Request: Work on U8_3 and U8_6.
U8:3 Scene Description: It’s Christmas (russian christmas). in the courtyard of a church there is a nativity scene. Oleg, Polina, Grigorij, Tatusja are all standing in front of it and there’s snow all around.
U8_6 :
Polina and Oleg are working in garden outside their house to plant a tree. Abir is holding the sapling steady as Oleg is packing it into the ground using a garden spade and Polina is watering it with a watering can
Request:
Professor: Heather Rice
Process:
I managed over the creation of all 45 illustrations for Rus 406. I worked with the other STA’s on the team and helped them with any questions or concerns they had to make sure we kept everything looking consistent. I kept updated on our progress by creating a contact sheet which I updated every week. This is the contact sheet:
These are the characters I created and the illustrations I worked on my own. It doesn’t seem like I did a lot but I couldn’t put all of the illustrations that I helped in because by the end of the project, most illustrations were a huge collaboration with each STA. These are the ones I can say I worked on from scratch to finish with the exception of Polina having been made by Bethany.
Finally I created the canvas graphic. I have initially made a version in the birch forest since that was my favorite scene to draw and I thought I could do a lot with the background. Bethany was creating the firebird and I read that in Russian folklore that the feather is an object of a difficult quest. I thought it would be interesting if Oleg was holding the feather up and Professor Rice and her TA Molly could be looking up at the feather next to him. I had them sitting on the floor so that I could set Oleg onto the rock and keep them kind of at eye level. In Russia however, it is considered very bad for people to sit on the ground since it is dirty. So by Mike and the Professor’s suggestion I had them sit on a blanket. I took the blanket from one of the living room scenes. Then the professor requested the time of day to be daybreak so i adjusted the lighting for this. I also created a second version with them on the couch.
Magnets to be used in Kitchen set Design
Recreate a Set Design like the one below:
Hipster Hedgehog:
After I completed Oleg’s character sheet , I gave him the hipster accessories that the professor Requested for him.
Moving Forward with the illustrations, I started with one of the illustrations and established the way the illustrations would be colored in.
I then created these photoshop files of the illustrations for each scene so that the Jaclyn and Chloe may be able to color them in. The characters are also roughed into the poses I think they should be in. I made each photoshop file filed with references and suggestions to guide the others when they open it.
This an example of a typical photoshop file with a completed illustration
My Process
These are the completed illustrations so far but will need to be roughed out a bit more towards the end.
Request: Make a hedgehog for a Russian class. This hedgehog will be animated during the online videos so make the hedgehog animatable with separate layers for each limb.
Professor: Heather Rice
Process:
When first starting this project the plan was to have the style be of a 50’s cartoon animation. These were the different roughs I created:
Then the style changed and tried making a draft that looked like a russian doll
but this version would have been hard to animate and it looked more like a mouse than a hedgehog so i moved onto another draft.
Then I decided to try defining this last draft a bit more. I wanted to make the hedgehog look wooden so I added a wood texture. I got the inspiration to make his wooden spikes into triangles like the top of the St. Basil’s cathedral in russia.
So this is what I came up with
I added this version in a mockup with the professor and the powerpoint borders
I got the approval for this version of the hedgehog and now I’ll continue to refine this version.