What I'd like to do

Hmmm.. tricky.


I really like concept art, I like the development and thought that goes behind animations and games and the amount of detail that a development team can put in. Seeing all the rough works, sketchbooks and all the nitty gritty development work has always been my thrill. Art of books for animation are amazing (of course any animator will say that) but what I'm trying to say is I'd like to go into the direction of research and development, 2d concepts maybe? It's all a bit scary really.
     Of course I definitely need to improve my drawing skills. By miles. I'm a very harsh critic on myself and I guess the only way I can remedy this constant feeling that I'm not doing well enough is by drawing. Tons. Like... all the time.
   That's why I'm wanting to do environments for Pirates, even though I've only touched upon them due to the fact that we spent most of this semester doing character design (which I also find really interesting, seeing all the elements of design going into characters, from shapes that influence their final outcome to learning how they can be appealing in terms of colours and shapes.) Doing environments I find really interesting and I want to improve in that area, especially in the basic like perspective, colour etc. I find composition important and I'd love to be able to create images that tell a story just by glancing at them. But then on further inspection you'd see all the details, little things that the artist has added in that makes up the bigger picture. I really like my colour stuff, it's kinda obsessive and I still need to definitely master colour theory if I want to make effective backgrounds for pirates. Even for the character designs I feel I could probably still do tons more sketches for the Burly guy (probably again this feeling of never doing enough.)
     Anyway I've rambled, what I'm basically trying to say is I enjoy doing character design and environments... and animating too. I'm not sure I've found a good strong point yet but like I've mentioned before, it's the smaller details that I like in concepts that really help the final picture have that much more charm...


Will probably edit this later. It's pretty much a ramble right now. :)

Loose lips sync ships. Pirate ships.

A rough lip sync test, done in Flash. The song is You Give Love a Bad name by Bon Jovi. I enjoyed this, think I'll look into working in Flash more.

Thar be a ship!

Rough Model sheet for the Veggie ship which we're going to be modelling in 3D.

Burly Man expressions

Template from here

some Burly man expressions, he's becoming more and more fun to draw :) I think the silly expression was my favourite, just because of having to pull that face in the mirror for reference.

Hipster Colour Turnaround :)

With some much needed help from Kat, we have a coloured Hipster :D Going to fix a few things with shading but pretty happy!

Burly Model Sheet

Here we go :D

Production Bible/Style Guide Cover

Front cover image for the production bible. Textures from CG textures.com, logo was drawn in illustrator/flash CS4, then compiled in PS CS4.