Exciting news!

Last week I moved down to Los Angeles and joined Sony Pictures Animation!  I'm incredibly grateful to be working on such an amazing studio for my first job out of school.

Also

The commercial I worked on for the Brandon's Goal Foundation has been accepted into this years Student Scholarship Competition at the Society of Illustrators!  If you want to watch our commercial you can check it out here  Brandon's Goal

That's all for now!  hope to update with work from Sony soon.  

Updated my website

Hey everyone,

Sorry about the lack of updates. I'm in my final semester at SJSU and have been preoccupied with our senior projects - BUT I have had the chance to update my portfolio website with some new work. You can check it out here ( Wendelldalit.com )

 That's all for now, Hope you all have a great day.

quick sketch

Tamara is finally public!

Hey guys!

 Tamara is finally open for the public to watch!  You can check it out on my website or by going to the tamara short film website here http://www.houseboatanimation.com

Where the Wild Things Are

Hi Everyone,

I hope you are all having a great Holiday season!  I have been relaxing and spending time with family the past few days, and it is really nice to have a break from school.

Last week I finished my workshop at the Animation Collaborative.  I was taking a class with the master Dice Tsutsumi!  I have admired his work for a long time and was excited when I was accepted into his class.  He gave me and 8 other students a crash course on light and color design in film.  Our assignment was to create a color script for Maurice Sendak's beloved children story Where the Wild Things Are.


The first image is an example of how Dice would approach a color script at Pixar.  It is a chart that tracks the emotional highs and lows of the story.  We started with the 5 most important panels, and slowly filled in the in-between's.

Here are each of the individual paintings.  Some aren't as finished as others, but hopefully they are clear enough to convey my lighting idea.

And here are some of the supplemental vis dev I create the paintings. 

Here are links to my classmates blogs/websites.  They also did some incredible work with this project, and are all amazing artists!

Micah Sibert

Fernando Peque

Isaac Orloff

Naveen Selvan

Yusun Chung

Alger Tam

I could not find these guys blogs but they are great too!

Olivia Shetler

Won Sul Hyun

Light at the end of the tunnel!

The fall semester is almost over, I can't believe how fast time goes by!  Here are a few concept pieces I've done for class.  This is going to be a short film project,  hopefully we will jump into production next semester.

Painting studies

Here are some of the most successful studies I've done over the past few weeks.  These exercises are definitely improving my painting - there is so much to be learned from observational painting that I feel like it is something we need to do on a daily basis.

sketch

Back from CTN!

CTN was such an incredible experience.  I was fortunate enough to be picked to showcase my work at the Disney Sponsored table!   It was such an amazing opportunity to meet new people, and to share my work with the rest of the convention.

I have made a lot of new friends, and have met such incredible artists!  There is so much talent out there - I am really lucky to be a part of this community.   It feels really great to see the hard work pay off.  I want to thank everyone who stopped by to say hello, and all of my friends who helped me organize my table!

 I always leave the convention feeling inspired, and ready to work!  See you next year!

Some Stuff

I am currently taking a class at Animation Collaborative with the master Dice Tsutsumi.  It's an incredibly humbling experience, and I'm really fortunate to have the opportunity to learn from one of the best!

One of the weekly painting exercises Dice assigns us.  This was painted over a layout drawing from Spirited Away.

We are just getting into the main project for the course, which is to create a color script for Where the Wild Things Are. 

 

First Senior Project!

Hey Everyone,

We just wrapped our first assignment in the BFA class.  The project was to develop concept work for a video game about Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla.   We were lucky enough to have the amazingly talented Dela Longfish, and Jeff Sengali direct our first assignment.  It was a great opportunity to learn from these guys, and get their feedback on our work.

I recently updated my website with the rest of the artwork; so check it out if you are interested!

Haven't updated in a while!

Hey everyone,

I have been really busy the past few weeks, and have unfortunately neglected my blog haha.  I'm feeling a little burnt out, but I also think that I'm slowly improving as an artist - at least I hope so.

Here are a few studies that I've done the past few days.  The last painting is from a Spirited Away layout, which was done as a painting exercise.

Brandon's Goal

Hey everyone,

I just wrapped a short 30sec commercial for the Brandon's Goal Foundation.  It's going to be playing this month for children's cancer awareness month.  I don't know if it will be on TV, or just the local channels the foundation is based in (seattle) but here is some of the artwork I produced for the short.

I'm still waiting to hear back from the foundation, but I might be able to post the commercial on my website, so keep an eye out!

The Buffalo Gang is Back

I'm currently going over and revising my portfolio, and I decided to come back to this piece to finish it.  I posted it a while back and haven't touched it since.  I'll probably come back to this again and fix some things, but for now I'm going to move on.