Jessica Lozano

2010-04-02T19:06:00.001-05:00

Out to Play Stuffage

2008-12-15T13:30:00.002-05:00

So, Out to Play finished at #24 in the aniBoom 2008 awards, and didn't get chosen to win any special prizes. So I probably won a magazine or something. Anyways, thanks for all your help everyone! At least I got in the top 50 :-)

And an update on the Siggraph Asia-ness. Out to Play is apaprantly part of the "Special Programme," which is "Entertaining and inspiring examples of the latest and greatest animation techniques and visual effects, selected in a special jury process." So yep, pretty cool. And here's the updated link.

And that's about it.

Perfect Color Vision!

2008-10-30T14:29:00.003-05:00

Yay!!

Take the test here!

Siggraph Asia 2008

2008-10-27T00:37:00.001-05:00

So I was informed recently that "Out to Play" will be shown at Siggraph Asia in December! Woot! It's part of their "Invited Screenings," which the website describes as:

"School Showcase of promising student work, Studio Specials from the world's leading animation and visual effects experts, and the Best of SIGGRAPH Award Winners from previous Computer Animation Festivals."

It's isn't one of their Juried Competitions (which is what Electronic and Animation Theater are), so I'm not exactly sure how it got chosen to be shown.

Anyways, here's da link!

Gratz also to Robb Gibbs for also getting in :-D

Tony Stark, circa 4/14/08 - 10/16/08

2008-10-19T17:10:00.002-05:00

My hamster, Tony Stark, who I bough 6/28/08, at about the age of 2 1/2 months, suddenly and tragically died on Thursday, October 16th. He was a cute, smart little guy, and shall be missed. Never got a good picture of him since he moves around so much, but here he is. The pictures actually look better small because they're all blurry.

I always had to tape his ball shut because he was smart enough to escape it otherwise.

Regarding the post right below this one....

2008-10-03T00:28:00.005-05:00

So I entered this contest, aniBoom 2008, which I guess has my thesis get ranked with a bunch of other animations based on how often it gets viewed, shared, and rated highly. So.... check it out at:

http://www.aniboom.com/video/289033/Out-to-Play/

And link to it on facebook, blogs, digg, etc. Send the link to all your friends, and their friends and such and such! The contest goes until December 15th, so like, view it every day? I dunno.

And check this screencap out.

Anpparantly "Out to Play" is the 10th most offensive animation of all time on their website. Who knew?

Check me out!!

2008-10-03T00:28:00.001-05:00

Watch more cool animation and creative cartoons at aniBoom

Santa Monica!

2008-09-30T22:12:00.004-05:00

Some pictures I took on my visit down to Santa Monica. Go figure that the day that I go down there, it's foggy.

Sonata Arctica/Nightwish

2008-09-15T02:06:00.007-05:00

Last Friday I saw Sonata Arctica and Nightwish at the Filmore in San Fransisco. They were awesome! Here's some crappy pics taken from my camera phone!

That was really the only decent picture I got of Sonata Arctica's performance. Rest is all Nightwish (out of order though).

Near the end of the show, Marco (the bassist) started drinking a bottle of vodka. Toumas had a bottle of wine, too. Looked as though Emppu had some hard cider? Anette didn't drink anything though - she said her tummy hurt.

This is Emppu, their guitarist. My bf caught one of his guitar picks and gave it to me! Yay! <3

Twas an awesome show. Everyone should go see them. As always, you can see the rest of my crappy pictures here.

Happiness!!!

2008-08-01T21:05:00.003-05:00

So last night I finally got my graduation present (thank you very muches mommy and daddy). Isn't it pretty?

The lady at Toyota said that its like driving a toy, and it really is. It's quite fun. I just need to figure out how to make it stop beeping when its in reverse....

Here we go....

2008-07-24T20:23:00.004-05:00

Clicky Clicky!

New Project and Such

2008-07-24T01:44:00.004-05:00

So as some of you may be aware, I'm starting a new art project. I started it yesterday, and here it is so far...

Yes it's a crappy photo, I know. I'll be sure to catalog things better when they're done. Anyways, this is Trish's house so far! Just those two sides are done. I was hoping to get her house done this week, but yea..it's taking a pretty big chunk of time to do (I haven't read any of that book I'm supposed to read for work in the past two days...oops), and I'm gonna be pretty busy the rest of this week/weekend. So yea, two more sides, a roof, and a garden to go. Not to mention a pathway and the ground it'll be sitting on. I need to figure out how to do that. I'm thinking making the ground like puzzle pieces, so I can put all my little houses together in a village, but also take them apart and still look pretty.

Yes, the brickwork is tedious, but I've watched pretty much the whole "Legend of Zelda" animated series (for the Super mario Bros. Super Show) while doing this tonight, and I must say...that show is terrible. In an awesome way tho. I guess next I'll watch all of Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World. Then I'll have to get some more DVD's...

ANYWAYS...if you want a little house in my paper village, just tell me what kind of house you want. It can be made of puppies for all I care. I'll prolly finish this one in about a week? And I'm estimating most houses (and I've gotten some pretty complicated ones...) will take about a week or 2 to make. So far I have 3 more lined up, so yea. Don't expect to see your house too soon.

Oh and I guess for reference, the front side of Trish's house is 3 1/8 inches wide. So yea...they be small.

Woot some art!

2008-07-13T20:32:00.002-05:00

So Friday night I took a little walk downtown and did some sketching. Went home, wanted to do something more with it, but haha, I left all my markers, paints, and pretty papers in Florida, and I don't remember if I brought my tablet with me, if I did, I don't know where I put it. Plus, no scanner, so the best I could get on my computer was a fuzzy photograph. So...I pretty much just colored it in Photoshop with flat colors and textures I got off the internet. And here it is:

Pier 39

2008-07-06T22:47:00.004-05:00

Went over to San Fransisco yesterday by Pier 39. Didn't get too many good shots, but here's what I got...

the color's kind of wonky on that one, isn't it?

Stinson Beach

2008-07-06T22:27:00.005-05:00

Went over to Stinson Beach with my Mum today. Have some pretties...

My New Home!

2008-06-21T18:25:00.003-05:00

Yay! Here's a lil tour of my new apartment. I guess the video was too big for poor blogger to support, so I had to go through youtube.

Carlsbad Caverns

2008-06-21T18:05:00.004-05:00

We stopped at Carlsbad Caverns on the way over to California, and it was awesome. Really pretty. I tried taking some good pictures, but failed miserably. It was just too dark for my little camera, or else I couldn't hold it still long enough for it to process the image (try holding a camera perfectly still for 8 seconds...its hard). But out of the many, many terrible pictures, I did get a few keepers. Enjoy!

As per usual, if you're interested in seeing all the other pictures (as terrible as they may be), you can check them out on Facebook!

California!!

2008-06-08T21:14:00.004-05:00

So I'm moving out to San Rafael in about a week, and I just got back from short lil visit over there. I really liked walking around the rose garden in Golden Gate Park, so here's some choice photos from that. If you want to see all the pictures I took from my trip (plus some photos of friends and I having epic battles during my Michigan trip), check them out on my Facebook album, here. Otherwise, on with the pretty!!

And then here's a couple o' photos of the view outside where I'm gonna be working.

Just wow...(Note: I did not make this!!!)

2008-05-26T13:17:00.003-05:00

So a friend of mind found this cake and posted it on Facebook, and I just have to say...it is the greatest cake ever!

The girl who made it's name is Su-Yin, and she has a blog with more pictures, so go check it out! She also has a bunch of recipes and stuff posted. Pretty talented girl, she is. Her cakes are all beautiful. I want one when I get married...

Here's some "art!"

2008-05-25T20:15:00.003-05:00

So, I was bored, and I've been telling a friend of mine for ages (sarcastically, of course) that I needed to write him a book. So I made it! Yay! It is 16 little pages long in Comic Sans...yes, Comic Sans. Realizing early on that I've never bound a book before, and all I was working with was Photoshop, thread, and some of my mum's letterhead (I printed on the blank side, but on the inside cover you can see remnants of the letterhead's heading), I planned on it being pretty ghetto, thus Comic Sans fit. The pages don't line up, I accidentally got some water on it...and yea. I'M pretty happy with how it turned out. Here's the cover!

The rainbow and puppies were inspired by the cover of the X-Force #1-3 compilation in which rainbows and puppies are shooting out of Wolverine's claws. Go figure. The title was suggested by my friend. Writing the book probably took half an hour. Making it, maybe a total of 2 hours. Like I said...not intended to be a fine work of art.

So what am I up to?

2008-05-21T23:54:00.002-05:00

I am ashamed to say that I have no new artwork to post. I worked on a submission for May's 11 second club for a few days, but for a handful of reasons, both personal and time-related, I decided to take the month off, and will finish the animation when things aren't so crazy. I really like the audio we were given and I think my concept is...different...from any of the W.I.P. postings I'd seen. So while it won't be done for the contest...it will be done at some point! And then I shall post it here! woohoo!

But things are going to be crazy for awhile because I'm moving to the San Fransisco Bay area next month! Yay! More on my job when it's official, but I'll definitely post some pictures of the move. :-)

Out to Play

2008-04-28T19:35:00.001-05:00

My thesis is now up on YouTube!

Child's Play

2008-04-10T12:50:00.005-05:00

Thesis is done! Woot!! You can see it on my website @ www.jessicalozano.com. Just click on the Thesis link. You'll need DivX to view it.

And here's the poster I made for the CA Senior Show.

The theme was 80's movies, and since Giggles looked so much like Chuckie, I just had to. Technically, this is based off the Child's Play 2 poster, which was in 1990....but it had 2 "characters" and a box, which was kind of perfect. So I went with that poster. Those scissors were made in about 4 seconds....yay beveling curves!!

Kitty!

2008-02-29T16:22:00.002-05:00

I needed to do something other than thesis, so here's something quick I did.

Kitty!

February Update

2008-02-24T11:36:00.005-05:00

It's almost the end of February and the Siggraph deadline is Wednesday (final thesis is due round the beginning of April), so my thesis, now titled (finally) "Out to Play" (took me like, 2 years to come up with that), is nearing completion. Yay!!! So here's something for you :-)

Home for ze Holidays

2007-12-14T01:20:00.000-05:00

So yesterday (well, now two days ago since it's after 1 am) was the last day of the semester, and boy oh boy am I glad to be home, taking some time to relax and do absolutely nothing for a bit. Oh, the freedom! Sure, the freedom will be painfully interrupted by the removal of wisdom teeth next week, but on the bright side, I won't be sitting in front of Maya then...I'll be in the blissful land of happy sedation.

So I got home this afternoon and did some much needed caring for my poor fish. He is much happier now. I think he'll survive the winter, even though I'm shocked he's made it two and a half years with me. Spaz is such a trooper. Besides that, I've mostly been sitting around playing the Sims 2. Though I went to visit Charlie and Mary tonight and showed them all the stuff I did this past semester. Tomorrow I think I'm gonna try and get Bruno to see Golden Compass conmigo. I seriously need to catch up on all the movies I didn't see this semester. Then on Sunday I'm going sailing. Yay!

I'll probably start tinkering with my thesis again a weeks or so from now, maybe a little later depending on how all this wisdom teeth pain goes. And Christmas. I'm expecting much video game-ness for Christmas that I'll have to partake in...you know, for research's sake. But I'm also going to be working with a friend of mine on the music for my peice over break. I'll probably get on that this weekend or sometime next week.

But now, it is sleep time. Happy holidays everyone!

Isn't he cute?

2007-12-07T12:17:00.000-05:00

I realized looking back on my older posts that I had been showing a sort of progression of Giggles but never really showed what he finally ended up looking like. So therefore, in order to finish that circle...TADA!!

Ain't he a cutie?

Website, yay!

2007-12-06T01:46:00.000-05:00

So the semester's almost over. I suppose I'm almost done with 3rd pass animation on my thesis. Sadly, I shan't be posting any screen caps or anything for awhile. However, the good news is, my website is finally up and working (for the most part)! So if you head on over there, you can find a lot of my artwork and animations from the past four years that I'm too lazy to post here. Maybe you'll even find some blend shapes tests for my thesis. So head on over to www.jessicalozano.com

In other news, I think I'll try and update a bit more from now on. Let you know how things are going. I think they're going well. Yay!

woohoo blendshapes.

2007-09-21T20:02:00.000-05:00

I haven't updated in awhile. So yea...I've been doing blend shapes. Not really fun. So here's how I make it fun.

Yea...his hair kind of intersect his forehead when he's this enraged...guess I'll fix that with some hair blends...

More Giggles

2007-07-25T13:24:00.000-05:00

He has hair now! Woohoo!

So in the next couple days I'm going to start working more on Smooch's head and my environment - I have to work on the background and I might start working on textures.

I started playing around with nCloth, and it seems really cool - but I can't for the life of me figure out how to actually put it to use. Dynamics just confuse me. I think I'm gonna keep working with it, see if I can figure it out. Otherwise, onto Plan B.

Environment Update

2007-07-08T15:36:00.000-05:00

I've been working a lot my thesis, and my enviornment has...evolved. I'm much happier with how its going, now I just have to decide what to do for the background. Here's some shots of what's going on so far.

Other than that, I've worked some on my characters - Giggles's head is coming along well, and I've done some work on their bodies. More on that later.

Thesis-ness!

2007-05-13T19:14:00.000-05:00

My environment for thesis...a happy, safe little playground...or is it?

Character designs. Their names are Smooch and Giggles.