The Art of Danielle Mahaffey

"Hill Side Cow" - A Few Layouts

2012-01-21T11:09:00.000-08:00

Some painted layouts from my short film. The color scheme progresses over time with the weather changing.

"Hill Side Cow" - Test Scene

2012-01-18T16:03:00.000-08:00

Character Colour Exploration

2012-01-11T15:56:00.000-08:00

Just some minor colour exploration for the characters in my film. It's hard trying to find the right colours that compliment the characters, the backgrounds and one another. Just roughly tweaking the colours.

Mermaids

2011-12-19T16:29:00.000-08:00

Some personal art I've been working on. Ariel from The Little Mermaid with all her sisters.

"Hill Side Cow" - Animatic

2011-12-12T17:03:00.001-08:00

What My Characters Look Like On The Inside

2011-12-04T20:40:00.000-08:00

Playing around with the characters in my 4th year film. Worked out some skeletons on them, the peg legged cow was a bit of a challenge because she doesn't have normal cow legs.

The Hippies

2011-11-23T19:39:00.001-08:00

Part of my 4th year life drawing portfolio. Used watercolour, ink and copic markers.

The Cowboys

2011-11-23T19:36:00.001-08:00

Part of my 4th year life drawing portfolio. Used both black and brown pen and ink.

The King and Queen

2011-11-23T19:34:00.001-08:00

Part of my 4th year life drawing portfolio. Used pen and ink and copic markers.

"Hill Side Cow" - Working Leica

2011-11-17T16:05:00.000-08:00

This is my working leica for my short film, "Hill Side Cows". It has my rough posing and rough layouts added to it.

"Hill Side Cow" - Locations

2011-11-12T09:10:00.000-08:00

Very rough preliminary location drawings of the farm in my short story. Working out barn and cloud ideas.

"Hill Side Cow" - Cow

2011-11-12T09:04:00.001-08:00

These are a few of the sketches and ideas I had for the hill side cow character in my short film "Hill Side Cow". The first design ended up being the design for the cow toy in the film. The main cow went form having two legs shorter then the others, to having a peg leg.

"Hill Side Cow" - Little Girl

2011-11-12T09:00:00.000-08:00

These are a few working designs of the "little girl" character that's in my fourth year short film project. My short 1 minute film is called "Hill Side Cow".

Dog Scene from "Big Turtle"

2011-09-11T06:40:00.000-07:00

This was the rough animation for the dog that I did. I brought this animation into clean up but it's pretty long. This was part of the film I worked on for co-op.

Girl Scene from "Big Turtle"

2011-09-09T07:30:00.000-07:00

This was a scene from the film I did for my co-op this summer. This was one of my final rough passes before I took in to clean up, that's why it's so clean. There is dialogue and at the end of the animation the water was supposed to clear and the girls' reflection appears, however the water was done in 3D so I just used a still frame as a place holder.

Grandma Designs from "Big Turtle"

2011-09-07T14:45:00.000-07:00

These are some concept drawings I did of the grandma character that was in the co-op film I worked on. The top image are stills from a test animation.

The Final Dog from "Big Turtle"

2011-09-07T14:41:00.001-07:00

These were the final model sheets for the puppy that I worked on. There's a scale reference of a squirrel that is on the dog's back.

The Rough Dog from "Big Turtle"

2011-09-07T14:36:00.000-07:00

This was one of the characters I helped design for the co-op film I worked on this summer. He's a puppy of a very specific, extinct Canadian breed of dog. I also got to animate the little fella.

Octo-Girl

2011-01-10T17:55:00.000-08:00

Just a doddle that I decided to colour. I like the line-less look of it. Don't know why there's an octopus on her head...why not.

Jungle Layout Coloured

2010-12-18T13:30:00.000-08:00

This is my layout that I used for my action analysis assignment. I colored it in Photoshop and then added the camera moves in the action analysis using After Effects.

"Trolls Exist"

2010-12-18T13:23:00.000-08:00

Here's my Maya project for the thinking character. I took an existing model and rig and animated it to a piece of "How to Train Your Dragon", along with the lip sync. P.S. See that movie.

Stop Motion Walk

2010-12-18T13:18:00.001-08:00

This was my puppet walk assignment for stop motion class, which is an awesome class. I did two takes of the walk and this was the better of the two. Hopefully I'll be able to do some more with stop motion. It's really fun.

Action Analysis - Little Girl Swings

2010-12-18T13:15:00.000-08:00

This is my action analysis assignment that took all semester. Right up until the last day of classes. The project included creating a layout with camera moves, coloring that layout, having colored animation (jump and grab) and include dialogue. I think it turned out pretty good.

Royal Drawings from 3rd Year

2010-11-10T17:25:00.000-08:00

Year three of Royal Winter Fair drawings. This year I was trying some watercolour. It's harder than it looks. These four were my favourite.

"Stealin's Not Good"

2010-10-21T16:49:00.000-07:00

Another late animation post from second year. One of the final assignments to do a human lip sync. I chose a line from Talladega Nights. Thanks Ricky Bobby.

"Bunk, Bunk I Say"

2010-10-21T16:38:00.000-07:00

This is another animation assignment from year two. I'm a little late on the posting. It was one of out last assignments. We took an audio clip and basically animated it with a muzzle. I of course chose a line from Professor Farnsworth from Futurama.

Victorian Line Up

2010-10-21T16:28:00.000-07:00

This was done my second year in animation. It was a character line up in the Victorian style of all the characters that I used in my storyboard.

Lucy

2010-10-21T15:48:00.000-07:00

Latest blog in a while. Lucy is the little girl character I'm using for our third year action analysis assignment. She's exploring and swinging on a vine.

"Juno" Lip Sync

2010-02-05T17:39:00.000-08:00

This was our first assignment from second semester. We had to pick a soundtrack and do a lip sync, just a mouth. Of course I picked the track from Juno. Enjoy my lips moving.

Chris and Amanda

2009-11-26T17:23:00.000-08:00

Another caricature of my sister Amanda and her husband Chris. She's adorable and he's got his classic Chris grin. Hope they like it.

Mom and Dad

2009-11-26T17:21:00.000-08:00

A caricature I did of my parents for our assignment. I think I really captured them...sorry mom and dad :)

Foxhound Walk

2009-03-31T16:17:00.000-07:00

This was my animal walk from a first year animation assignment. My animal was a foxhound so I made him kind of sniffing on the ground. This was the first animal I ever animated.

Hands

2008-11-20T17:08:00.000-08:00

This was done a long time ago. A first year assignment. It interesting to see my progress since then.

First Royal Drawings

2008-11-20T17:04:00.000-08:00

These were some of my first ever Royal Winter Fair drawings from first year. It`s good to look back on what I`ve done in life drawing.

Mood Painting

2008-11-20T06:28:00.000-08:00

My first attempt at our mood landscape painting assignment from first year.

Brother and Sister

2008-11-09T16:36:00.000-08:00

I love doing portraits. This one was done for my friends mom. I barely have time to do any portraits anymore but I promised her 5 more.

Skulls

2008-11-04T13:27:00.000-08:00

I found out that roommates think you're awkward if you bring home a human skull to draw. This was not fun to draw. God should have made skulls less complicated. First year life drawing.

Vertebrae

2008-10-31T12:55:00.000-07:00

So many vertebrae so little time. They're a little wonky but I think they are okay. A big one and middle one and a small one. First year life drawing.

Scapulas

2008-10-30T16:12:00.000-07:00

Everybody loves a scapula! I'm not going to lie I had to idea what it was until life drawing. But now I know and I can draw it...somewhat. First year life drawing.

Coy Fish Dragon

2008-10-30T15:37:00.000-07:00

Another tattoo done for a guy I know. He asked for a coy fish dragon and I had no idea what that was. I like how the artist made the drawing his own. The sketch is based of an Ami James tattoo that I tried to recreate.

Tiger Lillys

2008-10-30T15:35:00.001-07:00

This is a tattoo design I did for my friend. The symbol in the middle is already on her wrist. She wanted me to add the tiger lillys.