Monday 28 September 2015

Sunday 27 September 2015

Invisible Cities - Thumbnails

Slightly more refined thumbnails, but still keeping shapes really simple so that I can try and workout composition and viewpoints - I have always drawn characters and they never had backgrounds, so finding this quite tricky at the moment.


Invisible Cities - Initial Thumbnails

These are my initial thoughts, when a city in the text sparked my imagination.
Very rough sketches, but just trying to get a feel for the place in my head











Invisible Cities - Influence Maps







Friday 25 September 2015

Maya Tutorial



The software seems quite daunting at first, but soon learned about my curves, edges and vertexes.

Monday 21 September 2015

Digital Painting Tutorial



I have been trying to achieve a more painterly feel in my work for quite some time now, but I was never able to work out how to do this with the Photoshop brushes. However, with the brushes that Jordan supplied in todays class, I really think he helped me take a step closer. I do like those apples.

Saturday 19 September 2015

Texture Test


Experimenting with textures added to the Photoshop brush settings. I'm trying to achieve the look of a more traditional art style so that the clean lines of the digital artwork are broken up and slightly more natural to the eye.


Amazing cell animation, from 22-year-old student animator Gwenn Germain