Motion Study

Just finished another project, so im gonna be posting some of the wares of said project soon. ive been sorting out a piece of 3d specifically for showreel purposes of emmanuel creeping about, using the model ive already built. to do it all properly, ive created a storyboard, motion study of the movement (or main keyframes, which ever way you want to look at it) and animatic. not gonna bother posting that though.

along with this ive also finally had some ideas im happy with to put into a new short, so might have some artwork revolving around that up in the future... :)

Ol' Rocket Boots

its simon again, ive been using a graphics tablet to do somet traditional animation, in my breaks ive been fiddling with this far more elaborate illustration of simon. not totally happy with the lighting, but dont have anymore time to waste on him! onto other tibbits...

Afro wearing gentleman.

as ive had a day of waiting on various cogs to turn i thought i would touch up on my modelling skills. without any reference (which was bad of me) i made this bloke up. wasnt really sure where he was going, but eventually got to a point where the chap looked like he needed an afro... so i gave him one. about 3 hours modelling, and relatively pleased :)heres a quick look at its topology.

another picture.

here is another illustration, not quite as good as the one below, more of a muck around in photoshop and the graphics tablet. its a samurai, i took reference from http://characterdesign.blogspot.com/ which had a coupla neat pictures done by Rad Sechris.

here is a picture.

Havent posted any new content for a while mainly due to several projects im working on, and not being able to post the wares of my labour. as a result alot of my own ideas are falling by the wayside, but im planning to correct this, firstly by doing some fresh character design, just for the fun of it.

Above here is a picture, of a mad, slightly serious scientist. was dead chuffed with the design and really got me working in illustrator alot more than i ever have previously (finally stopping using the photoshop polygonal lasso tool...)

he doesnt have a name. simon. simon is his name. yes, that'll do.

hopefully post another new illustration soon.

Travelling Skinned Mole

OOO its nice to post something that isnt the RAM chip. not that i dont like it, but ive come to realise its taking up alot of space on this blog.

last week my friend hayley contacted me about a travelling moleskin diary, where artists were invited to add their own little interpretations to the theme "Food for Thought". so i wrote a story (a true story) of the time myself and my friend aaron happened upon stephen hawkin leaving pizza hut with a pizza box on his lap.

it looked alot like this:-

find out more about the Moleskin, about taking part and what-not, gubbins etc at
http://www.thompson.typepad.com/

and thank you hayley and Thompson Brand Partners for an opportunity to draw some nonsense (although totally based on a true story.)

paint weight tests

been a relatively slow evening as i have been mainly just doing some weight-painting. but theres fun you can have with that, i.e bending the character into fun and silly poses