Had to create six symbiotic characters demonstrating mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism.

The mouse and mushroom have a mutual symbiotic relationship to one another. The mouse feeds the mushroom bacteria while it in turn offers protection.

The snake and frog have an obvious parasitic relationship. The snake lives off the frog for nutriment.

Lastly, the turtle and his hitchhiking bird friend have a commensal relationship. The turtle walks around, or swims in the swamp water, while the tiny bird benefits from the ride. The turtle doesn't gain anything in return, neither is he harmed. The bird is the only one to profit from the endeavor.

Also, I've been re-playing a lot of old 8-bit games and thought I'd give it a whirl.

Humpty Dumpty REVISED

The whole class had a great critique session this week, and I got a lot of good ideas and suggestions to improve this piece. I wish I had more time to work on it, but I at least wanted to have this much done to revise it. The graffiti idea was great! I think it really helped push the design. Thanks all!

Humpty Dumpty

This week's assignment was to illustrate a famous Mother Goose story/poem.

I wanted something weird and disturbing. Desaturated colors, strange characters, plus upside down arms/feet.

Character Design: Gene Simmons

This week I had to design Gene Simmons from KISS as a plant, animal, and vehicle. This was a fairly challenging project for me. I'm not a big KISS fan, and before this week I never listened to their music. Now I've got "Docta Love" stuck in my head, ugh. Haha!

This was fun. Tricky, but fun.

2nd Coat on Sculpture

I applied epoxy to the lower portion of the armature to secure the model down better. I'm pleased with the results so far. No more leaning/wobbling.

The upper portion is going to have armor and a cape laid on top, but I felt it was important to have a strong anatomical foundation to work from.

First Chavant application

After foolishly applying aluminum foil to all the wrong places I attempted to place clay onto the unsecured model which resulted in it shaking and wobbling about.

Armature

Building an armature for my Sculpture in Animation class. This is my first Sculpture I've ever worked on, working on it is quite addicting.

Character Design, Me at five

Character and Object Design. This week I had to tap into my inner child and pull out memories from when I was five. I had to sketch 10 heads sketches, 10 body, and 1 fully illustrated full body sketch.

This was a lot of fun for me. I just started drawing random shapes and went from there. A lot of the poses aren't exactly true though.... I didn't wear glasses till I was 19, and I never mooned anyone - Momma woulda whooped me good.

Things that I remember strongly though are things like losing my first tooth, learning to tie my shoe, and my Dad flying me around the house.