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.