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Hey! Sorry for the absence!
It's time to tell what is going on =/)
First of all now I'm a student of animation school. I am studying traditional 2d animation and now at home I have the epic chaos of paper and pencils.
Over the past year I have learned that before school I know about animation nothing. I would be glad to show you some animations, but my assignments are still in progress. It's a really long process!

Summer is vacation time in school so I had the opportunity and time to study 3d animation on CGTarian. There are contests and the winner gets a free course. Unexpectedly I was chosen as a winner and now I'm studying online course Physics of Animation. It has recently begun but I think I can already say that it's superbly!It sounds like an advertisement but I'm just really admire it and I would like to tell more about this course, but probably later.


Here is my animation for the competition. Theme is "super power"

And one more animation from a week of intensive course of Gobelins in Moscow.
Yoshimichi Tamura was our mentor, he is soo :333.. nice mentor I mean, he-he.

Study acting from Margarita Sheshukova on Vimeo.

Also lately I spend a lot of time in ZBrush. I finally figured out how it works and this interface... customizable mmm. I can spend hours just placing buttons :}
Here are some wips.


Well, some girl, as usual. I find that Zbrush is the best way to practice anatomy. I highly recommend, it is great development for skills

Gandalf! I dream of Gandalf figure on my desk, so I'm working on it.


Some sketches and wips. They aren't new, but I'll just put them here.
I have to say I have accumulated a bunch of unfinished illustrations, but my attention was directed to the study of animation, so I really don't draw in this period much.


One last important thing I have a Tumblr now! It was in test mode for a long time, but now I'm sure I would use it. So welcome!
I have 2 blogs now and I love both of these places, so I decided that the tumblr is for frequent short updates and the blogspot for more substantive monthly posts (probably at the end of each month). I think it will work quite well for me.

argh, I so much want to be active in internet again, hope I can, I will try!
And thank you guys for your support and for every message that I received, it means a lot for me.
See you later!

Watched “The croods”! =D Oh this is so emotional film! So epic!So many cute animals! Dreamworks amazed me again. I don’t remember how looks this cat, so I peeked from Chris Sanders’ drawings ^^




And a bit about my project. Сurrent stage pretty boring and slow but UVs finaly done!

I played with this method of the whole week and I'm not sure that this is what I need, it is pretty slows down my computer =(. So the textures is still in progress.

Here super quick sketch just how I imagine the environment haha =)

back to work ;)

Hey! I'm caught a cold so I have time to make a post ;).
I'm working on a very short 3d animated film and I have only 4 months before deadline -.-
I decided to post here the progress at least once a week. I think this is a good motivation for me and nice practice in self-discipline.
Here, a small part of a very rough storyboard. It's a simple story about boy and monster. i think i am bad story writer, heh.

Concepts of boy:

Here concept of monster. I want a creature without hair because hair hard for render and dynamics. I think it will look something like this, though not sure about colors ^^.

updates

Latest updates on deviantart =)

New Year!

Well, it's a new year!!! =D And that means that I'm 22 years now =\. I hope all have a wonderful weekend!

picture inspired by cats of Apofiss

practice and other

   Sorry for not updating! My working practice continues so I'm still very busy. Anyway, I have something to show a little =)

   Yeah, here is a guy! For a long time, this is the first time when I like how it turned out. Men drawing are not so usual to me, it's hard to catch a good facial proportions -.-
   I so much love when you can see brush strokes in paintings, so I tried to make it painterly, feel like I wouldn't want to use color blending for ever!












   And here a picture ( actually they are not very new), where I tried to use some of styles. It was so fun and easy! I have one epic idea to illustrate in this style. I hope I can realize it someday.

P. S. The next few months I will concentrate on the study of anatomy, so do not be surprised if you see some nude paintings for study here, he-he =P
Thanks for looking!

goodbye Hogwarts

Just a quick sketch, after watching the movie. I'm not a fan of Harry Potter, but I'm sad that this story is over. It's part of childhood after all!

Looks like I have not updated the deviantart for ages! Time to get myself to finish some drawings, heh =)

Forrest

I'm busy with exams lately and don't have much to show yet (

Something

I found something special

and I want to take care of it.

Jamping stuff and pic

At this time I'm working on the animated short film. I would like to show something, but the stage on which I work a bit boring and I want to wait when there will be something interesting.

The picture I drew for the blog. I also recorded a video but will upload it later =)



Jumping! I'm just beginning to study animation with the tutorials by Jason Ryan!
And I just love this rig "Boris"

Must say that the 3d animation is much more painful than 2d!

Spring day

I got working practices at the university so I'm very busy again. My little weekend I spend on the study of Maya, because my new animated short film is ready to move into a stage production, some wip's will be up soon.
But today I found time to finish that little picture, which started a few weeks ago :).

practice

quick sketch for practice
Dark skin is much easier for me!

well, the new year

Sorry for the slow update. I was too busy with some projects, exams and real life. I try to come back online but very slowly because it still have a lot of things uncompleted.
I finished one of my illustration. It took me too much time, more then 30 hours i think. Here some close ups and steps.
I think I was a little crazy decided to draw detailed trees, heh

Sketches

landscape practice.
long time not updated ^^

Some new after a long silence.

Don't update here for a long time. October was a bit difficult because of exams, but now I'm a little more free to create some personal work and to learn some things.
I think it's time to start practicing a traditional art, especially in oil painting. I did it last year, but I stopped due to some reasons, so I need to start it again. Finally, I'm going to paint a portrait of my grandfather this weekend, he asked me about it for so long.
Here, a small watercolor. I did it last week, it must be something like a poster for my next animated film (start to do it only next summer I think), I tried to catch the atmosphere of this. I usually work from dark to light, so the watercolor is hard but interesting :)






The picture below is a concept character for my student's work, they had to be converted into 3D. But this time I have a completely different idea for a student's work.

And yes, I study the Maya, I think most of the basics already learned. Absolutely love this program. Btw I will do one of these characters in Maya, for the study.

Image below is a very spontaneous thing. I wanted to draw something on Halloween, but I have no good ideas yet. So here 2 portraits (again). The picture on the left was unsuccessful, too big eyes that would be seen a pumpkin in the eye. Portrait on the right I like more, but it has no idea. I recorded the process of this drawing, will put it soon on YouTube.


And the last is also a spontaneous drawing I'm working on. Finished in a few days =).

ooh don't like spontaneous things. I need to finish what is planned at first, but I can not control it sometimes -.-

My sister said that all my characters are visited only one hairdresser lol, It's right.
sorry for so many words, I hope you have good days =)

painting without pain, such things happen?

I bought intuos4 last week, wow, I feel that I killed my hand all these years with my very old tablet. Now I just can not tear myself away from a new tablet and I really could paint all day and not feel pain, is happiness!
I played a little with the program Corel Painter Sketch PAD and finished one of the sketches.



I'm trying to find other ways to create animations on the computer because I have always used the Tvpaint animation but it lacks some very important tools (or I just do not know about them). So here a little and very rough test. I'm trying to combine PaintTool SAI and Photoshop, still not perfect and it is very difficult to calculate the timing (. Maybe I need to think about some other program hmmm...

New wip

something on the summer theme =)

This is something from old. I did this as a test task for my work a few months ago. Another style, and other painting technique. I think not too bad if I post it here =)

Photoshop CS3 and wacom volito2 as usual =)