WIM thumbnails 92 - 100

Using maya to create a quick scene and photoshop to colour the screenshots.

What I'm looking for is some feedback on the best angles and possibly colours (even though they are a bit basic, i know) so that i can start on my concept painting.

Thaaaaanks :)

Final Outcomes, Invisible Cities

And here are my final paintings, starting with exterior establishing shot:

Exterior low angle shot:

And an interior shot:

For some very strange reason, the coulours are much more different on every other monitor I look at them, when I painted them they were saturated. Need to double check why this happens.

Octavia thumbnail

Visualising the city in perspective, not a lot of details I'm afraid. The city looks really murky I need to draw the attention of the viewer on it, but without the level of detail it really doesn't work at the moment. Feedback on the overall composition anyone?

Octavia research on how to design a city

Did some more research, I am happy with the overall shape of the city, it also looks a bit like a spider, which was purely accidental :)

New Octavia thumbnails

Based on my research I published yesterday, I did some thumbnails. I think they make much more sense than my previous ones.
1. Is a overview of Octavia with the buildings and houses.
2. Is a close up on the roof top water gathering trees.
3. A close-up on the "community building" and its entrance.
4. Is a more stylised version of the city.
Feedback is more than welcome :)

Octavia thumbnail

Just a quick one, the colours just refused to work so I turned them down almost completely.

3 point perspective exercises

Brush texture and invisible cities

Since I got a good response for my life drawing sketch from Phil (Hi Phil :) )

I wanted to incorporate it with my project. So after a quick chat with Jordan today, I made the drawing into a brush for photoshop.

I love the texture it creates, at first glance it looks like a really good start for rocky surfaces and possibly with some additional editing, clouds/steam. I did a quick concept thumb for Octavia using only my mouse (what a rebel!), so ALL feedback is welcome.

Perspective exercises (sketchbook scan)

Started experimenting with perspective. I understand it when playing around with cubes, but actually implementing it in a painting, with complex objects, just doesn't make any sense and it all looks out of proportion. Won't stop trying though :) 

Spider-web city concept art

A quick concept sketch for the city I picked, first drawn in my sketchbook and then redone digitally:

Invisible cities - rest of the thumbnails for the Spider-Web city

The rest of my thumbnails, all of them are exploring the city I chose - Spider-web city.

Basically the more I sketched the more ideas I developed which was really interesting. Even the ones that do not look like anything in particular led me to some concept ideas.

I think the keywords after finishing the concepts are: crystals, snow, bones (husks), chains, northern lights and spider webs.

Exercise 3 - copy / paste/ layer styles

And the last exercise we did on Monday. Did not have enough time to experiment more broadly.

Exercise 2 - lasso tool/marquee tool/transforms

The second lot of thumbnails, this time for the city named Esmeralda:

Looking at them now reminds me a lot of the background for the text frames in the film "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari".

The spider-web city exercise thumbnails

The first very quick thumbnails for the Spider-web city:

Photoshop exercise 01 - Brush thumbnails

I managed to recover my files from monday (I'll never forget my external hard drive again!). And here it is - trying out the different brushes (half of which, sadly, are not compatible with photoshop CS5).

Concept sketch

Just a quick, 15 minute sketch, using photoshop and trying really hard to use the keyboard shortcuts instead of the usual clicking :)

tired eyes tutorial

Following an imagine fx tutorial and using photoshop. It all looks wonky and the lines are far from perfect but I am trying to get used to the idea of uploading work in progress on my blog. Still embarrassing, but I suppose it will all pay off in the long run.

Jellyfish concept sketch

Aaaand another concept sketch for the jellyfish final design. Photoshop for about 20 minutes.

Concept art (summer project)

Another concept painting for my final design of a building from the summer project. Photoshop for about an hour while watching Lady Hawk on film4 :p Very inspiring indeed!

Summer project concept art

A bit of a concept art for one of my final designs from the summer project :)