NICOLE GALINATO

So I recently obtained a tablet and therefore am going to try updating works and processes more often as they come up, starting with this year's Christmas with my family. Usually we get the tree, decorate and the whole shebang, but this year, due to having the first holiday break with no deadlines over my head and nothing that needed to be done, (and therefore a very unnerving lull in work) I decided I'd make the tree and décor. How does one make a tree you ask? With things around the house of course. I started with the initial idea of using aluminum wire and some of the several boxes of Bendaroos (colored wax covered string sticks) we needed to use up. Then, after seeing I didn't quite have enough wire to build what would look like a real tree with branches and all, I had to change my strategy and make the bendaroos cover more ground while considering my other limited supplies, and keeping design in mind. I then realized the best use of wire was the spiral cone,

Polaris from nicole galinato on Vimeo .

OMEGA from nicole galinato on Vimeo .

"Glass" - Photoshop + Wacom tablet This is a Photoshop painting exercise I did for fun to create a photorealistic image of a drinking glass. It was interesting working from reference with the negative space and working with the lighter colors on the dark background. It was surprising while I was working on it to see how depending on where and how sharp or dull certain highlights were, it could either successfully look like plastic or glass. I was going for the latter.

A little while back I decided I wanted to do a series of small projects based on the idea of a hoverboard racing game out in space, starting with some test animations, renders, and potentially models for a race track, because we all need a little modeling practice here and there. test render for lighting and environment. skydome environment test for background and lighting blocking animation for part 1 of starting line animation blocking for throwing the board finished start animation I'll be working on other elements of this idea further down the line.

Two hand drawn animations from the depths of 2010-11 on paper, about paper. Oh, the irony.

"Mornings" Pen and paper, colored in Photoshop A self portrait perhaps? This was an illustration I did in the style of one of my favorite artists, Rob Guillory. It's been a while since I traditionally inked something like this, so it was rather refreshing after all the straight computer work I've been doing lately.

From June 2011 A motion graphics animated story based off of the "Home Movies" episode of the animated series Rugrats. This was a lot of fun to work on, creating the assets by hand, and also being in a directing position with three actors of vastly different ages.