Fly Wingz

Since I don't want to watch Miami lose to OKC right now, I think it's an appropriate time to finally post in here again.  I have to say I am ashamed of myself because I haven't started a big piece yet.  But it is mainly because I have had my DIS project lingering in the back of my mind for the past two weeks.  I started an animation project in the lab I work in towards the end of last summer, and I am still not finished with it.  I never really understood the amount of work that goes behind a digital animation (especially when you are teaching yourself three different programs).  I always imagined magic buttons that automatically insert a fully rendered tree, or that make something walk realistically just by putting an arrow between A and B.  But this was not reality.  To my surprise, I found out most digital animation is still done frame by frame, and detail can be as meticulous as you want it to be if you know the program tricks.  It was probably ignorant of me to think that way about digital art, but I blame it on my reluctance to steer away from hands-on art.  Digital art can be amazing, but it is an entirely different language from drawing, which makes it very frustrating.  But anyways, I figured since I have technically been working on a "big piece", aka my DIS, I would post some pictures of my storyboards and Illustrator drawings.

Fruit Fly - Adobe Illustrator

My first sketch of the "Wingmachine" - color pens

Messed up wing with landmarks - color pens

The Genotype-Phenotype space! - color pens

The "splining" outline of a fly wing used for analysis - color pens

Baby fly - pencil

Live footage storyboard - pen

(ridiculously huge vial)

My narrator fly - Adobe Illustrator

And I did draw a couple doodles aside from my DIS.  Here they are:

Monster#1 - pen

Monster#2 - pen

More tattoo designs - pen

Monster#3 - pen

A bird, but I messed his face up - graphite and color pencil

I don't have a famous illustrator for this post, but I will post this video in case no one has seen it.  It is an awesome video of the inner workings of a cell, called "The Inner Life of a Cell".  It was made at Harvard University with the software used to make Avatar!  Science is goin' big.  Here is an article from the New York Times about it, too.