Character: Characters so far

I correlated what I have done so far to show what direction I'm heading in so far.

Narrative: Revised Older Robot Orthograph

New Orthograph for the new concept which I will be posting the finish piece soon! 

Narrative: Older Robot Concept

Concept for the older robot, as far as style goes I kept it simple, cel shaded and with little texture. Top is without the rust and bottom is with. Hopefully feedback will be positive but if not I'll adjust accordingly!

Narrative: Older Robot Thumbnails 25-36

A

B

Taking into consideration what thumbnails my group liked and also drawing on my research into robot eras I have come up with some more refined thumbnails. I also tried out two different colours, labelled A & B to see if the robot should be a colour other than grey. 

Narrative: Robot thumbnails 11-24

Using the silhouettes that I created I made some more developed thumbnails for the older robot. I like 13, 14, 15, 18 and 21. I think they'd still need some tweaking but I think they're looking like prototypes like we wanted. 

CAA Speedpaint Challenge: The Metamorphosis

CAA Speedpaint Challenge: The Lair of the White Worm

Little bit pressed for time today but I really wanted to take part so this was roughly about a 15 minute piece. With more time I would of made this a bit more polished though I think it still conveys what I was going for. 

CAA Speedpaint Challenge: The Masque of the Red Death

Today I finally had the time to participate in the speed paint challenge, so my first painting is for Edgar Allen Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death". With plague and death being a part of the novel I decided on making a gritty looking cover. 

Personal Work: Batgirl

Due to my love of Barbara Gordon's Batgirl I decided to use Photoshop to draw her. I haven't drawn a person is photoshop for a really long time so I'm pretty pleased with how it came out. I think I need to work more on facial features and hair. 

Below is my progress of painting her. 

Fantastic Voyage: Production Art

Photoshop class: Self Portraits

Photoshop: Master studies (23/02/15)

Very excited to have Photoshop classes back! Today we started with some master studies of environments. I think mine are pretty successful in picking out colours (seeing as we weren't allowed to use the colour picker!) and also vary in tones though there's still room for improvement!

I struggled a little more with the portraits but I was determined to try it out in colour! I think I got some basic shapes down so they're not too bad but I would like to improve on painting quickly. 

If I have some spare time later on I'll probably keep working into these.

WIM: Matte Painting progress

Even though I haven't modeled all my assets I wanted to check out how I would make my Matte Painting, I made a simple painting and tested in Maya on a plane to see if it would work with my camera shot. 

I'm planning on building my Matte painting in image planes to hopefully achieve a more realistic look. in areas where there are no models I may add small modeled details in front so you can't see where they join. 

WIM: New Key Assets and Orthographs

Break down of my scene

Key Asset Pages 

Orthographs for Key Assets

WIM: New concept piece finished

 

Finished off my new concept piece, I added some bits to make the buildings look more like buildings and added lighting and shadows. There's also some suggestion of rumble and the buildings falling about.

WIM: Concept piece almost there!

I made the clock face smaller and added detail to the background and buildings, I just need to add some more to the buildings so they look more like ruined buildings rather than odd structures. I'll also add the lighting and shadows when the piece is closer to completion. 

WIM: New concept blocked out

Blocked out my new concept piece, I think it's looking pretty good so far but I'm just trying to figure out what to put in the background. I'm also not sure if I should move the sun thing over?

WIM: Colour compostions reworks

Played around a little bit with the composition of two of the previous comps I did and added the colours of my previous piece to see if they looked right with them. I think they both look better without the foreground elements so I'd most likely go for 1 or 3. 

WIM: Compostion reworks

Reworking some more compostion stuff, I'm quite liking 1 and 4. These could be worth working into.

What If Metropolis: Concept Painting Final

Here's my final concept painting for my city! Added some more texture to the ground as well as shadows and lighting. I also made a quick painted bird to demonstrate the scale of the buildings.