. He was even wearing the exact same outfit I drew him in. And the craziest thing? I had no idea he was going to show up at all.

If he had been there for the screening, it would have been GLORIOUS. I would have totally killed to have seen my facial expression once I'd found out he was there the whole time.

CURRENT LIST-O-PROJECTS
-Jacquestar: Roughly 60% animated
-Bit: 95% animated, Needs cleanup and sound/music
-April: Waiting on John for the shot briefings
-Monty! The Musical: The EFX Song: Live action. Must wait till at least November 1 for full costuming/choreography.
-Musical Misadventures: 10% Animated
-Foiled Again: Visual Redevelopment stage, because I sucked two years ago.

Pasta Perils: The End Result

Well, two months of off-again-on-again painstaking labor later and it's finally done. Compressed and edited on September 29, 2009. Not in that order. Courtney, I hope you're happy.

Actually, it's better with the sound. I got so sick of looking at it and quite frankly thought it sucked for a while and then I put the sound in. It's amazing what a well-timed eraser squeak can do for a piece. And I really like how the end credits turned out. It timed itself pretty well for some stock musical piece that I yanked off of sounddogs.



The big-screen premiere is going to be at tomorrow night's CAS meeting!