Here is a couple of stills from my film, Junko Jango. I will be posting my film up soon. It was a fun last year! Lately I've been working on a variety of different jobs so my posts have been lacking. Hope to get up some new stuff soon. Congratulations everyone on graduating!
I took a little break from animating to work on my poster. It's fun to finally paint something again. I'm excited to finish the film....just got to keep working!
I'm back in school for one final year, hard to believe! So the film begins, my film is about one of my childhood experiences about over-coming fears and taking the time to look closer and in doing so finding something really amazing! Here's my first try at the main characters in my film.
I recently did this for an art show in BC, the theme of it was cover art, so of course I jumped at the idea to do it based on my all time favourite TV show, Boy Meets World. I love the characters in that show, so it was fun to caricature them. I drew it out first them painted it in photoshop thanks to the help of Ben's tablet...mine is back in Ontario. Hope you like it.
Well, the third year films are finally finished, I am happy to say that our film...THE CELESTIAL OX film is completed, all coloured and composited. We all worked together really well and for many hours, right up till the very end. I wish I could do it again, on the whole, I had a great time and worked with an amazing group of people! So here is my scene for the film (low res because it couldn't fit in high), I designed and painted the BG and animated all the characters and trees except for the ox group at the end, which was done by Andy. Thanks Mocaps, I had a blast!
Every year, Sheridan has an animation yearbook called the Flipbook, where all the students have a page of their work shown, so this year I wanted to try a different approach, it was fun to do.
The real deal in florence (picture I took this summer) I caricatured the buildings on Ponte Vechio Bridge, they always appeared to me as if they were going to fall off the side of the bridge at any minute!
In 3rd year we all make group films, my group is called moCap Penguins, and we are doing a story of how the ox came to be on earth. So far we are all doing concept sketches, here's one of many ideas for our film.
Over the summer I worked at Espresso Legato in Bowmanville, an awesome coffee, and here you would meet all kinds of great people. I will never forget this experience, and that making coffee really is an art of its own.
The top one is of a street in tuscany, I sat and drew it there and then painted it back home over summer. There is so many plants around every door. Everywhere you would turn could be a picture. The middle is a city in Cinque Terra, just "caricatured". I liked this place a lot, it was filled with colour and everywhere you looked were characters and story ideas. The last one is Rome, Venice, and Florence meeting for coffee.
These were some of the people that I came across in Florence on my favourite bridge. This day it was actually raining, so I was stuck under an awning until the rain passed, so during that time I drew the people that passed by and the ones that caught my eye.
I've just started to gather up my drawings from Italy, it was cool because everywhere you looked there was something to draw, so this is my first installation, one of our projects was to make are own postcard, then we did some life drawing..yup first time painting life drawing, it was fun, and the other is a sample of what each page of my journal pretty much looks like! and I filled two whole journals, good memories!
At the famous Espresso Legato Coffee House I showed and sold my artwork to the public
Clarington Arts and Music Festival was a lot of fun, here I sold paintings, and drew caricatures
As for the Anti-50's sign, I now work at the best coffee shop and recently it was the 50's week, but we had a rebellion and decided to make it 60's and 80's, I got to dress up too, fun stuff! I love summer
"Life as an animator in the making...JUNKO JANGO has been screened! And I've just finished 4 years of Animation at Sheridan College, can't wait to see what's next!"
Bologna
I went to Italy in the summer, it was quite the experience, here's a picture I took
Top of Grouse Mountain (British Columbia)
We climbed all the way to the top and this was the view. This last summer I was out in BC for a whole 4 months, it was gorgeous, so the pictures are never ending, this is just a sample
SALT SPRING ISLAND BC
The gorgeous waters of Salt Spring Island. The sailboats and harbours were numerous.
One of our day trips was to tuscany and all these little cities and villages, and this was one of them
TUSCANY...IT CAN'T GET ANY PRETTIER..OR CAN IT?
Imagine this was your house! Someone is lucky!
FLORENCE...MY DREAM PLACE TO LIVE FOREVER
I loved Florence, we stayed there for 4 weeks, it became my home very easily, there's so much to see and do here. A good place for an artist.
About Me
Rachel Chalk
Ontario, Canada
I am in my 4th year of the animation program at Sheridan College and am learning a lot about what it takes to become an artist in the animation industry. Last summer I worked as a 3D animator at Bardel Entertainment in Vancouver.
all the bikes and mopeds of Rome, and a huge vine in the distance
PISA AND THE LEANING TOWER
Yes I climbed it, right to the very top
VENICE A WINDING PLACE OF WATER, MASKS, GELATOS, AND BRIDGES
Yes, I took this picture as I did for all these pictures, it turned out pretty good, and yes I went on a gondola ride, it was something everyone should experience
MY 20TH BIRTHDAY AT THE TOP OF FLORENCE
It was quite the birthday and trip. During the trip my sketchbook never left my side, everywhere I would turn I would want to draw everything and anything, this trip was a good reference for my 4th year film
I took a little break from animating to work on my poster. It's fun to finally paint something again. I'm excited to finish the film....just got to keep working!
I'm back in school for one final year, hard to believe! So the film begins, my film is about one of my childhood experiences about over-coming fears and taking the time to look closer and in doing so finding something really amazing! Here's my first try at the main characters in my film.
Every year, Sheridan has an animation yearbook called the Flipbook, where all the students have a page of their work shown, so this year I wanted to try a different approach, it was fun to do.
Clarington Arts and Music Festival was a lot of fun, here I sold paintings, and drew caricatures
