Alfred and the Bride

Here are the other two:) The butler reminded me of Alfred from Batman and the bride, well she looks pretty generic but the dress was fun!

Now I'm back to animating in Flash, hopefully I'll get to post that soon

Naughty Chef and Pretty Geisha

Here are two characters I based off some recent lifedrawings, I'll be doing a couple more over the next couple of days so stay tuned!

enjoy:)

1940

For the past few weeks I've been working on a 3D animated dance in Maya. I love animating but I felt like I needed to break from it for a while to do some drawing. I was inspired by a few artists to create this piece, Francisco Herrera, Gil Elvgren and one of my friends and classmates, Ben Anders:) The idea was to create an elegant and graphic rendition of a 1940's "femme fatale" using a colour palette of white black and red. I don't usually do alot of graphic pieces and I saw this as a challenge to create something simple, yet effective. My last name is imprinted into the background because I am hoping to use this piece in my Title page for my demo reel.

Now I have to get back to animating that dance...almost done, will post it soon!

Rodney's Rabbit

Rodney's Rabbit- 3rd Year Sheridan College Action Analysis Project from Lisa Lanese on Vimeo.

This is my final project before the end of semester one! I worked over 100 hours on this project and I was extremely excited to see the result! This is the first finished animated piece I've made, and I can't wait to make more. I painted the background on Photoshop CS5.5 and animated the character traditionally and cleaned it up on Flipbook and Photoshop. I put the video together on After Effects:)
Creating this was so much fun, while doing this I realized why I'm studying animation, because bringing drawings to life is probably the best career a person can have. :D

Meat Pie

Here's a tidbit of fanart, I needed a break from all the school related stuff. The other day I was inspired by some rough sketches that my friend Seema did of Mrs. Lovett from Sweeny Todd. I drew this as a quick sketch and then decided to try out some brush techniques on it in photoshop. Mrs. Lovett has always been one of my favourite film characters and I think its interesting to see what she would look like if she was translated into a cartoon character.
Lately I've been trying to adapt to different styles of drawing and painting to explore variety, but this is done in my own comfortable style. I figured that I needed to go back to my traditional way of drawing for a bit to rediscover my passion for doing art :)

Haircut?

I had some fun designing possibilities for Steve the barber in our group film. I'm excited to completely flesh this film out and start production soon!

Heroes and Villains

 Ok, once I got this project, I knew I was going to draw something like this, I couldn't help it

 Barbers are scary, just plain scary

I really loved this pose. Her costume reminds me of a Halloween costume, I wonder what her power would be. I'm thinking electric fingers

Skinny Malinky Longlegs

Here are is a bunch of stuff that I have been working on for my Action Analysis animation project. I will be fully animating, cleaning up and colouring the section of my storyreel where the golfer whacks the rabbit across the green! I'm not going to be getting much sleep over the next few weeks....

Blog Remodel!

With the start of a new school year and a million projects on the go, I decided it was time for a new header and a new look for my blog! I've been meaning to change it up for some time now but I could never come up with a decent idea for a nameplate until today, when I realized I wanted to be Wonder Woman for Halloween, and I was inspired to draw this ^

Ancient Rome!

Here are my final designs! I am using these characters for a current story-boarding project:)

Lots of Togas!

The Goddess Invidia

The Roman Prince

The lovely Palace Ward

The silly sidekick

There took me forever to finalize! Along with a ton of research! They are my character designs for a hypothetical animated period piece! It is set in Ancient Rome, and consists of a hero, love interest, villain and comic relief. No names yet, but so far these characters are part of an intense story about a greedy roman prince who seeks the help of the ancient roman Goddess to destroy the bond between the woman he loves and her betrothed. The story twists when the Goddess falls for the prince and tries to eliminate the woman he loves so that she may have him for herself and rule all of Rome as Queen. Her hilarious henchman, the snake carry's out her evil deeds and eventually through an epic battle the prince realizes the havoc he has risen by awakening the Goddess and imprisons her back into the depths of the sea.

A New Character

This is my new character design! I named him Charlie and he is a young teenage kid who will be reciting a line from American Beauty in my next animation:)

If an Indian Princess and a Chinese Monk had Extreme Expressions:P

This was a character design experiment I did a while ago. I experimented in drawing people of other nationalities and it was a real challenge, but it was alot of fun!