Christine's Blog

Comic-Con 2008

2008-08-05T17:43:00.000-07:00

Recently, I attended the San Diego Comic-Con. I highly recommend attending this event even if you’re not a comic aficionado. It is no longer limited to the comic arena, but also expands into the entertainment industry and pop culture in general.

Preview night was sensory overload. I was completely overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of people. Although, it was really interesting to see how mob mentality sweeps over the masses and all common courtesy is lost when limited free “stuff” is offered.

Over the course of the four days, I tried to attend to as much as possible. Unfortunately, popular panels overlap and to even stand a chance of seeing them, you have to wait over an hour in line ahead of time. Every morning when looking over the schedule, I had to triage my events and pick the few things that I really wanted to go to.

Some of my personal highlights were: I had many portfolio reviews and received a lot of positive feedback. I met my all time favorite author (Orson Scott Card) and had a giggle-fit soon after. I saw Kevin smith, Seth Green, Stan Lee, Jim Lee, John Howe, and the Mythbusters, among others. I viewed sneak peek previews to next year’s movies. I also saw some of the most elaborate costumes as well hundreds of storm troopers.

My excitement didn’t end at the Con though…

As we Con-zombies vacated the convention center on the last day, my friend and I decided to celebrate the end of our rampaging with dinner. The lady who was “sleeping” in the seat directly behind us turned out to be dead (no joke). Whomever/wherever you are Ma’am, I hope you had a good meal before you went.

After that, a college teacher showed me how to win any race down escalators (thanks Dave for being a fountain of knowledge is such matters). I traveled to L.A. and experienced my first earthquake, saw Wicked, took a tour of Paramount Studios, went to the Bodyworks show and experienced so many things that validate all the blisters on my feet. I’m still recovering from this trip, but I plan on going back again next year!

Stingray Hoard

2008-06-17T17:37:00.000-07:00

Jellyfish

2008-06-09T21:42:00.000-07:00

In continuation with my underwater character theme, I came up with a couple jellyfish designs. The first image is a quick study, done in only few hours. Things that I played with in these images were bioluminescence and transparency.

Fetus Fish

2008-04-01T14:46:00.001-07:00

Procreation is an interesting subject to think about... in relation to character design. For this study, I thought about how a mermaid would come to be, thus the creation of the Fetus-fish.

Sea Witch

2008-04-01T14:34:00.000-07:00

For my Sea Witch character, I explored an angler-eel-human hybrid.

Beta Hybrid

2008-03-17T20:59:00.000-07:00

Along with my concept series I wanted to explore other types of hybrid sea creatures. This is a study of a human-beta fish hybrid.

Environment

2008-03-17T20:52:00.000-07:00

This is the first piece in a series that I have been working on this semester. I focused on doing some concept art based on an archetypal story. I chose Hans Christian Anderson's The Little Mermaid. In my designs I wanted to steer away from the preconceptions that most people have in regards to mermaids. I didn't want my designs to look like it would be fitting for them to breakout into song.