Thursday 22 May 2014

On going concepts

Most of the art work I will be working towards(  Excluding my personal art and project)   will mostly be for Revenant. My goal is to create more sets of "WOW" images. Lately I've been doing random concept designs , which mean I haven't based the designs on the official reference sheets.

So far theses are some that I have done.



Since we have the final character sheets and turn arounds, I can explore more in their movements and doing some action poses for them as well. another area that I feel is still lacking are the environments so I will be doing more practice and painting on them too.

Friday 16 May 2014

Final colour and scene

So in the end this was the official colour for the beetle bouncer in the night club scene.  In the group tutorial we agreed that the green colour for his skin would stand out among the red interior. The one before had greyish skin but  it loked a bit purple when overlayed with the red light which make his colour a bit too similar to the cat. Green adds a nice contrast.


After fhinsihing the colour scheme, I moved on to to colouring in the lined animation. Charlott did the finished in between and I got the work while off her.  I was a bit unsure for the shading of the character because the scene I worked on was where the live action character would interact with . I was advise to so some subtle shading. and this is the end product.
So nothing too dark but still doesn't look like he's all just flat colours.

Sunday 11 May 2014

DEEP Background

I've also been working on another background for another scene. This section is called the snow scene. I've been assigned it recently and style used for this scene is heavily influenced by Mike Mignola, the artist for Hellboy.




These are the scenes I've done so far and have been approved for the style. There are still some work that needs to be done for the colours and lighting. 

Saturday 10 May 2014

DEEP

Another Digital practice project that is on going is DEEP. A film directed by our lecture , Derek Hayes. The film has various style through out and I sighed up to work on a section of the film called night club.

Here I was responsible for coloring in the night club backgrounds. The layout and designs were done prior and the background was divided between Jasmine Groot and I to work on.

This concept was sketch up before I was handed the official layout. The purpose of this is to test out the mood and lighting that could be applied to the scene. After hearing the feed back, I was was advised to improve on the tone of the colour to make it warmer.
Above is the finish coloring of the background. I had a bit of issue in over shading some of the assets in the film . Most of the reference I look at were mostly Warner bros cartoon. Focusing on bold colours.
Not only that I had to adapt to the new colouring style that I am not so familiar with I also must maintain consistency in the colouring since there were two artist working on the background. It had to look like it had been coloured by only one person.  

Another interesting work that I really enjoy was the character. The character were already designed and all that was needed is a colour pallet. I focus on testing out colours for the beetle character in the scene.

Above here is a test of the coloured character in the backgrounds. I personally like the green beetle but it still need some working since this is mostly from an illustration point of view rather than a moving animated character. Some adjustments are still needed in his attire colour and the saturation of his skin that at the same time need to work with the background but still has to stand out on his own as a character.


Friday 9 May 2014

Personal art work and designs

 Other than my current university projects , I've been doing my own practices with digital art. I mostly wanted to improve on my lineart and colouring style. Trying to refined my personal style as well as adapting to other styles and techniques.

One of my main concerns are the uses of colours.
Sketch thing 02 by Elle-Evergreen

Above is a sketch concepts of my own character I've developed. On the right are head shots. Here, I was aiming for a vibrant colour pallet. I wanted the colour to pop , bright but also balanced. The one on the top right is probab has the brightest colour and saturation.


This second concept piece, I've toned down the saturation but still maintain the lighting. (with the exception of the characters on the top left.) This was also a good practice on colouring different skin tones and face shapes.
Concept doodle by Elle-Evergreen
Concept of human races for a story concept


Lastly this is part of a comic strip I did for an art group. I limited myself to using few colours and stick to mostly black and white tone and focus on the lighting. I used red to emphasis the female character's unique features. ( Red nails , marking and eyes.


Vora :  Grasp by Elle-Evergreen