#Allonze anonzie!

[thirdchildreblogs]

YES, A MILLION TIMES YES FOR THE MEDUSA HERMES STORY

THANKSSSSS!  When I do the #hnpkickstarter in March 2018, a zine of Hermes and Medusa will be one of the stretch goals!

[thirdchildart]

Can you do Glinda in d4?? Thank you

FANCY AS HECK!!!

[thirdchildart]

composer? Are you not using griffin's music for your taz stuff?

Griffin only wrote a couple tracks for the Petals to the Metal arc, and neither of them really fit my boards.  So my friend Michael (who is wicked good) is going to compose a score for the animatic!

https://soundcloud.com/michael-biancardi/tracks

He is a COOL CAT you should listen to his stuff!!!!

[thirdchildart]

Draw yourself in E4 or F1???

Look, it’s me, I’m SPARKLY!!!

[thirdchildart]

your taako's hat is so neat!! Is it magic?

Right on!  That is a modified Light Cantrip, my dude.  A free spell he can cast whenever he wants, in whatever color, burning NO slots whatsoever!

[thirdchildart]

Please draw more merle!!! I adore the way you draw him, and ur taakos are super cool too :) I love all the colors!!!

Thanks Anon!

[thirdchildart]

what was mali like before she died?

Cold. Calculating. Ruthless.  So like, not awesome.  I mean, everybody thought it was a GOOD thing when she kicked the bucket.  

[thirdchildart]

Lafayette and 2a por favor!!!

I’m taking New Year’s by the reins!

[thirdchildart]

TAAKO WITH 6D

“Let’s Sizzle it up with Taako!!” 

[thirdchildart]

1,B Neblina drawn with that emoji (your charCter from doommates)

Here she is in her totally normal human disguise! She really, REALLY likes colors.  LOTS OF BRIGHT COLORS.

[thirdchildreblogs]

I dunno why you're suddenly posting all these star trek memes but please don't stop. XD

I just got a wild urge.  Stand by for more.

[thirdchildart]

Hi! I just wanted to say I really love how you've written Ani. As someone with a cleftlip herself, it is very hard, nearly impossible, to find good representation. So, thank you. And if you could draw her in 1D, that'd be great. 😊

I am SO HAPPY you like Adi!  She is totally my favorite p.o.v. to write in the book. So here she is, along with a bonus pic of her adoptive dad Captain Vyk.

Both characters are from my novel Double Edged Crown.

[thirdchildart]

I am trying to get into internship for storyboarding. They ask for 4-5 panels of different mediums like comedy or action. I have storyboarded stuff from musicals, my own story ideas, and just using scripts/ideas from books. Am i allowed to put in story panels i have made for broadway songs, book and scripts? Or should i only put in storyboards of my own ideas?

You can put stuff from other story worlds, because it shows you can adapt someone else’s story--which is %100 your job as a story artist, taking the script you are given and translate it visually.

BUT the majority should be your work--you need to show your potential employers that you have a creative approach to storytelling.

[thirdchildart]

Hi Megan! I found your tumblr through your ctn post but what led me to reach out is your journey. I know how it feels to try and try and not get anywhere. So my question is how do you apply to animation jobs? (storyboarding, animation, design, etc). I've applied to the major studios through their websites and haven't gotten any replies at all. Is there a secret website where people actually notice your application? :O Anyway, congrats on your amazing new job! You tots deserve it!

There is no secret website.  There’s gonna be a lot of applications where you never hear back.  I never did land an internship/job in school. In fact, in the last year alone I applied for 50 jobs--I interviewed with probably 8 of them and only got 1.

 But here is what you do!

-Google for position instead of for studio (ex: Story Artist, background painter, 3d animator) Apply to as many as you can find.  

-be honest with yourself about where your skills are.  Look at the portfolios of other people who have the same job you want (googling “Pixar animation Internship portfolio” or “DreamWorks Story Initiative portfolio” etc.) Work hard to match that level of quality.

-if you do have the opportunity to get feedback from a recruiter or industry professional, WRITE IT DOWN, implement it, and reach out to them again a few months later with new work.

-On your portfolio site, put the date you last updated your work.  UPDATE YOUR WORK. Try to get a new piece up there once a month and replace your oldest or weakest piece.

To quote Chicken Run, 

"Takes 3 things! Hard Work, Perseverance, and Hard Work.”

“YOU SAID HARD WORK TWICE!”

“That’s because it takes twice as much work as perseverance!”

[thirdchildart]

Tips on how to use layers in digital art? And better digital lineart?

I try to keep my layer number low so I don’t get lost, haha.

1. Sketch layer on bottom

2. Lineart on top

3. Colors sandwiched in between!  Skin on the bottom, then clothes, then hair.

I paint two different ways--I will either do it all in greyscale and put the color on last (I did a tutorial on that here: http://thirdchildart.tumblr.com/post/113477307219/painting-progress-kinda and http://thirdchildart.tumblr.com/post/113477434564/coloring-dipper  )

OR I will do all my flat colors and paint the light/shadows on top.  (sorry, no process for that yet)

I will add layers for foreground elements, light effects, and shadows. 

Here’s a gif showing me turning my layers on one by one!

LINEART! 

 I do my lineart with a hard brush with a limited size. (so on the pen pressure setting, I don’t have it all the way to zero--more like 15%)

AND there’s a WHOOOOLE bunch of ctl+z redraw, redraw, redraw until it looks the way I want.

[thirdchildart]

how would you suggest someone start storyboarding? :0 I love your work by the way!!

Step 1: STUDY!  Pick a scene from several films that match the feel for what you’re boarding (action, drama, comedy).  Whenever it switches to a new camera angle, pause the film and sketch what you see. Get a good feel for where people are placed in a scene, and how different angles evoke different emotions (the youtube series Every Frame a Painting is a great way to study several different directors and how their camera/editing work tells their stories)

Here’s some Voltron studies I did a few weeks back to prep boarding a scene from The Way of Kings

Step 2: Script!  It could be a page from a book, a broadway song, or a scene you wrote yourself.  Make sure you know the scene from start to finish.  I took a scene from Way of Kings and wrote a 3 page script (teeeaser!)

Step 3: Script breakdown!  Imagine the movie in your head–where the characters are going to go, what moments you want to STAND OUT, initial camera moves. I’ll act things out, sketch things,  I then go through my script and make a bullet list of every new camera setup and what’s going to happen in that shot.  

It’s a shorthand for me to follow that would be pretty confusing for anyone else–here’s another teaser!

Step 4: Designs! Make sure you have sketches for each character. Make em look different enough that even stick figure versions can be told apart. (I like to do this with hair esp.)  

Step 5: Thumbnails! Haven’t got to that point with this sequence yet, but they are small rough sketches like the voltron studies you see above.

They are pretty scribbly. They’re only meant to remind me what I planned to do. If I was working on a project under a story lead or art director, I’d take a bit more time to make sure they read clearly so they could approval on the scene before I move into finished boards.

Step 6: After that, just draw draw draw the storyboards!  Don’t be afraid to throw out or redraw.  Have someone look through your boards and make sure they can follow what’s happening!