Storyboard - The Good Little Girl - Story Beats

And here is my character lineup and Story Beats for "The Good Little Girl". This is the one that got chosen, and I will be making my board based on it!

I'm actually super excited about this one!

Exploration for this idea is here:
http://tinanawrocki.blogspot.ca/2014/09/storyboard-good-little-girl-exploration.html

Character lineup:

and Story Beats!

Storyboard - A Mistake - Story Beats and Character lineup

So I got my Story Beats and Character lineup done for my poem "A Mistake". You can find my exploratory work here:

http://tinanawrocki.blogspot.ca/2014/09/storyboard-mistake-exploration.html

First, Character lineup!

And here is my beat board!

How to Train your Dragon - Selfie

The Second Year's at Sherdian decided we should make a themed banner with all of our self-portaits. The theme that won was How to Train you Dragon.

So here is TINA - DRAGON TAMER:

Photoshop and pencil:

And just for fun, my original sketch:

Storyboard - The Good Little Girl - Exploration

And here is Poem #2 -

THE GOOD LITTLE GIRL

There was a little girl, who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forhead.
When she was good, she was very, very good;
But when she was bad...she was horrid!

So my character for this storyboard will be Kit Kurlz (a nod to my hatred of the font) and her pony Calamity.

Here is some early exploration!

Storyboard - A Mistake - Exploration

Back to Sheridan for year 2. First storyboard assignment. We have to interpret 2 poems in boards, and create our own custom character lineups for each. Here is poem 1:

A MISTAKE

He said he wanted pest control,
And so I brought him this.
It escaped.
So I was blamed
For the resulting mess.

We got it back, it lives here now,
One of our special guests.
But there is still one problem:
It doesn't scare the pests!

So my idea is set in the Ice Age. A young boy brings his Granddad a Wooly Mammoth to get rid of the mice... turns out the Mammoth is scared of mice. But in the end, Mice, Woolly, Boy and even Granddad life peacefully all together.

So far I'm working on exploratory work for the characters. Sketch dump! Tomorrow I'll work on a more solid lineup. At first I toyed with the idea of the wife bringing home Woolly, but thought the boy would be funnier:

Pinups - April

Here is a new pinup of the lovely April - commissioned by my good friend Bianca, for April's birthday.

I always thought there was something feline about April - so it was fitting to have he portrayed with her partner in crime her cat - Pussy! ;) Both so sassy!

Games - Operation Spark - Mardi Gras Mayham

A good friend, and former collegue of mine, John Fraboni, moved back to New Orleans, where he got involved in an awesome project called Operation Spark.

The game is set in (surprise surprise) New Orleans! Got to design some cute buildings!

When he moved back to New Orleans, he got the chance to help createa Operation Spark - a program to help teens, who might not be able to afford the hefty sum needed for an education in computer sciences, to learn how to code. John is not only an awesome programmer (we met while I was working in Gaming in Montreal), but also a kick-ass jazz drummer. Which gives him the cool street cred he needs to work with teens (hats off). The program has two parts - a boot camp, where the kids learn Java and Html5, and then they are placed at an actual Studio for an internship, to help them get work. Awesome stuff. To find out more about it, check out their facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/opspark

Also check out their promo video, which has the game featured in it (without all my assets sadly...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxrP4Rs62P4

The kids at Operation Spark coded two games - Mardi Gras Mayham, and Rapstar Name Generator. John asked me to do some quick art for these two games, so they could show them off in New York, where they were looking to get some more funding.

So... I just couldn't say no. Had very little time to work on this, so it is a bit rushed - and I had to conform to the size and look that was already set out for me. But still managed to have a lot of fun with it!

Splash page! Though I think it didn't get used in the final game.

And here is my game mockup, with the superhero flying along.

 And here is her lovely flight cycle! :)

Go Operation Spark!