Life Drawing

I went to both life drawing sessions today, which I found really helpful. We did some longer poses too, which I like as it gives me time to build up some tone. Some of my proportions are pretty terrible, mainly in the last image.... yehhhhhh not really to sure what happened with the head.....   

First Ever Showreel

After a very stressful last couple of weeks I have finished my showreel, ready for the dreaded assessment. All the animations I've done on this course are in there, backed by some mighty fine music. I'm not pleased with this as I was unable to get the picture quality any better so its all a bit pixelated and I ran out of time so didn't get to go back into all my Maya files and add in cameras and get fancy angles and camera movement going. Next time I'm definitely going to time manage better and produce a showreel that I'm actually happy with. It turned out better than I thought it would though, but then I did have very low expectations.

Kley Final Concept Pieces

So as I promised I've uploaded my three final concept drawings from the Kley project. I was trying to create different atmospheres in each image, which I think I've been successful in. But the spider one is not as terrifying as I would have liked, so it may have benefited from being watercolour and pen rather than merely pen, to get more dense areas of black into it. Some really high contrast lighting might have helped too.

Pirates Animatic

So here it finally is, my animatic, in all its glory! I had quite a lot of fun with the sound effects and I'm sure you'll love my awesome attempt at voice acting (this is sarcasm, just so you know) but overall I'm pleased. Next time I won't shade my drawings, or at least not with pen anyway, as it takes too long, so if I got rid of that aspect I would have time to do more drawings so that the animatic would flow better.

Kley Project

Hello there, these images are some of my sketchbook drawings from the Kley project, where the brief was to get up close and personal with plant life and draw things that you would normally tread on under foot. These drawings will then serve as reference for 3 concept drawings which I will upload here in due course, where tiny characters will be placed within the plant life, so that they are out of scale with their environments. 

More Constraints In Maya

Another exercise to show the use of constraints. I did this task much quicker than the block push as I'd learnt from the mistakes I made last time. I'm pleased with the way the character slides their fingers under the block to pick it up, as I think it looks quite natural, also the timing on when she drops the block is working nicely.
The panting she does after dropping the block looks quite weird, I don't think it's too clear what she's doing. The main thing I was trying to achieve with this was to make the block seem really heavy and I'm pretty sure it does...... so success!!

Block Push

Here's the latest installment of 3D, this time the character had to push a block. This involved using constraints, which I can now say I understand, so that the block effectively sticks to the hands, enabling the character to push it without you having to keyframe the block individually. I'm fairly pleased with the way this turned out, however I think the whole thing could be speeded up in general, as it's a bit slow. I did this to show that the block was heavy but I'm pretty sure I over did it. There are a few foot slips in there too which could be neatened up in the future.

Walk Cycle & Progressive Walk

This is a walk cycle and progressive walk I created using Maya.

People Watching

For the second sketchbook task we were set we were asked to draw our fellow students but replace their heads with those of animals, enabling us to focus on the body and not get bogged down with the human face. I feel the two where I've used colour are working quite well, where the shading is done quite roughly. I need to be more careful with how I draw hands though, as this often lets the drawings down.

Toy Story

Here's a few of my images from the first drawing task we were set, way back from the start of this year. The idea was to get a toy and draw it in different places, so I used my friendly comes-complete-with-suction-cups-monkey.