Elise is a Trekkie!

My second-last week as an intern is over! I'm excited for the weekend (I'm gonna go watch the new
Trek movie!) but I'm also very sad that my time here is almost over.

I did more work on the background characters for Todd. Not much new to report, it's mostly been
revision work. There was some confusion about whether one background character was supposed to
be wearing clothes or not. After some debate, it was agreed that he would be naked. I had to
re-pose everyone around him to censor him, which was kind of tedious, but also pretty funny.

Earl survived last week's mystery plant massacre and is growing a new leaf to celebrate. He is
tall and wise now.

Elise Gets a Free Coffee but Loses a Cintiq

I had to give up my Cintiq this week because a full-time employee needed it. I miss it
already, but I have an Intuos now, which works pretty well. Also, as a consolation prize
I got a voucher for a free coffee, which I haven't redeemed yet.

Today we got to see an extended Todd teaser that's going to air at a festival soon. It was
really exciting, I thought it looked great! I feel very lucky to be a part of this project,
albeit a very small part!

There's less than a month left of interning for me. I'm going to miss Earl. I have so many
life lessons to teach him before I leave.

A Post From the Past, Elise Style.

Today was the busiest day yet!

Each of the interns got assigned a handful of scenes for the Can Can project. We had to finish
them by the end of this week. I totally misjudged my time and only had one and a half
scenes done on Thursday, with 2 more due the next day. So I came in super super early this
morning and worked nonstop all day. I haven't left my chair since 7:30 this morning, but I'm
happy to say that I got it all done! This week was a valuable and stressful lesson in time
management.

Not much else to report, studio-wise. We're going out for dinner tonight, which should be cool.
All I've eaten today is coffee, so I'm pretty stoked to get some actual food.

Earl is looking great. He's taller than his grow-light now. Below is a terribly-photoshopped

picture of him getting his dunk on. It's been a long day.

Elise Makes Ostriches Dance

I did a lot of animating this week. I was assigned to pose out a bunch of different characters for a dance sequence. It was very challenging! I handled 3 pirates that wouldn't dance in sync before being brought to my knees by an ostrich rig. Ostriches aren't really built for dance. I tried so hard to make it look not-weird. I hope it worked.

Someone (Joel possibly?) brought in a really neat character design book yesterday. Looking at
it was super inspiring! I should really do more character stuff in my spare time.

My child Earl is growing a 13th leaf, and I personally feel it's his best work yet. Erin put a
tiny plastic elephant in his pot a few hours ago. The two of them are getting along well so far.

Elise and the Joys of Raising a Plant!

This week started pretty busy, but it's kind of slowed down now.

I had a bunch of assignments earlier this week. A new shot involving Demon Guy was added to the animatic, and it required a new build, so I roughed that out. After that there was a bunch of prop stuff, and then I got to do some hand-drawn keyframes of a guy's face melting off, which was awesome. A pretty successful week, all in all. At this point everything on my to-do list is either done or awaiting review, so I've been messing around in Photoshop and listening to 80s music to kill time. (sorry boss!)

A bunch of us in the studio went for ice cream today! Super delicious, and it's fun to hang out with the coworkers! I was gonna order lemon ice cream but I panicked and went for vanilla instead. Still good though!

Aside from studio stuff, I'm almost all moved in to my apartment now! My old roomies came by for a visit. They brought me a horrible toy truck to add to my growing collection of horrible toy trucks.

Earl's new leaf is looking great, and he's hard at work growing another one. This means he has 12 whole leaves now, so he's basically an adult. Erin and I are unsure what to do about his dead bits, we might have to amputate him in the near future. Stay tuned.

Elise and Earl Forever

Intern Elise again. Can't believe it's already been 3 weeks here!

I had a lot of assignments this week. There were more demon-related revisions to do, and on top of that I did some prop designing and flashifying. It was fun, I really enjoy getting to try a bunch of different things! I'm doing some photoshop painting right now, a super-chill way to cap off the week. I forgot how much I like digital painting, I should do it more often!

The plant on my desk looks much more alive lately, which is pretty cool. Erin called him Earl the other day, it's a better name than anything I've thought up, so I guess that's his name now. When he gets older I'm going to teach him sports.

That's about it!