dappled studios

red panda sketches

2011-05-08T21:19:00.000-07:00

and a random cat! C:

A wee update: I'm currently in the process of doing a complete overhaul of my website and my blog, so once that is all complete I'll give a shout here. (: I've been trying to sketch when I can in my spare time but I haven't really been updating any of it online at all. trying to get in to the swing of things again. (:

in the mean time, take it easy!

Riverside Sketch

2011-01-07T15:02:00.000-08:00

So much has happened! I got a job! I'm working at Microsoft as a Graphic Designer. Pretty cool stuff. It happened very quickly, but I am having so much fun and I've learned a lot already. I'm having a hard time finding energy for drawing at home... I've been doing a lot for work, but of course I can't show any of that here. Trying to get back into experimenting with my own stuff now that things have settled down, so look for updates. (: Make sure you check my deviantart page as well!!

Lunchtime doodle from work today. Might colour it, we'll see!

From a while back, just never posted it here for some reason. Derp derp (: I'll try and update more wth my sketches!!

Happy Homemakers

2010-11-10T23:32:00.000-08:00

Commission for the same client as below... this is the idea she ended up going with! Which I was happy with, because the previous one definitely looked too much like Wilma Flintstone...

Help! I Need A Wife!

2010-08-03T21:11:00.000-07:00

It's been awhile! Enjoying my summer... too much I suppose haha. This is a commission I did for someone needing preliminary work on their homemaking/housecleaning business idea. Pretty fun! I am currently working on a second illustration (:

Other than doodling and not getting any real work done, I've just been trying to come up with a new website design that is more geared towards freelancing. Any suggestions and ideas are welcome!!

Masquerade

2010-05-26T14:38:00.000-07:00

Sleeping Pokemons

2010-05-15T17:41:00.000-07:00

Shhh!! They are sleeping! :o

Running

2010-04-26T10:12:00.000-07:00

Nora and Morpheus

2010-04-24T11:47:00.000-07:00

Some more character design stuff!

I Peed On It

2010-04-19T12:37:00.000-07:00

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Dialogue from Terra Spitzner on Vimeo.

Reworked this for my demo reel (:

Prince and the Popped Balloon

2010-04-16T13:42:00.000-07:00

To go with the princess (:

Hey Diddle Diddle

2010-04-12T09:36:00.001-07:00

Dappled

2010-04-11T14:58:00.000-07:00

Harry and Gay Perry

2010-04-08T17:47:00.001-07:00

These are caricatures I did of Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer from Kiss Kiss Bang Bang for an animation project awhile ago (:

Princess and the Balloon

2010-04-07T11:10:00.000-07:00

Soooo I tried to stay away from the blonde hair and the pink everything, but it just works too well! Augh. Put anything in pink and it makes it more cute. I originally had her with light brown hair and a blue dress, but it felt boring. XP

Dancing Lifedrawins

2010-04-03T15:34:00.000-07:00

Dancingggg

Apparently I have virtually no good male lifedrawing lately. D:

Imagination Grows on Trees 2

2010-04-01T16:30:00.000-07:00

Revamp/redesign of this for my porfolio cover and website (:

Tiny Wings

2010-03-30T10:34:00.000-07:00

Look, no lines!! :o I want a dragon :C

No Grin Here

2010-03-29T09:53:00.000-07:00

Some quick fanart of Toothless before bed last night. GO SEE THIS MOVIE.

How To Train Your Dragon Widget

2010-03-28T22:18:00.001-07:00

My Dragon is Already Trained

2010-03-26T19:44:00.000-07:00

In celebration of How to Train Your Dragon being released today!! I'm so excited for this movie and definitely ordering the art book.

<3

Tea Monsters

2010-03-24T18:52:00.000-07:00

They eat tea! 'Cept for the green one, cause he has no arms. :C

From the 40's

2010-03-22T10:45:00.000-07:00

40's era characters! I still havent decided if it's a family or if it's just a guy and girl, young and old haha. Because the little boy could totally grow into the man, and the little girl could grow into the woman. X)

Scroll down to see them each individually (:

This lollipop just makes me want to go to Disneyland...I want a puppy :C

Best Friends

2010-03-21T14:02:00.000-07:00

cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese

That's Not Bamboo

2010-03-18T16:01:00.000-07:00

Hungry panda just wants bamboo. :C

Sparrow Design

2010-03-17T10:25:00.000-07:00

Mmmmhmmmm

The Real Reaper

2010-03-16T19:04:00.000-07:00

So... sometimes I draw creepy things, apparently. X)

You always see Grim Reapers that are all gangly and wispy and don't look like they could kill someone at all. So this kind of turned into a real grim reaper who would kick your ass and take your life. Also, his orb is full of blood. (:

Back to drawing cute things!! (:

I Like Dinos

2010-03-15T16:07:00.000-07:00

Accurate? :P

Sumi Wins

2010-03-15T09:59:00.000-07:00

Just 'cause he's super cute!!

The Originals

2010-03-13T11:24:00.000-08:00

Took a break to colour this because pokemans are awesome.

Gryphons Are Cool

2010-03-12T13:46:00.001-08:00

The One and Only Hatter

2010-03-11T19:44:00.000-08:00

My version of the Mad Hatter!! Tryin to get better at painting and thinking about lighting and things. (: Any suggestions are welcome!

It Shines

2010-03-10T19:49:00.000-08:00

I Want Snow

2010-03-09T20:16:00.000-08:00

I want snow, even though it's supposed to be spring soon. So I drew a snow leopard. Yes.

Farm Layouts/Concepts

2010-03-08T19:11:00.001-08:00

Some colour/ painting concepts for a final project. Trying to go for a sort of watercolour feel. (: The layout on the bottom is a tighter and more finalized, using the techniques/colours I explored in the concepts. These were fuuuuun but thats enough of farms for now haha.

Olympic Spirit

2010-03-03T22:38:00.001-08:00

I miss the Olympics :C

Harry and His Hedwig

2010-03-01T21:17:00.000-08:00

Just practicing and I felt like colouring Harry. He is soo intense. 8D

Harry Potter & Hedwig (c) JK Rowling or Warner bros. or whoever it is now.

Looking In the Rain

2010-02-21T12:03:00.000-08:00

Is it weird that I want it to rain again? XP

Blue Girl Walking

2010-02-16T16:03:00.000-08:00

Sit By the Fire

2010-02-15T13:12:00.000-08:00

FINALLY omgahd. I'm sure Craig will have some things to say, but it's done for now. :D Any critique you guys have would be great, too!!

Thanks for looking (:

Full of Leaves

2010-02-10T14:22:00.001-08:00

Speedpaint for class (:

Inukshuks and Libraries

2010-02-08T21:42:00.001-08:00

Another speedpaint, trying to get better and stop being such a perfectionist when it comes to painting...

and colourkeys for my library layout. I think I'm going with the middle one. (:

Orcas Are Happy Animals

2010-02-07T23:03:00.000-08:00

Killer whale speedpaint! trying to do at least one of these a week now. It's good practice and i really need it haha. X) Plus I love orcas. So happy <3

Castle in the Clouds

2010-02-04T21:10:00.001-08:00

Exercise for digital painting... 20 minute speedpaint (:

Here We Go!

2010-01-29T16:21:00.001-08:00

I just want to make a newspaper hat now. X)

We Have A Plan!

2010-01-27T18:13:00.000-08:00

Two character dialogue assignment! We had to use Miguel and Tulio from The Road to ElDorado and animate them to a line of dialogue... I had trouble with the models. :C I tried to work on my structure more this time, still need a looooot of practice. My drawing is pretty flat... another week would have done me good, I think.

Mysteries at the Museum

2010-01-23T13:42:00.000-08:00

Characters for our digital painting class! I used these guys from this random story idea I had called Mysteries at the Museum. I might develop them more, but I like them for now. (:

Any comments would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks for looking (:

I Need Haaaaalp

2010-01-16T17:23:00.001-08:00

GUUUYSSS

I need help!! I can't decide if I like the coloured lineart or the black lineart better. :C Also - anything I should fix? Anything I should add? I would appreciate any comments you have. (:

Thanks!!

PaintingPaintingPainting

2010-01-13T19:47:00.000-08:00

So we've finally started our digital painting class, which i am LOVING since I really enjoy concept art and things and really want to be doing that for a living some day... anyways, we usually do a 20minute speedpaint to warm up which is great practice.

and some colour theory experiments... chose the middle one to finish up for next week.

Imagination Grows On Trees

2010-01-06T10:29:00.001-08:00

Somehow I forgot to post this here haaaaa.

Illustration I did to base my website off of. Was going for a storybook kind of feel. (:

Here are some of the parts of the illustration separated, just because.

Thanks for looking!!

Please also take a look at my new website and let me know what you think!! (:

http://www.terraspitzner.com

I Am Iron Man

2009-12-27T20:34:00.000-08:00

After watching Iron Man and the Iron Man 2 trailer about a million times I decided it was time for some fan art :] This is one of the better sketches I pulled from a bunch and had fun painting.

Thanks for looking (:

Teletoon Bumper

2009-12-19T15:04:00.000-08:00

Our final assignment for our 2D Digital Animation class was to create a 15 second bumper for a cartoon station of our choice. We could use either Flash or TVPaint... I chose flash to get some more experience with it. With this being my first full Flash assignment I learned A TON which was great.

Sorry for the shotty quality - I had to compress way more than I would have liked to so that it would upload properly. :C

The end result turned out a bit different than my initial thought, but I've grown to like it nonetheless. I'll definitely be doing some flash experiments over the break - I still have sooo much to learn. But it's been fun. (:

Thanks for looking!!

Libraries Are Warm and Cozy

2009-12-16T17:49:00.000-08:00

Final layout for class... the greyscale was tons of fun, I can't wait to colour this. (:

Thanks for looking!! (:

Jurassic Crunch - Final Storyboards

2009-12-14T18:16:00.000-08:00

Our final assignment in Storyboarding was to do either a cereal commercial or an intro/prologue to a story. I did Jurassic Crunch (: It's pretty much the most awesome cereal in the world. Dinosaur egg marshmellows?! What's not to like? There's an adventure in every bite!!

Thanks for looking! More posts are coming (:

It's Cold

2009-12-02T22:59:00.000-08:00

I love getting bundeled up to go outside. (: winter <3

Daffy and that Library Again

2009-12-02T16:45:00.000-08:00

Our last assignment for first semester was to have Daffy balancing on a ball. For the actual balancing section we had a storyboard given to us that we more or less had to follow, and the ending was up to us. We could either have Daffy go through the halfpipe or have something else random happen to him. If I have time in the last two weeks of the semester I will probably have the ball change in to a rocket... and fix up Daffy's model. I thought I had him alright through parts of it, but other areas are pretty terrible. :C

I also changed up my library layout a bit and moved the chair around and next to the fireplace. There are a few perspective problems I know I need to fix, but any suggestions and comments would be greatly appreciated. (:

Thanks for looking!! (:

Library and Sketchies

2009-11-25T21:49:00.000-08:00

My rough for our final assignment in layout. Still some stuff to fix but I'm having fun with it (: This will be my library one day.

Aaaand sketches from the last week or so. I need to draw more.

Her neck is waaaaay too long but yeah

The stupid looking one in the corner is an adelie penguin and they actually look super dumb like that. Its awesome.

Thanks for looking!! (:

Marketplace Layout

2009-11-22T12:48:00.000-08:00

For my city layout I did a fruit marketplace... technically where waterfront station should be haha. Creative license ftw X)

Sketchdump later today.

Don't Pull Out Her Head!!

2009-11-11T09:51:00.000-08:00

Our latest assignment was to animate Lilo to a line of dialogue from Lilo and Stitch. There are definitely a few things I want to fix in this, along with making her more on model. Hopefully once that's done it will be good enough to go in my reel for the end of the year (: As always, critiques are welcome.

Thanks for looking!!

Amsterdam Layout

2009-10-29T18:51:00.001-07:00

Didn't turn out exactly how I wanted but I made some mistakes and therefore learned a lot. I'm enjoying layout, but I'm having a hard time getting my ideas to paper... hopefully the next round will be better. (:

Goofy and Storyboards

2009-10-21T20:18:00.000-07:00

There is definitely a couple of things in here I need to fix and I also need to spend some time on finishing up Goofy's model... so any feedback and critiques would be greatly appreciated. (: Don't think it's a demo peice at all but I would still like to tighten it up some more.

In Storyboaring our assignment was to do 30-40 panels of characters in a busy restaurant, and for something unexpected to happen at the end. I'm still learning a lot about storyboarding but it's been fun so far thinking of shots and stuff... but hopefully my next ones will be better.

Again, any critiques would be great! (:

Thanks for looking!!

Weekly Illustration

2009-10-18T20:27:00.000-07:00

It came from planet... Eaaaaaarth!!

duuuuuurrrrr

Some Goofy Things

2009-10-12T11:34:00.000-07:00

Happy Turkey Day everyone!! Here is some stuff to celebrate, I guess...

I am so excited for Where the Wilds Things Are, you have no idea!!

aaand some dragons, for good measure...

Some practice sketches of Goofy, since we are animating him right now in class. (:

and just a simple in-class assignment to get ready and practice for Goofy!

Hopefully I will get some recent lifedrawing up here soon as well. (: Thanks for looking!

First Layout and a Puppy!

2009-10-07T18:11:00.000-07:00

Here's our first layout of second year, all cleaned up... definitely learned a lot. Oh, and I thought you guys might want to see how much I've improved over the last 15 years or so... found this when i was cleaning my desk a couple of days ago.

Then:

I especially love how the door is so high that no one could get in, or my one colour rainbow.

aaaaaand now!

haha.

and here's a puppy. (:

It's Just a Rabbit....

2009-10-06T21:17:00.000-07:00

First acting assignment of second year... we used Alice to do a lip sync to a line from the movie. At first I hated the idea of using Alice but once I practiced her a bit it was actually enjoyable. (:

Here are some sketches...

It Burns!

2009-10-05T09:59:00.000-07:00

My weekly illustration for the topic "It burns!". I planned to colour it but had a crazy weekend and therefore no time. I will eventually though.

Hopefully I can continue doing the weekly's from now on :D

Happy Alien

2009-10-04T11:58:00.000-07:00

Happy, bouncy aliens are better than man-eating creepy ones. :D

Pink Panther Boulder Throw

2009-09-23T23:11:00.000-07:00

Here's our first animation assignment of second year! Just a weight assignment with the Pink Panther (:

My First Bike

2009-09-12T21:24:00.000-07:00

Just an exercise for our 2D Digital Animation class... learning how to draw and paint in TVPaint. Pretty neat program, I'm liking it more and more every time I use it.

Anyways, here's a tricycle, because they are awesome. :D

lifedrawing and things

2009-08-19T18:11:00.000-07:00

Finally back to lifedrawing!! It didn't take as long as I thought it would to get used to it again, which was nice.

... taking important breaks in between poses. X)

And once again I failed to do the weekly illustration... can someone please threaten to throw me off a cliff so I do the one for next week?? thanks.

Jump!

2009-07-27T18:20:00.000-07:00

Jumping sackboy. (: I don't know what it is but everytime I play this game I just jump the whole way through the course because it makes me giggle. 8D

Sackboy is (c) LittleBigPlanet/Sony/whoever else.

it's an art!!

2009-06-24T13:18:00.000-07:00

i like dragons 8D he will eventually go on the header for my website that I'm slowly working on. (: He also needs a name...

Final Directing Film

2009-04-18T21:37:00.000-07:00

Here's the music video I did as the final project for our directing class:

I had a lot of fun editing haha. (:

Finals - Animation and Design

2009-04-17T11:33:00.000-07:00

Here's a bunch of final stuff for first year! (:

Our final project for animation. I tweaked a few things from the rough but other than that I had to use the time to work on other projects.

Final Design Package:

Just a character lineup... I was going to add in a few sketches of secondary characters but didn't find the time. Might still do that in the near future.

Lead character. (:

Comic relief. I love this little guy haha. XD

Love interest! She was fun to do.

I still need to compress my final directing video so that should be up here tonight or tomorrow. Aaaand I forgot to scan my final layouts before handing them in to John, so I'll get those back at GradShow next weekend and post them afterwards. (: I'll probably also get some Lifedrawing and Anatomy stuff up here soon.

Final Animation Project - Rough

2009-04-09T19:52:00.000-07:00

Here's the rough of our final animation for Spring 2009. (:

It's been pretty fun so far... I love doing tails. I might actually change my music track, not too sure about the one I have... I also still need to record the "dialogue" haha.

Hospital Pan Layout - Final Colour

2009-04-02T21:18:00.000-07:00

Completed version of our 3fld pan for layout! It turned out looking a lot better in colour I think, although I'm still not entirely happy with how the original concept turned out... but in any case I had a lot of fun painting this one and was able to experiment a bit more than I have in the past. (:

Rough Hospital Pan

2009-03-27T14:08:00.000-07:00

Here's the rough pan for layout...

and with the overlay...

They didn't exactly turn out the way I wanted, and I ended up getting really frustrated with it and had no energy to start again,. so i just tried to fix what I had. I'm hoping they'll look a lot better once I colour them... so far I've got the flat colour done and it seems to be coming along a bit better. (:

Design - Medieval Props

2009-03-27T14:01:00.000-07:00

Roughs of a weapon, holster and vehicle for design class. (:

Limited Animation - Hugsies?

2009-03-20T09:04:00.000-07:00

Here's our latest assignment - a two character dialogue in limited animation. We had to create our own UPA-style characters, which definitely made the project more fun. (: I like dinosaurs.

Flashy Flash Stuff - edited

2009-03-16T20:01:00.000-07:00

edit: Reuploaded the videos so they aren't all choppy. (:

Here's a dump... two small flash animations to start. These were the last of the weight assignments that we had.

Yeah... added the face just for kicks.

The Pink Panther one was a lot of fun for some reason but also the most difficult... it wasn't so much the rope swing for me, but trying to make it look like gravity was really pulling against him as he tried to climb up the rope.

Aaand another flash assignment - this time our first with symbols. When we were first learning it I was a little lost, but once I tried it a few times I found it surprisingly fun. Our assignment was just to make a random character jump and land once. I chose a ninja just so I could do some crazy and absolutely ridiculous squash and pose in mid-air. XD Just imagine if some random dude on the street did this. You would think he was a ninja.

An Incredible Future

2009-03-14T13:30:00.000-07:00

Doodle from the lab a week or two back... very Incredibles inspired. Not too sure what her power is yet.

Futuristic characters for design. They were supposed to be made for flash and go with the futuristic city we did for layout class... so my city was essentially "The Recycled City" that was made of the foundations of old buildings and ruins that were then enhanced with recycled materials and really random things... so basically everyone that lives there is extremely well-off and successful and young. Perhaps it`s the not-too-distant future? haha. I like the guy's design but wasn't too happy with the girl. I might redo her and colur them for a portfolio peice... we shall seeeee.

monkey see, monkey do

2009-02-24T21:15:00.000-08:00

No new doodles from the weekend, but here's our latest little assignment... just getting the hang (har har) of showing weight in animation. (:

Monkey bars from Terra Spitzner on Vimeo.

Once it stops raining (probably in a month or so... haha) i'll bring some more current lifedrawing/anatomy home to post. (:

Quadrupeds

2009-02-19T22:57:00.000-08:00

Since we just finished quads today I thought I would just make a new post since now I am caught up with myself. (:

Random doodle I never finished... bah I need to practice colouring in photoshop.

Could probably fix this up a bit more but... that's it for now.

akjgdakf meeko <3

Had a lot of fun with these. (: Being a Disney girl it was kind of hard not to get excited. I actually wish we had spent more than two weeks on quads haha.

Here we go...

2009-02-19T22:37:00.000-08:00

Ahh second semester!!

Some random sketchbook doodles to start off. (: And I have nothing against cats, but the cat from Bolt just always seemed to have a bored expression. She was cool though.

Experimenting with volumes for character design... I probably could have pushed it a LOT more. :\

Yay layout! So far it's been pretty fun - this is the only assignment I have from that class, seeing as John likes to keep our stuff haha. Um... I like pirates. (: He's probably getting sick of it.

Some animations. (:

Special effects was fun but I found it really hard. I don't really know why... a lot of thought had to go in to what you were doing and it hurt my brain. I could have made the final spx assignment a lot better but I just ran out of time and it kind of shows... it was interesting though!

Life Drawing

2009-02-19T22:32:00.001-08:00

Some lifedrawing from first semester. (: When we weren't doing boxes...

First Semester Stuff

2009-02-19T21:04:00.000-08:00

So, since I'm such a slacker I'm just getting around to updating this now... figured I may as well get some stuff up from first semester. (: A complete dump of things...

Just some character design stuff... really simple.

Some prop designs, which kind of ties in to my final character model pack. (: Yay pirates!!

Aaaaand here's my final animation for the first semester. We did a bunch of other assignments obviously, buuut I only have the threshold to show this one. (:

Doodles of Robin began to appear everywhere while I was working on this...

Ta da!

its been awhile

2008-07-15T23:41:00.000-07:00

Wow, I haven't been on Blogger in forever! It's kind of refreshing, actually. XD I have nothing new in the way of sketches to actually post at the moment, but soon!

Just wanted to get something up to make it seem less empty and foreboding haha.

Oh, and everyone - go and see Wall-E!!