See ya real soon

I drew this for a little girl who really likes me for some reason, so I dropped this off at her house and she really liked it. she gave me 6 hugs for it. Thats glitter on the balls and stuff, it doesn't scan well. Giving art to little kids is the best.

Zoo Sketching!

Last week, some friends and I went to the Hogle Zoo. That zoo is nice, its a cute little zoo that is easy to walk through in a couple hours, but its also one of those places that makes me miss Maryland where I was only a few metro stops awayfrom the National Zoo which is huge and free. Anyway, here are a few of my sketches from that day

I tried out a new calligraphy pen, and a super fancy pentel brush pen...that just leaked everywhere. Thank heavens for water soluble ink...

Figure Drawin'

Just some figure drawings I liked from my gesture drawing class taught by Ryan Woodward

The Sartorialist is a good reference.

Just going through my old art on my computer. Realized I never posted this. If I recall correctly it got torn apart during critique for being too 'safe', but I still like it. The girl reference came from The Sartorialist. The assignment was to take someone and cartoonify her. I suppose I could have exaggerated her more, but, like I said, I still like it.

Buy War Bonds

Buy War Bonds from Meredith Moulton on Vimeo.

The updated version of my mailbox animation.

Birds and other Sketches

In a previous post, I mentioned how I was modeling a bird in maya, well here are some of the sketches that led to that...

This was my first sketch for the bird. I've been looking a lot at Brittney Lee's artwork and decided to try and make a bird in her style. Later on, I decided to take my water brush pens for a spin and I painted him with a little watercolor palette I had laying around.

I then figured that first one, although he is cute, is way too planar and flat to try and model in maya. So I looked up some photos of some lovebirds and based this guy off of them. I watercolored this during church, and I accidentally squeezed out way too much water from my water brush pen, and the red smeared everywhere, and, since I was at church the most absorbent thing I had was a program, and those aren't super absorbent, so I rubbed it into the page outside the lines. Oops. I could clean it up in photoshop but I don't feel like it right now... Moral of the Story: Don't watercolor in church when you should be listening to the testimonies.

And this is me just trying to figure out what birds look like from the front. I was really inspired by the upcoming movie Rio for all this.

And here are some other sketches for good measure

And here's a pine tree I drew and liked

And here is a girl with a sweet fro that I drew after I drew the headband girl which is why she's floating there.

Demo Reel

Demo Reel from Meredith Moulton on Vimeo.

Going to the Mailbox

Walking to the Mailbox from Meredith Moulton on Vimeo.

The assignment was to animate someone going to the mailbox, then their letter was supposed to change their emotion, and I came up with this.

Ok, so I've been in a history of animation class. We just finished learning about WWII cartoons. Also in middle school I was OBSESSED with World War II spies, and then they opened the International Spy Museum so long story short, WWII interests me. Hence this cartoon.

Inez vs. The Snowbeast

Walruses would make super awesome sidekicks.

Please Feed the Lion

In Drawing for Animation class we had the assignment of drawing an Urban Vinyl toy with the theme of "Disturbed circus" I love lions, so I came up with this.


We later had to give the Disturbed Circus toys a Soviet theme. So, I gave my lion an American to chew on* and a Warning sign to fellow Soviets. (The sign, the Russian bits anyway, according to Google Translate supposedly says "Stay Away" I do not know how correct that is)

*This does not mean I want America to be figuratively eaten by communism or anything. America is a swell country And I'm sure Russia is a lovely place too.

Imaginary Friend

For this Imaginary friend assignment in my Drawing for Animation class. I liked the woods a lot.