Character Designs

I've been doing some character colour tests, which were designed and drawn by Tom. Any feedback would be grand, any favourite? A combination? Patterns? I'll probably work on doing a few more colours and patterns, and trying different combinations of those... but this is just to get me started.

Latest MAV concept art!

We've been working on locking down the storyline for the film, and I'm happy to say that we're pretty much there. I've started putting together some concept art to get the creative juices flowing again, as well as preparing other material for a peer review next week. I'll share that as soon as I can!

Masters film concept art.

In a mild panic, I've been trying to think up some potential film ideas for the Masters... particularly considering Ticked Off was written, boarded, designed, modelled and textured by this point in the production timeline. 

My esteemed drinking buddy animation peer, Tom Paxton, and I have been fleshing out an idea over the past couple of days about a guy who gets turned into a cartoon version of himself. It's early days yet, and we're going to keep the details under wraps until we figure it out... at which point we'll no doubt pitch it then start the hunt for potential collaborators. 

In the meantime, I whipped up this first concept piece today to give us something to work with. I've included the original image and a cropped in section as well. 

Fire away with any feedback and/or suggestions! 

Oops... I arted. (Also, tutorial update)

I've been working on some fresh concepts for our old 3rd year project, which Paxton and I are going to remake. We're pretty keen to realise the idea, particularly after everything we learned in 4th year. Here's the first of a few concept pieces I've been doing, just to get the general feel. Although, it might not make a lot of sense to those unfamiliar with the project.

We're working on getting some other pre production goodies together too including animatics and designs so stay tuned for that.

Also, after receiving a bunch of messages from DJCAD students about compositing I've decided I'm going to make some short and simple tutorial videos covering the basics of pimping stuff in After Effects. I started doing this, but my planned 10 minute tutorial turned into about an hour... so it's going to need some more structure. If any 3rd & 4th year students have any pressing questions, please just get in touch. I'll be covering passes/layers, importing, basic comping, cheap tricks, colour correction and exporting. Maybe some in-depth geekery... 

Sláinte!

Concept designs.

I thought this would look pretty nice animated, I might do a test soon. I tried to go the "Ooohhh I'm cinematic" look by including some lens flare, grain, lens dust, a vignette and the oh-so-ever cinematic black bars.

These ones are just doodles, I think they'd look pretty sweet when animated. I'll do a test for these asap.