Rachel Hollenbeck

Daily Sketch_09-27-11

rachel — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 04:44:41 +0000

Wanted to add my friend Shane in a sketch. So I decided to do a play on a J Scott Campbell sketch for the Evil Dead comic. However, my friend came out looking like he is on steroids!!!

Daily Sketch_09-20-11

rachel — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 19:08:33 +0000

One of my favorite artists of all time is J Scott Campbell. He is one of the best comic artist in the industry. Today I was flipping through some of this artwork work and stumbled upon an image of Alice in Wonderland. I decided for my quick daily sketch to draw Alice…

Daily Sketch_09-19-11

rachel — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 19:01:59 +0000

Feeling uninspired today…Did a quick 10 minute sketch out of the first thing that popped into mind….

Daily Sketch_09-16-11

rachel — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:57:29 +0000

In anticipation of “The Walking Dead” Season 2, I did a quick zombie sketch…

Daily Sketch_09-15-11

rachel — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:02:44 +0000

Lately, I’ve been reading Tom Bancroft’s blog. He’s been my primary inspiration for doing daily sketches.

I’ve used one of his sketches as inspiration for my daily sketch. I love her expression. I wasn’t satisfied with just line art, so I decided to color in illustrator as well… Enjoy:)

Simba_Artwork

rachel — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 21:51:43 +0000

Work is a little slow today. So I traced my “Daily Sketch” with Illustrator. Going to to print out for my son to color;)

Daily Sketch_09-12-11

rachel — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:39:29 +0000

In the spirit of the re-release of “The Lion King” to theaters. I’ve done a quick sketch of “Simba”.

The Lion King was one of my favorite 2D movies from Disney. So looking forward to taking my son…

Vandal_Character Development

rachel — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:22:34 +0000

A few people from work have decided to come together on a personal project. It’s great to get started on a project outside of work. Love the creative process of developing a story.

While the director, Cody Cisneros, is working on the story concept I was tasked to model the lead character. Janet Kim developed several great concepts for the character design.

Below is the first character concepts created. After much thought Cody decided he wanted the clothing to be less form fitting and the characters face to have a more realistic feel.

So Janet came up with another concept which fits more line with the director’s vision.

However, he still wasn’t quite sure of the face. During a conversation Cody and I were talking about his sister coming to town.Then all of sudden it hit him. We should use his sister’s face as reference for the character. He gave me two images start the modeling process.

When I usually start a modeling project I study the image and visually plan out my edge loop flow. I sometimes draw it out while other times I see it in my head. For this character I decided to do both. I started drawing out my edge loops but, decided to get started. Sometimes I find if you over think the process it doesn’t come together organically.

So early this morning around 2pm ( couldn’t sleep my son kicking me …) I started modeling the face. Some people box model. But for me poly by poly modeling is faster and allows me to see the shape of the character. After about 1.5 hours the face is nearly laid out. My plans are to have it completed in less than a week.

A Short Love Story

rachel — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 07:11:41 +0000

It’s extremely difficult to successfully pull off the use of mixed mediums in a production. I believe Carlos Lascano seamlessly accomplished this. Not only did he use telling camera movements in After Effects, but Carlos used different textures throughout to set different moods as the characters aged. Beautiful storytelling!

Disney/Pixar Brave_ Trailer

rachel — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:10:06 +0000

I’m extremely excited for the next Disney/Pixar joint venture. Mostly because it contains the first female director (even though she was replaced later by a male director) and has a lead female character.

The character is not your usual blond blue-eye princess. She’s wild with firery red curly hair. Her eyes are wide set apart which doesn’t follow the standard format of beauty. I have a feeling little girls every where will fall in love with this character.