Jim Jinkins

This week I had the pleasure of hearing the creator of Doug, Jim Jinkins, speak at OSU. It was a great presentation and I was glad I had the chance to go!

After the presentation, we had the opportunity to meet Jim and exchange a few short words. I shook his hand and introduced myself (as calmly as I could!). While he was signing my very own Doug poster I told him that I too was an animator and was making a film about a duck who skates on butter. After mentioning the skating on butter part, without missing a beat, Jim replied "Of course he does!" in a very genuine and understanding tone. I was/still am so ecstatic about this! It was the first time I mentioned my thesis premise to someone and they didn't look at me like I was crazy! Yay Jim Jinkins!! :)

Doggies!

Doggies I was drawing in class the other day:

2009 CCAD Pipeline

Here is the final product from the 2009 CCAD Pipeline Project! I was the head of animation!! YAY! Check it out!

2009 CCAD Pipeline Project from Erich Burchfield on Vimeo.

He LIVES!!

Posed!! Some skinning issues to be resolved, but he's almost ready to roll! If you want to see more of the process of my thesis film visit this site: http://butterdays.wordpress.com/ I will also put the link in the side bar to the right! :)

Ginger Tippecanoe

I have an awesome computer animation 4 class. Last week we some how got to discussing what our stripper names would be (first pet's name + the street you grew up on). Then, our professor made it an assignment to illustrate our stripper! Haha!
I usually don't draw sexy ladies (drawing old men seems to be my thing :P) but this was a lot of fun! Enjoy!

Frank

This is Frank (disregard his previous name, "Roger") . He drives a truck for Better Butter Inc. in my thesis. :)

Quinn's face lift

So, I started to model Quinn (my duck) and I kept running into problems. Why you might ask? Simple. I was too excited to get on the computer and did not thoroughly think through my design (doy!). Problem solved. Here are some of those studies: