Biro

A sketch I found in my lecture notes that I rather liked. Some of my other lecture doodles will be uploaded on Spur of the Moment over the next few days.

More Toon Shading Tests

A few little bits in the models to fix so the lines draw properly and we're nearly done! Just a few textures to be added then we can animate!

Cannon Ball Smoke Test

Paul and I have been working for ages (or half an hour) on turning my 2D drawing into 3D. The cannon ball is going to be travelling and spinning in slow motion in the shot, so animating the gas/plasma it vents by hand would be tricky. Here's our first CG test...

Here's Paul's particle smoke:

And here's it again after I played with it in After Effects:

It's early days but we're on the way to getting a good 2D-style effect. I've devised a way to make it fade out like the picture, and Paul's working on getting it wavier.

Trooper Animation Test

My opening shot. If you haven't watched the animatic and don't want any spoilers, maybe give this one a miss ;)

Better quality version available here.

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:

Taxman

Character/prop/set design for a friend's animation.

Life Drawing - Sitting

Trooper Animatic

The updated animatic for my degree film...

Jenny Everywhere

My last-minute submission for Jenny Everywhere Day! Would like to have done more but time was against me so I just did a quick sketch and inked it.

After doing this I wouldn't mind doing some more Jenny Everywhere stuff in the future...

El Family

I got thinking about Elwood and the his siblings and before I knew it I was drawing this. Drawn with a brush pen and grey markers. It's amazing how fast this appeared on the piece of paper in front of me at this time in the morning after a few glasses of wine...

Wouldn't mind turning this into a complete piece in the future. I'm also looking forward to exploring Elwood's two other sisters and his mum in the strip...