Showreel

First Assessment showreel

 

A few more drawings....

Watercolour and conte crayon.

Pencil

Pencil and watercolour pencil

 

Chalk pastel, pencil, black marker and threshold filter in Photoshop.

 

3D- Lip sync

Step by step of how I did the lip sync from the Die Hard scene.

 

Step 1: Draw out the key poses and break down the voice sequence.

 

 

Step 2: Map out key poses in Maya using stepped curves (Stepped lines in the graph editor).

 

 

Then more poses are added, to give more idea of movement (Second pass)

 

 

Step 3: Then I switched all stepped lines to linear curves to see what the computer made of the movement. It doesn't look too bad, although the timing for some movements is off, but this is normal as I am just beginning to work out how long poses should last for.

 

 

 

Below is the more refined linear curves as I've timed more of the poses.

 

 

 

Step 4: This is where I did some offsetting of keys to get a more naturalistic movement. The back for example doesn't fully settle into the pose until a couple of frames beforehand. It helps with the anticipation and overlap as well.

 

 

 

Step 5: The Splined curves are swapped in from linear curves, this rounds off the sharper points in the graph editor to get a fluid movement.

 

 

 

Final step: Lip- syncing. This is done last so I didn't end up relying more on the speech than the movement.

 

And here's a comparison video.

 

Life Drawing

This session focused on the caricaturing of the human body and shading out negative space.
The drawing below is the human form in amongst other objects whereby I had to shade in the negative space to leave the form and the objects. Proportions maybe slightly out!

 

And then I was asked to caricature the human form by exaggerating parts of the body.

Favourite has to be Mr Muscle Arms.

 

 

5 minute sketch hence the no tone.

A bit more concept art.

Concept Art ideas

These are some concept art ideas I tried out digitally using Photoshop and my graphics tablet. One I did just for fun, the other is a horse and person on a tree branch, miniature size. I think the second one I did is much better, probably because I had to remind myself how to use Photoshop for creating artwork for the first one.

 

 

I seem to like the dark and dingy atmospheres at the moment- maybe because it's winter right now.

 

Life Drawing

For this one I began the drawing and then we moved round so we continued with someone else's drawing. So really, this one is about five people's drawings.

Five one minute poses of the model moving around to pick something up and place it on a shelf.

It doesn't look like much of a human but this was a continuous drawing as the model moved slowly around. I didn't look at the paper. Most of it is just lines for legs and arms.

 

Top drawing is a five minute continuous line without looking at the paper. Not bad but looks like a monster out of Doctor Who.

 

This drawing is a ten minute pose. I think I got the perspective on the legs about right.