This is one of the many projects that I work on at Image Metrics, however this was the only project that I was the sole animator for and my own lead. I did both lead singers for most of the commercial. I think the last shot is one of the only ones I didn't do. Click HERE to see the article from CG Society and watch the commercial. We worked on the first Rockband as well and another commercial for passion, but I am not sure if that has come out yet. Enjoy

More Art and Animation Coming Soon!!

Well the past few months have been crazy busy!!! Image Metrics gave us the go ahead to make a short film, so Matt is Directing, and I have been acting producer. There is a group of animators and artist at Image Metrics that are all working really hard to try to make a good short film.
Thank you to Asako, Polet, Sean, Rob, Charyssa and Shogi who don't work for Image Metrics who have helped us so Much. The film is called love.mel. Hopefully we will be showing it at Siggraph this year at the Image Metrics Booth!!!!!
I have been animating 7 days a week and I feel great. It feels good to have something that I am passionate about again.

The last few drawing classes:






All of these drawings are around 20-30 min. These were the last 3 weeks of class. there was a week in between these 2 lady's where we drew this man that was a complete drama queen. Hope you like these drawings there was 6 of them but Matt got one for his birthday. One of these days I will have to take it out of its frame and scan it.
I am pleased with where I got in this drawing class. If it wasn't for the hour and a half commute after working 8 hours I might take it for longer then one semester a year.

Week 3
These drawings were the longest poses I have done so far. I am starting to get more into drawing faces and hands and feet. That is my mission for this class.

Week 2
This model had some great poses. I think she used to be a dancer. We did a lot of quick ones in this class.

Week 1
I started taking a Karl Gnass Class at the American Animation Institute on 9/17. these drawings are from the first week. it has been over a year since I had taken figure drawing. I don't think I started out too bad.

Siggraph 2007
San Diego Ca

Art Institute was putting on life drawing classes during Siggraph. So I attended one. This was my first experience using a wacom for life drawing but I got some ok results! drawings range from 1-7 min. Enjoy!











The top gestures are 1 min all the way to the 7 min pose at the bottom.

LA Zoo 07.01.2007

Last Weekend I went to the La Zoo for the first time. I was impressed by how close you could get to all of the animals and the variety of animals that they have. They even have an Australia section which I love! These drawings are all from that area.

af jörðu ertu komin
Originally uploaded by _rebekka.

Rebekka Gudleifs
Matt Showed me this photographer yesterday and I love her photos, I just wanted to share them with you so check her out!

Also here is the link to her photos on flickr

This January I started to take water color lessons again while I was home in NY. I looks them at the place where I first started painting, but I had a different teacher. The first painting is of Sandy Pond, wich is in upstate NY. It was done from a photgraph. I think this was a bit overworked and forced looking but it was good to paint again!



Ok ant this was my second attempt just to get the free flow of watercolor without holding back and a one time pass. I was more successful in letting the paint flow but when it dried there wasn't enough contrast, that is the nature of watercolor, but I was feeling like I was done with the water and wanted to move on.



After abandoning the view of sandy pond I decided I wanted to learn how to paint a portrait. So i went through a lot of magazines trying to find good portrait painters and i cam across a woman named Debbie Cason Rankin. It was in the Winter 07 issue of American Artist. This is a copy of her piece, the reason I chose to do a copy was so that I could learn how to handle a portrait as opposed to a landscape. It was great to learn from her because she showed the photo that she worked from so that I could see the choices that she was making.



Well this art is all from January through the end of February, now that I found these I am hoping to do a few more!

So this is a Drawing that was done by Cesar one of my coworkers. Everyone here at work thinks that I love Australia and "Happy Feet". I do love Australia but the only reason i love "Happy Feet" so much is to annoy Anthony.

Ok so here is a new animation test that I have started. Any feedback would be greatly appriciated.

So now this blog is official back to my art blog. If you want to see any of my travel photos you will have to visit My trave Blog

I promise that there will be some art on this page soon.

This is it, I finally finished (or so I think) If you have any comments please dont hesitate.

if you cant watch it, here is a link to download it:


Animation test

San Gabriel Mission
06/11/2006
Landscape and Perspective Drawing for Layout and Storyboard Class

New Figure Drawings
These are 3 min poses from 6/1/2006
Karl Gnass Class
American Animation Institute

Short Film!!!
here is my short film from last year.
hope you enjoy it

KORN Vidoe!!

So this is the music video I worked on. I did match move on the lead singer and the guitar along with other random stuff. I am going to be working on another one for Outkast in a few days, so look for that in the future.

New Set!!!

here is the New framing and set for my new animation. do you know where they are?

I am finally starting my Blog. I have been working on some new animation and need feedback. This is the framing for the scene. I feel like it is a little boring. any suggestions?

here is a link to 2 different versions of my animation:

www.sarahlapenna.com/images/Scene_01_005.mp4

www.sarahlapenna.com/images/Scene_01_006.mp4

Please let me know what you think of what I have so far. I really need feedback on how to animate 2 characters in a scene. How do I make it so that they arnt compeating with eachother, but still keep it interesting?

I will try to post some thumbnails tomorrow for the rest of the scene