Jenessa Warren

Duh-dump

2011-09-30T14:14:00.000-07:00

I have mid-terms so you get some more life drawings/people-I-sat-behind-in-class.

Country

2011-09-22T21:39:00.000-07:00

Outside

2011-09-21T12:14:00.000-07:00

Sketchbook- Knowledge Center 1

2011-09-20T14:37:00.000-07:00

I'll have to start drawing somewhere else because I don't think all this studying is painting an accurate picture of college life.

Be back in 5..

2011-09-19T14:53:00.000-07:00

Long break in posts.

For a while I was contemplating wiping my blog clean and starting over-- but I finally decided to keep all the old stuff. I'll be updating regularly now though.

Happy mother's day

2011-05-12T00:59:00.000-07:00

To my best flower girl. Thanks for always playing along. I love you mommy!

Portfolio and film BGs

2011-04-16T13:20:00.000-07:00

My current portfolio is here

Sketching

2011-04-11T16:21:00.000-07:00

Toothfairy

2011-04-04T08:39:00.001-07:00

Clean up

2011-03-29T15:13:00.001-07:00

Cleaned up some ballerina's for my portfolio.

Driving

2011-03-08T01:42:00.000-08:00

She probably works at Macy's

Saugus Cafe

2011-03-06T03:47:00.000-08:00

Pascal Campion gave demonstration at school via skype this week- so I did an inspired piece for as part of a birthday present for a friend's 21st birthday.

Some corgis

2011-03-01T03:37:00.000-08:00

One of my potential films this year involved a corgi who brings her owner home to meet her family. Here are some sketches.

Why does my life continuously involve cake?

2011-02-28T15:56:00.000-08:00

During films, going to Von's seems super exciting.

The other day, they had strawberries on sale for $1.77.

My dad throws a fit if he has to use a credit-card on any purchase less than $10- so I was just thinking how stupid I must look when--

"HEY!"

It was three burly guys who where buying beer and some eggs.

"Nice cake"

Now there where a couple possibilities at this point--
1- In my fear that they were going to call me out on making a charge of $1.77, I had mistaken "strawberries" for "cake."
2- There was something on my face that could be mistaken for cake.
3- I was going to have to type "cake" into urban dictionary when I got home.

"Is it for your daughter?"

Film-time is gross, but not that gross.

But there where no small children anywhere near me.

He was the one who got shanked for it later I'm sure.

(My friend Kelsey was also there but I'm too lazy to draw her. She's also shorter than me so I don't want you to confuse her with a kid.)

Colorscript

2011-02-23T19:50:00.000-08:00

A little colorscript.

For a L..ot of Pages

2011-02-23T18:59:00.000-08:00

After making these I decided that I will not put them in a portfolio. So I might as well post them to make myself feel better about the 2 hours I spent on them.

Giraffe Paintings

2011-02-12T21:35:00.000-08:00

I went to the Deborah Ross animal drawing workshop at the zoo. She is wonderful.

Little Ballerinas

2011-01-31T00:43:00.001-08:00

Some nerd and some grandma sketches

2011-01-26T23:08:00.000-08:00

I was planning a film based on a boy who is sent to college with his grandma. Keywords being "was" and "planning" I think!... but all for the better.

Christmas tree hunting

2011-01-06T21:15:00.000-08:00

Christmas gift for my mommy

A nerdy girl

2011-01-04T03:11:00.001-08:00

Just some thumbnails

2010-12-30T22:33:00.000-08:00

Just some Incredibles thumbnails of a plane, done on the plane.

Mrs Peacock

2010-12-20T01:16:00.001-08:00

Witchy housewife

2010-12-17T13:42:00.000-08:00

Cottage exterior

2010-12-17T00:48:00.001-08:00

Running out of time. Classes end tomorrow!

"Motion test" for last year's film

2010-12-16T14:14:00.000-08:00

I was experimenting with rotating squares

Hansel and Gretel

2010-12-16T04:55:00.000-08:00

Secret Santa

2010-12-11T05:16:00.000-08:00

My secret santa and her doggie.
(And I promise I will go through and finish these last couple posts after finals week)

Hansel and Gretel Color Script

2010-12-10T01:27:00.000-08:00

Working on a Christmas card

2010-11-27T22:43:00.000-08:00

I haven't updated recently.

I'm working on a little Christmas card... among other things, such as my film.

Vampire

2010-10-21T12:18:00.000-07:00

Searle vampire

Plato, Venice, and a Barrel

2010-09-29T00:15:00.000-07:00

First sketch of a story that we have to expand on for this week in Lence's class. We each had to pick 3 things.

Color Assign: Velveteen Rabbit

2010-09-17T18:55:00.000-07:00

Hummingbird Doodles

2010-06-19T14:11:00.001-07:00

For A Long Time

2010-05-06T22:11:00.000-07:00

My third year film as in the Open Show. It was accepted into the Producer's Show on May 13th.

The day after

2010-04-27T19:49:00.000-07:00

The deadline was yesterday! Here's a couple grabs from my film via quicktime. Show's on Saturday.

5 more days

2010-04-20T20:31:00.000-07:00

Until films are due!

Beginning Stopmotion Animation Sync

2010-03-19T13:02:00.000-07:00

More Stop Motion

2010-03-16T16:29:00.001-07:00

Film time- but here's my second stop motion assignment. Clay character with an expression change and blinks.

First Stop Motion Assignment

2010-02-24T16:36:00.001-08:00

This is my first assignment for my beginning stop motion class. My hands are all up in this assignment. I didn't mean to do that.

Please do not eat

2010-01-20T12:05:00.000-08:00

My friend Kelsey and I recreated Starry Night with only spaghetti and our own willpower for the gallery show on Thursday. Come and see how much is left on the wall!

Film time!

2010-01-19T23:50:00.000-08:00

Starting film time with storyboards and character design exploration! Because I haven't finished boarding yet, everything is still subject to change.

My film this year is based on a narration by my great grandma. She is the most kick-ass 93 -year-old lady you'll ever meet.

Thumbnail

2010-01-16T18:24:00.000-08:00

A small thumbnail from today. I was trying to find a mood for my film. This isn't it.

Bubbly girl on dolphin

2010-01-15T01:50:00.000-08:00

Drawing for a CalArts band.

Seasons Greetings

2009-12-18T18:11:00.000-08:00

Happy Birthday Mommy

2009-12-06T01:04:00.001-08:00

Happy Birthday Mommy. I love you.

(I promise I'll send you the camera charger with your birthday gift)

Layout thumbs

2009-12-05T03:02:00.001-08:00

Life Drawings 6

2009-11-30T19:00:00.000-08:00

Film studies 2

2009-11-23T10:37:00.000-08:00

American Werewolf in London

Happy Holidays

2009-11-23T01:01:00.000-08:00

A very telling Christmas card?

Watercolor

2009-11-09T16:45:00.000-08:00

First year, first week of school I bought a little watercolor set at Swain's but I never used it because I never use watercolors. Tragic story.

Life Drawings 5

2009-11-07T12:58:00.001-08:00

After Effects

2009-11-07T12:52:00.000-08:00

This is a cat tail I put together for post production class using the puppet tool in After Effects. The animation isn't too hot, but I hope it'll be a nice point of reference after I complete my film this year.

Life Drawings 4

2009-11-07T12:44:00.001-08:00

Life Drawings 3

2009-11-02T14:05:00.001-08:00

Film studies

2009-10-26T18:58:00.001-07:00

From The Shining and Pink Floyd: The Wall

8mm Home Videos

2009-10-24T15:39:00.000-07:00

My grandpa filmed this all in Butte, Montana on 8mm in 1958. Last year, he had all the film transfered, so when I went home for the summer I had many wonderful little surprises relevant to my family and my film this year!

Even though my film is set two decades earlier, part of it takes place in the second home in this clip. I would really love to incorporate some of this footage into my film (but, if not, it still makes for wonderful reference).

Life Drawings 2

2009-10-20T23:21:00.000-07:00

Life Drawings

2009-10-18T22:09:00.000-07:00

Third year reviews are all week. Because I'm going through everything now, I can gradually post just some life drawings.

Establishing Shot

2009-10-09T18:58:00.000-07:00

Ideas for my film

Zoo drawings

2009-09-25T13:26:00.001-07:00

Sydney

2009-08-03T23:56:00.000-07:00

I met Sydney on the first day of middle school. She was the girl that dropped her books on my head, again, and again, and again. We became best friends.

She's perfected her Spanish and is off to practice for a semester in Madrid. She has a cynical, quirky and the most wonderful sense of humor. I was tempted to draw one of the various hysterical scenarios we somehow got into. But I just stuck with the typical. I'll transfer to card form with some construction paper and a few cutout books.

Slow Summer

2009-07-24T00:35:00.000-07:00

I was supposed to do a whole bunch of things this summer including massively improving through massive amounts of drawing. Okay, so that hasn't happened... yet! haha. But now that I have a job I have more of schedule and hopefully that will force me to do things.

I told my mom I'd do some things for the bathroom in Tahoe. For lack of an idea, I guess I'll make little swimmers (and maybe little ski people for the loft?). Amongst other things, I need to practice my gauche... but I'll start with my sketch I was trying colors on... actual post with real pieces to come.

Connor's First Animation

2009-05-01T03:20:00.000-07:00

My brother came to visit me fist semester and spent a day creating his own "48 hour film." Though, he really spent about 4 hours on it. Well, I finally put it together for him taking into account his direction.

I thought that I'd share it with you!

Film

2009-04-18T23:26:00.000-07:00

I hope I finish in time. Long extensive post of what I learned to come.

Desktop Dump

2009-03-17T00:13:00.000-07:00

I haven't composited any scenes in my film yet. And I have numerous versions of my film in anamatic form on my laptop, all of them titled "final film" or the like. I also think that I have roughly 50 pages of word documents documenting my insanity in trying to come up with a film idea for this year. I have finally settled on a story and I am animating and on my merry way. I guess that this is a learning experience, right? This is just a rough still from a prior version of my film with some color splashed on (which is irrelevant). There isn't too much thought behind it and it is also irrelevant to my film now, but I just thought I'd post it for amusement.

And this is a quick sketch from a superheroes project we had to do for critical studies. This man has an extreme sense of touch and many arms and his favorite book is Pat the Bunny and he works as a coat check. The other members in my group came up with some very cute images too so maybe they will surface on the internet someday too!

Turnaround Edited

2009-03-03T10:11:00.000-08:00

I edited my turnaround a little. The character still has ornamentation on his antlers though I didn't draw it here.

And I think by this point in the year I should be getting so much done that I can post regularly, even if it is just related to my film.

Turnaround

2009-02-22T15:29:00.000-08:00

I can't believe that it is February 22 already. And I was reminded yesterday that February is a short month, so I feel cheated out of a few days.

Anyway, last year I never did a character turnaround. So here is a character from my film this year, and my first turnaround. They look a little awkward I think, especially the side view. Maybe if I come back to them later, I can work on improving them.

Dandies

2009-01-29T15:34:00.001-08:00

I was doing research for a Oliver Twist assignment when I came upon these dandies...

Happy Thanksgiving!

2008-12-03T22:25:00.001-08:00

This weekend I went back to Reno for a break. It was nice because I got the chance to catch up with my family, friends and dogs. And because the ski resort weren't really open yet, I spend a lot of time eating a ridiculous amount of food and watching a lot of movies. I saw Silence of the Lambs, Harvey, Citizen Kane, Paprika, Lawrence of Arabia, and Pocohontas. It was Pocohontas on DVD though which means it has that new song/montage in it. And, because I'm a nerd, I realized they toned down the "Savages" song. There is a part at the beginning where Radcliff says (or sings) "Their whole disgusting race is like a curse." In the new version its changed to "Here's what you get when races are diverse." Both just prove that Radcliff is racist, because both comments seem about equally racist. But, whatever Disney. I still love you.

And I finished my layout from last week. I wanted to do something with Amelia Earhart... and practice my gouache.

Film time.

Learning to paint..

2008-11-20T15:41:00.000-08:00

Cindey paints pretty layouts, I want to paint pretty layouts too!

Here is my attempt for layout. I guess I haven't really learned to paint. So I guess I better get on that, maybe it would help me in photoshop too! AND I guess its fun to have something real vs a photoshop file.

I've been watching a lot of films that I should have seen long ago. Hopefully that will help me in general.

Next week I'll post more than layout

2008-11-07T20:44:00.000-08:00

My first version of my most recent layout... but all finish it later.

Before I colored it.

New Layout

2008-10-30T06:31:00.000-07:00

I'll finish it and post the touch up later AND
I'll work on organizing my blog to make it look prettier....

but bed time now!

Another Post.

2008-10-20T10:26:00.000-07:00

A three-panel Color and Design assignment from FIRST semester last year. For shame.

And this is a graffiti stencil I did for Color and Design second semester. That class is surprisingly much more enjoyable than first semester.
The stencil ended up being 7 feet tall and on the wall of the sublevel.

And a layout assignment of me and my roommate and the giant spider that lives in our room.

I can never tell a lie.

2008-10-07T00:06:00.000-07:00

This is the beginning of a myriad of posts. I promise.

Uhhh. I have to start somewhere. So this is stuff from last year.

This is my silhouette project from color and design In real-not-internet-life it stands up by itself. In not-internet-life I redid this project 4 times. I cut out the running of the bulls twice because it got ripped off of the walls at CalArts the first time. I am very proficient with an X-acto knife.

Okie-dokie. Thats all. I don't want to overwhelm you.

This week

2008-10-06T21:03:00.001-07:00

I will post on my blog

This year I promise

2008-09-05T06:04:00.000-07:00

This year I promise to use my blog regularly.

First year film

2008-04-30T00:18:00.000-07:00

This is my first year film...

Third time....

2008-04-01T21:28:00.000-07:00

1

2

3...

I guess that is the average number of times I have redone each scene in my film. And I guess that is also why I have only completely finished 7 of my 23 scenes.

Oppsie!

Poor Billy

2008-03-24T06:52:00.000-07:00

I found these when I was doing research for my film.

Educate yourself

2008-03-19T09:54:00.000-07:00

These are pretty interesting (and mind blowing). Its Glen Keane animating a scene at CalArts.

As for my film... I haven't started backgrounds yet, but I have finished all animation that I can without my backgrounds. Yay! I'm going to go back and try to redo as many scenes as I can right now.

Toilet stories and film updates

2008-03-16T01:06:00.000-07:00

Okay, I promise that my posts won't all be like this... but i don't have art scanned or anything yet, and I know some people wanted more information about the woman that sat on the toilet for 2 years. So... there you go.

Anyway. For my film...

the anamatic is here. I haven't animated the beginning yet because I am probably changing it. And I have changed and added and removed some portions as well. I think it will end up being the full 90 seconds.

Postings to come..

2008-03-03T16:22:00.000-08:00

I got a computer... so I'll actually keep this thing up. More to come ASAP

2007-09-10T11:33:00.000-07:00

Okay!

So its been a week since move-in. And amazing. I have a feeling this blog isn't getting too far because I don't have a computer or camera... but I guess I can just see what happens.

The people here are amazing... people and artists. I am just wowwed by the stuff that is going into these sketchbooks. Its insane.

I got stuff for college!

2007-08-27T23:34:00.000-07:00

So one week and counting until move-in day.
My mom and I went stopping today for stuff to put in my dorm. My only problem now is how to get it all into my small car along with my family's luggage. O well, I'll worry about that later.

Here are some photos I have around from CSSSA '06. I missed the one year mark... But better late then never?

The last day... awww.

Getting into costume for the pixelation project

I'll have to post more when I get the chance

2007-08-26T22:27:00.000-07:00

Hey! This is my all new blog with a lot of the stuff I had on my other blog. I pretty much forgot what my hotmail e-mail was because I hadn't used it for months and couldn't log-in to update. So, I'll start out with some basic stuff...

CSSSA 2006 at the most amazing school EVER!

My name is Jenessa and I am attending CalArts this fall with a major in character animation. CalArts is my dream school, but I can't lie and say I don't have second thoughts about not attending USC or NYU for film. I attended CSSSA '06 and had such an amazing time there... I know that CalArts is going to be a wonderful experience. I'm thrilled about meeting all these amazing artists... but at the same time I know that I am going to be intimidated out of my MIND!

The most amazing people I have ever meet

Anyway, hopefully, I'll update thoughout the year on my CalArts experience. I don't have a laptop and I lost my digital camera so I guess this blog is just going to be very text heavy... But I'll try to keep it lively.

Here is some stuff that I submitted in my portfolio for CalArts. I've taken a few life drawing classes over the summer... so some of this is kinda embarrasing to post.