Storyboards and Life

Storyboards for the next film are looking so good! And I did them all digitally!! Which....while not particularly impressive it's a big step for me in wrapping my brain around how to do digital art.

Lots of down shots. As far as life stuff goes, I was going to make a post about art and feelings and all the internal frowns that are going on, but you know, things are going pretty awesome. Not perfect, perfect will probably never be achieved. The point of perfect is to strive toward it, and in doing so get better and better all the time no matter how slow-going it might be. Let me tell you: it is excruciatingly slow going. All the time. And I wouldn't have it any other way.

Barn Owl Puppet

By far my favorite puppet in Thistle, the barn owl. I had such fun making him <3

I really want to frame him against one of the large scale back drops I did, but with so many moving parts and pieces I think I'd have to glue him or sew him all together....kind of a saddening thought.

Presenting...

http://vimeo.com/27791165


Thistle by Sarah Eason
Soundtrack and Sound Design by Tim 'Jom' Campbell

One day a starling meets a thistle girl, and pecks her eye out...

(I'm just linking to vimeo on this because the video quality was AWFUL on the upload in Blogger)

Flowers, ink, and all

Got some Background sketches for my next project. They turned out nice, liking how it's going, just got the wrong aspect ratio...hehe Still haven't learned my lesson of thinking things through before jumping in it seems. So I'm gonna be revising these, but over all they'll be very similar.

News too! Oh news, about Thistle of course. I got accepted into my first festival ever!! Super exciting and the beginning of what I hope will be a fruitful tour for my little thistle girl. It's the 13th Annual Milwaukee Short Film Festival!! It's happening soon, so check it out: here!

Also ponies starts up again tomorrow! I did a little Pinkie Pie anthro commission for my sister. Looking forward to the weekends of animated magic to come!

Sometimes Office Supplies are my friends

So here's another new character, Remover Berd!
Truth be told, I pictured a lot of inanimate objects as birds including scissors and
compasses as a wee child.

It looks like after some soul searching I've decided to put the pot-and-pan dinosaur project aside to instead pursue my love of office supply creatures.
No regrets.

Also! Today I sent off my very first DVD submission of Thistle to a local short film festival. I feel like pacing the floor with a cigarette in my mouth as those classic cartoons of fathers eagerly awaiting a baby's arrival usually do.

Photo Ops

Took Thistle outside for some photos

Brushes of Air

Recently I got a Copic Airbrush which I absolutely adore! I've never done airbrushing before, so I'm still getting a feel for it and I think I'll challenge myself to do they backgrounds in my new film all in airbrush :x We'll see how it goes. I haven't even messed with stencils yet. Just free-handing little ink sketched mostly

Also, I must say I'm completely in love with my hammer dog and his nemesis: Scissor Goat!
So enamored, in fact....I almost want to ditch pot-and-pan-dinosaurs to just animate these guys.................but I must persevere! Rest assured, though, there WILL be film of them in the future.

Summer-time sleepy

Just my work wall I'm posting on with little film tid bits :3
Even though I'm sleepy I must sleep walk ever forward.

That's my pulp fiction calendar in the corner.

Poster Posts

Here I am again talking about my film! Hehehe I'm just going to keep teasing you guys ....Then eventually the actual film. What I've been doing lately is mostly working on a whole new film and I'm playing around with the idea of blogging the steps I go through as I progress. Kind of a "This is How Sarah Makes a Film" blog. Maybe...

I also made posters for Thistle!

With the latest in accidental reflection technology

I think this one featuring the thistle girl is my fave. The composition turned out nicely I think. Starling poster composition though, not so good.
But I was very happy with the little thistle seeds.

The simplicity of the pigeon poster is exactly as I pictured it! <3

Enough about me. I want to use the rest of this space to do some artist pimping. My good friend Nami of Naminational fame is currently cooking up what is looking to be an awesome web comic. I did a little fan doodle of Tadi, the main character, and her cat familiar.
So you should go give it a read!

Give her some web traffic love over here:
http://tattered.smackjeeves.com/

And follow her devart over here:
http://naminational.deviantart.com/

Alright next time....pot and pan dinosaurs?