Finished painting!

Finished the painting a couple of days ago, spent yesterday merging and splitting layers and repainting small sections that only get seen for a few seconds as the camera moves. I've currently got around 30-35 layers  that made it through to aftereffects. As a bonus,  a screengrab of my workspace in Aftereffects, with a nifty 3 quarter-ish view of everything- almost in place. 

Today I'm focusing on the camera's path and getting some of the smaller particle systems in place. 

Back in business!

After a long week of Animex talks, workshops and networking events, I'm finally back at my computer to update this blog! It slipped by the wayside as deadline for the first semester drew near, so I'll start off with some of the finished paintings and speed paints from then, and at the bottom I'll show some of my Animex sketches.

These are a mix of character and enviros from the Excelsior brief as they appear in the final submission, along with a compilation of sketchbook work from the visual development. 

Gryphon final painting- This was a somewhat arduous painting. I can't say I'm exactly a fan of painting fur and feathers and somehow mixing the two. 

Taken from T.S. Eliot's "Preludes" - the line "The Shower's Beat" inspired this painting

Now that that semester 1's briefs are all concluded, We have three more (with a fourth yet unknown) for the second semester. So far we have received assignments from:

1. Pete Amachree : The "what if" roman history brief, of "What if the Romans discovered and developed practical uses for electricity?" 
2. Ron Ashtiani : NeoRacer brief, Car concept with weapon variations, or Eden environment race track
3. Shelly Page : Dreamworks character brief, design a character from the list for a new setting
4. Jack Couvela : Mysterious Ubisoft brief ~~

 I'll be updating at least once a week now for the next semester with work any of these assignments (or anymore that we receive.)

Edit: I forgot about the Animex sketches, I'll add them in during the week since I don't own a scanner :)

Drawing for Concept Artists Week 4- Identify resources and demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of techniques required for a range of drawing tasks

a quick painting over of the gryphon in the style of the american bald eagle, a lioness and the secretary bird. 

Feedback:

• Chunkier feet!
• Give him more of a feathery ruff/mane looking effect to reinforce the join between fur and feather
• Look into albino lions/fur patterns
• Will the tail be fur or feathers?

Next we were to draw the cityscape using our previous drawing and our imaginations as the only reference

Instead of a life model this week, we did conceptual work based on a still life set up in front of us, and had to imagine it as a cityscape using the various media provided. And then we were left to combine the three into one with photoshop, as a potentially new way to arrive at a finished product.

Since the overlay and multiply blending layer modes result in quite loud colours, I collapsed the layers and ran a gradient map layer, collapsed it and painted quite loosely over the top to try and bring it all together without getting tied down in small details.