FMP!

For my final project I have settled on the idea of an abandoned theme park. I am not looking to create an entire theme park, just a section, and have been playing around with ideas. Below is some of the development work starting with some pencil sketches, a quick photoshop paint, a go at blocking in the landscape in max and a quick paint over just to get a bit of contrast to see how it might look and feel.

best put up the ol' projects i suppose...

The chest, what a headache, did not enjoy making this. I quite liked the crab, I decided to keep it fairly simple and came in quite a lot under the poly limit. The trash came out ok but I will revisit some of the textures I think.

bloggy, bloggy...

Some personal work. Nothing to serious. Varying amounts of time spent on each.Hulk does indeed smash. this was about 30-40 mins. Don't know who this fella is, just started to draw and ended up doing a bit of character design.

For this project the focus was on using traditional materials and to choose an artist for inspiration. I could'nt really settle on an artist and went more for a style. I used acrylics and found it quite hard. however i think i learnt a lot from this experience and would like to try more traditional painting.

I then did a photoshop version and really pushed the contrast. there are some parts of the picture i think are particulary successfull. i like the top half of the face and am happy with the eyes.

oh yeah, blog!

So its been a little while and I have finished a few projects.
I touched up the portrait of my interesting character.

I also finished the sculpture to accompany it. I was quite happy with how this came out. its a good 3d representation of my concepts and I enjoyed making it. It is a wireframe with platercine model and i enjoyed the process of making this.

I was mucking about on photoshop the other day and came up with theese. they were all done in no more than 30-45 mins and where just straight off the bat, nothing more than doodles to kill some time really. dont really like this one but they're all good practice I suppose.

I quite liked the way this was going and will probably do a proper paint along the lines of this one day.

Just added a bit of colour. Dont know why he's wearing jungle camo while everything else is black and white, he sticks out like a sore thumb. Maybe he has come through the jungle to reach his target, yeah thats it.....

Theres parts of this picture I really like. It dont really show up on here but I tried to paint the skin and the material textures and they came out alright.

added a real quick background.

Interesting character 2.

Been working on an interesting character. The inspiration for this chap came from some guy I saw on my way home walking through town. The guy in question was, for want of a better word a "chav" but he had a sort of swagger and attitude that was crying out to be transplated into the body of a disheveled, drug addled rock star. So after a few sketches I painted the portrait below which I'm not completely happy with but it gets the attitude across ok i reckon. I then went on to paint the full character. I quite like this image. From these images I have started to sculpt the character. its still a work in progress but i think its coming along ok.