Color & Movement Test

Thesis Color Test: Mr. Pidge from Zoe Chevat on Vimeo.

Here's a long-awaited movement, line, and color test for Beastly Things. It took me awhile to figure out that balance of elements I wanted, in other words, what I wanted the viewer to focus on. This character, who is a pigeon with a human face, was always the Pigeon in my notes. People seem to have become rather attached to him, however, and several classmates have started to call him Mr. Pidge. Far more dignified, non?

The texture in the background is a temporary stand-in. I do know that the backgrounds are going to be complex, so it is necessary to find a simple way of coloring the characters. Although I am coloring digitally, I also want to avoid many of the common mistakes of over-compositing, which leave work with a distinctly AfterEffects smell lingering about.

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Some quick orders of business. For those of you who are wondering if I will ever post strange finds and dark fashion again, I will, but not here. This site is now being used as a portfolio site, and I can understand if you were here for McQueen, and not my inky little experiments. To house that, I started a Tumblr, AnimateHer, where you can get your multiple-times-daily dose of the weird and cinematic.

Speaking of cinema, if you're looking for the writing I was starting to do about current films, that has also found an extra-site home. I've been reviewing movies and writing the odd comedic tidbit for TheMarySue, run by proud female geek and pro-feminism badass Susana Polo. Among our Frankenstein creations are This Grid About Where Not to Take Your Daughter to Work, and a review of Hanna that got the site an officially sponsored sweepstakes. I'll post updates on Tumblr whenever another one goes up. Or, you could just follow the site because, frankly, you should be.

That's all for now. To the hyperlink!