Art, Portfolio, Showreel
My hard drive crashed. While my computer is up and running again with a new hd and Win 7, I’ve lost all my files. Every single one.
I curse thee, foul desolate storage units of despair!!!
The good thing though, is that I have Win 7 as opposed to Vista, and I’ve started backing up my files online.
This is a major setback in every module at school, but I don’t think it’s hopeless. I just have to workincredibly hard . Yes, it sucks, but I’ve learned a very important lesson. Backup your files!
Update (26. November 2009): I made this in Photoshop, but after a presentation/tutorial by Nigel Dobbyn at the University, I’ve decided to continue this style in the superior (for inking) Illustrator.
This is an experiment. I went away from my sketchy/painty style and went for some comic book-ish style for this piece.
It just started as a doodle, but I kept working on it. The composition is not good at all, but this is one layer, so I can’t move things around easily. Note to self: Start with composition next time.
I could remove the guy to the right and cut away a tiny bit of the backgrond, then it would be solved, but it wouldn’t be a team anymore.
And yes, Mike Mignola is awesome…
I’ve been busy with other things this week, but managed to put together an animatic for the AVE assignment.
I took the storyboard pictures, cut them out and imported them in Adobe Premiere. Then the shots we’re put together in the timeline and timed.
Added an animated cloud layer over the exterior shots and a fume layer over the interior shots. They are hard to see in the render I did, but will hopefully be fixed.
I added a piece of music that I intend to use in the final product. Sound effects are yet to be put in.
Here is the animatic:
An update! Woohoo!!!
I think I started on this about two to three hours ago. Now it’s about 3 AM, and this is supposed to be finished in time for the lecture/lab tomorrow.
The assignment was: “Draw a coloured 2D image representing your European star sign or Chinese year sign.”
So I’m both a rat and libra, and wanted to combine them, but meh! Too much work. Got to sleep as well!
I wanted to put the libra sign on the shield, but that’s very time consuming (at least to get it right).
I started out with a line drawing, then shaded it. Made cleaner lines around it, made the shading resemble fur and tried to blend the lines in with the shading. Added colour with a layer set to overlay mode. Tweaked levels. Added texture and more colour via more layers, some set to overlay, some to multiply. Added a spear tip to the staff. Desaturated the overall colour a bit. Flipped the picture horisontally.
And here’s the result:
I’ve had a lot of problems drawing girls, but fortunately I stumbled upon a tutorial on idrawgirls.com.
This is what I ended up with. It might nok look like much, but I’ve never been able to create a picture like that without real-life reference.
Girl
Ok, so the whole sketch-a-day project was a failure, but here’s a new drawing:
I made this one for a friend of mine. Took some hours divided in two days to finish. Not being any good at using different pencils I just made the whole thing with a 2B pencil on A4 paper.
Her horse’s name is Fame.
I didn’t expect to use that much time on it, but I’m quite happy with the result.
In other news: Michael and I are going to England 23 September, with his father driving the car. We will arrive 25 September then I will start with Digital Character Animation goodness!
Made with the OLD Wacom tablet. Just IMAGINE the possibilities with the magnificent and fantasticular Intuos 4!
I just added ‘Stuff’ to the gallery along with some old pictures.
Earlier today I woke up by a TNT-man(or UPS-guy) ringing the doorbell. Obviously he hated his job and probably wanted to strangle a monkey, but he gave me my brand new Wacom Intuos 4 tablet first.
Oh joy! It didn’t work at first *panic*, but found some drivers on the net that fixed my problems *relief*.
It’s a lot better and sensitive than the Wacom I borrowed at school.
Now I just got to make something with it. Hmmm… Animating or “painting”. Animating or “painting”…
As I was working on the texture for the robot, I started to see a picture taking shape.
It became a speed painting of one of my favorite comic book characters, made using a mouse, photoshop and some brushes(.zip-file from http://psbrushes.net) from the net.
The style ended up looking a bit like Frank Miller’s.
Fun, fun, fun.
I’m back! I haven’t been good at updating my blog lately, but that’s going to change, starting today.
What have I been doing? Ummm… Err….. I have been making a lot of sketches. Not related to this project. It’s mostly to get better at at drawing… Yes..
This is the most recent render of the robot I’ve been working on:
The model and textures are finished and… Continue reading ‘The Return of the Blog Posts’
We have been given some pointers on hove to write a better blog, and one of the assignments was to “fix” an earlier entry of our blog… stuff.
So let’s just start shall we?
I’m a 25 year old norwegian male student, currently residing in Middlesbrough, UK
My goal is to get a bachelor degree in Digital Character Animation at Teesside University, and get into the industry as an animator or concept artist(when I’m good enough).
This blog is here partially to push myself to become a better artist.
Jeff Smith, Mike Mignola, Jhonen Vasquez, Steve Purcell, Andrew Loomis, Alan Lee, John Howe, James Gurney, Richard Williams, Ed Hooks, Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott, Sergio Leone, David Fincher, J.R.R. Tolkien, Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar, ILM
