4550 - Character Modelling

Still work to do - but this is the current progress of my Olive Farmer.

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Mixed sketches

Mixed various stuff from the last few months. Sketches, colorroughs, painting exercises, characters and backgrounds.

Might aswell post them now, since it seems I'm unable to take anything to a finished stage anyway - sigh.

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Character Design project - Mediterranean Villagers

Big character design-project for the time being. Theme being "Mediterranean Villagers".

First week was concept design with Uwe Heidschoetter. Our character had to fit into Jim Henson's muppet-style and stylewise fit with a given character our teacher had made (The Russian Lady) - which can be seen beside the character I designed in the first presentation-sheet.

First pictures: Reference and the concept of my character, The Olive Farmer.
Fourth picture: Finished concept of character + Environment in color.

Last picture: Work in progress picture of my 3d-environment in Maya. At the moment we're having three weeks of modelling & UV mapping with Eric Prince. Modelling of my character starts next week.

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Deathwalker

"Deathwalker"

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Speed paints

Speedpaints this evening - no reference

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Corrupted & After War

"Corrupted"

"After War"

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Potatodurp - Week 3 Maya

"Potatodurp"

First three weeks of Maya-learning done!
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Lineart monsters

Lineart monsterface sketch and quick coloring - nextly two quick lineart monsters aswell - though more stylized and simple in their coloring

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Space Marine battle

"Space Marine" battle with my roommate and a few others



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Confident In Colors

"Confident In Colors"

(She's confident in colors, I'm not)

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Hollow

"Hollow"

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Bendy female + facestudy exercise

After 2 hours of struggle with Wacom-drivers at home I finally got going and was inspired to do something unusual, especially after having looked at Jeff Simpson's stuff. Also I had a picture of an elegant bendy female in my resource-folder I wished to create something out of, so here follows the result:

And here goes a little painting facestudy exercise:

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3d Maya Week - Background

Things develop quickly - and learning the 3d-program Maya went better than I expected. This is what I produced after 5 days in the program:

Updated presentation picture:



Original pictures:

The concept will be further developed later on - stay tuned next week!
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Design, rendering and perspective-week

Amazing designweek + rendering/perspective week with Lawrence Marvit over. We had a combination of abstract design-tasks, combined with film and picture analysis, aswell as several lectures. Here's some of the stuff I did.

Two abstract B/W-pictures made from a these themes: Horror and Jungle.

Perspective and rendering-backgrounds.

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Animal sketches

Was watching "African Cats" with my roommate, and paused it to draw the various animals in the movie. Led to these sketches:

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Female face - David Downton inspiration

Inspired by David Downton's fashion illustration style. Check his stuff out here, it's amazing

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Week 4 - Maquette and Character Design

Week 4 was with Julia Bracegirdle, doing all sort of various small projects. This included a quick silhuettefilm, Photoshop-collage (I made a rusty ol' car) and a bigger character design, originating from a soundclip from a children history we listened to. So here goes the rusty Photoshop-mockup, aswell as my wolf-character; The proces, maquette-pictures and two various PS mock-ups:

Also, I was in charge of taking care of a 17-year old intern-guy this week, which was also an experience for me personally. Next week's going to be more design-teaching, this time with an amazing teacher formerly mentioned on my blog, Lawrence Marvit. Updates next week!

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