So...that last post was a lie...

Haha, now for sure I am back on the roll of things. Last year was truly a roller coaster with 5 different homes, a leap into a new job and lots of realizations. Now that I am more stable, I can get back on my artistic path. I have brand new projects coming up and I am very excited to give it a start. With this I will have one blog dedicated entirely to comics. Check it out on the side bar! It's called Black Giraffe Comics!! The this one will remain dedicated to regular updates on curious data, illustrations, photographs and video blogs. Maybe being able to keep myself on a track of one post per week I will be able to move forward with good time.

Like a phoenix

So...I'm getting back into this whole working back into animation deal and its been almost a year. A lot has happened since I finished my last animated short but now I am back and I am ready to create and draw and be myself again! Here is a small preview of an experiment I am starting but hopefully it will be done soon. Right now there is not really much to say since I am barely starting again but I will be posting something weekly and showing experiments and stuff! So..yeah! Blog!

As an animator and an ice cream seller

So, I am now officially working as a freelance animator and an ice cream seller. It's pretty epic. Here are some sketches for a client.

What now?

I have honestly been off for a while.

In the time I was in my internship, I dedicated a lot of time to it and learned a lot. The rest of the time, I spent finding festivals, making math to check how much money I could spend and writing up addresses to places all over the world. To be honest, I also gave myself time to see friends and enjoy my family.

So where did the art time go?

There was none really, just doodles here and there.

But I am finally done with my internship with a new set of knowledge and completely out of money to send my film into festivals.

After winning First Friday Shorts at the Loft Cinema ( a cultural cinema theatre in Tucson AZ) I realized that I had nothing really done. I mean, I was able to successfully finish my first film and send it to festivals. I was able to go to an internship and learn how the commercial animation industry worked and how hard it really was.

But it didn't put me off.

Now I have all this free time until I find a job.

So, whats next?

1. Make several illustrations to add to my portfolio.
2. Freelance as much as I can to get experience.
3. Start writing out my stories in script form to be prepared for them in the future.
4. Start on my next animated short.

Endorphins are serious business.

To Start Off

So, my search in the states for a job has been set on a hiatus.

Why?

Because in order to hire me, immigration work needs to be done and I have not yet enough experience enough for anyone to hire.

So, what am I going to do?

Start working freelance in Mexico and settle here for a little bit while I figure out how to get over that visa process. For now, getting better at animating sounds good to me. In the meantime, I will have to make money to survive, haha.

So I decided on coming back to my little home town and starting with graphic design. I will be working on shorts, and a graphic novel that I will probably start typing in an hour or so.

An animator has to do everything to get to their dream, even if it means to do something completely different than what intended.


And just for laughs, here's my first quick poster job.

Film Festivals

So, now that I have officially started to enter my short into festivals, its been very hectic. I find out about festivals I am qualified for (and can afford) almost last minute. Today I burnt so many dvds at my internship because my dvd burner died sometime in the past month! Murphey's Law, how I despise you.

Otherwise, I have learnt a variety of good things.

1. Withoutabox.com has to be one of the nicest ways to find film festivals that have similar qualifications to what I have and a very fast way of registration. You have to fill ALOT of information at first but it goes quite smoothly once its all done.

2. After a while, registration fees get expensive!! I have found registration fees from $10 to $70. Imagine trying to get your film into at least 5 festivals, which cost around $30 a piece....it can get quite pricey for someone who doesn't even have a job yet!

3. Learned how to make my own passport picture! XD Thank you google for providing with the information I needed so I didn't need to spend more on photos so I could use it on festivals.

4. Once you have everything together (dvd, picture, biography,and stills), it tends to go quite well. All is left is to wait and hope for the best. Registering into festivals is in inversion to get your name out there.

Niche

First short ever done completely by myself.

Niche from Eva Alcazar on Vimeo.