My reasons for this recent painting escapade are many, and include but are not limited to this one: I wanted to be able to design for 3d. I figure if it can look good painted it's much more useful for 3d. Also, I want to get a job. Someday. We'll see.
This is he again, after some further advice from Jeff Bunker. Also, for some reason, viewing this image in a web browser is washing out the colors. Viewing it in photoshop or something looks much more vibrant. It's not my monitor, either, because I've tried it on multiple machines... weird.
OK, this is taking longer than I intended for a couple reasons: 1, I'm still trying to figure out how to do this, and 2, I've just been doing small chunks of time on it. I think a second one will be faster.
Here, I've kind of worked out his head. At least, I like it. I'm going to try to finish this whole thing for my portfolio. Geez, the Avalanche guys make it look so easy!
So, here's my latest progress in painting. This is a space dude. He's a bit peeved right now cause somebody stuck a piece of bubble gum in his rifle chamber. He's got to finish cleaning his space gun before he can go put the hurt on somebody. OK, I had a more profound story worked out at first, but then I canned it in favor of just being goofy. Hopefully you can tell that I'm trying to emulate the avalanche painting style. After talking to Todd Harris, I've been trying to copy some of his and Ryan Wood's work, just to learn some skills. This guy is my own design, though.
I don't know if you can tell, but I think alligators are pretty awesome. But then, who doesn't? Also, bunnies are yummy.
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.
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.
Here's a middle of the movie lighting idea. I think, though, it's probably too dark.
We a sunset lighting for the first scene. This was pretty much a color study.
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!
Aww, don't you want one? He's just so cute. And diabolical.
This was a toy design for Joe's class last semester. I've started painting it, but it's a work in progress!
This one was good enough to get inked. Some of the others were fun, too, but I think this fits the purpose best.
Here's my Clint caricature again, this time slightly colored and textured. I also refined the original painting a bit. I think I needed to paint in color in the first place, or at least sooner, or get a different coloring method. I'll try it again shortly (although I still think this one is cool).
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.
So, I started to paint this Clint caricature in black and white with the idea of colorizing it like the videos on Ryan Wood's and Mark Behm's blog (nice work, gentleman). I think I went too far with the values though, and it's being un-easy to color... I'll come back to it shortly, as right now I'm going to sleep.
