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DC3: Handing in the ICA

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on May 5, 2010
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The time had come to finally deliver something for the DC3 module. It was interesting considering that the only delivery was at the end of the year, but I don’t complain. The final part of the ICA, before handing in things, was to draw pictures of “The continents”.

So here are the drawings that I delivered (had to be twelve, and two of them had to be in traditional media), and it seems like you can learn a lot from observing life to learn to draw as well. I didn’t draw as much this year as I intended to, but still I can see improvement in my work. Wonder what it would look like if I had made drawings all the time… Well, that will be something I’ll have to work on, after all the other modules are finished.

Anyway, here are the pictures that I delivered (in alphabetical order), some unfinished (like the environment and the scavenger), and some of them you’ve seen before. As always, click to resize.

Alphabet: D for Dragon Head

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DC3: Testing brushes… Getting lost

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on April 24, 2010
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The last part of my ICA is to create something from the continents of the world (meaning I can do almost anything I want), so I’m going to make a Japanese fortress/city. For this I needed a cloud brush, which worked perfectly, but I got lost somewhere… Making a SPACESHIP!!! Oh yeah!

Well, it ended up as a speed painting, testing more brushes from the same package. These brushes are from Adonihs’ deviantart page, and can be found HERE.

Now back to work!

AVE: Hard disk drive crashed… No backup! (links)

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Andreas Nor
on February 8, 2010
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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!

DC3: Presentation

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on December 11, 2009
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The illustrations that I’m going to present: (click to enlarge)

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AVE: Visual Effects Animatic Draft #1

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on November 23, 2009
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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:

PP60: Starting with the Practical Project (60 credits)

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on November 13, 2009
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This is a rushed WIP storyboard (I changed the character design and age after page 2), for the short animation I plan to make for the Practical Project module, and a crude piece of concept art for one of the characters.

Project Specification to follow.

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AVE: Choosing a setting for the Advanced Visual Effects ICA

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on November 2, 2009
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I have been thinking about what kind of environment I want to do for the Advanced Visual Effects ICA.

First I had no ideas at all, but I had thumbnailed an environment for my DC3 assignment, which I chose to set this short visual effects demonstration in.

I did a quick paint over to set the mood.

This one has warmer colours:

But this one looks (in my opinion) better, as volcanic rocks tend to look colder and blueish:

I’ll probably scrap the one to the bottom left. Maybe I’ll just keep the one to the top right, and make another one for the interior, saving me lots and lots of time.

The way I’m going to solve this is to camera project matte paintings over 3D architecture, and make the interior solely 3D (no matte paintings): I don’t know yet.

I have also been thinking about moving it away from a volcano, and make it inside a “regular” mountain. I will have the same architecture as above, but with different colours, and no volcano elements.

The interior should have a blueish green glow, and maybe have some candles on an altar in the middle of the room. Minas Morgul from The Lord of the Rings is my inspiration for that glow.

DC3: Scavenger

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on October 30, 2009
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Updated after getting feedback from teacher:

DC3: Trying to be a bit more original

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on October 29, 2009
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Last Friday I showed my sketches for the assignment to one of the teachers, and some of the criticism was that my work was too generic (not exact words).

Here is a modified sketch that I just worked on:

I started to think of where it would be cool to see a zombie; a medieval setting, viking setting etc. and ended up with the Roman Empire, which I haven’t seen used too much when making undead.

So what I did was to add legionary armour to the zombie, which I had to google for reference.

I will keep adding more sketches in the next few days, and perhaps scan in some of my sketchbook as well.

Update:

I just remade the dragon head as well. It’s based on a some lizards and crocodiles, to move a bit away from Disney’s dragon design from ‘Sleeping Beauty’ (1959), which has been the basis for a lot of typical fantasy dragons… Just a bit

And a design even further away from the standard fantasy dragon:

This one actually creeps me out a bit. I tried to challenge myself and design a creature a bit different than i usually do… Which seemed to work, so I should probably continue taking small steps out of my comfort zone.

DC3: Sketches for workshop in Drawing & Composition 3 on Friday

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on October 23, 2009
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We have been given an assignment again. This time we’re supposed to create a picture for each of the letters in the alphabet. Here’s some sketches I just did in Photoshop:

D for Dragon:

F for Femme Fatale (there’s something wrong with this sketch, but I don’t know what it is):

Z for Zombie:

So I hope to get some constructive feedback. I suspect they’ve expected to see more sketches, but I’ve been busy with other things this week.

I’ve just started on three courses over at FXPHD, simply because I didn’t know much about compositing, which is vital to pass the Advanced Visual Effects module here at Teesside.