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credits

2010-08-09T20:14:00.001-07:00

whoops, almost forgot.... credits for the pictures
Stylist: moi
Mentor/teacher: Tyler Udall
Photographer: Drew Willis
Models: Clayton Chitty, Sarah Goodwill
Hair: Devon Baker
Make up: Jackie Bloxom

Blue Demon Lives

2010-08-09T20:10:00.001-07:00

FIRST PHOTOSHOOT PICS!!

2010-08-09T20:06:00.000-07:00

This is my first photo shoot that I styled for school. "Marie Antoinette Reborn" and "Blue Demon Lives" we had to provide and organize everything except for photographer and location. Great experience, can't wait to style another one! Big thanks to my team and models for a fantastic job.
First photos up are the Marie Antoinette shoot.

Animation Mentor Class 2 Reel. Last AM reel

2010-03-23T14:48:00.000-07:00

The first two are supposed to walk and run off screen but I ran out of time.
Onto new adventures! :)

Thomas and Friends movie reel!

2009-10-06T17:25:00.000-07:00

Here's a couple of scenes I did on the feature "Hero of the Rails".

I'll have another Thomas reel once the series comes out on TV.

Animation Mentor Class 1 Progress Reel!

2009-09-17T19:56:00.000-07:00

Sculptures of Splatter

2009-07-01T11:12:00.000-07:00

We still need to paint em but they look pretty funky as they are already. The dragon is what I made in school. All models are done with Sculpey and baked.

New life drawing

2009-01-07T10:54:00.000-08:00

Here is some recent life drawing done at Vanarts on fridays.

Splatter 2D animatic

2008-12-12T18:34:00.000-08:00

Here is the 2D animatic of a new short film that me and my boyfriend Jorge are working on. Currently we are modeling with zbrush, maya 2008 and xsi 7.

Penguin walk

2008-12-01T22:09:00.001-08:00

Here is a penguin walk exercise.
I am currently working on another short film called "splatter" with my boyfriend Jorge and we are almost finally done the 2D animatic. It will be posted very soon.
On the side, next I am working on another dialogue animation for my new demo reel.

CAFFEINE short film

2008-10-08T16:14:00.001-07:00

This is my 3d character animation demo reel.

"Caffeine" was my first cg short film. Enjoy!

if you wish to see a larger screen, here is the link to youtube.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ9ezUEf7Jo

Interior Design work

2008-10-08T15:49:00.000-07:00

This is a slideshow of my interior design portfolio. Everything is hand drafted and rendered.

Pre-production sketches of "Caffeine"

2008-10-08T15:05:00.000-07:00

This is a slideshow of some pre-production sketches for the short film "Caffeine"

2D Animatic of "caffeine"

2008-10-08T15:03:00.000-07:00

This is the 2D animatic for my short film.

LIFE DRAWING-ARIEL CHAO

2008-10-08T14:28:00.000-07:00

Here is a slideshow of recent life drawings

Life drawing_skulls

2008-01-18T12:38:00.001-08:00