Lori Allen's Sketchblog

2011-11-13T22:15:00.001-08:00

the product of listening to a depressingly beautiful song on repeat

Loma

2011-08-02T22:52:00.000-07:00

a fanart of my friend's character

sketch trade!

2011-07-03T16:33:00.000-07:00

sketch-trade I did with cberniez over on tumblr!

so many wings!

2011-06-27T23:06:00.001-07:00

Something worthy of posting!!

...more wings for smaller wingspan?

Horn addition

2011-04-10T03:38:00.001-07:00

it seems like horns can make any character look awesome.

MANLY FISTS OF MANLINESS

2011-04-05T03:11:00.001-07:00

FEEL HIS MANLY INCORRECT ANATOMY POOOOWERRRRRRRR

hahaha been picking at this over the week at home after class. its unbelievable how tricky magicalness can be.

octopus

2011-03-03T03:01:00.001-08:00

octopuses are so cool. i mean, they can practically transform.

also, don’t know what the hell i drew D8 and i think the fish look like sausages

Yellow Shoes

2011-02-20T17:26:00.000-08:00

Based this guy's outfit from a pic i saw on google.
Some of the other fellas in it had some pretty crazy outfits goin on.
This guy had yellow shoes.

UNILIZARD!

2011-02-13T18:03:00.001-08:00

Today I am on a ROLL! hahaaa. Spruced this one up a bit, as it was sitting around almost finished.

Redraw

2011-02-13T16:07:00.001-08:00

oh Yes, I had started to redraw this guy from an old image....

practices

2011-02-13T15:57:00.000-08:00

Some practices I did in January

Art!

2010-12-31T14:09:00.000-08:00

Some doodles i have done over the break! I thought I'd post some before it's officially 2011

semester Final group Project

2010-12-31T04:11:00.000-08:00

This is some of the stuff that i putt into our final group project (shown below)

I designed the llama (and also textured)

some concepts
and this was the turnaround i gave to another group member to model
Everyone in the group had to do a little of everything, so i also modelled the sandwich, did some rigging and animation. Also teamed up with Megan with the credits.

without further ado, the film:

(there's some nice music in the credits,
you might want to play all the way through )

its about time

2010-11-29T21:59:00.001-08:00

So this is a the character I made for design class.

Our next job was to model the character that we designed

Final renders

too bad I ran out of time to model the spear.

Crate-tastic

2010-09-29T22:31:00.001-07:00

MODELING... aaaaand TEXTURING!! ..... aaaand LIGHTING.

BAM!
BRING IT ON.

So above is the crate we had to create and below is a little setup I did so that I could do some 'fancy' lighting. or beginners lighting.... ....

Gaston's forgotten cousin

2010-09-18T23:22:00.001-07:00

OH MAN two weeks have gone by already.
This was our second modelling assignment.
Basemesh done in Maya
modeling detail done in Zbrush

Roses

2010-09-12T01:55:00.000-07:00

a bit of colour practice. I've been in the habit of doing grayscale painting lately, so I thought maybe some colour could spice things up.

Mermaid

2010-09-04T04:37:00.001-07:00

its been too long

2010-09-01T03:40:00.000-07:00

Oh my, haven't posted anything for a while...

God i love paper

2010-07-14T01:42:00.000-07:00

Summer fishin

2010-07-09T23:11:00.000-07:00

After a week of teaching a summer camp and then a week of going through old things and games, I thought maybe drawing should commence once again. Just tuning into a livestream with Nicola I randomly drew this, reflecting a little of what the weather has been like lately.
I also participated in an intensity stream today with Peter Chan and T-Bear over at Sketchoholic.com. The topic was little street performer.

Beardy

2010-07-06T01:20:00.000-07:00

Oh yes so this was my pitch that will be in Animation Magazine's Pitch Party. It didn't win but I'm still glad that I was able to do it.

Adventure Time!

2010-05-28T01:46:00.000-07:00

Just a little thing to show my love for this sweet show!

Banana vampires

2010-05-27T23:49:00.001-07:00

Hahahaha so i found this file from first year C:

get out of the rut

2010-05-13T23:10:00.000-07:00

So after classes are over, I'm feelin a little out of it.
Trying to remedy it, I've just been doodling in paintchat.
Just one of many:

SO VERY CLOSE!

2010-05-02T00:00:00.001-07:00

Gradshow is so close! I'm so nervous, yet excited at the same time.

Just a little image that I did in the last couple days, relating to my 'rocketshoes' animation.

No Hands Sam

2010-03-21T02:29:00.001-07:00

AAGH 2 MONTHS

2010-03-07T02:37:00.000-08:00

So only TWO MONTHS left of school!!! I've gotta get my act together and crack down on some of my projects. Good-bye life!

Anyway, just some pics that I did during, or have been working on since the Olympics started. I started practicing that grayscale value thing on pictures. I'm starting to like it. Though i still don't particularly like how colours look when added.

This one I might still play with some colours, not sure though

I'm still stuck on the colours for this one.

Work in Progress still~ I've been slowly plugging away at it.
(usually when i should be working on hw) :D

Landscape is les fin!

2010-02-15T01:03:00.000-08:00

oh man, this landscape has been worked on for way too long. Though i do like the results.

Time to move on...
oh man HAHAHA I just now see that it has the same colour theme as my blog... WOOPS

one MILLION things to post

2010-02-03T12:39:00.000-08:00

Oh man, so I haven't really posted anything yet this semester, but So far so good. The stress of graduating in May is slowly settling in, with all these big independent projects starting under way. Not to mention the Olympics getting in the way. Daaaaamn youuuuu, why does my school have to become a parking lot? No access to the facilities during that time. I guess I'll just have to do more designy stuff at home instead.

Anyway, a whole whack of stuff I've done in the past month or so~

Some life drawings:

and some design stuff from sketchbooks:

Sorry, super long post is super duper long.

Final Layout

2010-01-05T21:38:00.001-08:00

So this is the final layout that I did of last semester. I forgot to post it, ha ha .....
I really enjoyed doing this one. No buildings to worry about straight lines with.

its BUMPER TIME

2009-12-26T00:42:00.001-08:00

The tv bumper that we had to do for digital animation class. The animatic and backgrounds were done in flash and the rest was done in tvpaint.

Teletoon Bumper from Fiora on Vimeo.

Teehee

2009-11-29T03:03:00.000-08:00

Just a doodley thing i was doin while i was listenin to a stream earlier today with Marcelo Vignali. I had to leave for work so i didn't get to finish it in that time, but i finished it off once i got home 8D I tried a little thing with no lines (it started with lines for the design) just once i added the colours, i took the lines away aaaaaannnd it evolved from there. I want to get better at coloured pieces. :(

Chiustream #4

2009-11-27T00:33:00.000-08:00

So how many times a day am i posting now? Haha at least i'm posting.

Anyway this is from the chiustream tonight thats for when Marcela Vignali will be a guest on Saturday. His topic was mermaids, so i hope DEARLY that i don't work early on saturday. I really want to watch that stream.

Topic was MERMAID

Chiustream # 3

2009-11-26T22:00:00.001-08:00

Oh man I am totally lovin' doing these Chiustream challenges that have been happenin. http://schoolism.com Bobby Chiu is so intense, yet SO INSPIRING

this theme was Creepy Cute:

Layout Spectacula

2009-11-25T11:44:00.000-08:00

I forgot to upload this, but its my finished Modern City layout from last assignment.

And just some progress on our final assignment for the semester:

working sketch

Rough blue

I'm kind of excited for this layout. Its definitely not as labour intensive or mind numbing as the layouts with all the BUILDINGS. Straight lines can really make someone go crazy.

Sketchbook time.

2009-11-25T09:48:00.000-08:00

Time for some sketchbook doodles.

Warning: Long post is long.

Can you tell I like to draw in blue?

Vimeo wins

2009-11-23T22:01:00.000-08:00

So Vimeo wins over Blogger. I kept getting crazy ERROR messages from blogger when trying to upload my animation. So vimeo was the way to go.

Anyway, this was for the lilo assignment we did. I was likin it at the beginning.... but by the end i realized that it srsly needs some work

Why not make something from Fiora on Vimeo.

ciao

...totally AWESOME

2009-11-19T13:46:00.000-08:00

So just recently I've started listening to musicals A LOT. I just can't stop. A very Potter Musical and WICKED. They are amazing.

anyway.

I compiled a whole bunch of life drawings together. One of the days some of these were from, I was TOTALLY on fire. It was a very strange feeling. But it might just have been too much sugar.

Soooo uhhm.... i was going to post an animation.... but blogger is being stubborn.

Somewhere in Venice

2009-10-30T15:02:00.000-07:00

Newest Layout: Our theme was Amsterdam or "19th century" if i remember correctly. This of course gave me the opportunity to do a city that i love. So Venice i did.

New topic is a modern city. . . and its hard .

Goofing around

2009-10-16T14:13:00.000-07:00

but not with the goofy animation i should be working on. Just a doodle in photoshop.

Layout numba 1

2009-10-08T16:04:00.000-07:00

So here be my final version of layout numba one. Mo told me to fix the garbage can and a line on the desk. So i did. the end.

Schoolism Challenge

2009-10-07T21:12:00.000-07:00

Today i tuned it for the second time to Imaginism's Livechat with Bobby Chiu and today it had Peter de Sève as guest. They do a theme to draw each time, and today's theme was 'Something big, yet graceful'

a little grump

2009-09-27T02:22:00.000-07:00

Just a little late night doodle after work.

After we had Colin Jack as a guest lecturer in class, i've been inspired to draw characters in a similar style to his.

The best animal in the world.

2009-09-23T17:04:00.000-07:00

besides dragons and unicorns of course.

Poor pickings

2009-09-22T18:20:00.000-07:00

So finally something to show for the new year.
Just handed in first animation assignment today. I hope i never have to animate the pink panther ever again.

if you can't tell... he's getting beamed up by aliens.

New in-class assignment today that i QUITE enjoyed and was happy with the results.
Had to do a pose test thingamajig for some dialogue from Robinhood and of course animate robin along to it.

WOOPS no eyes.

aaand some unfinished layout as of yet.... we have to have the final rough due for tomorrow. getting up early is FUN.

it be my room.... with a few moderations.

Getting back in the groove

2009-08-31T14:53:00.000-07:00

So lately, since i got my snazzy new computer, I've been drawing on the interwebs a bit. ... thought maybe i'd post some of my doodles~

and PS. my cintiq just got ordered YAY!

I remembered how to draw

2009-07-07T17:05:00.000-07:00

So after not drawing everyday for a while... it kind of felt like i forgot how to.

And then pokemon came back into my life and I designed a human version of the Pokemon Leafeon for my friend. I ended up making 3 versions until she liked how it came out.

Just some crappy photos with colours added in photoshop:
I've also tried to get back into my story that I wrote my script for with Bill ... and did my final design package first semester for. I ended up tweeking the design a bit more but I like this pic that I did of my main character, Kage, for my story:

I met a bison on my journey

2009-04-22T19:53:00.000-07:00

So I thought I'd post a few things from the end of the semester n stuff.

My final design project i had an idea for, but then, when i pulled my lovely all nighter on thursday I kinda redesigned everything and i liked them a whole lot more. Except that the love interest still required curly hair on his chest.

And my final animation~ i don't like how in the end the music didn't sync up like it originally did.... but oh well.

In light of rainbows...

2009-03-27T10:09:00.000-07:00

How about a cat who has rolled around in one or three?

(drawn during john's class)

So i accidentally closed the tab...

2009-03-25T11:21:00.000-07:00

.. so i don't want to type stuff out again.

Some life drawings from the last week or so~ will post a large dump of more later when i have time...

Also, my 2 person dialogue assignment from last week. It could have been a lot better, but I'll just have to live with that.

Works in progress...

2009-02-27T12:43:00.000-08:00

Just thought I'd post some unfinished things that I be liking.
I was doodling this in directing class... and used it as a base for my layout assignment.
This one I'm QUITE happy with the background... since i always seem to fail at integrating characters and bgs. I shall hopefully finish it in the next week.

Only half a year late...

2009-02-19T15:47:00.000-08:00

Now that the time of horrid blundering is nearing its end, I thought maybe I should start this thing up.

Just a little dump of Life Drawings that i'm somewhat happy with~

And here's my quadruped Final animation. I chose Altivo from The Road to El Dorado, a movie which deserves a lot more than what it got. Anyway, I really enjoy the character, so I really enjoyed the doing the animation... and all those frames didn't seem like so much. Perhaps I will clean this up.... eventually... though eventuallys don't usually go through..

now let's see if I can keep on top of this place....