Cambient Productions

More Cheese, Please.

2009-12-26T18:29:00.000-08:00

If you don't know what this first sketch is about (I cropped it, so you shouldn't), then you can figure it out by looking at the second one. They're both about the same thing.
I'm a silly girl :3

Pictures I used in the second image are copyright BBC

Animation! (Finally!)

2009-12-17T23:13:00.000-08:00

Curvy Person from Cristina Sam Amin on Vimeo.

Some bit of animation for my class. The cat in the background is important, though I didn't make it nearly noticeable. I did this over the course of one day, and it was extremely pleasant...though I do wish I'd worked on it longer.

A Perspective Assignment

2009-11-23T13:27:00.000-08:00

Her thumb is on backwards. Oops.

Hardcore Bozo!

2009-11-04T23:50:00.000-08:00

The storyboarding assignment from this week! Rather fun, though somewhat rushed...I kept going back and forth on what I really wanted to do. I certainly enjoyed it, though.

Color and Design Pan

2009-12-15T18:38:00.001-08:00

One of our final projects for Color and Design: a 60-inch wide, 10-inch high painting composed of two 30-by-10 strips of illustration board. I had plenty of fun with this--we were allowed to use whatever means we wished, which meant we didn't necessarily have to do fancy painting. I'm particular to washes and ink--nice, basic stuff--so that's what I went with. I didn't spend as much time as I wanted to getting all the grays nice and distinct in shade, and I forgot to do that before scanning, so some of the grays meld together. Nrrgh.

The 'pan' is of my lonely electron fellow peering out into a subatomic world populated by particles and other worlds which he is absolutely denied. He has no company.

Here's the rough sketch!

(You can click on any of these to make them larger).

Completed Sculpture

2009-12-15T18:29:00.000-08:00

He's a little rough around the edges, and his paint job is rather plain, but hey--this is what I got. I'm rather pleased...Next time I sculpt I hope to have more time, and certainly, to be more adventurous.

His drawn-on face looks really silly, but I didn't have any more yellow paint to cover it with. Nrrrr. All the same, this is the electron fellow. He's holding the rag which he uses to scrub orbital walls with (i.e.: toilet paper).

Katelyn bought me the base...when she got it for me, she was under the impression that my electron was much larger and bought the largest base Michael's carried. It worked out though...since he's a sad, lonely electron, I just painted it black and tossed him off to one side of it. Ta-da!

Thumbnails with In-Progress Animatic

2009-12-10T00:10:00.000-08:00

How Does It Work? In-Progress Animatic from Cristina Sam Amin on Vimeo.

The timing's too even....uhhhhhhggg. Also, I haven't figured out a proper ending yet, so I've just tossed something in for the time being.

Yeap

2009-10-11T17:46:00.001-07:00

These things again! I do love me my subatomic particles...

I'm Getting Lazy

2009-05-09T11:14:00.005-07:00

15 min.

I need to shake up my figure drawing practices...these are startin' to look a bit boring.

Oh, and tomorrow I turn 18. Huh.

Cheeeese

2009-06-18T07:17:00.013-07:00

Doodling at one o'clock in the morning.

Preview!

2009-12-14T19:32:00.000-08:00

My electron fellow! He's already painted and everything, but he's in my dorm and I don't have photos of him all done. I turn 'im in tomorrow.

Sunset

2009-12-13T16:22:00.000-08:00

With fake shadows. I'm having trouble figuring out the perspective for the shadows on the larger image, so I'll just print it out plain and add them in pencil... I'm trying to learn how to color in Photoshop, so I decided to give it a shot for this week's Perspective assignment.

Also: ridiculous colors.

I did this similar sketch back in June (the 5th, to be exact--so long ago!). Oh, MS Paint.

48-Hour Progress

2009-11-19T23:28:00.003-08:00

Night from Cristina Sam Amin on Vimeo.

I WILL FINISH THIS. IT WILL BE FINISHED. But for now my dad and mom want to see (hi, guys!).

(I also only worked on it for less than a day. Oops.)

Silly Figures!

2009-12-11T15:49:00.001-08:00

Silly figure drawings from today.

It's Vincent!

2009-12-11T12:25:00.000-08:00

"INCONCLUSIVE."

Leo Hobaica

2009-10-23T16:36:00.000-07:00

Also, here are some cut-out "figure drawings" of Leo Hobaica. He posed for us during class, and I never uploaded the results. I found them today and figured, why not.

I ran out of room in which to finish his back foot...so it's flat...

Cuts

2009-12-10T16:14:00.000-08:00

A figure drawing from today! Quite fun. I like drawing.

It's Been Awhile!

2009-08-24T17:00:00.005-07:00

I offered to do a few things for a scholarship Vincent was working on...here's what I made! Four puppets: one of Elizabeth Bennett, one of Mr. Darcy, and the last two of fish mariachi-men. They were really plenty of fun to make!

(PS: I officially have the same number of fingers on ONE HAND as I do days until I leave for California!)

Darcy 'n' 'Liza from Cristina Sam Amin on Vimeo.

Here one of the things I did: those two puppets--ANIMATED! Vincent rigged them and I animated them, in AfterEffects. In the final, the little white speck that flies outta Darcy's head when he's kicked back is not there.

A Question...

2009-12-07T12:01:00.003-08:00

After an electron-positron pair is produced by a high-energy photon hitting the nucleus of an atom, is it possible for the produced positron to annihilate with a bound electron from the very same atom it was produced in? In this situation, what would happen to the produced electron--would it be captured by the atom to replace the lost electron?

Thumbnailin' My First-Year Film

2009-12-09T02:27:00.000-08:00

Ooooooooh yeeah. This is a good time.

Panoramic Cut-Out--Film Editing

2009-11-07T13:08:00.008-08:00

Thumbnail

Final

Click either to full-view!

60" x 9", cut-out of five 12" x 9" sheets of black paper

The Bunny King

2009-12-03T16:11:00.002-08:00

These last three are short poses...2 minutes each, I think.

Figure drawing is so much fun!

Contact at CalArts!

2009-09-10T04:12:00.000-07:00

Hello! So, as many of you know, I have now moved to California for college. I am attending the California Institute of the Arts for Character Animation. It has been requested by many people that I post my contact information for while I am there.

This is my new address, at which I am able to recieve mail:

Cristina Amin
AP-18
California Institute of the Arts
24700 McBean Parkway
Valencia, CA 91355-2340

My Twitter account might see plenty of use as well:

http://twitter.com/Cambienta

CSSSA!

2008-07-13T05:02:00.001-07:00

Well, friends. I'm at CSSSA. I'm having a really great time and meeting some really awsome people--they all know what I'm talking about and geek right along with me. It's pretty great :D Like, last night we were just hanging out iwatching the Pixar Shorts DVD, and then we watched the Short History, and everyone was into it! It so intimidating how crazy passionate and super talented these people are, but I'm ready to learn from them and work with them!
Some of you were wondering how to contact me, so here it is! I'm available for calls/text messages in the morning and in the evening--the only times my phone are on is from 7.30 to 8.30 AM California time--that would be 10.30 to 11.30 Miami time. Also, at night from 8.00 PM to 10.30 PM (that's 11 PM to 1.30 AM for you guys). If you really want to call, that is, but I'd rather a text message or a Facebook message because I don't want to be dragging around my phone chatting on it.
Also, you can send me mail! I'd prefer this because I LOVE recieving mail!!! Here's the address if you want to scribble a letter on a sheet of paper and send it over:
CSSSA-InnerSpark, Cristina Amin, Room 313
California Institute of the Arts
24700 McBean Parkway
Valencia, CA 91355

I hope you all are having a great time over in Miami :) I love you all, and I'll see you again in August!

Monday, Monday, Monday!

2009-11-30T15:26:00.002-08:00

Today was difficult! I couldn't get "in the groove" during Illustration with Mahoney. Here are two short-pose offerings. ALSO, there was a power outage during class today! We all got out half-an-hour early. That was nice.

I celebrated Thanksgiving with Vincent up in Sacramento. It was absolutely lovely, and I had such a splendid time (though I do miss my family). Here's a picture of the two of us swathed in a blanket, in the TV room of his father's house. It was mighty chilly while we were there.