Third Year Film

Overcast [Sheridan Third Year Film 2015] from Carly Dziob on Vimeo.


Finally!

Here's my third year group film!

It was super fun, and we were one of the few groups who essentially went through the whole year without any inter-personal issues.

For those interested in what I animated, the most notable shots would be the opening shot of the rabbit, the two kids looking at the clouds as the camera rotates, the squid exploding the train, the robot deflecting lighting, and the main clouds blowing away all the dark clouds (lets try to not get into the intricacies and politics of the cloud world and why certain clouds are sentient and others aren't). I wish I was able to animate more, but I was also the head of animation for the project, and so my time was largely spent assisting others.


I was mostly found animating on this film, but my biggest responsibility outside of that was cloud character design. Below you'll find some of the vis dev and character design I was responsible for.

Third Year Preview

So I'm saving the majority of my third year related stuff for when the thing is done this April, but until then here's a bit of exploratory work I did. Both of these are radically different takes on how our film (about clouds) could look.

Sheridan Sketch Dump

Here's a self caricature, a few character design assignments, and two painting assignments. None of these are really shining examples of artistry, but in each of them I tried something new, whether that be through the use of line, color, or shape.

Girls

Here are some drawings I did with reference from a fashion tumblr, I wanted to try out different rendering styles.

People Sketches

It seems I only wind up posting the work I do in character design class, but at least it's something. Here are a few pages of drawings. The assignment was basically just to draw from life.

The observant viewer may notice a self caricature in there somewhere.

Character Design Assignment 1

Here's my latest character design assignment for school. We had to design a character which would then be animated performing a weight lift and toss. Try to ignore how terribly off model she is between the rotation and the pose sheet. Although I suppose now that I've mentioned it, you can't ignore it. Well... ignore it anyways.

Doodle

Here is a page of a few sketches I did in my spare time at Sheridan. Just something else to keep this blog relatively active.

Oh, and the top right drawing is a caricature of my classmate, Nick. Creep his shit, he's got skills.

Back to Sheridan

This silly drawing is for a group-draw among my students in my year. We decided to draw ourselves as Monsters University characters and then compile all the drawings. So that ugly thing is me as a monster! I'll post the compiled drawing to show off some of my uber talented class mates as soon as the image arises.

On a semi related note - I'm going to be going into my second year of animation at Sheridan, and I'm very excited overall! As far as I'm aware, second year provides far more opportunities to explore artistry, rather than fundamentals - especially with animation.

 I've also had a renewed interest in visual development since being at Sony this summer, so I'd really like to learn more about painting and character design.

 Either way, it looks to be a good year.

ALSO: I just got a tumblr cause it's what the cool kids are doing, and I have no idea what I'm doing.
http://omarsanimation.tumblr.com/

Character Package

So here is my final character design project of the year. I made an attempt to finish strong on this one, but in light of all the other assignments I have - as well as some other cool animationy' things that, depending on future events, may or may not be elaborated on - I just found myself 'settling' more than I would have liked.

"No one remembers how fast it was done, only how well it was done." - Matt Williames

I'm disappointed that I couldn't live up to that mantra, but sadly, I'm human. But how cool would it be if I was like a robot human hybrid instead... Yeah, that would be cool.

That being said - the bit about art, not about robots - I am still fairly pleased with how it turned out, and I definitely feel I've improved in my sense of design, and ability to execute it.

One Drawing A Week

I'm going to try and make the effort do make one finished drawing a week. Whether that be a pencil sketch, or Photoshop illustration. I mean, I'm in a drawing program, but the amount of time I get to work on my own drawings is abysmally small.

This way I can experiment with new styles and techniques and hopefully get some cool results.

So here's the first drawing, and what better way to start than with a pretty girl?

Character Timeline

Here is my latest assignment for Character Design class. We had to design an anthropomorphic character and show them in 5 different stages of their life: Infant, youth, teen, adult, and elderly. 

Overall, I'm a bit back and forth on this one. There are poses I like, and poses I don't. I really don't think it's one of my best assignments, so hopefully my next one will turn out better.

Sketch Dump

Here are some sketches that reside in my sketchbook - bad drawings and all. Thought it would be cool to upload full pages instead of only select drawings.

These vary from concepts and rough drawings for assignments, to my own studies outside of school.

                                     

Expression Model Sheet

Here is the latest assignment in my character design course here at Sheridan. I'm actually having so much more fun in this class than I am in animation class, interestingly enough.

Anyway the assignment was to create a model sheet exploring the expressions of your character, based on their personality.

My character is meant to be an over the top, spoiled, fun loving pretty girl.
 

This is also my first time really diving deep in exploring how to draw an appealing female character. It's a very difficult, yet rewarding process.

Character Posing

So this right here is my final copy of my Character Design assignment. The task was to design a character, and then draw him/her/it in eight different poses that illustrate his/her/it's character.

I'm pretty pleased, I think I'm definitely improving at least, which is something to be proud of in itself. The drawings on the top left of the page leave me rather disappointed, I'd like to think I could do better.
With that said, I'm fairly pleased with several of the other poses, in particular the one on the top right, bottom right, center, and center left. So it seems I'm 50% happy with this assignment.

Cool beans.

I'm still struggling with balancing appeal and structure, which is constantly in my head. I'm also having a lot of trouble with pushing facial expressions to extremes, I find it causes a breaking in structure as well as appeal. I.e. having someone letting out a scream of pure terror. Something like that is a very intense challenge for me.

Even more beans of the cool variety.


I shall update again with interesting things soon, dear reader.
Until we meet again.

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Marine Animal

Penguin Swim Cycle from Omar Elhindi on Vimeo.

So here is my marine animal cycle. It's not due for three more weeks, however I have many pressing things due in two days. You can tell I managed my time accordingly.

Back on topic.

I'm fairly pleased with this to be honest, although theirs a few spacing issues that were the result of poor planning. Otherwise I think it has a nice bit of character, which is something I've noticed many Sheridan students don't think about until second or even third year. Which is quite unfortunate considering the importance of it.

Oh yeah, his name is Pedro. Pedro the penguin. Pedro the penguin who actually looks a lot like a hummingbird...

Character Design Class

Here's my final character design for my class. Overall I'm pretty pleased. 

I'm Baaaack

I've had a bit of an absence from my blog latey. I hope I can be forgiven.

Anyway, here are some character designs for my (shocker) character design class. These are the rough drawings I made, I'll post the final line soon!