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Kirbopher
Animation Artist, creator of over 100 pieces of Flash animation on and offline. Graduate of the School of Visual Arts, Class of 2011.

Chris Niosi @Kirbopher

Age 35, Male

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School of Visual Arts

New York

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Posted by Kirbopher - October 25th, 2009


Takes me another month to make a journal entry, joyous.

But, I'm havin' the time of my life right now, so hopefully it's forgivable. No, I'm not dead! Really! Well, maybe. Wait...no. Okay.

So I promised I'd upload some schoolwork and I figured this'd be a good opportunity to show some of the crap I've been up to. So far we've done three homework assignments for the class and are already working on the fourth. Here's what I got for ya:

Our first two assignments went hand-in-hand; they were exercises in character design, which I gotta huge kick out of. First, we picked an animal of our choice and were asked to draw as many designs as we could manage; typically around 10 from everyone. I had taken some photos of the cat often seen at our local art store and had them on hand as reference. So while a cat is usually a bit generic of an animal, I went more in-depth with it and tried to apply a specific personality to character. After choosing our favorite design of the bunch, we were asked to create at least ten different poses of them displaying as much of their personality as possible. I think I did about 16 or so and put my favorites in the final collage.

Our third assignment was the first piece of animation we produced for the class, which was to have a character carry a heavy object from one side of the screen to another. I went an extra mile and did two characters, with one of the two having two different animations. This was a good exercise for getting me back into the animation spirit, since I hadn't done any -real- movement in quite a while. Not bad for a start, I hope. Our next assignment is to make a fat character sit in order to display a sense of weight in appliance to the character itself, as opposed to them interacting with weight of another source.

In between the stuff such as this, I've been still working on a big secret project, which I've been applying some of the new stuff I've learned. It's not turning out too bad at all and I've got some good feedback, so I'm real excited about this one, oh yes. Also, mostly thanks to a certain class of mine, I've been doing some MAJOR networking...in fact I've gotta little meeting this coming Teusday I'm very looking forward to. We'll see how that goes. Still got other stuff in the pipeline and doing my best to keep track of it all.

Happy Halloween this weekend, kiddo's!


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I liked your character carrying heavy object thing, I got a kick outa it when meat ran swiftly behind him, and i can't decide whether it looks like your cat is trying to kill something, or talk, but I liked the designs anyway.

Hariette was doing a lot of posing acting like she was a lil' model, so I went with a smarmy attitude to go with the cuter design I picked in the end.

Awesome school work assignments!
Which class are they for? Character design? Animation? Drafting?

My main class, "Advanced Animation Workshop".

Hmmm....I like 'em.
Looking forward to the "secret project".

YOU BETTA.

Cat drawings were great..animation was meh
Happy Halloween

Meow.

I love how mexifry is talking down to you.

Nice to know that your alive. Hope to see some flash uploaded sometime later. :]
nice cat drawings btw!

WHOA are you mad bro?

Great stuff! Glad to hear you still alive, shame I'm half asleep and only understood about a forth of your post. :x
Anyways... cant wait to see moar!!! :D

the kitty in the 2nd set reminds me of a baby Ratchet ( & clank)

Looks like someone had their paws full. Get it? GET IT!?

Um.

the weird thing is, no matter how secret your secret project it, as soon as someone finds out what it is you just have a regular project.

SHHH.

oh (;(...
i hope you can do parodyrangers Movie 3 soon

Gonna aim for December to work on those.

I hear that if you listen to poop you get bettah ZZZZZs

so what's this i hear about a weeabo special Omah keeps talkin about in the pm's hmm?

plus it's great to hear everythings workin out for yeh man.

l8s

i liked the flat and retarded cat the most..
altough that says more of my mental state then your choice of style

Cats are generic? What?

Cats, dogs, birds and horses feel like the four most "stock" animals to me. The animals all of my classmates chose were cooler and more unique. I wanted to to give myself a challenge with one of those basic four, hence why I went more specific with it as opposed to JUST simply doing a cat.

do you live with a bipolar cat at home for inspiration?

No, it's based on a cat that hangs around the local art store here.

I can't see how it could possibly be difficult to make a cat unique, I could write a book about my cat Charles

I didn't say it was necassarily difficult.

Meow :3

".in fact I've gotta little meeting this coming Teusday I'm very looking forward to."

Spelled Tuesday wrong bro. Just thought I would point it out.

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