Summer Artwork

It's been a long time since I've updated this blog, so it seems fitting to start my first post of the new semester with a summary of the art I've work on over the summer months away from university. Comparing this summer's work to the work I produced last year, I think I can see two separate style between which I alternate; that of traditional pencil illustration (sometimes digitally coloured and textured) and that of a more painterly, line-less style. I believe that since last year, my handling of shape and depth has improved, as well as the precision of my line art. However, points I have identified to improve include working out more refined colour palettes and working on my composition, as well as gaining a better understanding of lighting.

3D Environments

Below is featured the 3D environment model on which I have been workling lately. The first video shows the model with all textures and lights, the second one without.

 

 

 

 

Dance animation

Below is the final dance animation I had to complete for the Motion Studies Module. Whilst it was a little frustrating and difficult to work with the limited model we were provided, I am still pleased with what I managed to create in the end.  The second video is a showreel of all of my 2d motion studies work, and my full dance animation.

 

 

 

Dance Life Drawings

A collection of life drawings done during a dance rehearsal. It was extremely interesting to have to draw so quickly and to reference poses as they moved and changed constantly.

 

 

Some more creature head designs. This is really further practise in concept design and coming up with ideas quickly.

 

 

Short experimental animations - using various methods to inform my 1 minute animation.

 

 

 



Animated skip cycle - I used adobe flash for this project and one of the aims was to include moving hair and clothes.

 

Recent Art

A collection of recent pieces of art, trying new styles and techniques of digital painting.

 

 

 

 

 

More art

 

A few more recent pieces.

 

 

 



Background Layouts

After being set the background and layout project today, I thought I would introduce myself to the project by drawing some layouts from Disney animation. The following layouts are from shots from Sleeping Beauty and The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

 

Dragon flight cycle

Today's 2d practise ~

Artwork

More artwork completed over the last few weeks.

Sneak Cycle

This time using cut-out animation; a sneaking walk. Hopefully with more practise I can get this style to look less jerky.

 

2D Animation

Some more 2D motion studies animations - I'm very much enjoying the organic feel of working with the light box, and look forward to trying out some more creative personal projects ~

 

Cleaned - up traditional animation

Cleaned up version of the previous drawn animation ~

 

First Traditional Animation

Here is my first attempt at traditional pencil drawn animation. It was far more easy than expected and a lot of fun!

 

 

More Art

Further work I've done over the past few weeks, some course related, others not.

 

E4 Ident Storyboard

This is for my current project; to produce a 10 second sting for the annual E4 competition. Here is the storyboard for my idea - which will hopefully turn into stop motion!

 



Sketches and Dragons

A compilation of many of the sketches down in my book this semester - also a couple of dragons for your enjoyment as well. I'm enjoying the more illustration style I used for the second creature, as I found it very useful for getting in the anatomical details...

 

2014 Showreel

Here we have a compilation show reel of all of the animation work I have done throughout the first semester at Falmouth University. This combines Flash, Maya, Stop motion and After Effects.

Winter Artwork

A selection of word I've done over the last month or two. All are original characters.