Animation Reel

This is My demo reel of the work I have done thus far at Ringling. I would like to thank the faculty, especially Dominic Avant and Heather Thomson. I have had the chance to have dedicated amazing teachers that have mentored me amazingly. The CA department is truly my family and I appreciate and respect them so much. Thank you, enjoy!


 
Ellen Arnold Sophomore Animation Reel from Ellen Arnold on Vimeo.

50's illustration

This is an idea I had researching the styles of the 50's. What I thought was funny was every girl was perfected and polished in all my reference photos. So I ended up making this tough but perfected girl who I thought as a character would struggle with the time period she was set in.

A self portrait I did for fun. Really liked the way it turned out 

A suspenseful quick piece I whipped out this summer. It was kind of a nice exercise to work in black and white values again. 

Update on my some traditional animations from sophomore year! I love TA and I will miss it so much after this semester. Somehow I will find the time to have some fun projects for myself to keep it going. Here is a four-legged walk cycle,  an extremely happy running corgi, and a drunken mess. Had a lot of fun with all of these Enjoy!

Hello! Its been a long time since I've posted! I've been really busy with many projects and with the start of the school year. This is a piece I did this summer. I hope to do more in this style of different cultures. It was really fun to try something a little different

In my spare time lately I have been doing some portraits that would represent each season. So far I finished two, summer and winter. I'm working Ringling's Precollge right now as an RA and its been really great. This has been one of my projects this summer that has been quite fun :)

Quick VPA

I've been working on a lot of different things recently and enjoying the summer break. Pretty soon I'll be done with a variety of things, and I'll post 'em. In the meantime here's a VPA I did this morning real quick.

https://www.google.com/maps/search/The+blue+house+in+Kientzheim+-+Alsace+-France/@47.995136,7.850294,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m5!1e2!3m3!1s73281184!2e1!3e10

Playing with Digital Style

Playing around with style recently. It's been fun stuff. :)

Virtual Plein Air

These are some virtual plein air paintings I did in the last 2 weeks or so. I did them in between projects, when I needed a break from what I was doing. For those who don't know, Virtual Plein Air is a facebook group page where artists can post plein air paintings they did of views on google maps. It's really fun because it feels sort of like you're traveling.. even if you never leave the couch.. haha but there are some amazing artists, both professional, and nonprofessional posting there. If you haven't seen it, I recommend you check it out! https://www.facebook.com/groups/290155717818479/

The page also shares the link of "where" they painted, so I'll do the same :)

My first one is beautiful Austria. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Austria/@47.564712,13.650255,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m5!1e2!3m3!1s33328650!2e1!3e10!4m2!3m1!1s0x476d079b259d2a7f:0x1012d47bdde4c1af!6m1!1e1  

Then some boats in Greece 

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mithymna/@39.369133,26.166923,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m5!1e2!3m3!1s21067848!2e1!3e10!4m2!3m1!1s0x14ba84d0ca43c0c7:0x400bd2ce2b9b550!6m1!1e1 

And then I "went" to Italy

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Piazzetta/@40.550678,14.242855,3a,75y,282.1h,89.66t/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1sS_OFyeDoHRkAAAAGO0i8IA!2e0!3e11!4m2!3m1!1s0x133b782b86505aab:0xd88d94aadba3f861

And for kicks I added the process of one of them, Thanks for looking! (click on it if its not working)

First Animations

These are my first animations ever... letting that sink in. haha They were all done in Traditional Animation 1 here at Ringling last semester. Had some time to upload them know that I'm on Summer Break :) They are done in the order of the semester














Well, that's all! Now time to do TA2 and start 3d animation. Super excited for next year!

Quadruped Walk Cycle Process

So, I figured out how to animate in Photoshop, and since I'm at home and don't have access to Ringling's Animation desks, I thought it would be a good way to occupy myself until my job starts up, and keep learning over the summer. Sooo, I did a quadruped walk of a simple weird creature thing I designed for 3d class, but didn't end up using. I aslo thought I would show you all the process. Not to bad for a first quadruped walk cycle...
 

So I have been on break for a couple of weeks now! I'm taking the wonderful extra time to do some personal work including painting, animating in photoshop, and sketching everywhere I go. I have been painting a lot digitally and I'm really having a lot of fun with it. I'm also fixing to upload my animations from last semester this week. Here's a self-portrait I worked on the last couple of days.

Sketchbook Spring Semester

These are some pages from my sketchbook of Spring Semester freshmen year. I draw a lot on the go with my friends- we like to go to the coffee loft, tea house, Starbucks, anywhere downtown sarasota, or Bay front park.. or in class. It's our way of recording life around us :) This was really fun to make, I think I'm going to always upload my sketchbooks this way in the future

Good ol' Caesar Bust assignment. I had anger as the emotion I had to apply onto his face.

Animal Sketches and Gestures

The animal section for Figure II is over, but I had so much fun sketching all of them. These are gestures and sketches from that section. I get to go on trips to draw animals for my classes, I really can't complain whatsoever. 

Long Poses

Some longer poses from figure

Character Design Sculpt

 This here is my full turnaround character sculpt for my final 3d project. I"m currently making the environment this guy would live in. I really enjoyed making him, and I'm having fun putting it all together. (I will be posting his concept sketches soon!) p.s. his name is Hervious. 

Here is some detailed shots-

Art can be stressful sometimes

I've had lots of work recently since finals are all happening now. But I took an hour to update on some art from this semester. Art is stressful, but so far things are going well :)

Ecorche and some gestures

Some figure and my Ecorche model, Enjoying my figure class since we are exploring clothing, folds, and animals this semester. Sculpting is super fun, and not as scary as I thought it would be.  Here's some stuff from the beginning of the semester.

Invented Interior

Invented Character Room Design, and process work.. the semester is almost over! 

Thumbnails and isometric drawing

line drawing

value

Final

Character Design Sheet for Animation I

Meet Carlton, the James Bond spy of lizards. He is a character I designed for my traditional animation class. Chameleon camouflage, ability to scale walls, and a tongue that can grab anything out of hands grasp with one swipe. Yep, I think a lizard would make a good spy.

you could say I was a little excited to finally get my own tablet....

Semester I update

I'm updating to summarize my first semester's work. (aka I'm bad at updating so this will be a large post) Currently, I'm moving on to my first animations here at Ringling and continuing to study up on those fundamental drawing courses. Soon I'll be uploading more work from my current assignments and personal art I've been working on. Until then, here's some stuff my brain tried to tell my hands to translate into drawings.

 Figure 1 Class progressive work:

Skeleton and Muscle Overlay

Lastly, my first drawing of the semester and my last...

Some Perspective work from last semester as well

And last but not least I will share my final assignment for 2d design.