School's Out for the Summer! Finals and Online Portfolio

Yay, so I'm finished with finals and it's now summer! I thought I did pretty well on the finals, and it was a great semester overall.  Just to start off, I finally have an art portfolio blog to show professionals. It includes my portfolio, animations, and resume. You can find it here: www.alexandravo.blogspot.com  I hope you enjoy it. :D


Anywhat, in Computer Animation with Mauricio Hoffman, we had to do a collaborative project for a dialog scene. I made mine with Jennifer Wynters. We took a dialog clip from Dodgeball, and animated it. She animated the first half(scenes 1-4; 1-13 secs) , and I animated the second half (scenes 5-11; 14-26 secs).

Touche: Full from Alex Vo on Vimeo.

It was pretty fun. The most fun project we did the whole semester. I wish we had more time to polish it though. If you just want to see my half you can see it bellow:

Touche: My Part Only from Alex Vo on Vimeo.

Then in Sketchbook Ideation with Kyle Kane, we pretty much turned in all the work we did the whole semester. I still haven't recorded the traditional stuff yet, but you can see the digital stuff bellow. :)  I was originally really worried about this class, but it ended well, so that's good. :) The last section that we did were environments.  Some of the ones bellow are master studies, so you might be able to recognize some of them.

Then in my next class, Figure Drawing for Animators with Lou Police, we choose our top 50 drawings and submitted it on a CD. I've been posting the drawings I've been doing throughout the semester so I won't repost those. Just the new ones. :)

Then in Modern and Contemporary with Bill Havlicek we just had to turn in a final paper. This was my least favorite class by far. I'm not really a fan of Modern and Contemproary-both the art and philosophy. However, it was a very easy class and I ended up doing well, so that's good.

Lastly I had Environment Design with Jason Schieir. I learned a LOT from this class. I walked in not knowing much about photoshop, but I came out pretty proud of myself. I know I still have a lot to learn, but I still can't believe that I was capable of doing the work I did. I struggled a lot at first, but I kept at it, and it was worth it in the end. You've seen some of the work I did throughout the semester in my previous posts. I'm just going to upload my final work in the layout that I presented tot he class. We had to give a pitch, which I was really nervous about, but I made it through. :)

Overall, I learned a LOT this semester.  I know two of my classes won't count towards my degree, but it's the knowledge that counts. 

Over the summer, my plan is to take a few classes at Concept Design Academy.  I'm planning on taking Analytical Figure Drawing with Kevin Chen, Figure Invention with Rad Sechrist, and Environment Design with James Paick.  I'm soooo excited to take those classes.  I'm still trying to look for internships as well, but no luck there yet.  I haven't gotten a call back from Nickelodeon after that interview I had a month ago, so I think it's a no go. :(  Hopefully something else will come up  though. :)

Anywhat, everyone have an awesome summer!  Keep drawing! :D

Work Work Work

So, it's been a while since my last update. I apologize. I've been really busy with school work, as well as trying to apply to internships. Last week, I got a call back and a phone interview from Nickelodeon, so here's hoping I get that. :D

I also got a new camera, and it's super nice. We had an animal day at LCAD, where a baby kangaroo and a serval came so we can draw and take pictures.

I also got a tattoo a couple weeks ago. I really love it. It's nice, delicate, and really pretty.

And then last Sunday, I went to a charity event for Vietnamese orphans. My family decided to sponsor two children, so I'm excited about that too.

My boyfriend also recently graduated UCI with a degree in Neurobiology, so I'm very proud of him. We went to Disneyland to celebrate, and it was extremely fun.

On top of being the school's blogger, I will also be starting to give campus tour guides too. So that should be useful in the wallet department.

So lots of things going on in my life. It's good to keep busy. :)

Anywhat, on to the art!

In computer animation, we had to animate in sync with music, so I decided to do a dance. I animated it to a Korean song by T-ara, called "I Go Crazy Because of You." It was a pretty interesting but frustrating experience. Here's the animation.

"I Go Crazy Because of You" Dance from Alex Vo on Vimeo.

Then in sketchbook ideation, we've moved on to figures. I'm more comfortable in this area, but I still have a long way to go. Like the other work done in this class, it's mainly traditionally, so I don't have copies of it in my laptop to upload yet. Sorry.

Then in figure drawing, I've been having some good weeks, and then not so good weeks, but overall it's fun. Since it's been a while since I updated, I have a lot of work to post from this class.


















And then in Modern and Contemporary, I still dislike the class, but I can appreciate some of the art a little more. I guess that's good.

In Environment Design, I'm learning a LOT. I have a lot of work to upload for that class too, so I hope you enjoy it. At first, I was having a hard time with adding color to my gray scale pieces, but I think I'm getting better at it.







Anywhat, onward to improvements!

Midterm Week

So this week was midterm, and I had crappy luck. In Computer Animation, I was forced to use Norman, which I already dislike. While I was just finishing a pose, he decides to crap out and get all wonky. I pretty much had to redo the pose completely.

Then in Sketchbook class, Kyle didn't tell us we needed all the work we did throughout the whole semester, so I only brought work that was due that week. Turned out he wanted a midterm review, so I had to drive all the way back to Huntington Beach and back again.

Then in Modern and Contemp, I had to print out some pictures, but I ran out of magenta ink, so I asked a friend to print it out. She came in super late, so that utterly sucked as well.

Good stuff.

But other than that, Figure drawing was interesting. I decided to use a little color this week. Here's some stuff from that. :)








And then in environment, I worked more on fixing the boat as well as tried coloring a piece (kinda failed), and drew a scene at the ice poles.