Liz Skaggs Sketchblog

info animation

2012-01-20T14:14:00.000-08:00

little infomative animation I did for mobile advertising

Flash Bgs

2011-10-21T08:43:00.000-07:00

flash bgs from work and personal stuff
i like the pretty toast. hehee

penguins!

2011-10-21T08:27:00.000-07:00

quick illustration test of penguins, in flash.

3 years later

2011-09-28T10:33:00.000-07:00

three years later. Im still clumsy, shes still sweet.

The Last Thread - Whole movie

2011-08-09T15:15:00.000-07:00

My short from 2 yrs ago. festival circuit is done so now its online. the whole 6 mins of it. whoop dee doo.

space elephant!!

2011-08-01T18:52:00.000-07:00

meh.. whatever.

A little test

2011-07-29T15:21:00.000-07:00

quick little animation test I did. That's it. no more no less : )

Pictureka!

2011-07-21T16:53:00.000-07:00

I created 120 something of these for the show Pictureka! on the hub network. We won an emmy nomination for the animation and design in the show - but sadly no second season. ah well.

doodling

2011-07-13T18:31:00.001-07:00

just doodling.. dance party wooo!

a history of logging

2011-07-11T19:17:00.000-07:00

5 min animated intro for a documentary

little bit o flash games

2011-07-11T17:35:00.000-07:00

some animation I created for an ubisoft title that just never quite made it.
characters designed by anthony jones.

Octopus lounge

2011-05-08T18:08:00.000-07:00

dont ask me why... because I dont know. but who can resist an octopus with a martini?

Dinosaurs!

2011-03-30T14:10:00.000-07:00

Everyone likes to draw dinosaurs, right?... Here's my little dino buddies

Fun Time !!

2011-02-21T17:50:00.000-08:00

an animation I created for my wife... yes Im that obnoxious in real life.

WD Commercial

2011-02-21T17:47:00.000-08:00

This is a WD hard drive commercial I worked on. I animated the raptor stuff, created a 3d layout and camera/object animation from a few rough boards.

the best 2 yrs ever. (клубничка и я)

2010-09-04T20:55:00.000-07:00

the best two years ever were the last two year I spent with "my sunshine".. "моя клубничка"... моя, моя, моя.... cupcake!! I decided to make her a card... and then I thought, Im an animator ... I should make her a moving card!!! yaa that'd be cool.

Cankered and cursed

2010-09-04T19:38:00.000-07:00

Scenes from Todd Dejongs lovely short film: Cankered and Cursed , That I worked on
My job: Breakdown animation, inbetweening, cleanup, color.

The Last Thread Excerpt

2010-03-09T20:39:00.000-08:00

"The Last Thread" is currently touring aaaaaallllll over the world. hoorah. Ill post the whole thing summer 2010 when were done mailing it all over creation.
So Far:
Auburn Intntl. Festival for Children, Australia.
Bradford animation festival, UK (panoramic)
LA Childrens film festival, US.
GIRAF Animation Festival , Cananda. - Honoroable Mention, International Touring Package selection
BUFF Int. Film Festival, Sweden.
ANIFEST Int. Animation Festval, Czech Republic Official Selection.
FIlm Festival Zlin 2010 - Czech Republic Official selection
Tindirindis International Animated Film Festival 2009, Lithuania- Official Selection
Festival Tofuzi 2010-Batumi, Georgia - Official selection
animasyros 3.0, Greece - Official selection
Red Stick International Animation Festival 2010, U.S. - Official Selection
Aniwow 2010, Beijing China- Competition Finalist Selection

Inky!

2010-03-09T18:49:00.000-08:00

See. More messy paper. Im doing it again. no one can stop me.. im on a ... "rampaperage". that was a bad pun i admit. well whatever just look at the squid.
haha. look at him. hes so confused...ah cephalopods.

Sketchy

2010-03-09T18:45:00.000-08:00

Im supposed to write something here.. well.. uh... im liking this messy paper thing here, it covers my mistakes. and makes the atmosphere interesting without any work. not very romantic when i put it that way...hmmm.....
whatever, Im doin it. You cant stop me.

the season for love..

2009-10-13T20:59:00.000-07:00

makin out sure is nice...

mmmm grape jelly

2009-10-13T20:52:00.000-07:00

It a Jellyfish! The chicken of the sea!!! ....err.... maybe not, but whatever they're still real neat.

Lip sync

2009-10-03T13:40:00.000-07:00

Forged from photoshop

2009-09-18T22:02:00.000-07:00

I was looking at willie real when i did the sketch for this and thinking about shapes and how cool his are and how mine usually are... well.. boring. this is something i really dont think about enough. after that i probably got tired of thinking about shapes and started thinking about how starfish reproduce.. or something. uh... anyways i was looking at sarah mensinga i think when i started painting it. This is prolly the coolest cool daddy i know.....or at least the most fun to draw. I think the shapes are ok.. and im pretty sure starfish reproduce asexually.

pencil test

2009-05-15T14:20:00.000-07:00

pencil test from "the last thread"

Samiches!!

2009-05-15T14:04:00.001-07:00

BELKA I STRELKA

2009-05-15T13:56:00.000-07:00

scenes from russia's feature production "zvezdnye sobaki belka i strelka"

slurptopus!!!

2009-01-30T17:50:00.000-08:00

about 30 minutes ago, someone asked me if cephalopods like smoothies.... The answer is yes.

not exactly cerberus

2009-01-24T13:28:00.000-08:00

I did this for an art test...and I kinda like it..so im posting it. What?

The Last Thread. work in progress.

2009-01-08T13:59:00.000-08:00

The Story reel for the up and coming short film by yours truly.
All of the key animation and layout is done...Now come breakdowns and in betweens!!! so exciting ive been waiting to animate this thing for so long, in fact animating this character is a huge reason for even making the film :) yeah any who ill hopefully have this thing finished by may. hopefully.

Octopus

2008-08-19T20:34:00.000-07:00

Octopi. I've always had a fascination with them. they're like hybrid of an underwater flower and a deadly spider... well, if spiders had prehensile arms, that is. anywho, i was watching some video reference of octopi again, and im just always confounded by the way they move...so creepy, and yet... attractive

Cycles!

2008-08-07T15:39:00.000-07:00

some walk cycles done with a rig built by my good man, Tovo Andriamampionona.
his lovely work with dynamic feathers simply makes me look good....

24 hours...you bastard!

2008-08-07T15:18:00.000-07:00

I finished animation on this dialogue test in 24 hours. I took one day for reference video, and studying those, and one day after for, minor tweeking such as adjusting finger motions in the graph editor, and pushing head and facial those extra little bits.

Yakety Yak...

2008-08-07T13:19:00.000-07:00

These are character tests for a film I've been working on. even though there is no dialogue in the film, I found that using them in a dialogue test provided a unique opportunity to take these characters out of context. working this way allowed me to expand more on their personalities, as well as explore construction and new possibilities with such an unconventional character.

Color Study!

2008-07-17T21:58:00.000-07:00

So i am absolutly color retarded. but I had this idea that the master copy technique could be used on JUST color. i.e taking my own drawing and applying the color palette from another illustration. so i started with some illustrations from bengal and josh middleton with similar palettes, and found in much easier to spread my wings afterward. this is the finished product.

More Recent

2008-07-16T01:41:00.000-07:00

K, Im done dumping all the old stuff on this blog. heres two new ones

spring 08

2008-07-16T01:27:00.000-07:00

and yet another dump. these are from the spring 08 sketchbook. ah, the semester that I, aching and desperate, found love at the bottom of a col-erase pencil...

Fun with people's heads.

2008-07-16T01:23:00.000-07:00

2008-07-16T01:18:00.000-07:00

and digital figure paintings...

Gesures!

2008-07-16T01:10:00.000-07:00

here 's dumping a buncha charcoal gestures for y'all....

first post

2008-07-14T22:13:00.000-07:00

I promised myself I'd start a sketch blog this summer....so here it is, the first post. this is an old sketch that I've colored in photoshop... you all know, the standard process - scan, multiply, blah blah blah. well whatever, i think its pretty.