Darling Buds

Basket Baby

She loves her baby dolls. This is Honey--her favorite. She's helping her go to sleep in our blanket basket.

Crib Face

Outfit: Five

new headband

Rice

He finally got some rice! He kept trying to grab onto things...

...like the spoon and the camera. He's a little uncoordinated, don't want him to jab himself in the eye or something. He still getting used to the rice cereal.

What it is I do...

I do story boarding, the 3rd step. This is a basic basic basic breakdown of how we make CG animated films.

1. Once they find a good idea they hire a writer and a script is written.


2. In the meantime, visual development is designing characters and locations.


3. The story board artists will get script pages and the designs and draw every shot of the movie, including all of the acting and necessary lighting. This is the time when the director and throw in new ideas and toss out bad ideas. Things change a lot in this stage and the bulk of the time will be spent in this stage.


4. Once they finalize the story they move on to recording the "voice actors".



5. The "layout" department basically uses a virtual set and places the camera and characters in a virtual space to match the way the story boards look.


6. Finally, the animators will bring the characters to life with acting!


7. This next image includes loads of departments, people who do lighting, texturing and surfacing and character FX (clothing, hair, things attached to the character) and FX (water, fire, smoke, etc.) The scene looks pretty transformed.


Now imagine this process for every single shot in as film!

BTW, these are not from a movie I worked on, unfortunately. I work at a different studio ;)

Email Me

Where have I been? I didn't realize little kids have email now. Weird. What do they need it for. I could only think of one thing.

doh!

We stick him onto this play mat thing, with hanging doo-dads, and he starts rolling over and scooting and rolling, until he gets caught up...doh! At least he's moving around in some form.
-STEEEV

snooze control

more natural light, i love seeing sleeping kids, so sweet and...quiet.

lets's go!

Outfit: Four

I like taking these silly photos of her, she makes the funniest and most unexpected expressions. Although, fashion wise, you've only seen two pairs of shoes, two pairs of pants, and like two shirts. She apparently likes to wear the same things over and over.
-STEEEV

dino-might!

open windows

If I open a window, the lighting looks so much better, more of a blue, then a yellow light.

boy oh boy

Outfit: Three

Lil' tah-m-boi.

Blue Man

He looks good in blue...I think.
-STEEEV

painted

Me and my brothers. Chris is showing off his wound. Obviously our first paintball experience, haha. It'll have to be winter time for me to do it again. Although, I hear the cold makes it harder to break a paintball and it'll hurt more, hmmm...
-STEEEV

bubbles-es

Lights Cameras

This kid probably doesn't recognize me without a camera in front of my face. Can't help it.
-STEEEV

It's Summer Silly!

Another fashion show from the kid.

Dodge-er

I was fortunate enough to have been invited by a friend to go sit behind home plate against the Giants. We won too.

Here are some of the highlights:
Near the elevators was a wall with loads of names on it.


Walk down to all you can eat clubhouse restaurant.


Displays with memorabilia, like this 1988 World Series Trophy! Sweet!






This is where we sat, about seven rows back. I got up one time, saw Tommy Lasorda, said, "Hi, Tommy." "Hey there." Crazy, then like two minutes later I rolled my ankle. Stinks. Had to miss the softball season, totally bummed.



Yeah, the stadium definitely looks way bigger from the outfield. Pavilion rocks.

"Bluh"

It's his favorite word. He's starting to blow bubbles.

Turnip

You Awake?

Outfit: Two

Sporting the blackened white sandals. Decorative jeans. Orange shirt with white stripes. With one red cheek.

Lights

Saw It

Lizzy and I just got through a load of lame movies so it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. It did make me feel like a high school girl in love though.
-STEEEV

Play Days

Blue and Green

At Work

the lil guy