What a nightmare!

New Hire - 2D Flash Nightmare Segment from Jenn Pereda on Vimeo.

This is the 2D segment from a class project called "New Hire." I was in charge of the Flash department which consisted of AJ Velasco, Quynh Chau, Pakie Seung, Steve Jennings and myself.

Dinosaaaaaar

I made a T-rex.
I always forget how much I hate drawing them, but I quickly remember after a few seconds.
I like his tiny eyes.

He was made in Illustrator for AI's Mascot design contest. Yup.

Look at this loser

This is Frank. He is not a robot.
He was built in Adobe Illustrator and will be animated in Flash.

The Many Faces of Pom

Here are just a few of the expressions Pom can make. The eyes and the mouth are both separete symbols so it's possible to mix and match. They're all pretty basic.

Eddie Eddie

He was originally eating spaghetti. Don't know where that snail came from.


Done in Illustrator, 4+ hours maybe? Idk.

Long time no see, detective...

I had finally gotten okay with the whole updating the blog thing and then I had to go and stop for over a month. I've been a bad, bad, blogger. To make up for it, I bring some backgrounds/envirnoments/whatever that I made. I have some more that I can put up, but I think I'll wait till I fix a few things before I do that.


Here's a telephone. Isn't it nice? The wallpaper in the back is a pattern that I just used from Illustrator, but everything else was done in Flash. I used some rotary phones I found online and one that I have sitting in my closest as reference.


This is the outside of Detective Pom's office. To save time, I took a background that I had already made(you'll see that one in a little bit) and used that for the inside. Also, the painting on the wall was a landscape project that I did for Digital Illustration class.


And here's the one that you can see in the previous one that I had posted. Who knew Pomeranians read so much? Or maybe they're just for decoration, just like the Pomeranian License and Detective Certificate on display.


This is the view from Pom's desk. In the original sketch for this one, I had a lot more stuff going on near the back wall. Luckily I decided to put in the character that's going to be in that shot to see how she'd fit, and I noticed that most of the wall wouldn't even be visible. That realization saved me a lot of time that I later spent on other backgrounds.


And finally, the scene of the crime. This was one of the first ones that I did, and it really hasn't had any changes done to it. It's probably one of the more simpler ones of the bunch, but I think it might be my favorite. Completing it had really helped me get into setting a tone and look for the project.


Well that's it for this update. Let's hope I don't forget to continue to post things up again.

I should've put this up a few weeks ago, but I had an older version on my laptop at home. But now that I'm at school I can upload the current version.

Look at how much fun that pom is having. It was done in Illustrator.

Some color thumbnails from my Special Topics class. I only like the first one. I don't care for the other two. They were just quickly drawn at 4 in the morning.

Pour 2 cups of I Dream of Jeannie into a large bowl.
Add 1/2 a cup of Uhura
Refrigerate for 6 hours.
Top with Lady Gaga before serving.




More color! Unlike the first one I did, I prefer the finished product over the sketched version. Probably because I went in and made changes while doing the final version in Illustrator. I know her dress disappears when you're looking at it here, but the image has transparency so there's that. I'll probably make two more space girls and then put them with backgrounds or something. IDK.

Just in time for Monday!

Oh boy, oh boy! Pomeranian Valentines!
Print them out!
Give them to your friends!
Or don't give them to your friends!
I don't care!

She's just a cosmic girl~

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix one part Shangela, another part Junko Mizuno in a large bowl.
Pour into a non-stick baking pan.
Put it in the oven for 1-2 hours.
Let it cool and sprinkle with a dash of Nicki Minaj.



I went through a couple differet color variations, and for a while the pink skin/yellow hair and blue skin/pink hair were my favorites. In the end I combined the two. I also liked the brown skin/red hair, but I found that was too close to what I was taking inspiration from. And while I do like the cleanness of the final image, I prefer the sketchiness of the original drawing.

Something old, something new

I was cleaning out my desktop the other day, and I happened to find a long forgotten folder called, "tablet practice." I don't usually save my practice stuff since they're usually just little doodles that I end up erasing once I get bored with them, but here's the select few that I did save.



This is the oldest one, from June 2010. I like drawing lady faces, I guess. The one at the bottom was done using a picture of Leighton Meester as reference. I never did finish that one...


It's man-Jenn! I did this for some gender swap meme on Deviantart. This is the only one I really liked. Don't I look totally manly with my soda pop?


And finally some more Repo! art. It started out as a warm up sketch but I got carried away...

*edit*

Ugh, I'm dumb. I forgot that I had something new to put up. So here you go, thumbnails from my Special Topics class. The one with the trees is my favorite, but that might be because I just like trees.

Grab Bag of Stuff...I guess?

I haven't updated since last month, even though I have been working on stuff. I guess now is a good time to finally post whatever it is I worked on. First up are some album covers I did for a friend.


Sometime before Christmas, my friend Tyler asked if I could make some cover art for an album he had just completed. The album was called Katzenklavier, after the musical instrument, so I went off of that while coming up with ideas. I had sketched up about 5 or 6 different thumbnails and the one above is the one that Tyler liked that most. It was done in Illustrator. I thought I had a link to the album, but I can't seem to find it right now...

*EDIT*
It's been a month but I now have a link! Get some sweet tunes here.


...However I do have the link for this album! Tyler also asked me to make cover art for a separate musical project of his. The catch was that I only had an hour to complete it. I prefer this one to the Katzenklavier art, because it's way simpler. This was also done in Illustrator.



During my final week of Fall quarter at school, I became obsessed with the show Misfits. That obsession carried on through the winter break and I started drawing one of my favorite characters, Simon. Sadly I lost interest in the piece after an hour...

These are from my Preproduction/Production Team classes. There was a cave scene that was cut out from the final story, so hooray for unused stuff!



The girl is still being used, just not the costume. I based her outfit off of Sean Connery's character in Indiana Jones and Jane's dad from Tarzan. Yup, nothing says "cute little girl clothes" like old man wardrobe!




OH NO! BATS!