Senior Project and such

Sorry for the hiatus! I took a posting break over the holiday vacation that turned into a bit of an extended hiatus. I will have some fun stuff to post shortly... but for now, check out my senior project blog at http://kru-penn.blogspot.com. There isn't much on there yet - save for some background reading and proposals - but the aim of the project is to study the RenderMan interface, the RenderMan Shading Language, and to implement some interesting textures in PRMan. Should be fun!

Updated Demo Reel! :)

Marissa Krupen Demo Reel 2010 from Marissa Krupen on Vimeo.

Some Art from Thesis

Here are some pieces from my Thesis Animation:

Beach Scene

Quick comp:

Quick Comp from Eliza and the Swans from Marissa Krupen on Vimeo.

Marissa Krupen Demo Reel 2010 from Marissa Krupen on Vimeo.

Compilation Slide

A compilation of random digital paintings I've done/been working on.

The one on the left is a character design for Thesis that I kind of abandoned.... The one in the middle right was a Santa I was working on for Holiday cards that I need to trim out of the background a bit more/clean up.

Just a few things that have been laying around...

Video from Previous Painting

So you can see a little bit of how I was doing it...

Elisa in the Forrest

Oddly... the colors appear a lot different here/on my mac than in the PC lab in Addams. It's the first time I've ever noticed such a large change... but there was a lot more color depth on the PC in this darker painting. Hopefully, you can get somewhat of an idea for what I was going for... and maybe on a PC it will look better (though I just saved the psd to jpeg and the color profile on a Mac, so who knows).

Heading to Ottawa for the Animation Festival in a few short hours. Have to run and pack!!! Here's something to tide over/since I haven't posted in a few weeks. I'll update more hopefully in Canada or when I get back on Sunday. So excited!

Struggling with Computers in Addams

As I continue the never-ending battle with the Addams computer labs and "support" staff... here's a quick post/update.

A lot to mention... Senior Thesis, Schoolism Projects, Summer Work, Friends/Family. Too much to describe in this short note. However, I promise to come back soon and update, and apologize for the summer time off in postings.

Here's a quick digital painting (still have some more I want to do, but it's a comfortable 7 hours at this point) that I would like to explain more later (and perhaps in it's own post). Just a preview of what I'm up to...