Happy ChrismaHanzaKwanzika!

    Or whatever you choose to celebrate this time of year! I'm celebrating the snow we just got and my amazing family!     ....Speaking of, here's a Christmas card that I made. It probably needs some explaining.

     It's a mash up of an old picture we have of my parents, and my brothers. The picture was before I was alive so I guess I thought it would be funny if I literally photoshopped myself in it? And added random Christmas props? And other holly-jolly things?

The animals were a cat and dog in the original image, I cut out the cat and added the my dog from my lifetime, both dogs were named Buffy. Both passed away, so we have some little angels too ha ha!

It all resulted in this card that is probably hard to look at,

 hope it puts you in the holiday mood! (or happy or whatever :) )

Quick Update!

Hello everybody,

This semester was really great! Learning new things everyday and fighting through the issues to keep on making my work. It took me a while but HERE is my Simple Polygons assignment, kind of the final for my Computer Animation class. I made this here giraffey from its design, model, textures, rig, and I animated him. Super fun!

Enjoy!



Rudy The Giraffe from Alli Norman on Vimeo.

Also since, I made it and it was hard, here's my first ever lip sync traditionally... I really hope to go back in this with photoshop and clean up portions and make it stronger (so I don't feel so iffy about showing it anymore).... She's a mean, lean, dancin' machine.



anorman lipsyncFinal from Alli Norman on Vimeo.

On to better things now?... Purhaps!? YES.

More scans coming soon. Plus Xmas cards, animation tests, and models! Big plans for break!

Elephant Ear Puns

Really excited to get back into the swing of things again, the work load has been demanding but is really looking like fun lately. Good timing too, right when the last projects for the semester are getting cranked out. Then a nice break to pump out some new stuff!

Here's a graphic piece that I've experimented with, really fun! I'll be trying to push this more in future pieces.

 The concept layout for my interior kitchen for one of my classes. This is an elephant ears stand. I'll be posting more with this project too. Fun stuff!

Eh, might as well post the character sheets for this project too! 

Here's Rags the stuffed elephant. About to partake 

in the most exciting adventure of his elephant-life! 

This is Ollie the non-threatening 'carnie.' He had to be sympathetic to the elephant, so I couldn't make him as crusty and crazy as carnies are (no offense, I love carnivals).

Here's Pepper she was a fun design

 but ended up not being necessary for the story

... and I had to dwindle down to two characters.

 Here's the old Rags, cuter is better in this case. I hope. 

Thinking that I may end up chopping off more of his ear in the 

boards and other process work that I do... The drama!

History is for sketching!

Well, my art history class is a three hour block of great stuff that I should be learning... The only thing is that I should get more sleep before I head to that class. Anywho, here are the 'cafe' (if you will) sketches that keep me up.

Gotta be striving for some more stylized characters, but still want to keep growing in my observational. I will just draw more and more and more!

 Gotta love transparent paper!

 My DIPSY one hour piece for the Harrison Ford theme. Portraits man. All I sketch?

That weird shapey geo, is a hint of my giraffe that I'm modeling for CA, stay tuned I'll post a render of what that guy is looking like very soon!

Animatics Galore!

Well then! Here are those animatics I was talking about forever ago!

The prompt for this guy was about Maimou and Adellus the monkey and the dolphin. It's a tale from Greece and we had to basically just compose it into visual storytelling. My first attempt at storyboarding and animatics!


Monkeys and Dolphins! Oh my! from Alli Norman on Vimeo.

This one was given the prompt, annoying frog with a musical instrument...SPOILER ALERT... dodging a tomato! Here's my take on it.


Frog Animatic from Alli Norman on Vimeo.


So these were my first two boards/animatics, I'll post the ones that I've been working on more recently a little later. They still have some tweaks ;)

(cough, cough, not like these don't!)

Animation Yo!

Hello everyone! I have neglected my blog once more!

Lots of work but not on many projects... They've all seem to be lengthy assignments so far for school, and mainly video projects. I've been holding off on uploading them to vimeo (first off, I had to make a vimeo) because once a project is completed and you've gotten feedback, there's almost always a chance to make revisions...

Meaning: it's never done!

So...

I've got to get out the that habit of not showing my work because, in theory, it's never going to be done. So without any further adieu, here are a couple projects from my concept and traditional animation class.....

(Also, forgive me, I'll have to put my walks on a cycle later on...Hopefully this loops?)

Exaggerated:

Quadruped Exaggerated Walk Dog from Alli Norman on Vimeo.


"Realistic" (but still kind of exaggerated):

Quadruped Walk Dog from Alli Norman on Vimeo.

A lil' bit of digi-painting!

My school work has been my main focus so very little personal stuff is made!

I've been making my storyboards for the same dolphin and monkey story, working on a pantomime/primitive theatre (same idea) project for my animation classes and doing some random elective homework (I will eventually get some of that animation up on here as soon as I get to it, along with the boards...might as well show that I'm doing something)! That's been my life so far, back in the swing of things and you know what? I really like it. It's kickin' my butt though, but in a very good way. 

Anyways, enough of my life story... This is something I did tonight, at 2:00 am waiting for a computer in the notorious 24 hr. labs at school. Whats the use of giving computers that are open at all times, when they aren't open when you need 'em? Anywho, it's the product of my wait and is a little janky but it was fun. Experimenting, yaaaaaaaaay!

Must have saved a weird file of it, it had some cool shadows going behind her head and chair from the light... Maybe I'll post another one later, ha but then I'll feel obligated to fix it...

As always, I'll try to get some more stuff up here later with cool things. Enjoy!