Potential Storyboards for Firenze Story!

They're rough and out of order but here's two pages of potential storyboards that I'll use for the Firenze story I've been working on!  [I posted sketches and some drawings that are going into the storyboards earlier: http://skujubu.blogspot.com/2011/03/going-going-going.html]  Hip, hip, hooray for progress!!!

War of the Foods!!!

In the beginning of last semester [fall of Junior year] I worked in a group of four girls and we created 'War of the Foods'!!!  It was actually pretty fun collaborating in such a big group [I say "big" because previously the largest group I had ever worked in was one other person and myself].  I did camera work/ animation of characters from 0:07-0:24 and created the carrot and cylindrical can figures/ modeled/ rigged/ animated them and the camera movements from 0:50-1:04.  Feedback on 0:50-1:04 is appreciated!


War of the Foods from Sarah Kujubu on Vimeo.

Storyboards for The Baker!!!

So here's a few storyboards from 'The Baker'!!!  [Aaaaaaand the video so you can see where those scenes were from!  I didn't know how to make previous post of 'The Baker' move to the beginning of my blog... So I'm reposting!]

The Baker from Sarah Kujubu on Vimeo.

Sketches for Firenze Story

I'm taking Steph's suggestion and am shooting to storyboard up until where the girl gets to the market to sell her carrots.  SO-- here's what I've been up to so far with my preparatory sketches for my storyboards~

It's really fun drawing these and they help SO much.  Comments, constructive criticism, and love is appreciated!

a hopeful trend?

I really got into doing some drawing of potential places for my little grocery truck to drive down.  BUT I feel like I should start from the beginning:

Inspiration has struck and I have begun to storyboard/ animate!  Kind of.  It's better than nothing and it's been making me happy.  The rough story focuses on a woman/ girl whose job is to deliver produce/ things in her little produce/ grocery truck: [basing my produce/grocery truck design off of the ones I see at the market all the time]: 

I also went to the Sant' Ambrogio market to do some car studies:

 So the rough story so far goes like this:  

• Grocery truck flies down the street [produce bouncing everywhere]
• bounds down another street and we're able to see girl's harried face
• BATTLES IT OUT WITH ANOTHER CAR FOR ROAD SPACE

• Girl's produce car makes a stop in front of a market with umbrellas poking out of the stands: lots of bustle
• animate people/ figures walking past
• record crowd noises somehow

•  Show girl unloading from truck and haggling with vendors: exchange money
• Battle thief who tries to steal her produce
• Follow her on her way home
• show another conflict: her getting accosted as she tries to enter her apartment[?]
• Drinks cup of tea/ takes laundry inside off clothesline/ goes to bed
• Starts day all over again: show girl getting into produce truck

SUGGESTIONS WOULD BE GREAT.  So far I've just been doing key poses [?] for the grocery truck flying down streets.  It's just way too fun to draw this little car.  I still have to add in the other car who is going to be battling the poor delivery girl... I wonder which car to pick.  [There are so many cute, aggressive cars here]  The streets were just too fun to draw-- I think I could go on doing JUST that for awhile... but I need to buckle down and seriously rough storyboard this all out.

sketchy bizness

 Went to the Academia and saw Michelangelo's "David" and I sketched St. Matthew from the "Twelve Apostles" series that was never completed; St. Matthew was the only one Michelangelo even started!

Apparently this reminded my teacher of Arshile Gorky's works-- I don't see how it does but oh well?  It was nice to go through his works again looking for similarities between what I had just drawn and Gorky's works.  It also reminded me how important it was to remember exactly WHO certain artists names were because when my teacher first told me about him I said (much to my embarrassment), "Arshile Gorky, who?"  I had to google him to remember that yes, I did in fact know who he was and I actually referenced him for a painting I had worked on during freshman year.

 Some drawings I had fun with while eating dinner at an American diner here in Italy.  Any suggestions on if I should add color or not?  Currently I'm feeling like I should. 

And thats all for now!  Ciao ciao!

Let's get down to business!!!

I got down to some business last week.  I took the time to sit myself down and DRAW PEOPLE.  (I don't think I've done that since life drawing in freshman year.  Or I haven't done it this intensely since freshman year.)  The sketches I've recently scanned are drawings from when I was sketching my roommates here in Florence.  It was really fun and I actually went out with a friend to sketch at a cafe but I didn't get the chance to scan those yet so I just have my sketches of my roommates for now. 

In my High Renaissance art history class we've been going to a lot of museums and right now we're learning a lot about Leonardo da Vinci.  I was really influenced by the early paintings of the women in his time period-- how the artists would normally only paint women in profile, (If I remember correctly they painted them in profile/ looking away to show their modesty or humility.  Learning about that made the "Mona Lisa" even more intriguing.) so I drew my roommate in profile and tried really hard to capture her personality and portray it through her expression.  (As a sidenote: I just loved how certain women (back in the day) were thought of as intellectuals and as a result they were shown having the "thoughtful" smile and carrying a book to show their wisdom, etc.)

Experimentation with the gray Faber brush pens was quite fun but when I went looking for them at the art store (Zecchi's) here I couldn't find them!  I could only find the fine tip ones!  Sad face.

A fun, loose drawing of Prosecco bottles with (gasp) color!  I credit Firenze for helping me to tiptoe out of my box and try different mediums.  

 I haven't done any collage in my sketchbooks since freshman year so I decided to add that in again just to change it up a bit.  The flashy bits of Lindt chocolate wrapper really gave a sparkle to the background.  I just might do it again.  Maybe.

And thats all for now!  Ciao ciao!