Look, more purple!

Oh no! It's a vampire hime gyaru! I bet she keeps bats in her giant hair.



Done in Illustrator when I was bored. I finished it in about 3 hours.

I don't know what to title this...

...but here you go! I used a picture of my cousin Anna in her Halloween costume this years as reference. Overall I'm pretty happy with it and it made me not hate gradients anymore. So that's a plus. It took maybe 10 hours, give or take? Actually I don't know. 10 just sounded like a good reasonable number. Perhaps I should pay more attention to that.

Little Accident

I don't know how it happened. I opened up Illustrator this afternoon with the intention of working on a final, but somehow my warm ups turned into Miss Argentina from Tim Burton's Beetlejuice. I used screen shots from the movie and fan costumes as reference.

So. Many. Dots.

Oh looky, looky! It's another Digital Illustration assignment. This time we had to create an animal illustration. I was originally going to do a jelly fish, then I switched to a giraffe until finally I went with my usual pomeranain. For the style I went for a stippled effect instead of just drawing out vector shapes. The process was pretty much copying and pasting over and over, arranging and then changing colors. I don't think I'd ever do this again for fun, but I do like the way it turned out.

Pombats!

For my Digital Illustration midterm we had to create a set of 26 dingbats. Naturally I did Pomeranians (after a class vote...). As I got closer to the final few, I found it difficult to pick out which ones to do. I had way more ideas for more, but whatever. Maybe I'll make some for funsies.




Two of the Poms in there are updated versions of older ones I made last year. Oh how my poms have changed~

Yeeeaaah!

A pretty quick drawing I just did for my friend Mallory. I'm the whale and she's the Mallory. Together we go on adventures. She says funny one-liners and I eat pirates.

Party Like It's 2008-2009

Contrary to popular belief (and by belief I mean the title of my blog) I do more than just Flash. Actually I've only been using Flash for about eight months. Before I was forced to take a class that required me to learn how to use it, my medium of choice was a pencil and paper. Sure, sometimes I use markers, pens or good ol' crayons, but pencils are where it's at. They're really happenin' if you know what I mean, daddy-o.

So I have compiled some of my favorite sketches that I did back when I was pretty active in the Repo! the Genetic Opera fandom. Why? Well, A. I quite like them and B. It's 11 PM and I can't scan anything new right now. Sorry for the horrible quality on some of these. I didn't have a scanner at the time, just a camera phone and sometimes a real camera. None of the characters depicted here belong to me, this is all just fan art. Everything belongs to Darren Bousman, Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich. Just thought I'd get that out of the way. Now here's some art!








What a super fun time that was! Ah, memory lane~~

Pomeranian Guide

The Guide to Owning Your First Pomeranian from Jenn Pereda on Vimeo.

This one was a group project for my 2D studio class. I was responsible for the character designs, putting most of the backgrounds together in flash, and animating the grocery store scene. I also picked out the music and re-edited it.


Oh look at that, the project was even put up on display at my school.

Self Advertising

Well Vimeo has finally finished processing the video I tried uploading about 14 hours ago. I figured I'd might as well post it here even though I don't really like posting two blog entries in one day.

Jenn Pereda Commercial from Jenn Pereda on Vimeo.

This was an assignment for my Digital Ink and Paint class. For this project, I had to make an advertisement for myself. I tried to incorporate some of my interests such as baking and pomeranians, along with images of some of my past work which can be seen on the fridge. All of this was put with Les Baxter's "Shooting Stars" as the soundtrack to create a 1950s-1960s vibe to the animation.

Looking at it now, I can see where I can make some improvements, but overall, I like the way it turned out.

Oh look, it's my first post

Bring out the party favors, looks like I've got a blog! Not that I've never had a blog before, but this time there will be no angsty journal entries or postings about me wondering what I'd look like with red hair. Strictly business going on here.

This first entry was originally going to have a video, but I had trouble with uploading it to Blogger and Vimeo took way too long. So instead you get this:



I took inspiration from Lauren Bacall and Lady Gaga for the design. The combination made sense, but that might have been the allergy medicine I was taking at the time messing with me. She's from a project I first started in March and have slowly been working on. I might post some concept art in the future, or maybe I'll just leave it all as a surprise till I post the finished animation. I'll figure it out, or something.