Sooo, I've finally got back to my personal work lately. Here is a little wip zbrush side project that was inspired by character designer: Peter de Seve! It's based off the "Panhandler" his art book, 'A Sketchy Past, the art of Peter de Seve" which I definitely recommend buying a copy of! http://www.peterdeseve.com/images/ill/ill2.jpg I would love to prep this character for full animation, we'll see how that goes!

Clay Reel 2012

This is a clay demo reel I put together in 2012. Some characters are from a few films I had the privilege of working at Blue Sky Studios and some older sculpts I did in my personal time throughout my career there. Hope you enjoy! :) Digital reel coming soon....

Fernando--Rio

A couple visdev character sculptures I did for the movie "Rio" by Blue Sky Studios. Copyright: Blue Sky, All rights reserved! :)

Clay--Super sculpey

Dobson the Boar

One of the characters I sculpted during preproduction on Ice Age 4: Continental Drift. I had the privilege to work with the fabulous Peter de Sève's character design! Copyright: Blue Sky Studios, All rights reserved! :)

Councilman E-"Horton Hears A Who"

Another development sculpt for Blue Sky's, Dr. Seuss, "Horton Hears A Who".

Copyright: Blue Sky Studios, All right reserved! :)

Nits--Horton Hears A Who

This is a character sculpt done for preproduction on Blue Sky Studio's movie: "Horton Hears A Who". Copyright Blue Sky Studios, All rights reserved! :)

Clay: Super Sculpey

Kuzco--Llama

This is an older sculpt done in 2006ish. Inspired by the character from a great Disney movie "The Emperor's New Groove". Definitely worth watching! Copyright Disney Animation Studio: All rights reserved! :) Clay--Super Sculpey About 6 inches

Raccoon

This is a relief sculpt I did a few months back, It was inspired by the amazingly talented, David Colman's drawing. If you're not familiar with his work, click on his name, it's well worth a visit!

Sheep

This was a quick side project sculpt I did for Nathan Engelhardt (friend/co-worker at Blue Sky)

Sheep Turn Around from Alena Wooten on Vimeo.

Photo/video taken by Dan Shimmyo

Inspired by 2D Design done by The amazing Eric Favela!

More sculpts coming soon!

Animated Classics = "Home"

Here is my contribution for the art Auction called Art Blocks for Ghana !

The theme was 'HOME'.

When I was a kid, My sister and I would get dropped off at nanny's house very early in the morning.... one of the greatest things I remember when waking up was watching animated classics like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Pinocchio, Dumbo, and Fox and the Hound to name a few. My fav was Jungle book. To me, these animated classics are like home!

Keep on creating!

Medium: Magic Sculpt, (I find sculpting in that material very difficult) Letters were sculpted in Magic sculpt as well.

bronze fx: rub & buff, dry brush on

Okii Jijin Monk

Okii Jijin Monk from Alena Wooten on Vimeo.

Inspired by one of HOON'S drawings/designs!

Hope to work with him again soon!

Alena

Horse And Jockey

Horse And Jockey from Alena Wooten on Vimeo.

Based off Heinrich Kley's beautiful sketch!

Gray Super Sculpey
About 9 inches long and 7 inches high

Brownstones to Red Dirt

*Edit--Beautiful drawing was done by Willie Real

I wanted to shout out to the world about an amazing documentary that was so heartfelt and so inspiring....made by two colleagues at Blue Sky Studios, Chad Walker and Dave Lamattina... called Brownstones to Red Dirt . This documentary is about a pen pal program that focuses on a group of at-risk sixth graders living in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn and orphans, of the war, living in Freetown, Sierra Leone..It's through the pen pal program that these kids get to teach one another the beauty of life, their life struggles, and differences .

The amazing Vicki Saulls, my sculpting colleague, has organized an art auction Brownstones to Red Dirt Blog to raise money to further help the kids, in both Brooklyn and Sierra Leone. Many talented artist came together and drew pretty pictures on wooden postcards, which will be auctioned off on Ebay, March 6th-March 13th starting at 8am. All the money raised will help build a library for the kids in Brooklyn, and a new school for the kids in Sierra Leone! If you want to bid, Please save the date for this auction! If you want to donate other ways please go here and contribute! Brownstones to Red Dirt Donate

My husband Ryan, and I are working extremely hard on a sculpture for this art auction, so keep an eye out for it! ;) Much love and respect! Alena

In Charge!

In Charge from Alena Wooten on Vimeo.

Photography done by Diana

Well well well! A sculpt!

This sculpt was inspired by a beautiful drawing, by one of the most humble artist I know, Peter de Seve. I work with him on a daily bases and sculpting from his designs is so energizing!

This piece will be donated to Beautiful Grim , which is an art fundrasier to help a friend who had to go through chemotherapy and a bilateral mastectomy for fighting breast cancer. There will be an event either in LA or New York for the auction.

I'll see if I can post the link to the drawing that inspired me to sculpt this. It's in Peter's sketch book, if you have that handy...if not, you can always support him by buying it!


Size: 7inches
Medium: Super Sculpey

Digital Now A Days..

I've been trying my hand at Zbrush now, and this little guy came out of me while I was taking notes :)

If you want to keep up with my zbrushing skeels, take a look at my mumbojumbo site...in the scraps area. www.mumbojumbo.deviantart.com

Enjoy!

Love you guys.......

Alena

Doodle..

Just a fast doodle while I was on the train ride home from the NYCC! :)

My Collection!

I wanted to share my amazing collection of artwork from the prestigious design fella's at Blue Sky! Anyways, I had the privilege of working with such amazing talent. We ended up doing an art trade, I sculpted their character and they gave me an original art piece! I've spent lots of money on framing these bad boys. Its an honor to have such amazing art in my place!

Vince Nguyen (sculpted the boy and dodo from his children's book), Robert MacKenzie (sculpted his giant from his children's book which can be found on his blog), Dice Tsutsumi (Sculpted Wootie, the mascot of Out Of Picture) and I got an original watercolor drawing from Peter DeSeve (did some touch ups on a sculpture he did for the Society of Illustrator's competition)....all my sculpts can be found on www.mumbojumbo.deviantart.com

I'll also be working with Nash Dunnigan (sculpting one of his comic drawings in Out Of Picture wwww.outofpicture.com)

Vince Nguyen (still needs to be framed)



Robert MacKenzie




Dice Tsutsumi



Peter DeSeve

Apple Oil Painting

This is my first oil painting ever. I did this back in March I believe.. I based this one on the tutorial I got from Dice T. web site. This was a practice test to get used to mixing paints and techniques. Still learning. I've done a few other paintings aside from this one, but they weren't too successful ^^; I'll show an outside oil painting soon. Crits/comments welcome! :)