Visual Development

We have started preparations for senior thesis! Michale and I have finished boarding our first story and we did a lot of development work for it too. Our story is about a pet sitter who gets called to a job to watch Fido, who she thinks is a dog. When she gets to the house creepy things start happening and Fido might not actually be a dog...
Here is some of our development:

Bat

Some Pre-Pro sketches

We have to pitch ideas first thing when we get back after break. These are some sketches for the pitches!

Exaggerated Push Pull

Our final project for computer animation was to take our same character and scene, but make the animation more exaggerated. It was a different approach for me but it was fun and I liked how it turned out! :)


khagen PPExaggerated from Katelyn Hagen on Vimeo.

Octopus Piece

This was my final project for my Drawing for Animators class. We got to created an environment for characters we created from the beginning of the semester. Digital painting is really challenging for me to grasp but I'm happy with how this one turned out.

Christmas Card

Push Pull animation

Final Push Pull Natural animation for my computer animation 3 class at Ringling! :)

Typical Floridian Couple

Based off an old sketch I did around this time last year. Cleaned it up in photoshop and added color! 

The typical floridian couple:

DFA- Environment painting

This project was such a challenge for me. I had never done an environment painting before. Also, we were forced to use characters that we came up with at the beginning of the semester so it felt limited to where the environments could be. I actually ended up repainting the whole thing the weekend before it was due but it came out better than I expected. I'm just glad to be done with it! :) 

Horse Power - Animatic

Here is a story about a donkey who wants to be a race horse. Enjoy :)

HorsePower from Katelyn Hagen on Vimeo.

Macklemore Caricature Painting

I posted a line drawing caricature of Macklemore a few weeks ago, and for class we had to digitally paint them. This is my first time doing anything like this. I keep wanting to poke at it but it's due tomorrow and I think I will call this the finished piece. I'm still wondering why I chose to someone with a furry coat but I learned a lot and had fun!

Meet George!

This is George! He is my push pull character that I will be animating in this coming week. He is a TSA agent that will be attempting to lift a huge bag. I designed the character, modeled and rigged him. This is the second character I've ever created in 3D and it was much easier this time and I had a lot of fun. George is excited to get started!

Macklemore Caricature

For my drawing for animators class we had to chose a famous celebrity and caricature them. I chose Macklemore, obviously :). This is just the lifework. We will be painting it in photoshop these next couple weeks! I'll update on the final!

Final Caricature

So in my last post I shared caricature explorations of myself. In class we created a full turn around of ourself as an animated character, this is me! Next semester we will model and animate ourselves. Should be fun!

Self Caricature Exploration

In my drawing for animators class we have to design us as an animated character! These are the exploration sketches I did of myself for the project 

The Smitten Kitten

This was my first animatic project in my Concept 3 class at Ringling. This is a story about a kitten who encounters the biggest ball of yarn. Hope you all like it :)

The Smitten Kitten from Katelyn Hagen on Vimeo.

Waiting Project

This is my waiting project from my Computer Animation 3 class. We are provided the character but we build the set, light it, and animate Artie. We had about 2 week to complete it. So here is Artie waiting to take the SAT test! :)

khagen compressed from Katelyn Hagen on Vimeo.

Drawing for Animators

I haven't posted in forever! Here are some characters I created for my drawing for animators class.

Greeting Cards

For my final exam in my electronic illustration class we had about 3 hours to design and create three greeting cards. The first one is a congratulatory one, second is to say you're sorry, and the third is a mother's day card!

Lucy and her Monster

A series I did about a little girl, Lucy, and her best friend monster. She takes him on human adventures that he isn't so sure about :)

Going on a bike ride:

 Baking some cookies:

 Neighborhood dog:

 Playing hide and seek:

 Practicing some meditation:

 Swing set fun:

 Video games:

Big monster hug: