Character Design - Caricature

I began the day by drawing weaponry, armour and furniture from the period of ancient Rome focusing on versatility, ornateness and decoration in order to gain a little understanding of the time period and the item properties.   

I then took an item at random and began to exaggerate it using different archetype shapes to give the helmet personality, the larger pen images evolved from triangles and an attempt to create the helmet of a more brutal Legate of the Roman Military.    

Afterwards we were tasked with Caricaturing either a human or an animal, the original image and my first drawing are next to each other below, then on the right is some examples submitted to aid me in pulling out the exaggeration in the face using various archetypes. 

 Below are my attempts to draw out exaggeration using various archetype shapes.

Fantastic Voyage - concept Art Thumbnailing

Some Preliminary Sketches for my Fantastic Voyage Concept Art to work out Composition. I have gone for a more Militaristic approach to composition using famous imagery of military speeches of Dictators to impress an atmosphere on the characters. The images aren't of events in the Animation but more of a Concept for the world in which the Animation takes place. The images which I will be carrying forward are as follows: 

Page 1 - Left Side, Portrait.

Page 1 - Right Lower Corner, Landscape.

Page 4 - Right Upper Corner, Landscape. 

Page 4 - Left Lower Corner, Landscape.

(Images taken with Camera Phone, lit with White LED lamp, taken into Photoshop and cut onto 1920x1080x72 pages, black border around images, Shift+E to merge layers, image menu > adjustments > Black and White, export as JPEG.) 

Fantastic Voyage - Animatic - Current Progress

I've been working to create a style for my world which I've been reflecting in my animatic, below are some choice snapshots of work I've completed so far. I've been working in simple colours, grey and yellow mostly because I wont wish to nail down firstly the textures or the environment just yet.

This is simply to be a teaser of my progress:

Fantastic Voyage - Online Greenlight Review 1

From Script To Screen - Concept thumbnails

Various drawings to give me some idea of the layout of my world. I've toyed with the idea that the Factories are clock shaped to fit a theme of the landscape which the story takes place.

Adobe Animate - Unplanned Throwing Animation

This is an animation where no planning before hand was involved. 

Life Drawing

We had a female model today. I felt I needed to loosen up for drawing, meaning I wasn't happy with my first four attempts, each seven minutes.

We then did a 30 minute pose, I particularly liked this one, I felt I did will proportionally and anatomically. I framed the picture for composition.

I was particularly happy with the hand.

Finally we did another 30 minute pose. The model laid down for us. I liked how I emboldened the deeper lines with charcoal. Once again I framed the image for composition.

Animation - Full Lip Sync

Fully finished Lip Sync for Animation, the audio is from the film Hot Fuzz (2007) starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

From Script to Screen - Like-for-Like Storyboard

I used the Scene from Alien (1979) when the alien bursts from the character Kane's chest in the Nostomo Mess.

From Script to Screen - Creating Assets and Visualizing Ideas.

I've Began to draw ideas for how I have seen the set in my head, I wanted to do a few drawings to get the idea of a generic shop and factory out of my head. As for the characters I want to work on them some more however the initial feeling of the character was what I was trying to grasp at.

What If? Metropolis - Crit Presentation

What If? Metropolis - Art Of

Adobe Animate - Jump Cycles

We did two jumps which were recorded on film then these are the preliminary drawings which will help me to complete my animation, I tidied them up and resized them in Photoshop to give myself a smoother time animating. 

Life Drawing - Costumes

Adobe Animate - Silly Walk

Silly Walk Animation

Adobe Animate - Run Cycle

A run cycle at 24 fps, each step is a cycle of 12 fps with ground contact at every 7th frame. 

After Effects - Parallax Test

This is the image i created for the parallax effect in Photoshop today.

Below is the final result.

What If? - Metropolis - Online Greenlight Review 2

What If? Metropolis - Final Painting and Outline

Final Concept Painting Depicting my Composition and Scene.

I've used yellow to outline what I intend to 3D Model. 

Adobe Animate - Session 6 - Walk Cycle

My walk cycle animation.