http://www.liannecruz.com/blog An animation and artwork portfolio site Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:07:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ...is what my grandmother calls my 2 sisters and I. The 3 of us are very close, and they mean the world to me. :) This past weekend was my youngest sister's high school graduation, and I wanted to make some gift art of the 3 of us (+ our family ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lcruz/~4/2lMao1bQMhI" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lcruz/~3/2lMao1bQMhI/ http://www.liannecruz.com/blog/2009/06/24/tres-marias/ "As hard as it is for us to see sometimes, we all exist within the realm of possibility. Most of the limits are of our own world’s devising. And yet, every day we each do so many things that were once impossible to us." - The Realm of Possibility, David Levithan My sister introduced me to ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lcruz/~4/MPrCj2t5iz8" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lcruz/~3/MPrCj2t5iz8/ http://www.liannecruz.com/blog/2009/04/20/if-impossibility/ I was accepted for the Fall 2009 term of Animation Mentor!!! I can't wait to learn from some amazing animators and meet awesome people. I'll need to brush up on my Maya this summer. :D On another note, I've updated my artblog under the hood, with a more modern ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lcruz/~4/931RCCuG2A4" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lcruz/~3/931RCCuG2A4/ http://www.liannecruz.com/blog/2009/04/15/yay/ The other weekend, my boyfriend and I took a trip down to Atlanta to visit the Georgia Aquarium. The place was ginormous! They had everything from whale sharks to otters. I did some gesture drawings of the fish there using my pen. Later, I water colored them while waiting for ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lcruz/~4/LALhMVjYCyw" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lcruz/~3/LALhMVjYCyw/ http://www.liannecruz.com/blog/2009/04/11/georgia-aquarium/ Last night, my family rented the movie "Let the Right One In", a Swedish film about a 12 year old boy who befriends a vampire. It was a bittersweet, yet beautiful story, reminded me of "Pan's Labyrinth". The Illustration Friday word this week really held true for Oskar and Eli, ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lcruz/~4/JzHnXvNiRXE" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lcruz/~3/JzHnXvNiRXE/ http://www.liannecruz.com/blog/2009/04/10/if-fleeting/ I've been traveling all over the place this past month, but I've finally compiled some notes from one of my trips: the Game Developers' Conference 2009! I went with my company to help run the recruiting booth and attend classes there, and it was a blast. The following are impressions ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lcruz/~4/36T18KyfFns" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lcruz/~3/36T18KyfFns/ http://www.liannecruz.com/blog/2009/04/09/gdc-2009/ Working on the computer all day makes me miss sketching immensely, which is why I am going to try to participate again in Illustration Friday. For the topic, "Legendary", I decided to go a more literal route with a David/Goliath theme. I love stories where the heroes, regardless of how ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lcruz/~4/oto4t5KJARo" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lcruz/~3/oto4t5KJARo/ http://www.liannecruz.com/blog/2009/03/17/if-legendary/ I was planning to work intently on this, this past President's Day weekend, but I caught a pretty bad coughing bug. Since I can't seem to sleep due to my coughing, I decided to post this really quick. I based this off of the sketches I drew a little ways ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lcruz/~4/GkSk3AhYmg0" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lcruz/~3/GkSk3AhYmg0/ http://www.liannecruz.com/blog/2009/02/17/koff-koff-runvault-wip-blocking-koff/ (Screenshot taken from Gamespot). Now that we're mostly wrapped up on my company's project: Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard, our publisher has been sending out gameplay videos and screenshots to the press. One of the videos released is one of the bosses I've worked on in the project, ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lcruz/~4/l0d5qvTmXNA" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lcruz/~3/l0d5qvTmXNA/ http://www.liannecruz.com/blog/2009/01/27/eat-lead/ Crunch is finally over at the office, so I can return to learning and doing more personal animations. :D Above is a sketch done last week during a concert at a local music venue. I was a little heavy handed with the purple, something I will need to take into ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lcruz/~4/gUUdDwFttM4" height="1" width="1"/> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lcruz/~3/gUUdDwFttM4/ http://www.liannecruz.com/blog/2009/01/24/back-regularly-scheduled-program/