Bianca Siercke

The aftermath of Christmas

2011-12-28T19:00:00.000-04:00

Music

2011-12-21T10:50:00.003-04:00

Attitude

2011-12-13T14:55:00.003-04:00

iAnimate Workshop 1

2011-12-04T18:08:00.013-04:00

I just finished Workshop 1 of the iAnimate course and I have to say IT WAS AWESOME!!!

I can't compare it to any other online course out there, but I would love to share what the course was like for me.

If any of you are considering iAnimate I would highly recommend it! The administration part granted was not as organized as it could have been, but once we got into our classes things were amazing! I took their first Workshop (WS) starting with the bouncing ball, going all the way up to a walk cycle. For someone who had never used Maya before, this was a good decision. Knowing animation going into the WS was great but not necessary. For me it helped to solidify and experiment with spacing and timing. The progression of assignments from bouncing ball, to a "luxo-like" character, to full character really got me used to the graph editor and all the controls in Maya.

Besides your own classes you also have access to all the other classes that are being taught. I found this really cool! I got to watch in on some of the later workshops to get a feel for what they would be like and found this super informative. The students are also collecting a "best of" selection of the best Q&A's of all the teachers. This way if you don't have time to watch everything (which I assure you, you will not! There is way too much stuff to see), you will still know which Q&A's were really informative and watch those. Also Jason Ryan, the creator of the program gives a weekly lecture to show how he animates. These range from him showing us how he would tackle one of our assignments, to showing how he would analyse acting and how to tackle any new rig that gets created. All of these lectures are also saved in a section that you can download/watch as a student. I seriously tried to watch as much as I could, but there is no keeping up with all the amazing stuff on that site. We have a month break in December, so I'm going to try and catch up then.
Also something that should be noted is the "iAnimate rigs". They are really amazing! Again, I'm new to Maya, so I'm probably not the best person to judge, but the more experienced people told me they are the closest thing to a feature rig out there.

To see what iAnimate is doing, you can watch their current student reel here
http://www.ianimate.net/index.php/ianimate2011showreel.html

I also want to give a big shout out to my teacher Jacob Gardner. He was really great to learn from! Patient, enthusiastic, funny and an inspirational animator! If you guys get the chance to learn from him I would say jump on that opportunity right away!

Also, in case you guys are interested his friend Stephen Melagrano, Ben Willis, Adam Strick and him have a great animation websites called "Speaking of Animation"
http://www.speakingofanimation.com/
They also have a podcast here
http://www.speakingofanimation.com/pods/

That's it ^^ Let me know if any of you have questions and I'll try to answer them as best as I can :)

Fashion

2011-11-28T12:08:00.002-04:00

We'll miss you

2011-11-23T20:17:00.003-04:00

This is a drawing I did for my friend Billy, who will be leaving next week to move to Spain. We'll miss you!!

Fall is here

2011-10-21T23:19:00.002-03:00

iAnimate

2011-09-14T09:14:00.004-03:00

Just wanted to share with you guys that I just started my first workshop at iAnimate! I feel really happy to be part of the program and couldn't be more excited!

For my friends 06

2011-07-18T19:24:00.004-03:00

For my friends 05

2011-07-12T10:39:00.003-03:00

One of my friends just pointed out that I hadn't posted in a while. Sorry about that!!! I've been really busy with work. I'll try to update again soon with more drawings, but for now:
This is a drawing I did for my friend Deborah.

Different style

2011-01-22T20:08:00.006-04:00

I had the chance to experiment with a different style recently. I have to say it was quite fun :)

2010 Sanborns Commercial_hairdryer

2010-06-30T22:35:00.011-03:00

This video is a commercial I did for a Mexican Restaurant company called Sanborns.

For each commercial I did I got a 3 panel storyboard explaining the gist of what they wanted. That left a lot of freedom to create interesting staging, adding gags and personalities to each commercial. It was a real pleasure.
Hope you enjoy watching it as much as I had fun working on it :).

Peinados de Moda = Fashionable hair
Para chicos y grandes = For kids and adults

Prolonged absence

2010-06-20T00:12:00.001-03:00

Sorry for my prolonged absence!! I've been super busy with work, and I currently don't have a scanner available. I did want to finally update with something however, but I want to ask your forgiveness for the quality of the image. All I have is my camera, so that had to suffice for capturing this image. Hopefully I'll be able to update soon again, and it might even be some animation if I'm allowed to show it :) Hope you're all well, and I'll try and post again soon.
Cheers :)

Love

2010-01-21T23:04:00.001-04:00

Merry Christmas everyone

2009-12-23T22:32:00.003-04:00

For my friends 04

2009-12-18T23:22:00.002-04:00

This is for my friend Glenn. He's such a nice person and he always helps people, so I just wanted to say thank you.

For my friends 03

2009-12-16T11:55:00.001-04:00

I did this drawing for my friend Faith! She has such a cool style, that I couldn't resist drawing her. I'm really happy how the picture turned out!

For my friends 02

2009-12-15T17:21:00.001-04:00

This gorgeous little girl is the daughter of my friend James and Jen :)

For my friends

2009-12-14T13:14:00.003-04:00

I'm doing a lot drawings for my friends at the moment. I'll try and put them up over the next few weeks.

Derek & Chloe 06

2009-11-28T18:34:00.001-04:00

Derek & Chloe 05

2009-11-12T16:30:00.001-04:00

Thank you Stephen

2009-10-23T22:24:00.018-03:00

For those of you that like to listen to motivational speeches and podcasts about drawing, you should definitely check out Stephen Silvers UStream Videos. He gives some great insight into what he thinks about while he's drawing; he shares mentalities he's picked up over the years and also some wonderful stories with his listeners.

Here are some facial studies that I've been doing recently and I thought the would fit in well with this post. I had lots of fun doing these. Comments and critiques are as always more then welcome :).

Birthday Party 01

2009-10-23T22:20:00.002-03:00

Derek and Chloe 04

2009-10-21T16:47:00.002-03:00

Happy Birthday Sam !

2009-10-16T20:58:00.003-03:00

I did this image for my friend Sam, whose birthday it is today :D!
I also have to give out a BIG thank you to David Sourwine for helping me finesse the colours.

Derek & Chloe 03

2009-10-11T09:36:00.003-03:00

I found Chloe really hard to draw. I think especially in this image she doesn't quite look right so I apologize for that in advance. That said, I still like the atmosphere in this drawing though so I thought I would post it none the less.

Also I wanted to post a link to my friend Anne-Maries blog. She's the one that got me reading "The Summoning", and she did some amazing drawings of the books. Two of her posts can be found here
http://sweetnpepper.blogspot.com/2008/12/summoning.html
and here
http://sweetnpepper.blogspot.com/2009/09/sorry-thanks-love-darkest-powers.html

And a Happy Canadian Thanksgiving to everyone out there :)

Apple's gone goth

2009-10-05T16:48:00.002-03:00

Scared?

2009-09-28T21:32:00.001-03:00

For Steffi

2009-09-22T20:09:00.002-03:00

Hockey

2009-09-17T09:27:00.003-03:00

I did this for my friend Chris. He's been playing hockey since he was really young.

Childrens honesty and enthusiasm is wonderful!

Happy Birthday Hans!

2009-09-14T13:01:00.002-03:00

Derek & Chloe 02

2009-09-13T10:36:00.004-03:00

This was one of the first drawings I did of Derek & Chloe. I was still trying to figure out what they should look like here.

Derek & Chloe 01

2009-09-10T14:49:00.003-03:00

The Summoning

2009-09-06T19:23:00.008-03:00

I just read Kelly Armstrong's book: 'The Summoning', which my friend Anne-Marie lent to me. We both love the characters Derek and Chloe, so there will be lots more drawings of them coming up. Some of them are from what happens in the books, but there are some that I just came up with as situations for the character. These are the characters from the second book "The Awakening"
Hope you enjoy it ^^.

Gouache

2009-08-21T11:28:00.003-03:00

Diving anyone?

2009-08-04T21:40:00.002-03:00

New Shirt

2009-05-21T22:53:00.002-03:00

Awesome Hair

2009-05-17T10:47:00.002-03:00

We always go sketching on Saturday and my friends Faith and Tim both had awesome hair styles happening, so I couldn't resist to draw them ^^

For Tim

2009-05-15T22:31:00.003-03:00

A friend of mine had a great idea. She said she would create 5 pieces of art for 5 friends, who in turn would each also create 5 pieces of art for 5 other people...and so forth.
I thought that was an amazing idea, so I joined up. This first piece was for my friend Tim. They are his characters Mallori and Travis. ^^

Happy Birthday Tom

2009-05-10T12:01:00.002-03:00

I've been doing a bunch of drawings for my friends, but I haven't had a chance to post them. I'll start with this one. Happy Birthday Tom ^^

Little cat

2009-05-08T22:13:00.004-03:00

Mat 09

2009-03-19T09:35:00.002-03:00

In a way this looks completely ridiculous. ..I mean who would use a baguette like a sword. But we recently had a stale baguette in the house, and I changed my mind. That thing became hard like a club. So if you see someone threatening you with a stale baguette.......run. ;)-

Mat 08

2009-03-17T23:41:00.003-03:00

Mat 07

2009-03-16T21:05:00.002-03:00

Mat 06

2009-03-15T22:05:00.001-03:00

Mat 05

2009-03-14T13:54:00.000-03:00

I think this is one of my favorite

Mat 04

2009-03-13T07:32:00.002-03:00

Mat 03

2009-03-11T09:02:00.002-03:00

Mat 02

2009-03-07T23:01:00.002-04:00

Mat 01

2009-03-06T21:00:00.001-04:00

Happy Birthday Blog

2009-02-16T17:46:00.000-04:00

More Apple

2009-02-02T10:37:00.009-04:00

I don't know when I can post again, as work is very busy right now, so I'll leave you guys with a bunch of drawings. Hopefully it will tide you over until I can get back and post more ^^

Meet 'Apple'

2009-01-31T11:46:00.002-04:00

When I drew this character, somehow the name 'Apple' came into my head. So I wanted to give her lots of green colors. I still want to play around with different varieties more, but here is one for now.

Pencil version

2009-01-21T11:00:00.000-04:00

More colour

2009-01-11T23:11:00.002-04:00

The best we can be

2009-01-01T18:30:00.004-04:00

I found this on Bobby Beck's blog and had to pass it on.

Learning is the beginning of happiness

2008-12-30T13:19:00.004-04:00

I was watching an interview with actress Lin I-Chen last week and she said this:
"Learning is the beginning of Happiness"

I thought that was a really beautiful statement.

Forgetfulness

2008-12-03T00:10:00.003-04:00

Sorry for the lack of color. I'm not sure where my pencil crayons went off too. I'm hoping that the animation faeries are almost finished using them and will put them back somewhere that I can find them.

We've already had our first big snowfall of the year. Shan-Mei is trying to preserve some for next year.

Pencil Crayon 4

2008-10-06T23:09:00.005-03:00

I like the concept of some of these, but I think the execution is definitely lacking. I thought I would still share them. Help and critiques are as always welcome.

Cheers

Pencil Crayon 3

2008-09-16T11:51:00.002-03:00

Pencil Crayon 2

2008-09-07T20:58:00.002-03:00

Pencil Crayon

2008-09-04T21:06:00.004-03:00

I haven't used colored Pencils in a long time and I want to do more, it was so much fun! I was inspired by Kei Acedera's amazing art! Please go and check out her work, it's well worth the time.

2008-08-18T21:51:00.000-03:00

Inspired

2008-07-31T17:09:00.002-03:00

These drawings were inspired by Dharmali Patel and her incredible long hair. She cut it about a year and a half ago, but the memory still leaves traces.

Fun

2008-07-26T22:48:00.006-03:00

Laundry Day

2008-07-15T22:03:00.006-03:00

I'm proud to present to you guys the film "Laundry Day", that my friend Guillaume Chartier completed after his 4th year at Sheridan.

I got to do the effects animation for this film, which was super fun! I attached the youtube clips of some of the effects before they were integrated to the film. Enjoy.

Guillaume's Film
If you haven't seen this film, I'd recommend watching it before looking at the effects.

Torso Effects

Eye Gloss Effects

Hand Effects

Foot Effects

One of my favorite places

2008-06-27T10:40:00.011-03:00

One of my favorite places I would have to say, is a large airport. I just flew through Frankfurt and I almost wish I had more of a stopover inbetween my flights because, what a place to be.

Different people from all over the world, speaking their own languages, a visual merging of all cultures. I stopped to buy an ice-cream cone from a Häagen-Dazs stand, and all the people in front of me and behind me were from Japan. It was fascinating to watch them communicate with the lady behind the counter. Both sides had such patients.

Later on I looked up different flights that were leaving before mine and started to wander towards different gates. I sat down for a while to watch and listen. I didn't end up doing any drawing at all, but was absorbed just to sit and look.

I did have a chance to do a few drawings while I was away. Hope you enjoy them.

Movement

2008-05-30T18:46:00.011-03:00

I'm going to be away from my computer for the next 2 weeks, but I wanted to update my blog before I left. So here are a few more pen sketches. I did these from a concert I saw online.

See you after I get back ^^

Dharmali Patel

2008-05-19T09:45:00.002-03:00

Some of you that come to visit my blog already know Dharmali personally. For those of you who don't, she's an amazing animator and an equally amazing designer, and she has a blog now :D :D

This is a sample of and illustration she did.
Dharmali Patel

Uniball Micro

2008-05-17T10:10:00.003-03:00

Quick lifedrawings

2008-05-10T20:31:00.012-03:00

Unfortunately we only have the possibility to do lifedrawing once every 2 weeks here. That said, we have this amazing model, that totally makes up for it!!!

These are sketches that are between 30 seconds and 2 minutes I believe. Critiques are more then welcome, I know I still have a lot to improve on. Thanks already in advance.
Cheers, and hope you enjoy them.

Randomness

2008-05-06T07:52:00.008-03:00

Sketching

2008-04-27T16:09:00.006-03:00

Drawings

2008-04-18T20:17:00.005-03:00

Tribute

2008-04-15T21:13:00.006-03:00

As all over the animation community today I found out that Ollie Johnson passed away. A friend of mine at work read it first and he told us. I was surprised how shocked and sad I was as I yelled out "NOOO!!!" into the silence. As I started reading and watching videos I actually started to cry.

Why was I so sad? This great man had lived a full life till the age of 95. I didn't know Ollie personally, all I knew were stories about his life and like most of you I admired his work. And still somehow I felt this great loss.

Of course the deaths of Andy Knight, Peter Bateman, Justin Wright, Dan Lee, Joe Ranft and so many others are much more tragic, as they were all so young and deserved so much more time with their families and friends.

It seems like it's been a sad few month for the animation community. I think through blogs we are all much more connected then we were before and it makes these losses somehow more intimate. Of course none of us will feel it as much as the families and friends will. It is to them that my heart and my best wishes go out to today.

And to Ollie,
Thank you for all the inspiration, laughter and love.

Sign Pen

2008-04-11T20:46:00.004-03:00

Old and New

2008-04-06T21:04:00.005-03:00

Random Sketches

2008-04-02T08:10:00.001-03:00

Kappa

2008-04-02T08:05:00.002-03:00

This is my interpretation of a 'Kappa', a Japanese water spirit. They are said to pull children under the water and drown them. From what I read a kappa's head must always be wet and they cannot survive being from water for too long. So I thought it would be really interesting if the top of their head actually shows a beautiful woman, to entice the children to come down to the water. I really like that concept, so I'll keep trying to do some visuals for it. Here is one for now.

Werner Zimmermann

2008-03-07T07:25:00.002-04:00

My teacher and good friend Werner Zimmermann finally has a blog!! You have to check out his blog if you like great drawings.

http://www.man4art.blogspot.com/

Animal drawings 03

2008-02-14T19:59:00.000-04:00

Animal drawings 02

2008-02-10T17:52:00.001-04:00

Animal drawings 01

2008-02-07T22:53:00.000-04:00

Inspiration

2008-01-27T14:06:00.000-04:00

This last week has been amazing for beautiful drawings on blogs. In case any of you missed them, you should definitely go and visit!!

DANIELA STRIJLEVA

JAMES ROBERTSON

CHRIS CHUA

I can only hope to someday be able to achieve beauty and character as they are shown here. Until then I will feast my eyes on these blogs and soak up the inspiration. ^^

Western

2008-01-27T14:02:00.001-04:00

Mice Musicians

2007-12-11T21:47:00.000-04:00

Sketching week 03

2007-11-26T23:38:00.000-04:00

Hi guys ^^

I still want to colour this drawing if I get the chance, but just so you have something to look at, last weeks theme was "Pirates"

Next weeks theme is a bit more vague. I believe the wording of it is: "Against the law..."

Sketching week 02

2007-11-20T08:38:00.000-04:00

This weeks subject: Midsummer Nights Dream

I mainly concentrated on Titania and Nick Bottom, who head get's turned into a donkey.
Cheers ^^

Next weeks subject is PIRATES!

DANI HAS A BLOG!!!

2007-11-15T21:40:00.000-04:00

Sorry guys, but I'm super excited, so I have to share this with the world (...well lol, it's miniscule portion that comes to visit my blog ^^)

My friend Daniela Strijleva finally has a blog. She's a wonderful person and an amazing artist. You'll be totally missing out by not going to her blog. So without further ado, here's the link :D

http://danielastrijleva.blogspot.com/

Sketching week 01

2007-11-11T22:18:00.000-04:00

This post will be a bunch of ruff sketches. I joined a friend in a sketching group. There was only 2 when I joined and now we're up to 5 already ^^. We get a different subject every week, and you have from Sunday to Sunday to do a drawing for the subject. This weeks subject was Pocahontas.

Next weeks subject: "Midsummer Nights Dream"

2007-10-21T22:39:00.001-03:00

Man I still have to learn so much about colour. I'm definitely making my mistakes. Here is one that didn't turn out too bad. Still problems though, like a short arm, short pant leg and the cheek is a bit funky. These markers have been such a great investment though!! :D :D :D ....and no ..i'm not just trying to justify spending the money ;)-

Reminiscence

2007-10-19T20:51:00.000-03:00

Hi everyone.

I just wanted to post some more marker drawings I did for fun. They were inspired by a Japanese show I saw before I went to college; called "Ranma 1/2". I was watching some of the episodes last weekend and couldn't help but try and draw the characters. Anime is not really a style I draw in, but it was so much fun.

Comics and Markers

2007-10-04T20:19:00.000-03:00

Hi everyone

I just wanted to shout out a bit CONGRATS to a friend of mine who just completed her first comic. The artist is Faith Hicks, and the comic is called Zombies Calling. It will be published in November. I did a drawing of one of the characters for Faith's B-day.

If you want to see some pages of the actually comic, you can go too
http://community.livejournal.com/demonology101/78953.html

Other than that, I had the chance to buy some markers YAAAAY ^^. They were on sale at our local art store. So here is a simple image I did just for fun. Still have so much to learn, but thank god drawing is fun, so learning is fun too ^^. Have a nice weekend everyone.

2007-07-25T22:32:00.001-03:00

Long time no see

2007-07-16T22:26:00.000-03:00

Hi everyone.

Sorry for the long absence of posts. I was trying to abstain from blogging for a while and here we are O_o a year later, i can't believe it.

I feel really bad, humbled and grateful to all the people who have been checking in regularly. I don't know what to say, except "thank you so much"!!

Enough talk though, I'm sure you'd rather look at some images. These are a bit older, but I haven't really shown them to a lot of people. So please enjoy. As you know honest crits are always welcome ^^

Cheers.

A little bit of sillyness

2006-06-05T23:17:00.000-03:00

Just a little bit of sillyness on Monday ^^.

A few more

2006-05-30T23:15:00.000-03:00

A few more sketches, not the best stuff here, but here is to improvement ^^

Saturday sketching

2006-05-23T23:45:00.000-03:00

In effort to update my blog, here are some of Saturday's sketches.

Mother's day

2006-05-14T12:37:00.000-03:00

Last week I was looking at Gabriele Pennacchioli's blog (amazing stuff there if some of you haven't gone you have to check it out) and was reading the comments people were leaving. By chance I came across a name I hadn't seen before and went to his blog.

The persone I'm talking about is Victor Ens. If you are a fan of great animation you HAVE to go visit his blog or his website. I was so inspired looking at his work. Beautifully timed animation and his draftsmenship is simply stunning.

I did a small animation for my mom for mother's day and I have to say that Victors stuff was what I looked at the whole time I was animating. Thank you for the inspiration Victor!!! ^^ I hope you guys enjoy the clip, obviously I still have so far to go, but I'm slowly picking at getting better. Comments and Critiques are most welcome ^^.

Saturday

2006-05-13T09:26:00.000-03:00

Just to not keep this blog empty for too long here are some more pictures. And don't forget that tomorrow is Mother's day. ^^ Cheers everyone