Come Back Down

And, for my motion final (my longest project yet) I decided to do a piece about this little girl falling down through the sky based on one of my really old illustrations from high school. I decided to go with a paper-cut illustration look in a much cuter style than what I usually do. It may not seem all that complicated, but I had to animate many different comps before hurling them together into one giant canvas. I feel pretty good completing that class! (Yes, I did attempt a little 3D with all that wing flappage )

Here it is:

Sherlock Holmes Kinetic Typography

Here is my motion midterm, a kinetic typography piece done to a clip from the movie Sherlock Holmes. I'm certainly no graphic designer, so dealing with type is a bit difficult for me. I decided not to draw a lot for this project (because it felt like something I was falling back on and I really wanted to try something more graphic-y ) but instead found photos of the images I wanted and then I turned them into illustrations using photoshop for that nice old-ish feel.

Here it is:

Mmm, Cake

Here are the pictures for my Drawing Concepts 2: Public Art assignment. We had to create a piece of art and display it in public.  What I wanted to do was use inedible materials to make something look really delicious (and yet maintain that it is obviously NOT edible). So I made this cake and ran around South Pasadena setting the cake on tables and then snapping photos as quickly as possible before the waiters could really see what I was doing. 

Public's reaction? A lot of people gave it kind of weird glances, some people ran up to take a closer look and then scoffed at me, "It's not REAL." Others laughed about it and called their friends over ("Look, man, it's cake!"). And some people just didn't notice at all.

I made the piece completely out of wood scraps because it's really important to me to not be wasteful with materials. You guys know me, I don't like to waste paint, I use scraps of paper in my sketchbooks and illustrations, I keep ALL my brushes no matter how grody they get, and recently I've been into upcycled fabric and wood scrap. I like the challenge it presents to make something cool out of the limited material.

I made the cake slice with stained plywood and MDF pieces and for the chocolate shavings I stained wood shavings and glued them on. I used wooden dowels for little wafer cake thingies and carved the almond from MDF. Pretty cool, right? :D

Heartbreaker

Here are some stills from my second motion piece ever (I'm so proud of myself) along with the video. It's a bit on the crude side, but for a second attempt at After Effects it's pretty spiffy if I do say so myself. Excuse how small the video appears to be, I don't know how to make it the size it's supposed  to be.

Heartbreaker by Aanchal Anand
Song credit: Wax Tailor -- Say Yes (Instrumental)

Grand Opening

 GRAND OPENING, YAY!

I figure the best way to start my blog is with three pieces I did in my Drawing for Illustration class that really helped loosen me up and pave the way for new stuff.  All three are done with gouache and ink  and the Birdcage piece was in the Society of Illustrator's student gallery in the American Museum of Illustration in New York. : D
NOTE: please view these at full view so you can see all the detail!