Digital Puppet Exercise

Drugs are also bad.

Freeform

I made this with an idea for a film in mind, and to experiment with compiling hand-drawn elements in After Effects. I'm sorry for the periodically awful quality; that was one of the less successful parts of the experiment.

I plan to color it at some point.

Energy (Colored)

Animatic

It's not everything I originally envisioned; there's supposed to be one extra scene, but I herped when I should have derped, so for now, enjoy what I managed to complete.

Model Sheet

The final model sheet. I didn't have the time or energy to render all the drawings I wanted to use, including some of her more dynamic poses. So here's some sketchbookery:

Some earlier pre-viz stuff:

I fought with the colors A LOT. I actually have a psd document with like, 60 billion interchangeable color combinations.

Energy

エネルギー from Ann Mendenhall on Vimeo.

Fall 2010 Final

Chance of Showers from Ann Mendenhall on Vimeo.