Art Swap

I recently did an art swap with a fellow character animator and friend, Jacob Streilein.

I provided him with a tiny canvas and this is what he painted me:

It's from his third year film and it's so beautiful!

This is what I will be sending him when he's back from vacation: 

The canvases are about 2 x 2.75". So they're very small. Mine was done with acrylic and I haven't touched acrylics since first year! I was really scared so I kept it simple.
I definitely want to buy more tiny canvases and do this over the summer because it turned out to be so much fun.
I forgot to add some yellow highlights on some of the rocks so I'll do that before I send it off to Jacob.
I hope he likes it, cause I'm not as skilled of a painter as he is :P

Update:

I finally added the yellow highlights!
I definitely think it looks a little better and not as flat.

Mother's Day Card

I painted this for my mom for Mother's Day.
My mom has been in Taiwan and she's coming back this Sunday so I can finally give it to her!

Business Card

My sound designer asked a couple of us to design a business card for him.
So this is what I came up with!

I changed the bear's fur for the business card because his chest fluff became too small.
So I just gave him a fur pattern.
It's nice to draw again!

Third Year Film!

It's that time of the year again!
Film time is finally over and summer vacation is just around the corner.
This year, I chose to do a CG film and I actually managed to finish it.
It was a tough beast to tackle but I learned so much in the process.
I really wanted to focus on animation this year, but I didn't quite get to do that because of modeling, rigging and just getting Maya to cooperate.
I almost handed it off to someone else to do it but in the end, I'm really glad that I did it myself.
With a ton of help of course :P

Many many thanks to my family, friends and CalArts staff who helped me during the process.
There's no way I could've done it without all of their help.

So here it is:

CalArtsThird Year FIlm - Escape from Tammy Chang on Vimeo.

Print Fair and Films

It's been one crazy third year but I finally finished my film!
Also, another exciting thing that happened this weekend was the CalArts annual print fair.
I didn't even know it existed until a fellow graphic designer friend who was running the fair this year invited Kari, Melanie and I to attend.
It was so much fun and I'm super glad I got to be a part of it.
I just wanted to post a picture of our table and some of the prints that I was selling.

I drew myself in the picture because I was the one taking the picture.

I wish all three of us were in there. 

Here are the prints that I was selling:

(this one might be upside down... )

The rest are original watercolor pieces that I was also selling:

And lastly, here is a still from my third year film this year:

I'll be posting my film after the Open Show this upcoming Saturday. I'm super excited to finally see everyone's film!

Alien Shrimp

No posts means it's film crunch time!

I just animate in Maya all day and it's a bit sad because I miss drawing.

But at least I was able to design this shrimp alien for Andy Suriano's class!

I looked up pictures of mantis shrimp because they are way cool.

And I got to ink my design this time.

Films due in 2 weeks!

Push on everyone!

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