Happy Power Re-work

Happy Power

Happy Power, Inc. burns clean smiley faces for a better tomorrow! This is the latest version. It's for Sam's painting class.

Lighting Once More

Yet another new and improved Gas Station lighting concept.

More Lighting

It's for the film.

Gas Station Lighting 2.0

So, this one turned out... almost exactly the same as the one before it. Geez. Well, I feel like I fixed some of the afore mentioned focus issues, and it looks much more solidly sitting on an actual ground. Also, the colors are cleaner and more saturated. Comments welcome!

Gas Station Lighting 2.0 (but not done yet)

Here's the beginnings of another one I hope to finish tonight. I'm making some changes after talking to Al Bradshaw, who is in charge of our lighting design team. Also, this one hopefully looks less like it's swimming and more like it's on the ground.

Gas Station Lighting

Yep. It's yet another painting for lighting purposes. It's also a color test for our film about squashed armadillos. Man, I'm starting to dig this paint in photoshop thing.
By the way, this color design was based on photos our lighting design froup found and on some color work by Mike Mercer, especially.

Another Lighting Test

Here's a middle of the movie lighting idea. I think, though, it's probably too dark.

Armadillo Lighting and Color Concept

We a sunset lighting for the first scene. This was pretty much a color study.

Gator Sketch

These are some sketches I did for my final in Ryan's class, but never used them. I was toying with the idea that the Demon Five Heads was a space alien crash landed in Africa. I liked them, so despite low image quality, I'm hanging them up here on my virtual fridge!

Gas Station

This one was good enough to get inked. Some of the others were fun, too, but I think this fits the purpose best.

One More

After much discussion, Abby found a picture of a falling apart gas station with many of the qualities and shapes we talked about. This one is based a lot on that image.

Another Dillo Eviron

Here's another dillo environ. It's yet another version of that same dang gas station.

Armadillo Environments

I am working with Abby Ash to design the gas station, which is the central location for a our senior film. I had been drawing them with flat roofs and Abby had been giving them A frames. My new favorite is a combination of the two- half flat, half pointy. As for materials (and shape), we're going for a stucco look. I found the flippin coolest abandoned stucco gas station online... That's where I got the buttresses! We'll go over these in the morning. Also, I need to stop blogging after midnight.

view out my bedroom window

This was a 5 minute sketch out my window. Tried to get the colors right. Sunset had just faded. I tried to get it first, but it was gone too quick, then all the colors changed.

cactus

Here's more of me trying to teach myself to paint. It's a cactus.

Armadillo Environment

Here's an altered environment design for our senior film.

Environment Designs

Here is a concept environment for our senior film. In retrospect, they are not cartoony enough. Pixar came and looked at our stuff, and they said mine looked like a Coen brothers film... Ah, well. Sounds like a good thing to me.

I was going for more of a color and shape composition than I was going for any details. By the way, that's an abandoned gas station. Or Waffle House.

Environment

This is for my final in Ryan's Character Design class. The assignment is a cast of 4 characters and one environment. (This is the environment.) Anyway, I was kind of trying to emulate the style of Samurai Jack. It was difficult because my setting is so much different. Most of SJ's environments are in hills and small, closed in environments. Here, I wanted to emphasize the massive size of the mountain in relation to everything else, and still use elements from Samurai Jack. Also, I've shown 4 of the many color palettes I tried. Of course, I started with a blue sky, but that was rightout from the beginning.

Hooray! Default Word Art Chrome!

Which do you prefer?

Environment Painting

The top one is my final painted version of an environment I drew earlier. The rest were color concept sketches. Never really tried to do this before... Learned a lot. #1 thing learned: I need to learn a lot.