I’m still working on laying in tone on this storyboard assignment. Â If you read the boards from yesterday, you can continue the story here. Â In this installment, things kind of start going south for our protagonist.
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Back to some class assignments: I’m now laying in some tone on some of the storyboard sketches you’ve seen earlier. Â Here’s how the story begins.
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Late tonight I felt like staying up and playing some old 80’s video games — but I still needed a sketch for the day. Â First things first.
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Another unusual assignment from storyboarding class. Â We were required to illustrate a specific scene from Richard Wagner’s Nibelungen saga. Â Here, Siegfried sets out from his castle on a journey that will, before long, put him at odds with a dragon. Â It’s an unusual topic for me, and probably chosen by the instructor because the story would likely be unfamiliar to us. Â It’s certainly foreign to me — both the story, and the whole notion of doing fantasy art. Â Not the kind of thing I would ever draw of my own choosing, but still an interesting assignment. Â I’ll probably be working on a refinement of this scene, so critique is encouraged.
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Went with a bunch of other video and visual FX people on a tour of Dreamworks Animation today. Â They do a lot of very cool work there, especially in character design. Â I drew this based on a life-sized statue that was in one of their lobbies.
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We went to test drive a Honda Accord Crosstour today. Â That V6 sure is nice, with 100+ more horses than I’m used to. Â And the sweeping (albeit polarizing) body styling and larger wheels are good too — but unfortunately they combine to sabotage the rear storage compartment (which is pretty disappointing for a car of that size). Â And there, folks, is my first printed car review, clocking in at a powerfully informative three sentences. Â Take that, Edmunds.com! Â I shall soon be crowned king of online automotive advice!
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Drove up the Central Valley today — been a while since I did that. Â On my way to the mountains for a good time this weekend. Â In the absence of anything else to sketch, I drew one of these things (of which I passed a few today).
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Made several phone calls to friends today. Â One of them suggested this as today’s subject.
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I was reading something this evening about Egypt, and the location was somehow stuck in my mind when it came time for today’s drawing.
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Just finished watching what is probably the most powerfully affecting documentary (maybe even film of any kind) that I’ve ever seen: Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father.  A traumatic film, not for the faint of heart.  I don’t even really know what more to say about it — just feeling very emotionally drained.  Not knowing what to draw this evening, I made this quick sketch based on the well done movie poster by Evan B. Harris (more of  his work here).
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