GVW Brownfields

Near my hometown, there's this great project starting where they're taking land that has been previously developed on(and has since been abandoned, idled or contaminated), and doing extensive environmental cleanup- essentially "recycling" the land- and preparing it for new uses. They're calling the used land "Brownfields", its opposite being "Greenfields."

There are many advantages to using Brownfields rather than Greenfields. Some advantages are that there is already an existing support infrastructure, community improvement, cost avoidance (for construction), job creation, and reduction of urban sprawl. There are so many benefits to recycling Brownfields, but one of the most notable is the preservation of agricultural farmland, (which, my wonderful boyfriend Shandon tells me is being lost at a rate of 2 acres per minute in the United States)

Shandon got involved in this green-initiative and he's been going through a lot of training courses that will prepare him to sample, study, and decomtaminate the land and buildings of various types of pollutants. (In a way, he's learning how to be a more effective 21st century Adam, learning to take care of and keep the land we've been given- which was the first instruction God ever gave man.)

He has gotten me interested in what he's learning and a few weeks ago, he drove me around in Graniteville and showed me some of the old buildings and mills that are (hopefully) going to be restored to a usable and safe environment. Here's one of the buildings we visited. It's name is Hickman Hall and it was built in 1907.

Some Photos

I'm the luckiest girl in the world!
Photos by Blush Photography in Savannah, Georgia :)

Postcard for my Church!

Hello! I just finished up a postcard design for my church's youth group- Enjoy! (you may need sunglasses to view this image)

Youth Alpha Retreat Logo

Backgrounds for "BIT"

Tiny Costuming for Stop Motion

This quarter, Dan Mackenzie of Mackmation asked me to make some tiny clothes for his next stop motion project. Here's what I came up with!

Snowman Animation

In my 3d Production class, I've been working on a 15 second animated film. Here are three frames from my animatic. The entire animation will be rendered out (tomorrow by the latest) with Maya and SCAD's Renderfarm, composited with Adobe After Effects, and cut together with Adobe Premiere. I used the opensource Blake rig.

Color Scripting for Characters

During this quarter, I've been trying my hand at developing some different color scripts for senior films that are in production here at SCAD. The characters above belong to Zane Yarbrough and will be used in ThisSideUp^ and Ilona, below, belongs to Tyler Kupferer (Base 14) and are for The Girl and the Fox.

I find playing with variations of color to be extremely relaxing. After hours of creating Maya snow- (using MEL- which means Maya Embedded Language), working out an X-sheet, or animating with the Graph Editor... there's nothing like sitting down and coloring.

More Yeti Color tests

The Friday Arts Project in Rock Hill, South Carolina is having a show called "Red & Green" (Tonight) Saturday, December 5th. I submitted a digital painting to the gallery- It's the beginning of Mary and Joseph's journey to Bethlehem. It's red and green! (Those happen to be two of my favorite colors, if you didn't know that. And not just because I love Christmas.)


Come out and see us if you're in the area! It is rumored there will be fun people and yummy snacks.

Yeti Neutral Color Test

Emma and Molly's Pet Yeti Color Tests

Pixar at SCAD 2009

*my sketchbook is still in Savannah so the notes portion will have to be scanned in later. Sorry about that!

Molly and Emma's Pet Yeti

A friend of mine, Matt Doering, is creating a short film titled "Molly and Emma's Pet Yeti".
Here's a piece of felt art I created for his characters!

Pixar is coming to SCAD

Hark! Listen! Hear this!
Pixar is coming to SCAD!! If you missed out on last year's visit from Pixar, there's still time to rearrange your schedule, finish your homework, call your parents on the telephone, just DO WHAT EVER IT TAKES to get out to the Trustees Theatre at 8:00 on Thursday November 12! I will NOT accept any excuses- especially you SCAD animators who I know read my blog.

I mean, look at this list of presenters:
Robin McDonald- Sr. Recruiter/Technical
Pam Zissimos- Sr. Recruiter/Creative
Shawn Krause- Supervising Animator/Cars 2
Nigel Hardwidge- Supervising Technical Director/ Currently in Development
Mark Holmes- Art Director (Graphics)/ Currently in Development
Tim Best- Lead Technical Director (Lighting)/ Bear& The Bow



Of course I will be there, so check back to see how it went!


P.S. I promise I will post an update (or 10) of what I've been up to this quarter.. You'll just have to wait till finals are over. Then get ready for an avalanche of catching-up posts!! Yahoooooo!