bighappyaccident http://www.bighappyaccident.com/blog Between sleep and OT dinner Mon, 12 Jul 2010 03:07:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 Painting from life outside remains difficult. http://www.bighappyaccident.com/blog/2010/07/painting-from-life-outside-remains-difficult/ http://www.bighappyaccident.com/blog/2010/07/painting-from-life-outside-remains-difficult/#comments Mon, 12 Jul 2010 03:07:38 +0000 Patrick http://www.bighappyaccident.com/blog/?p=263 Only six more days of Tangled animation!  I needed a bit of real media on my one day off this week.  Went to paint up in the hills behind the hollywood bowl.  They posed by the pool.  The weather was incredible, 68 and partly cloudy.  I, however, was rusty.  I’m not quite happy with either of these, but I havent posted in a long time.  As soon as the show finishes there will be much more.  Each was from 3 20 minute sessions, so about an hour each total.nymph2

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Its a good article about landing your first animation gig, or breaking into a studio in general.

http://www.animationtipsandtricks.com/2010/05/how-did-you-get-your-first-job-at.html

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Share/Save]]> http://www.bighappyaccident.com/blog/2010/03/a-little-bit-of-visual-development/feed/ A little visual development on a spy story I’ve been working on http://www.bighappyaccident.com/blog/2010/01/a-little-visual-development-on-a-spy-story-ive-been-working-on/ http://www.bighappyaccident.com/blog/2010/01/a-little-visual-development-on-a-spy-story-ive-been-working-on/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:28:22 +0000 Patrick http://www.bighappyaccident.com/blog/?p=233 I spent much of my weekends recently doing some paintings for a vis dev audition at work…  Not sure how the whole audition side of things is going to work out, its pretty much out of my hands now.  I enjoyed the process regardless.  Let me know what you think.

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The clothes are from an anthropologie catalog.

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