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Monday 10 December 2012

11 Second Club - December




So here's my submission for the 11 Second Club monthly competition. Due to limited access to the Maya suite i only had 2 days to complete this animation entirely. But i had fun.

Animation, Enviroment, Lighting, Cameras: Harrison Simmonds
Audio: http://www.11secondclub.com/
Rigs: http://www.creativecrash.com/
Special Thanks: Stelley

Sunday 11 November 2012

Artist Study

I've been working on this painting in ArtRage Studio, studying the work of an artist called Erik D Martin. I really like the crude way he uses colour to form shapes.




I'm not satisfied that i quite captured the complexity of the texturing, but there's room to learn...

Original painting and more work by Erik D Martin can be found on his blog:
http://caffeineartist.blogspot.co.uk/



Thursday 1 November 2012

Palm Island

To distract myself from real work, i modelled a small island for a friends film concept, it had to be a small round island with a palm on it!








Sunday 28 October 2012

Bambi Study

I've been conducting some artist studies in hope to improve my landscape and environment observations. I spent a while slaving at a digital painting in Artrage from a layout in Bambi.

Original Layout



My Take 

Friday 26 October 2012

Life Drawing Dump

A small selection of recent life drawing. Very quick poses 30 second - 2 minute poses.










Wednesday 24 October 2012

News Concept

Due to my recent massive neglect to this blog, i thought i would share a news concept i painted a short while back.



Saturday 22 September 2012

Squirrels





Traditional approach to digital painting. (Cheated on the bark by layering a texture from google, no time for painting bark).

Thursday 23 August 2012

I've been working on a new sketchbook in which has commonly been known as 'The Handy Book'. 














France

A couple of quick pieces from my time spent in rural France recently...





Pen on paper.

Acrylics on paper.

Monday 2 July 2012

Malawi Cichlids

I've been conducting a few observations of my fish. This is the governor of my fish tank. My mum insists he should be more aggressive looking, but i believe him to be gentle at heart.




Thursday 3 May 2012

Logo design

Quick freebie I did for a mates production company.

Vectors in Illustrator, colour and fancy bits in Photoshop.




Monday 30 April 2012

Green Man Concept

Now I have a little time for fun, since handing in my work, I decided to have a quick bash at a concept. 







Tuesday 10 April 2012

Final Layout Design - Painted

Have finally finished painting and I must say I am quite satisfied with the outcome. I thought i would share.






Tracking shot test: (Image quality lost).

Sunday 8 April 2012

Cutout Style Layout Painting

I've block filled my layout with colour to give an impression of a final colour scheme for my layout. This 'cut-out' type effect is really interesting, although I'd like to incorporate some traditional methods before I am satisfied with the overall result.


Tuesday 27 March 2012

DIY line tester and lightbox

I must say that I am quite proud of this. A reasonable A3 lightbox purchased from Amazon, with a cheap webcam with LEDs also from Amazon, costing me roughly £55 in total. I created a small pocked out of cardboard and taped it to the front of the lightbox, this allows my metal ruler to slip into the pocket when line testing, the webcam can then be clamped to the top of the ruler.

This means the line tester can be removed whilst animating.

Very efficient.


Friday 23 March 2012

Character Design: Tree Frog

Despite my complete inability to improvise characters, I persist in trying.