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Animations for Cindee

Tiffany — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 23:58:32 +0000

I’ve recently worked on two short intro animations for my good friend Cindee. These are less than ten seconds long and were made to play at the beginning of her youtube videos. One of them is called “Cindee’s Guide to Life” and the second one is called “Cindee’s Guide to Beauty and Style”. You can check out both of those intros I made down below. They’re short and sweet!

Some rough sketches of some cute little unicorns.

Cindee’s Guide to Life. She wanted a more girly and cute style for this intro. Oh I forget to mention she LOVES unicorns!
song: Make Her Say by Kid Cudi

Cindee’s Guide to Beauty and Style. She wanted a more sleek and sophisticated look for this one. It’s pretty simple.
song: Paradise Circus by Massive Attack

Cindee is a fashion designer / blogger.
Please check out her blog at http://misscindee.blogspot.com

Trikky: Custom Vinyl Toy

Tiffany — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 06:25:52 +0000

I recently completed my very first custom vinyl toy which was a birthday gift for my friend Claire. I’m new to painting vinyl toys (and painting in general) but it has been something I’ve wanted to attempt for a while. For this project, I painted a DIY Munnyworld Trikky toy from Kidrobot. Although I wasn’t experienced with custom vinyls, I was very pleased with how it turned out! Check out more pictures below.

Some photos of my planning process. I sketched out a general idea first on paper, and then lightly drew it on the toy.

The final product! I used acrylic paints with a satin glaze over top.

My painting job was a little messy for the details but I’ll get better in time. :]

A little galaxy of stars on the back of its head.

Hope you guys like the toy, I’m already planning to paint some more. Right now the toy is sitting somewhere halfway across the world! Claire brought it with her so that it can sit on her windowsill while she does a semester in Prague. I would like everyone please leave a comment to say Happy Birthday to Claire! Her birthday is February 6 and she turned 21. :D

The Last Unicorn

Tiffany — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:38:32 +0000

Here is a little something that I created using Photoshop. I’m definitely a sucker for all things fantasy related. Fantasy art, movies, games, stories.. Magic, unicorns, faeries, wizards, elves, hobbits… You name it, I love it all! You can bet I’m super excited to see the new Harry Potter movie tomorrow! In this post I’ll go through all the stages that the above image went through before looking like that! Read on to see the progress from beginning to end. Enjoy! (:

These are the two photos that I started with, a nice forest shot and a pretty white horse. I found these stock images on DeviantArt.com. There are lots of quality stock images to choose from, and it’s free!

I was feeling that the photo of the forest was a little flat, so I’ve added the above forest photo to the background to give it a little more depth. Check out the differences below:

Big difference huh?!

After I was happy with the background image, I used the channel mixer to make the colors a bit more dreamy looking. Then I added in the white horsey in and adjusted the levels a little bit.

Here’s a closer view of the horse. Not looking very magical yet..

I added a white glow behind the horse, you can just feel it’s power amplifying. It’s about to go super saiyan on you! AHH!

The Horsey finally leveled up into Unicorn! I added it’s horn just by drawing it inside Photoshop and I’ve also added more white glow. At this point, I am finished with the unicorn and just need to add some finishing touches. I fixed up the colors a bit more by adding a gradient fill on top and then added a clouds layer on top of that to give it that misty look! Take a look at the final image below:

Do you believe in unicorns?