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

Student Gallery!

Ok, so I was feeling disappointed in myself the previous week. I have become so dedicated to art and progression. Yet I haven't made the effort to submit a more presentable work to a gallery of any kind. I didn't submit anything to the Bavura(Palomar's art catalogue), and I had overlooked submitting something in the student gallery. Luckily, Mike asked for some life drawings from David and I, to put up in the student exhibit! I was stoked, and grabbed my favorite life drawings to submit. I didn't get to submit my latest head drawing project(which I am quite proud of), but I'm personally more "into" life drawing, anyways. I'll post pics of the two life drawings and the head drawing soon :)