Pat's Mia and Hoobler

Another adorable doodle by Pat; Mia hugglin' a dribbly, derpy ol' Hoobler. I absolutely adore this sketch - to the point that I've gotten permission from Patrick to digitally paint it when I've got the time. Looking forward to it!

-Mel

Patrick's HoobleDoodles

Hi everyone! I must apologize for the scant posting this month. Production on Caravan, my 27th birthday, my 2-year anniversary with Niles - so many wonderful things have been keeping me busy. With a bit of encouragement from my professor, however, I have a slew of blog updates to post, and I thought I'd start with a hefty dose of EPIC CUTE care of my awesome buddy, classmate and roomie, Patrick. He recently brightened my day with some of the cutest doodles of Caravan's resident barkin' carpet-dog, Hoobler, in existence.
More to come,
Mel

2 Down, 4 to go! and Wacky Fanart

Thought this was definitely worth posting about: I'm now a quarter of the way into my semester, and a quarter of the way completed with Caravan - we're right on schedule with over 2 minutes of the film now complete! I'll post more composted shots here later.

For the moment, have this bizarrely entertaining piece of fanart from my roommate/classmate/buddy Patrick: His thesis films' main characters and mine as.... penguins. This thing made me giggle to no end - had to share it:

Adorable doodle by Patrick Stannard. His character Brianeli, My Kelsey and Mia, and his Emilio.... Penguinified.

More again soon,
♥Mel

Inspiration: Larry Live

I mentioned a while back that one mister Larry Larson and his lovely guitar were kind enough to agree to helping me create the music score for Caravan. As well as being an inspiration as a professor and a great guy as a whole, Larry is an absolutely wonderful musician - I enjoy his music immensely, and he was the first person I thought of when considering how to go about creating a sort of bluegrass Celtic inspired sound to the film. I'm so looking forward to January, when I reach the point that we can record the tracks!

This evening, my roommates, other half and I visited the Gaelic League to see Larry play live. It was a wonderful time, and Larry was even kind enough to play Edmund Fitzgerald for me - a track of who's guitar/harmonica instrumental sections are set to comprise the last 30 seconds or so of the Caravan film: Inspired the film's ending montage, at that.

A brief clip of Larry playing one of the many great tunes from his CD "One Twelve String Guitar"

Mia's reaction to the whole lovely evening.

Doodles! Patrick and I had fun sharing a sketchbook page - including my various doodles of Mia, Kelsey, Stu Bogey, Hoobler, myself, and my other half, Niles. Pat drew... three questionable fellows, two of which were himself.

Niles did a quick, adorable little doodle of Hoobler. Had to share!

And one last image for the road - thanks for a great show, Larry!

Cheers,
♥Mel

Mia Pat-ronizied

My awesome buddy and roommate Patrick drew Mia with his adorable little Emilio, the star of his Senior Thesis film "My Dad The Giant". Patrick starts animating soon - very exciting! It'll be awesome to have a partner in crime on these long sleepless animation-o-thons! You can check out more on Pat's film at his My Dad The Giant production blog.

Cheers,
Mel

Hello, Lovely. Nice Flippers.

Tuesday was a bit rough - I'm a traditional animator, and decided to give 3D animation a go. Class Tuesday was a series of odd, unforeseen frustrations amongst a learning curve... I couldn't wait to get out. Once I did, however, I was greeted with quite possibly the cutest doodle ever chilling on my work table - pun thoroughly intended.

This adorable Jivin' Gypsy penguin brought to you by the terrifically talented miss Kate Burck. Thank you for the pick-me-up, Kate! ♥

-Mel