CUTEST GAME EVER!

So I am the oldest of 6 two of my younger brothers Riley (11) and Bailey (9) asked me to play a video game with them when they came home from school it's called Little Big Planet.

Now I am the epitomine of a girl that does NOT play video games but this game was the cutest thing I
have ever seen!  I made my own little character and my little brothers were very patient in teaching me
how to navigate the game.  It was a very enjoyable experience to play a game that was so creative.  You literally could make anything!  There were all these cool textures, patterns, and designs that made it very esthetically pleasing.  Who knows I may even play the game again :D

Passion Re Awakened

I was watching a documentary last night called "The Pixar Story", great documentary by the way I recomend it to anyone, anyway as I was listening to John Lasseter and how he would stop at nothing to achieve his dream something inside me was re awakened something that I haven't felt in a long time.


I don't mean to give you my life story here but it is kind of neccesary in order to understand what exactly was re awakened.  I spent two year in high school in a vocational program called Interactive Multimedia which put to use all of my favorite arts, film, drawing, computers and storytelling.  It was through this program that I found animation originally I had wanted to go into film direction but once I took a animation workshop I was sold on the idea.  Animation pushed me in new ways learning new computer software, understanding characters and actions and why they were done.  I had to get in touch again with my acting side that had been in speech and debate for four years and in and out of school plays and musicals.  When I watched "The Pixar Story" I realized that it was not just the characters and movments that made a good movie it was the story.  Pixar has been so succesful because their stories are fresh new concepts.

That is my re awakening my love for storytelling, I got so lost in trying to learn to draw again and learn Maya that I forgot about all the other things I liked to do.  I need to learn to balance these things stories, characters, and design.  The only way I can do that is spend a little bit of time on both which is easier said then done.  It is very easy for me to be absorbed in one thing and I have to break out of that.  I want to work for Pixar so badly, I want to make these wonderful stories come to life and share them with people and hopeful with enough practice I'll get there someday.  In the mean time I started brainstorming a few story ideas in which I want to sketch characters for and keep them in handy for the one chance I might get to pitch them to someone who will like them and have faith in me to direct them.

The Gilgers' Take Bowling Green

 

It was sibs weekend at Bowling Green this 

weekend, my brother Ben came up to see me.  

He is 18 and I am 20 so there is only a two year 

age gap.  I am lucky we are so close.  It is shocking 

to me  to hear stories or people that don't get along 

with their sibs.  I don't know with out Ben he 

gives me someone  to draw with. He and I are 

both artists of sorts I'm more digital and he is a painter.  

It was so great to have him up to see me and him being here 

also motivated me to draw more.  We sat and sketched for 

hours and I never got bored.  We did stuff like that all the 

time back home and it was nice to be back at it again.  

So I owe a thank you to my baby brother for bringing me 

a reminder of home. 

My Summer Challenge

Whenever I am around people who draw all the time the first thought that comes to mind is "I WANT TO DO THAT!"  I feel like I can draw but I need to be better, I know there are defiantly a lot of things I have to work on and I know there even more that I need to learn.  So while looking at some other people character drawings I asked them how do you get that good?  The answer was lock yourself in a room with enough food to survive for a few days and do nothing but draw.  Now I'm not going to go that extreme but I may do something similar.  I designed a summer challenge to get better at drawing, my first challenge is called twenty days of hands.  I found some drawing tutorials on stumbleupon and deviant art and have a tutorial a day in my sketch book for twenty pages.  I'll do the same thing with feet, draw nothing but feet for twenty days.  It doesn't have to be long I could just take an hour a day to learn.  When I'm done with that I'll think of some more challenges but I plan on spending an hour a day this summer drawing something!

Grave of the Fireflies

   Ow my heart hurts!  I just saw "Grave of the Fireflies"

   for the first time.  That was the most painful movie I

   have ever seen.  No not painful like "this is a bad movie"

  painful like this is really sad but I can't stop watching.

 It was just such a powerful film, I loved the relationship

 between Seita and Setsuko.  Which made it even more

  horrible when they died.  I learned stuff about WWII

 I never knew before.  My heart is broken for all those

 people.  I respect this film for the impact it had on me

...but I don't think I'll rush to see it again anytime soon.

Tangled

So last night was the first time I've seen the movie 

Tangled.  I cannot remember the last Disney Movie 

I enjoyed this much!  It was entertaining and not overly

cliche.  Yea there were moments but I still liked them. 

Watching films like this give me a new found inspiration, 

I already love what I do but I want to do what they did in 

Tangled I want to speak to an audience like that, make them 

feel for characters that I created.  I want to create beautiful 

moving stories.  So thanks Tangled for reminding me why I 

am doing this.