Victoria Breton

[Art] More Life Drawings (Humber College)

2011-04-08T09:34:00.000-07:00

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Quick Gestures (Clothed & Nude):

Charcoal Portraits:

[Art] Portrait of Elizabeth (Humber College)

2011-03-19T08:57:00.000-07:00

For my Life Drawing class, we had to create a portrait of ourselves or someone we know. We had to light our subject appropriately, and then draw and shade the piece with as many values as we could. I chose to draw my younger sister, Elizabeth. In other news, my official .com website has been up for over a month! It's still under construction, though.

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[Art] Game Level: Japanese Temple (Humber College)

2011-03-19T06:58:00.000-07:00

Wow, I haven't posted here in ages. First things first: a few weeks ago, I completed my game level. After eight weeks, I ended up producing a piece that I am most proud of (in comparison to my other pieces of 3D work). I also enjoyed working on this the most. I can feel myself growing and improving as an artist, and it's exciting!

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[Art] Timeline

2011-01-27T09:47:00.000-08:00

Here's a personal timeline that I had to create in my Animator's Portfolio class today. I'll follow this as closely as possible, but will most likely have to make alterations here and there. This timeline only factors in two of my classes (Animator's Portfolio & 3D Animation Production). My remaining four classes aren't really related to my demo reel.

Creating this timeline made me miss graphic design...

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[Update] Quick Update

2011-01-24T10:11:00.000-08:00

I've been sick over the past few days, but I'm happy to announce that I just started my fourth semester here at Humber! I am in the process of working on various projects including a Japan-inspired game level and a demo reel. I'm also in the process of setting up an "official" website, which will most likely be victoriabreton.com. I am hoping to get that up and running sometime this week. This Blogspot website will be used to casually display my artwork along with blog entries, whereas my .com website will be used as a professional portfolio to showcase my best work for future employment opportunities.

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I'm happy to say that my work is still being presented on the Humber 3D website. I don't know how much longer it will stay there, but regardless, I feel very proud! It's nice to know that something I worked so hard on is being appreciated. This semester is going to be hard, but I'm also excited about it. I hope to produce a lot of great work.

[Art] Life Drawing September 2010 - December 2010 (Humber College)

2010-12-17T10:50:00.000-08:00

Here is a small assortment of some of my life drawing work from this past semester. They range from 15-second poses to 1-minute poses. The sequence drawings took about 10 minutes, and the final portrait drawing is a 1-hour study.

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[Art] 3Ds Max 2011 Boiler Room Assignment (Humber College)

2010-12-16T13:03:00.000-08:00

A few weeks ago, I posted a few progress shots of my boiler room. The final was due today. It feels like a giant weight has been lifted off of my shoulders! I plan to further polish this piece during the Christmas break, but for the most part, I am happy with my progress. Sure, there are certain details that bother me (as always), but it has undeniably come a long way. This project, for me, has been a struggle from the beginning. After restarting a handful of times, frustrated with having a lack of a true "vision" in mind, I visited a boiler room thanks to a lucky connection. (Thanks again, 'Uncle' Robin!) Real-life inspiration was something that greatly aided my creative process. I was also (and remain, to a certain extent) fairly naive in relation to boiler rooms, having never actually stepped into one prior to this lucky opportunity. A room filled with dust, pipes, and rust was a new concept for me, and I had to really push myself to "dirty" up the room during this assignment. (My natural instinct, for whatever reason, is to always have things symmetrical and clean). This assignment was somewhat of a vehicle that allowed me to push past this. In retrospect, I could have still pushed it further. Above all else, I was able to overcome a lot of things while working on this assignment, and I consequently learned a lot along the way. 33,702 polys and 40 textures later...

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This assignment also required us to animate a 100 - 200 frame camera sequence.

[Art] "Lucas" 3D Final (Humber College)

2010-12-15T18:45:00.000-08:00

Back in September, I posted concepts for my original character, Lucas. After many weeks of modeling, Mudbox-ing, retopogizing, unwrapping, and texturing... here is my final. Unfortunately, we weren't able to pose our characters this time around, so Lucas is in a default T-pose. I may experiment with posing him and polishing him up over the Christmas break.

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[Update] Front Page @ Humber 3D

2010-12-08T11:54:00.000-08:00

I went to the Humber 3D site today, as I often do, and noticed something very encouraging: the hallway I created was featured on the front page! Congratulations also to (in order of appearance): Andrew, Jacques, Sean, Michael, Brandon, Alex, Patrick, Ben, Stan, Charles and Michael. This compilation of hallways was created by our instructor, Paul Neale.

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[Progress] Boiler Room Assignment (Humber College)

2010-11-28T12:38:00.000-08:00

I apologize for the lack of updates; school has been crazy-busy for the past few weeks, and it will remain so until the last day of the semester (December 17th). Can't wait until Christmas! Over the past five weeks, I've been working on quite a few assignments, the "big one" being my 3D Graphics Production Boiler Room.

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[Art] 3Ds Max 2011 Hallway Assignment (Humber College)

2010-10-28T14:31:00.000-07:00

After ~~seven~~ eight weeks of learning, stress, and perfectionism, my hallway assignment is finally complete. 352 polygons, 666 (creepy) triangles - I managed to keep it under the 1000-poly limit. I think that I progressed a lot over the eight weeks given, and although I'm not entirely happy with the final outcome, the feedback received in class today was generally positive, and I am proud of my work. I'll definitely keep the criticisms in mind: floor material is too large/perhaps tone down the light in the foreground/add an ambient occlusion map. We received our next assignment in this class (3D Graphics Production) already! Time to get started...

There is a very large watermark on this that you may be able to spot. I hope it doesn't distract you/detract from the image.

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[Video] Kinetic Typography: Maroon 5 - Misery (Humber College)

2010-10-25T13:18:00.000-07:00

For this assignment, we had to choose a portion of a song, and creatively illustrate the lyrics. We were to compliment the meaning and mood effectively through the use of animated text and a solid layout.

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[Art] Portrait Studies (Humber College)

2010-10-24T18:22:00.000-07:00

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[Art] Life Drawings (Humber College)

2010-10-24T18:20:00.000-07:00

Here are some 15 - 30 second poses. It wasn't my best week, drawing wise, so these don't showcase my full potential. However, I received a few e-mails requesting more life drawing gestures, so...

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[Art] Cottage Scene

2010-10-14T16:09:00.000-07:00

In August, I had the wonderful opportunity to stay over at my aunt and uncles cottage for a few days with my parents and younger sister. This invitation tends to be extended annually, but I can say with honesty that I appreciate it more and more every year. I love spending time up there - there is almost nothing better! I felt as though I needed to give my aunt and uncle something to show my appreciation, so over the summer, I painted this for them. It's depicting a portion of their backyard at the cottage. Their cottage has some of the most beautiful scenery I have ever seen, so, needless to say, I felt inspired. I took a photograph of the area for reference. Once I established the colour palette, I drew the whole scene out and then started painting it. This piece took hours. I'm not sure how many, but if I had to guess, I'd say somewhere around 50 or so. I know that sounds like a dramatic amount, but it's a very long process; I would zoom in very close to the screen to paint in little sections, so as to not leave out any detail. After I finished painting it, I had it professionally printed and stretched on to canvas. Then, I presented it as a gift to my aunt and uncle. They seemed to like it. :) I hope to do something like this again once I have some free time.

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[Progress] Hallway Assignment (Humber College)

2010-10-14T15:51:00.000-07:00

Hello again! So, what can I say? Two more weeks have passed. This assignment is officially due next week, on Thursday the 22nd. I'm steadily nearing completion; I'm in the post-production stages at the moment. When the project is finished, I'll post a final, lightly-watermarked 1280x720 shot of it.

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Again, the image is small on purpose, so you can catch a glimpse of my work thus far.

[Progress] Hallway Assignment (Humber College)

2010-09-25T11:34:00.000-07:00

For the past three weeks, I have been working relentlessly on this assignment. We have been told to create a hallway for a first-person shooter game. We have been taught that video game consoles cannot handle large amounts of polygons, and as such, we have created a "low-res" version of our concept, in addition to a "high-res" version. The low-res version includes a small amount of polygons (we were told we had to keep it under 1000 faces, which is actually a difficult task), small amounts of details, etc. The high-res version is obviously much more polished. It's more creative than its predecessor, and as such, I prefer it. It allows us to breathe life into our otherwise-dull low-res concept. My teacher warned me that my hallway, in its beginning stages, looked more like a room than a hallway. Subsequently, I've been tweaking it as I work. Does it look more like a hallway now? Personally, I think it does. As as side-note, the lighting and camera angles in the third shot are still a work in progress. We have seven weeks in total to complete this, and when I'm finished, it will look like something - hopefully! - right out of a video game; bursting with colour, story, and atmosphere.

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The image is small on purpose, so you can catch a glimpse of my work thus far.
© Victoria Breton. Thanks for viewing!

[Art] "Lucas" Concepts (Humber College)

2010-09-15T08:16:00.000-07:00

After a lovely, balanced summer of employment and relaxation, I'm now back at Humber. Second year, second week. It seems as though it will be an interesting semester filled with learning experiences and new challenges. I apologize for the lack of updates over the summer; I actually drew and painted quite a bit, but didn't feel the necessity to post them. Perhaps I will later.

As I said, I'm already in my second week and the assignments are coming at us with full speed. My favourite assignment we've received thus far: character concept. In my 3D Animation Production 3 class, we had to create a character, give it a background/personality, and then create a "t-pose" sheet and "hero" shots.

Meet Lucas. A third grader with a heart of gold. He's a bit of a nerd, sure, but strives to succeed academically and socially. He's one of the friendliest kids at Forestview Elementary (tentative name), but his academic strength can occasionally get him into trouble. See the sketch of him running? That took place after the class bully asked Lucas to do his homework for him. Lucas, thinking of the situation morally, said no, which caused the bully (who is, sadly, nameless at the moment) to threaten to beat him up. Run, Lucas, run! I've been developing Lucas on-and-off since 2007. He's still not perfect, but he has come a long way. I love designing characters in every sense of the word, so I think I'm going to really enjoy this character-driven class. Next week, we're going to start transitioning from 2D to 3D. I'll begin modeling Lucas in Autodesk Mudbox 2011.

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[Art] Sheridan Assortment (Sheridan College 2008)

2010-06-21T16:58:00.000-07:00

Carrying on with the theme... :)

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[Art] Sheridan Assortment (Sheridan College 2008/2009)

2010-06-21T16:51:00.000-07:00

Here are some more oldies (2008) from Sheridan College.

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[Art] 宇野実彩子 Painting

2010-05-21T17:12:00.000-07:00

This is a digital painting I did on Adobe Photoshop CS4 featuring the lovely 宇野実彩子 (Misako Uno) from the Japanese band, AAA. This took forever, mostly because it was my third digital painting ever, and my first serious digital painting. There's a difference between fun and serious paintings. :)

I learned a lot during the nine or so hours this took. All in all, it was a fun experience and I hope to paint another portrait soon. I manually piqued most of the colours directly from the original photo, so I could be as close to the original colour palette as possible.

Please do not post this elsewhere without linking back to my blog. I worked very hard on this. Thank you! I hope you like it.

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Artwork © Victoria Breton. Thanks for viewing!

[Art] Graphic Design (Sheridan College 2008/2009)

2010-05-08T13:33:00.001-07:00

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Graphic Design © Victoria Breton. Original photographs belong to their respective owners.
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[Art] David Choi: T-Shirt Design

2010-05-08T13:23:00.000-07:00

David Choi was in need of some t-shirt designs a few weeks ago, so he put out a request to the online world. I decided to take a chance. The design I made for him is different than my "usual style;" I experimented with vector art, colours I normally wouldn't choose, and self-made text. Regardless of whether or not my design is chosen, it was a really fun experience.

As a side note, for those who are unfamiliar with David Choi, he's a self-produced singer/songwriter/composer who has been enjoying steady success since 2006 on YouTube. Feel free to check him out; his original songs are catchy and melodic, and his cover songs are beautifully raw.

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[Art] Bird Speed Painting (45 Minutes)

2010-05-08T13:09:00.000-07:00

Not much to say about this one; I saw a little bird in our front yard this morning (it came so close to me!), and felt inspired to paint it. This took around 45 minutes in total. Completed in Adobe Photoshop CS4. Not happy with this in the slightest, but hey. LOL

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Painting © Victoria Breton. Thanks for viewing!

[Art] Rigging and Skinning (Humber College)

2010-05-04T09:02:00.000-07:00

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I'm not sure if you remember or not, but back in January we had to create a 3D human model in 3Ds Max 2010. After creating the body, we had to do something called "rigging." Rigging is essentially the process of placing bones inside of something. In this case, I placed various bones inside of my human character. After attaching the bones properly so I had a skeleton basis, I had to incorporate "control objects" (circles and rectangles), and attach them to the bones. The reason we create control objects is so we can move the bones easily without actually changing the position of the bones themselves. It's an extremely difficult thing to explain, but... that's generally what rigging is - placing bones inside of something (in this case, the human model) and creating control objects to move these bones.

So, at the end of this assignment, all of the bones moved properly. The actual 3D model did not move along with the bones, though. In order to get the 3D model to move along with the bones, we had to do something called "skinning," which was our final assignment in semester two. Skinning is the process of connecting the vertices of the bones to the 3D model. After everything is attached, when we move the control objects, the whole body moves along with it appropriately. We had to put our model in a few "test poses" to illustrate that our body can, in fact, move properly, which is the seemingly random video you see above.

[Art] Blending Composite (Humber College)

2010-05-04T08:00:00.000-07:00

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For this assignment, we had to create a real vs. fantasy type of landscape with civilization. We sourced images from Google, Flickr, and related websites, and then combined them in an effort to make - in my teacher's words - a "fantastic" type of location. My concept is: past meets future. It's also kind of natural vs. man-made. The general landscape has a "past," natural feeling to it, whereas the buildings and civilization have a "futuristic," man-made feeling to them. The modern architecture in the mid-ground (the building on top of the predominate hill) is a direct example past-meets-future, as there is "past"-looking ivory growing on the "future"-looking building. The other futuristic elements include an earth-power source building in the background, and three pillar-style buildings that are located directly in the water. They can be accessed both by creatures in the water, and humans (via boats, or something similar). The hill-like homes in the background tie in the "past" part of the theme, with natural elements (grass / nature).

Composite / Blending © Victoria Breton. Thanks for viewing!

[Art] Musculature Studies (Humber College)

2010-05-04T07:53:00.000-07:00

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[Art] 2D/3D Composite (Humber College)

2010-05-04T07:47:00.000-07:00

[Art] Walk Cycle & Acting Animations (Humber College)

2010-05-04T07:43:00.000-07:00

[Art] Heavy Push & Standing Long Jump Animations (Humber College)

2010-05-04T06:39:00.005-07:00

[Art] Pose Assignment (Humber College)

2010-05-04T06:39:00.003-07:00

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© Victoria Breton. Thanks for viewing!

[Art] Character Poses (Humber College)

2010-05-04T06:39:00.001-07:00

[Art] Character Poses (Humber College)

2010-05-04T06:38:00.005-07:00

[Art] 3D Bouncing Balls (Humber College)

2010-05-04T06:38:00.003-07:00

[Art] Skeleton Sketches (February 2010) (Humber College)

2010-05-04T06:38:00.001-07:00

All three of the drawings below were created using orange/brown conté on 18"x24" newsprint.

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© Victoria Breton. Thanks for viewing!

[Art] Christmas Photography

2010-05-04T06:37:00.003-07:00

[Art] 3D Animation Production Assignment (Semester 2) (Humber College)

2010-05-04T06:37:00.001-07:00

I know this doesn't look like much, but I worked very, very hard on it. This took around 65 hours. That probably sounds ridiculous to you, but... I still find 3D modeling to be a difficult process. It takes a very long time, and creating something as realistic and layered as a human body is a surprisingly challenging task. The objective was to create a realistic model of a human body with a slight bend in the knees and elbows. This isn't my best work, but it was the biggest challenge, and I learned a lot while creating this. If I had a little extra time, I would attach the head, re-do the ankle area, and add some muscle definition in the abdominal area.

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© Victoria Breton. Thanks for viewing!

[Art] Sketches & Concepts (Sheridan College 2008)

2010-01-05T10:38:00.000-08:00

[Art] 西島隆弘×宇野実彩子

2010-01-01T12:34:00.000-08:00

Here is a five-hour pencil portrait of 西島隆弘×宇野実彩子 (Takahiro Nishijima x Misako Uno) from the Japanese band AAA （トリプル・エー）. I ship them hardcore (~ドキドキ)! ♥ Takahiro took around three hours, and Misako took around two, but man her lips were hard to draw. Her lips still need some work... Anyway, this is the first time I've ever drawn two people together in a portrait environment! I really appreciate comments!

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5 hours. Graphite sketching pencils (3B, 4B, 5B, 6B). 8.5" x 11".
Artwork © Victoria Breton. Thanks for viewing!

[Art] Life Drawings (September 2009 - December 2009) (Humber College)

2009-12-21T14:37:00.000-08:00

Here's an assortment of life drawing images I have drawn over the course of my first semester at Humber. Life drawings are essentially timed drawings of nude models, usually drawn in charcoal or conté on 18"x24" newsprint. The times for the following drawings range from 30 seconds to 30 minutes.

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© Victoria Breton. Thanks for viewing!

[Art] Animal Morph (Humber College)

2009-12-16T16:34:00.000-08:00

In my 3D Graphics Production class, we were required to turn ourselves into an animal but still remain recognizable. Here I am as a panda bear! Random, I know!

[Art] Doodle

2009-12-16T15:54:00.000-08:00

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This is a five minute sketch based on one of the kids I worked with this past summer. We did week-long camps from the beginning of July until the end of August, and even though I had the opportunity to meet tons of kids, this little boy always stuck out in particular. I won't say his name here just to be safe. He actually brought in this specific dragon costume for the "digital comic book" portion of the "Toying Around / Digital Comic Book" camp, but he didn't know how to put it on. I had to help him step into the two feet holes, put the hood over his little head, and then zip it up in the front for him. He was so cute. Man, I really hope I can see him again this summer! This drawing was based off of memory, and a Google reference image (found through a "kid in dragon costume" search).

[Progress] 3D Car (Humber College)

2009-12-13T17:03:00.001-08:00

[Art] Random Characters

2009-12-11T14:19:00.000-08:00

[Art] 3D Graphic Production Assignments (Humber College)

2009-12-10T09:23:00.001-08:00

The following assignment was given to us in our 3D Graphic Production class. We were asked to complete four "speed" paintings in Adobe Photoshop, and were free to choose any subject matter. Being the Christmas-enthusiast I am, I naturally chose to illustrate one of my Aunt Nancy's Christmas ornaments on a Christmas tree. :) Each painting individually took approximately thirty minutes, totaling somewhere around two hours overall.

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© Victoria Breton. Thanks for viewing!

For this assignment, the objective was to digitally paint an image that was given to us by our instructor. The goal was to paint it in a "painterly" fashion, and to make it appear as though it was completed traditionally. I'm actually really proud of the way mine turned out, and surprisingly enough, the teacher liked it as well. It was a really fun assignment, and it made me realize that I miss painting traditionally!

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Colouring © Victoria Breton. Thanks for viewing!

Our final assignment for our first semester was to morph our face with an animal (or, series of animals) of our choosing. I chose a panda bear. There isn't really a particular reason why I chose a panda bear, but I wanted to go with something uncommon. So, here I am as a half-human half-animal mix. Strange, eh?

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© Victoria Breton. Thanks for viewing!

[Art] Portraits

2009-11-16T17:03:00.001-08:00

Here are three portraits that I completed over this past summer! David Choi, 宇野実彩子 (Misako Uno), and 김재중 (Kim JaeJoong)!

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Artwork © Victoria Breton. Thanks for viewing!

[Art] 3D Animation Production Assignments (Humber College)

2009-11-16T14:52:00.000-08:00

Here are my main three assignments for my 3D Animation Production class. We had to fully model an inorganic object, fruit (+ fruit bowl), and vehicle. All three assignments were fully completed in 3Ds Max 2010. The hair dryer took approximately 10 hours, the fruit bowl took approximately 15 hours, and the vehicle took approximately 20 - 25 hours.

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© Victoria Breton. Thanks for viewing!

[Art] Drawing and Design Animation Assignments (Humber College)

2009-11-15T07:28:00.000-08:00

The following two traditional drawings were completed for my Drawing and Design Animation class, using a set of B/H pencils, a kneedable eraser, and a rather large sketchbook. For the first assignment we had to draw a part of the school, so I chose the university building (Guelph @ Humber) since it's the prettiest (in my opinion). For the second assignment we had to create a "futuristic cityscape" utilizing the same pencils, eraser(s), and sketchbook as before. Both were interesting assignments that allowed me to expand my value range (usually I only draw in three shades, but both of these assignments required six different shades or more)!

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© Victoria Breton. Thanks for viewing!

For our final assignment of the semester we were asked to illustrate twenty-four (24) frames out of a ninety-two (92) "shot list" that described (in writing) what was to happen in each frame.

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© Victoria Breton. Thanks for viewing!

[Art] Textures (Humber College)

2009-10-29T19:27:00.000-07:00

Here are my final three textures! My teacher liked the first one, somewhat liked the second one, and didn't necessarily count the third one because I (along with a lot of my fellow classmates) misunderstood the instructions and completed it in a way that the teacher didn't necessarily want. Oh well... I'll keep my fingers crossed; hopefully I did well!

[Intro] Hello!

2009-10-27T16:01:00.000-07:00

Welcome to my little art world! Here is my profile. So, as a little introduction - I'm a twenty-one (21) year old student at Humber. I am currently studying 3D Multimedia Animation. First semester was awesome; I learned a ton of things, and improved vastly over a few short months. I can't wait until second semester!

Prior to this, I studied at Sheridan for two years (2007 - 2009). I completed the Visual and Creative Arts program with honours. I loved my time spent there, met a lot of wonderful people, and learned more than I could ever dream of, but I felt that it was time to move on to something bigger and better. After getting accepted into Humber and Seneca's animation programs, I decided to go with the former. I have no regrets! It's been a fantastic experience, and if you or anyone you know is even remotely interested in animation, I fully recommended Humber's program. I also recommend Sheridan for anyone looking to improve their art skills by leaps and bounds.