Fall Before the Dawn (Lyric Video)

 A lyric video I made for Farseer, based on their album artwork (which I also created). The goal was to create some quick, interesting visuals to accompany the music and lyrics.

www.farseerofficial.com

Another Elwood Panel I spent undue time on

Strip...

Kitchen at Dawn

A closer look at panel two from this strip.

Midnight in Elwoodland

A better look at the first panel of this strip.

Trooper Backgrounds

Some background art that I've been doing for Trooper.

Some of the more interesting ones anyway. There's a lot of close ups and alternate angles not worth posting. In fact I've been painting that last one from many different angles and have more to go. Man am I sick of it.

Trooper's Room

Nearly finished working on layout and I'm doing some background paintings. Thought I'd share this one with you all.

Trooper Background Test

This is the first proper background I've taken from layout to colour. Until this point I wasn't entirely sure how the backgrounds would be achieved - particularly when I had a 3D interior scene that needs to look like the rest of the 2D backgrounds. There's also the tricky matter of giving the backgrounds depth and lighting without making them overly detailed or painterly - which takes too much time and contrasts too much with the animation style. I'm happy with the results however. I may go in a tweak a few things, add a little more detail to some of the boxes, but it's more or less done.

Trooper Updates

Some updates from the film I'm currently working on. Some stills, concept art, the works.

Rob's been doing the 3D modelling for me based on my designs. I'll update with some better pics soon, these are pretty early.

Turnaround:



Turnaround:

My first experiments with the toon shader on Rob's models:

Nebulae

My second go at creating some space backgrounds following this one. I could probably work this one a lot more but I really must get some sleep.

Morning on Another Planet

I haven't posted here in a while, so here's a little piece I made today. It's kind of an experiment for a technique that could be better used in the future.

The sun and sky were added digitally, and besides the green tint would you believe the rest is a macro photo of a pint of beer?

Nebula, in Progress

A star field background with some nebula action going on. Nothing too flashy or eye catching, there's going to be some foreground activity I don't want overshadowed. The first picture in this post, actually.

Background Concepts

Some ideas and concepts for backgrounds. Nothing final here, just experiments.

Grime

Street

River Stairs

Village

Forest Path

Elwood Backgrounds

Two Elwood backgrounds. One for an upcoming animated short, the other a background for a possible story arc in the comic.

Another Background

I think I'm going to keep posting backgrounds here as I make them, as I'm too chuffed with them. That is, until the plot starts being given away.

Is there anybody out there?

I'm working on this project right now and it's giving me a chance to play with cartoon backgrounds. I didn't give a lot of thought to it until the end of my previous cartoon but I'm very concious this time.