Sunday Sketches: Pencil Tests for school

A quick little animation to get school started. Still learning that there mechanics.

While I did go through all these motions way back, returning will only help. As John Lassetter once sad, if you master the basics - you are all set. The rest will come in time. I'm paraphrasing here..

But I will be doing more acting pieces after this semester wraps.

Animation Spotlight: Un Conte

Unbelievable! I keep getting shocked time and time again, just goes to show the endless stories you can tell.

Well done to these guys.

The Photoshop Files: Still Life - Part 3

Hey guys! Not too much action going on with ridiculous days at work that bore me down and today being day one of school. Oh joy. No it can be fun actually but I have a few hurdles to jump before I can enjoy school again but that is a rant I don't need to share with the world.

Painting!
Heres the breakdowns on creating the bottles!

Bottle one where we pick off from...

Rough Paint in for color scheme, again I went ahead and did NOT use my original rough paint, I couldn't use it as a good enough jumping point, plus I forgot to use my layers! (I'm used to one layer paintings).

Start adding dimensions, top and side reflections

Highlights (I got too detailed, but I loved the results)

Adding shadows and light reflections and also a background to the silver bottle, the refraction from the chefs coat.

The Photoshop Files: Still Life - Part 2

Progress update! Gettin the chef down is a big part as its the only "face" in the painting and will likely draw the eyes. Note to self: make it more shiny and dirty in detailing stage.

Animation Spotlight: Myosis

With a short film, its hard to capture emotions and ideas very quickly. How do you get the audience involved and taken on a journey in a minute or two. Let alone with no dialogue?

Thats the beauty of animation. We can create anything...Just as some students from Gobelins (France) had created.




Whoa.

The Photoshop Files: Still Life - Part 1

Ah...carpel-tunnel. Thou art a heartless bitch.

But the temporary pain is worth it when you can start seeing a piece come together. Usually for me, if I can get ONE section of any painting to its final-esque stage, I can usually see where my end result is going and that is where I've finally arrived. A long way to go, but heres a preview!

Nothing fancy here, blocking out stages of the painting...

Very quick and rough painting on where I'm going.

I cannot work without lines. Even thought they won't be int he final product, I feel my colors bleed over to the next item and I lose my sense of depth...so I add fine lines.

Lemons!! This is the stage in which I push one item/element of the painting as far as possible and now I will generally start jumping around the painting updating things until they are all on par, and then do the details. 

Lemons with the basket work in progress on top.

More to come!

The Photoshop Files - Eye Studies

After scouring the webs and looking at peoples charcoal drawings and digital paintings, and just being caught between ideas I just quickly churned these out in a creative vomit.

Doing quick and rough studies are so much fun, especially the eyes. I'm horrible at doing the human figure so I think I will start doing those soon.