This Rookie is Silly

[Samszym]

Aw woah a class with Vilppu! That sounds awesome, I'm kinda jealous XD
Figures are looking really solid, limbs don't look like they have much depth though. I think building the arms out of boxes to really force yourself to decide which end of the limb is closest and which is further away might help.
Lookin forward to seeing more :D

[Psychotime]

Thanks for the pointer Sam. I usually try cylinders, but cubes might be easier for me to wrap my head around. I'll start using that.

More card illustrations for my own amusement. Essentially remakes of the images I drew last year. Very fun to do, forces me to think about visual storytelling and composition and I learn something each time.

[Psychotime]

Managed to finally get my first storyboard job. Nothing special, just revisionist at Cosmic Toast, a small studio that has contracts with toy companies.

Checked out the Nethercutt Museum today over in Sylmar, CA. Nice place. I’ll check out the Petersen Automotive Museum one of these days.

Tried out a pure ballpoint pen thing that day. Not sure if I’ll keep doing it, but eh.

[Samszym]

Congrats on the job!!!! Even if it isn't a huge thing, you're in the industry! That's aweosme, hope I can catch up and get a job in animation soon too.

[Psychotime]

You definitely will, Sam. I think you should be sending out a portfolio to companies if you aren't already. Just make a clean portfolio website (a blogspot site is good enough, honestly) and start sending well written emails to studios.

http://animationguild.org/studio-list/

Here's the studio list from the animation guild. It's all the contact info you need.

I haven't been posting them due to NDA's, but over the last couple months I've managed to qualify for some storyboard tests. In order, Cartoon Network, Starburns Industries, and Bento Box before Cosmic Toast. Obviously I wasn't chosen until the last one, but they were willing to test me.

And it all came from just sending out a nice email, or just making a polite phone call at the right time (which is how the first two took a chance on me).

Your work is great. You just need to make sure the right people see it at the right time.

[Psychotime]

Life drawing from Concept Design Academy.

Plus my left hand again.

[Samszym]

Hey Psycho, never said thanks for your last message, you really motivated me to kick it into gear and get my portfolios set up.So thanks a lot, I'm gonna do this!!! >:D
I wanted to ask, are you in LA, and did you move there before or after you started applying? From what I hear not having an LA address hurts the chances of the studios looking at your application

Figure drawings looking nice! The shapes and proportions look pretty good, but as a crit there's not a lot of volume to them. I still think using a box for the torso and limbs would be a good way to start, forcing yourself to decide on a side plane and a front plane.

[Psychotime]

I wanted to ask, are you in LA, and did you move there before or after you started applying? From what I hear not having an LA address hurts the chances of the studios looking at your application.

I only moved to the LA area (outside the city, I can't stand the big city) a full month ago. I was applying way before I got here.

A few of the studios who took a chance on me knew ahead of time that I wasn't currently living around LA at the time they gave me the tests. So at least for some people it doesn't matter.

But it's very possible that not being in the area at the time cut me out of the running automatically for some of my applications. I don't know.

All that said, the job I did manage to get was after I finally moved here, not before. There's always a possibility that even though they gave me a test, the companies that turned me down in the end may have decided on another applicant due to that factor. I'll never really know.

Also, practically all the animation studios are in Burbank these days. It's a city directly north of LA and more rural in comparison. They moved out there due to cheaper real estate.

There have to be some studios in actual LA, but most of the major ones (CN, Nick, Disney, Warner Bros) are in Burbank, and so are a good chunk of the mid-level ones (Bento Box, Starburns, Film Roman). And I'm grateful for that, honestly. I REALLY don't like the big city, and Burbank is totally my speed.

As it stands, actual LA is more home to every industry BESIDES animation.

[Psychotime]

Center Stage Gallery tonight.

[Psychotime]

Sorry, haven't bothered to post here in a while, so here's a big dump.

[rafa zanchetin]

Hey man welcome back!
Loving your studies, at first I was thinking your gestures were made digitally but after a few I realized it is traditional? Damn, the flow on them is amazing.
I've got nothing to crit though as your style is very matured, just keep rocking it.

[pnate]

Congrats on the job! I've only just found out about your work sadly, but am totally impressed. Lots of dynamism, flow, and story going on with your linework - really great stuff. Did you ever consider a kickstarter for that card game project you've been working on? You could probably get it funded without a problem!

[Psychotime]

I have thought about doing a kickstarter, but that's for some time in the future. Starting the webcomic comes first.

[Psychotime]

[Psychotime]

Environment attempt. Gonna go to the critique center for this one.

[Samszym]

Have you thought about using a more flat, cel shady style? I think it might work nicer with the lines. Anyway, nice depth here, the only thing that really sticks out as a problem are the bars on the telephone poles not seeming like they're in perspective with everything else.

[Psychotime]

I'm really not sure how I want to typically go about environments at the moment. Something flat and cel shady doesn't sound satisfying to me, though. I'll give it a go on the next one.

This is an update to the image after some critique from another site.



Got one more thing to change, though.

[Psychotime]

New boards for short scene.

Spoiler

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