Sketchyness Of Might!

We didn't have a warm-up for the flying creatures, since it ended up being just three of us that day.

Anyway, here are some of the flying creatures I sketched out:

The thing on the left is the fae of a non-sensical flying serpent that's thumbnaild at the bottom(circled). I was thinking it could live on some gaseous moon, where it pretyt much swims through the air. The thing on the right fits better into the diablo univers(IMO).

Lastly, a mystical floating frog man. When he drops his magic pinky, everyone that witnesses the event dies. His eyes glaze over so that he can't witness it, which protects him through the power of silly, literal clauses that seem to be so common in fantasy stories and lore.

But Wait!!

I mentioned in the previous post that I was photographing sketches.... does this mean....could it be?

*GASP!!*

I'm actually going to post some of the things I've been drawing for the past few weeks!! I finally found a little bit of motivation(insomnia) to photo/post.

I'm going to do several posts of drawings. In planning this will work out as an individual post for each of the sketch sessions, along with a few miscellaneous images here and there. I want to avoid posting in really large blocks and try to get myself a little more regular(fiber doesn't seem to help blog regularity like it does for bowels).

I opted out of posting the demon I designed the first day because I'm not that huge on the design, and hope to at least do a nicer version of it if I'm going to show it for all of the world to see.

Posts!!

Here's a little thing I drew just now, after taking a break from photographing a bunch of sketches.

Just a fun doodle with my wacom. Messed around with brushes a bit more extensively, and just scribbled until some kind of form began to evolve :)

Depression Extreme

So it seems that I somehow overwrote a folder with various animations I did with an older version of that folder from another computer in the mac labs at school. I hadn't opened up that specific folder for a while to notice it, however. Now the drives at the mac labs are going to be wiped, and I lack several files of relatively high importance....

fuck!

Now I'm not sure what to do. I wanted to get all of this done by the end of this month, but this is a severe setback. I sent a scale-back proposal to fall back on so that things can still be finished according to schedule. Well, my personally intended schedule, at least.

I should end this post and set up a plan for how to finish everything according to schedule and avoid having to scale back on any features(specifically, a higher resolution version of the animations).

Off to planning I go! Then to sculpting :D

Productivity Abound!

Well, it's beena long time since I've breathed life unto any new posts on any of my blogs.... this isn't because I stopped doing anything. On the contrary, i've been relatively busy and like applying my time more to working on things than showing them off to the world. While I realize it's contrary to the general purpose of this blog, I have been quite productive :)

I didn't get the internship I was hoping for at Incinerator, and the few other ones I found and applied for didn't respond.... so let us(me) release a collective(but really singular) sigh in light of this unfortunate news.... *sigh*

Anyhoo, I'm still working on things. Haven't been able to animate, since I can't get Maya installed properly on my new computer.... but it does run very fast when I open up the internet :)

I have a small list of the aforementioned "various things" I've been working on:

Firstly, I joined a sculpting class. It's fun, I as least feel like I'm learning something, though the proof will be in the pudding(which will hopefully look more like a finely crafted female figure).

I am going to do two small 2d animations.

I am going to finalize my god damned animation desk that I started building last fall. Well, I built it relatively quickly, but it was a painfully long while before I could move it into my room and USE it. Now I want to make some changes.

I've been quite productive in a sketch group I started with some artist friends. We practice quick sketches for a few hours, then spend the rest of the day designing various characters according to a specific theme(I'll post more on this a little later....which will hopefully not be a month from now). I just got back from an 11 hour long session about an hour ago :)

The follow ups to these designs will be digital paintings of the designs. So hopefully I can get some amount of good experience in digital painting from that.

Will be working on a small iTouch game. Not going to say anything about it, because I haven't even cemented the story/visual style(which is the most important aspect that I'm working on).

Also, I'm going to start painting traditionally!! :D I'll either do my first attempt on sunday or monday.

ZOMGzOMB"e"-FIED_ANT!! lol!

Last week in the Game Design class I was asked if I could draw a zombie ant. I made the mistake of saying yes, which merited the response to do it immeadiatly. So I went up to the whiteboard and started scribbling with a marker, not knowing what the HELL I was doing. I mean, I didn't even have the vaguest idea of what a zombie and should look like.

I still don't have too good of an idea, but I'm proud to say that I did end up with some kind of image, or image-esque thing on the board that seemed to be mildly entertaining to the student body.

I'll rotate the image at a later date, I just felt like posting it up now, rather than post-poning for a month.

Demo Reel

I created a demo reel to apply for various internships. I am currently most hopeful for Incinerator. They're near by, and either the EA or Insomniac internships would likely have to pay substantially just so that I can simply break even(with paying to live in LA and all). Since I'm going to go to Ringling, however, I'll be needing all of the money I can get!

So, anyways, here's my demo reel that I created to apply for various internships.


March 2009 Demo Reel from Anguel Bogoev on Vimeo.

I plan on replacing the 11 second club animation with whatever I animate this month, since that was my first attempt at character animation, and I'm sure this one will be much better(especially since I gots more time :P ). Or perhaps I'll animate to last month's audio, since I really liked it, but didn't have time because I had to finish up my contract-work.

Also, I created a portfolio blog. The video is viewable there, as well, along with my resume. I read somewhere(perhaps it was the Insomniac site) that said that, upon linking to a blog with work, they want to see recent work only, not a large page with your progression.

Thus, I decided to have a dedicated portfolio blog, which will only ever have two posts(with my most recent demo reel and resume). I hope you all enjoy! :D