Creative Habit

I want to do more observational drawings to practice proportions and perspective. I suppose it would be similar to café sketch or commercial figure drawing. My focus will be people, their clothing, facial structure, emotion and actions.

To do this I plan on visiting various establishments (North Market, Convention Center, Crane, and cafeteria) for an hour or two and sketching.

I’m considering how media will play in to this (i.e. microns, pencils, markers, watercolor) I’m not sure if I should limit myself or use these interchangeably. Perhaps just focus on the ones I’m least comfortable with to build up my strength in using the material.

I really want to practice digital so maybe once a week I’ll compile a few drawings and do a digital value/color study knowing that color is another area I would like to improve.

Big Heads

Big enough? Bigger??

Music

For a single song that would be throughout the video I really liked the play list that Marina posted.

For the personal song it was suggested to use something that felt circus-y or carnival like so I found this song that might work for me.

I'll work on adjusting some of the head sizes of the animals and repost it.

Gif Sandwich

....YUP

I've been listening to music but nothing I'm too crazy about.
I'll bring in a Halloween CD but it's spooky classical music and i figured we wanted more of a technological sound to it. Plus the whole commercial use copyright thing.

Choosy moms choose GIF

So this is what I have at the moment, I've messed with the timing some and would like to know if it's running too fast or too slow. Also could we cover how to save the file for optimal efficiency? Because I've been struggling with file size and don't want to sacrifice any of the quality seeing as we want a consistency through the presentation. This gif is 128 color and 50% of the original size.

Hows this for the animal heads? Think the silhouettes are enough? I figured the eyes would be the accent of red.

In this the necks have been covered and I kind of like the look of it...

Progress and Checking in

I'm composing and sending my message to OSU furs asking for their assistance in this project. I realize that I would then need them to sign consent forms for appearing in this work so I will be writing my instructor asking for the proper forms.
Thinking about it I realized some problems that may arise such as getting these consent forms filled, scheduling with them, this is if they even reply to my message.
Alternative ideas are buying cheaper animal masks and asking people from our group to wear them as I shoot the video. Another idea would shoot it without animal masks all together and animate them over the faces.
This last idea would be much easier to shoot but take more time to animate. With that being the case I would like to try to shoot it on Thursday in the event that I don't receive a response that I still have footage to work with. I would need help with video equipment (I've never really worked with video).

I've taken a couple short videos and am editing them into gifs - first attempt made photoshop freak out. Something about the file size and the amount of error messages...I'm going to keep trying and will keep you updated.

Concept for Gif

I really like the idea of me being in the middle of a circle of mascots. I was thinking of a low angle camera that would be on me (probably looking scared). To show the group it would be me spinning with the camera...I know there is a term for this type of shot but I've forgotten and haven't found the name it yet.
I've asked a few people if they know anyone who has the animal heads and am waiting for responses, sounds like I have a couple but my goal is to find at least 6 people or heads that I can use for this. For the animation portion it might just be making the eyes red and maybe some black sketchy lines to make them more spooky.

Also I found this and think it's cool, but it's technically an mp4 and not a gif but it acts like one. Please let me know if the link ever breaks.