Time to remedy a bit of that.
Hi my name is McKenna and I'm an animation student at the Art Institute of Seattle.
And this quarter is bloody nuts. I'm doing this in the wake of losing all my homework files from the last few quarters.
Incoming stuff ahoy!
3D animated pendulum, first 3D animation evar! (Second, actually. The first iteration was lost in the Great Thumb Drive Catastrophe).
Short animation from back in Media Production. Hand-drawn cells, digital backgrounds, coloring, and compositing done in Photoshop, music and effects in After Effects. Music is Norwegian Pirate by Two Steps From Hell.
Selection of animal drawings from Animal Anatomy and Locomotion. Super fun class! But then, any class that involves a zoo trip is a good class.
Digital speedpaint of a feathery Blue from Jurassic World. I loved this movie, just wish the raptors had feathers.
Photo time!
And while we're on the subject of Blue... whoops, my brush slipped. Agate, about 3" across, sterling bail, acrylic paint. This is going to become a necklace as soon as I can get hold of some proper findings.
MCU Lady Loki. Somehow I forgot the horns. Whoops.
Original character Daria Noclaf. She's taken up residence in the Avengers universe, so here she is in her SHIELD uniform. Why yes, those are Captain America-esque stripes, he's the character she's most closely associated with.
Thor, Loki, and an Avengers-verse variation on Alberich Sunshadow who wound up getting raised as a ward of the House of Odin. Thor loves group hugs, Alberich's happy to go along with it, and Loki's having none of it.
Doodles of cartoon Anubis and Ammuanet from Art History I. I was bored and fidgety during one of our Ancient Egypt lectures and these happened. Ammuanet is such a cutie!
These two got developed for later use in the final project for that class, a look at Tutankhamen's mummy and the treasures found on it. Sadly, those images were also victim of the Great Thumb Drive Catastrophe.
Marwoleath Cave Wyrm, from the Created Creature assignment for Animal Anatomy and Locomotion. Got to bust out my acrylic paints for this one! I loved doing this sooooo much! This was from part 1 of the assignment, which involved doing a skeleton, a close-up of a significant feature, a gesture drawing, and a full-color image. Part 2 was to depict either a first date or a battle between your critter and another student's. I'll see if I can get a good photo of mine.
Feathers for the Goddess art show at Gargoyles Statuary! Sekhmet fan on turkey feathers with pheasant feathers and agate handle, Hathor on turkey feather, Isis on blue-and-gold macaw feather. All are still for sale at the shop.
Knitting stuff!
The rainbow socks from the Attack of the Startitis post are all finished! They have little pyramids up the front and lace panels up the back. These were originally called the Pyramid Socks, but have since been renamed the Mom Socks as part of a new project.
And here we have the first steps towards said project. A hunt for a birthday present for a friend resulted in me digging through Mom's yarn stash and coming up with black and red sock yarn and an idea: to design a pattern for Black Widow-themed socks (said best friend's favorite female character is Natasha Romanov. With good reason, she's awesome.) No big deal, right? I can design socks no problem.
My mother, bless her heart, innocently suggested that I do other heroine socks. This idea promptly took root in my brain and now I'm working on developing a series of sock patterns based off of awesome female characters/heroines. The Black Widow socks will be one of them, the renamed (because my mother fell in love with them) Mom Socks will be another. I've plans for Samantha Carter from Stargate SG1, Beka Cooper from Tamora Pierce's Tortall series, Peggy Carter, probably Uhura, and a number of others.
There may or may not be a second book of female villains bouncing around my brain as well.
I'm going to write the patterns and do the alpha testing, then I'll start looking for people willing to beta-test them.
Second picture there is the chart for the leg of the Black Widow socks, and the third shows the progress on them. They were originally going to have a plain foot, but I decided knitting 5 inches of plain stockinette on mostly-black (the black yarn has a few tinges of navy blue to it, it's absolutely lovely, the red has a bit of gradiation and a few bits of charcoal. Both are Barefoot sock yarns) was something I Did Not Want To Do. So a subtle little hourglass lace pattern got slipped in there.
There has been progress on the Kitty Poncho from the Startitis post. I've finished the varigated yarn and am about 3/4ths through the first ball of blue, but the project has been set aside while I knit socks.
And that's all for now. This is by no means all of what I've done since February, but I don't have photos of everything and some has been lost to the Great Thumb Drive Catastrophe. But I'm alive and am trying to stay on top of things.
