Little Grandma

This is my "little" grandma.



This is the photo I used to show the people I met in Brazil. I don't have many photos of grandma. Especially in my teenage years.

Most of my sweetest memories come from our Christmas's when we were kids.

This is an old photo of grandma and grandpa's house.

Here's some of the grandkids, Ian, Brandon, Jenelle, and I.


Here's a beautiful one of Jenelle and Grandma. 
This one is slightly embarrassing for obvious reasons, but we had great times visiting with cousins, Aunt and Uncle's and especially getting spoiled by grandma and taking home loads of treats.


Here is Little Grandma walking my mom out of the hospital after I was born.

Some other pictures from our Christmas Eve's together.

The rest are taken from old xerox's I made a few years ago. The originals look much better.

Grandma was very talented. She was a famous singer.
Some pictures from school.

And she was slightly famous. Here's an old clipping from a newspaper. "Elvie del Rio"

This one is of her, her father, and sisters. Grandma is in the middle.

Here she is with William Holden.

And John Wayne.

And of course, grandpa ;) (he is far right)
(now he's far left)
And I saved the best for last.

You were kind, gentle, and loving.  Thank you little grandma, we will miss you.

Outfit: Eight

Got this one at a garage sale for like 50 cents.
-STEEEV

Belly Time

Lil' Circles

She and I will draw and write together a lot. I taught her how to make little circles. She also knows how to make a "1". Pretty simple, right? 1's and 0's.

-STEEEV

Outfit: Seven

Argh, what a nice day, there were plenty more of these, but these were my favorites.
-STEEEV

My Play Space

Outfit: Six

The last outfit was the one she wore when she found this outfit...

Chew Toe

Mall Shopping

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 ;)