Happy Birthday to me!! Dreamcatcher Animatic with Color and Music

               


Happy Birthday to me!! My birthday present to myself is to finish my animatic...The music which was written and composed by Ashkan Tabrizi and David Semien is beautiful and really ties everything together. Hopefully soon I'll be able to upload the fully animated short. But for now... here is a sneak peak. Enjoy!!

Oh and to the anonymous Sarah that asked me if I sell prints of my work.... Yes I do. I just dont know how to reach you. Please email me your contact info to .... raquel.o.martinez@gmail.com

Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! Happy Quanza! Happy Holidays!

Final #1 completed - Model an interior using Maya

Thanks to all of you that were able to come to Ave 50 Studios on Saturday!!! It was a lot of fun. Thanks for all of your wonderful support. I got to see a lot of you I havent seen in a while and got to meet many very interesting people. It was packed!!

Well after the show on Saturday and after having a lovely supper with friends I came home to the list of Finals that are due this week. First on the list was my Maya Project for my Intro to Maya class.  I never thought I was any good with Maya but I have really surprised myself. Our final was to model an interior from a photograph and color and texture with lighting and everything.

Of course, I chose a very challenging room with a tub and the dreaded CURTAINS. Here's the finished product. Oh and yes I did model the curtains myself.

This is the finished model painted with lighting

This is the photo I used as reference

OMG!!! Finals week and I'm trying to stay calm and Latest Dreamcather Character Designs and Ashkan Tabrizi from Choice of Chance

So I went to the chiropractor at school and they told me that the bones in my neck were going in all sorts of directions. They said it was probably due to stress and fatigue. Well yeah! I have been stressing all semester. I took on 5 classes plus an internship and have really just been staying afloat, but you know what, I have a lot of work under my belt now. Which is GREAT!

So to the good stuff... I just almost finished the ALMOST FINAL character designs for "Dreamcatcher." So here's the latest....

Oh oh ... the animatic is almost done and my really great friend Ashkan Tabrizi from the band CHOICE OF CHANCE is composing a score for it. I already heard some sketches and seriously... The music is AMAZING!!!!

I have always been a fan of Ashkan's music and the fact that he is composing the score for my short is such an honor.

Make sure to check out his music @
http://choiceofchance.bandcamp.com/album/real-life-make-believe 

Ojibwa woman - "Mother"

Ojibwa woman- "Medicine Woman"

"Little Boy"