16-09-2013 Croquis

Some of my sketches from Monday. The model had some really lovely poses!

07.09.2013 Gestures

Ah, I've gotten rusty over the holidays. It's fun getting back together with my friends for these though!

B is for Bear; C is for Capybara

Here's my next batch, B for bear and C for capybara. (I love capybaras!)

A is for Aardvark

    Here are the results of day one, letter A, of my animal alphabet. 

    I love aardvarks! In fact, one of my novels features an animal sidekick, Ignazio the aardvark, best friends with Babou the robot monkey. Good times.

 

     Ah well. Definitely working on those drawing skills.

A wild Bananaluga has appeared!

Do you...

a) fight?

b) try to catch it?

c) run away?

It's organic, don't worry.

    I'm trying out Sydney Padua's A to Zoo daily sketch exercise, asking people everyday for a random animal all the way along the alphabet. This is what happens when I'm asked for both banana animal and beluga whale.

   The other animals will follow... eventually :-)

Blingy Pig

    This started out as one of those "hey, it's midnight, let's draw a pig with bling!" things. The result is still pretty sketchy, but hey. What can I say, I love mah piggies.

  
     Sloppy outlines: TVPaint. Colour: Photoshop.

Introduction to Maya

    Our three last days at school were rather relaxed as we were introduced to Maya software by Magnus Møller, who also taught our very first course of the year. He was as fun as ever!

    The first assignment we got with the words, "Now you guys know how to make shapes like cylinders and circles and deform them a bit... You're gonna go and make a character. You have, um... one hour. GO!" Lots of weird and funny results! This is mine.

Charming, isn't she?

    Tuesday and Wednesday we spent making full illustrations. Whew! Quite a challenge! I wasn't there during the lighting lecture because I had my end-year review, but I made do with shading with surface shaders, plus a few details in Photoshop.

 Damn, why are my wings so stubby?

     Not a masterpiece, but hey, I only just started. So far, Maya isn't as scary as I thought it would be.

End-Year Exam Animation

I can't believe that, except for a short intro to Maya next week, my first year at TAW is over already! I've grown so much in this place, both as an artist and a person, and I'm super-grateful to be in this wonderful place surrounded by so many awesome people. I'm proud to call them my friends!

This is the last 2D assignment we got, our end-year exams. We had to animate the Sultan from Aladdin, being woken from a nap by a fly buzzing into his mouth. My final result isn't very polished, but I'm quite satisfied with the stage I reached. While working on it I could feel how many things are starting to click into place that I struggled to understand during the year.

Model Practice, Volume 1: Hogarth

    As people who know me might have noticed, I quite like Hogarth from The Iron Giant. (Haha, good one. Slightly obsessed is more like it.) Anyhoo, we had to do model practice before we could animate him, of course, so here are some of my sketches.

Facial expressions

 Range of motion

Courtesy of the sob-worthy fact that his helmet and bomberjacket belonged to his Dad, a pilot that died in WW2.

Character interaction, you say?

 Coloured because it's F-U-N.

     The Sultan might be up next, but I'll only post my animation once I've touched it up some more.

Horned things and a boot

    Just a bunch of old stuff I've dug up. A pseudo-self portrait, a random rhino rider and an old Nikolaus card thing featuring my rabbit. (Yeah, Photoshop and I had a tricky relationship back then.) I might fix and finish the first one at some point.