B/W Concept for Greenhorns

I worked in the computer labs for a long time today and didn't get a whole lot to show for it ... other than this, a black and white concept piece showing the environment for my animation short about the two hunters. Im pretty happy with it and hope it will get me going in the right direction!

Week 03 Project Hiroshi

Epic fail? Maybe...

I liked the foreground enough with the squirrel and the log but when I played with adding the background trees things took a turn for the worse. I drew a small scene with trees, put it in the scene and then painted it and duplicated it a couple times for a "thicker" woodland look. I think it is too dark, too devoid of color and lacking the character the rest of the background has. I think it will be back to the "drawing board". (Get it?)

New/old guy: Village Elder

This character design sheet is for my class, but I hope to develop this guy for my senior project next year. It's early in his development so he will likely change quite a bit.

The Feared King of Games

This character sheet is for a project in my character design class. We swapped sketches/descriptions with others in class and had to create a character off of that info. Here's what I came up with:

 

Week 02 Project Hiroshi

This second panel features the other half of the pair of hunters from my idea for a short animation. The background in this panel would continue off from the background of the first piece. I kept the construction paper overlay as feedback on it was pretty much all positive. Would love any thoughts on how hunter 2 goes with/visually counters the first hunter.

Week 01 Project Hiroshi

This piece is the first of four that will feature each character from what I hope will be my first animated short. I played with style for a few days before settling on this mix of line work and digital color...I'm pretty happy with the results. I intend to add more to the background in the actual piece to create more of a sense of being in the woods. The leaves took a LONG time, the whole image probably took about 8 - 9 hours from start to finish.

 

I also played with a construction paper overlay (in keeping a little more with the Hiroshi-ness of the project), so here is what that looks like. I also dulled the chroma of the leaves and the guys boots a little.

I'd love to know which one people like more.

Felurian

This is another piece from the Patrick Rothfuss series. It is the scene where the main character, Kvothe, and his crew come across Felurian. (It is in the second book and I will spoil it no further, though it says in the jacket notes that he has an encounter with the fairie.) Anyway... the scene stuck out to me as particularly vivid and I chose it for the subject matter of yet another Photoshop painting. Enjoy please!

A Game of Cards

Im trying to experiment with lighting in my Photoshop paintings so I did this one of a couple of gypsies playing cards at night. No real explanation for what inspired the little scene, just something that popped into my head.

The Chandrian

This was inspired by the Patrick Rothfuss "Kingkiller Chronicle" series. These guys are some bad dudes. But it is basically from a scene in the first book. I guess it would be ... "fan" art? Anyway, drew it in my sketchbook and painted it in Photoshop. Hope you enjoy:

The Lantern

This is my latest PS painting. Grabbed the image off Google. I just liked its composition and coloring. Unfortunately I am not sure who deserves credit for it. Anyway... this thing took me a couple hours and I'm pretty happy with it.

Here is the painting.

Here is the source image.

Photoshop Paintings!!

Ok, so Goro Fujita is this awesome artist and I read an interview with him where he mentioned that he did one speed painting (30 min. - 1 hour) in photoshop nearly everyday for one year and how much better it made him. That sounded like a pretty good way to get better myself so I have started the challenge as well. So far I have done 8 paintings. The following are probably the best 2 of the bunch. Hope you like 'em. If you like these at all, a link to Fujita's blog is in my blog role (it's called Chapter 56), he is a lot lot better.

The Flamenco (first CG animal)

The Flamenco is my first CG character! We did the project in Maya during my summer Computer Animation class. The third pic is Flamenco crazy fuzz; same species, crazier fuzz.

Save Polar Bears

This animatic is the most recent project from my storyboarding class. We had to create a public service announcement.

The Fenrirs

This series was done for my painting and color theory class. They're all about simultaneous contrast. The subject matter is the legend of Fenrir from Norse Mythology. Each one depicts a different scene in his legend. (Also, if anyone digs Fenrir, go to Aymrc in my blog roll. The guys is a French animator who did an amazing short piece about Fenris (same as Fenrir).) Enjoy.  

Martin the Dragon

Did this over spring break. It was a photoshop exercise I got from the latest Imagine FX. It's rough, but it was fun to do. The back ground is from a vacation photo taken a few years ago. My wife helped with the name.