115- The First Hunt Model Sheets

More work from last semester. This was for a personal film I made in an animation class that I titled "The First Hunt."

Here are the model sheets:

117A- Gary Soto Project

Hey all!

Figured I'd post up my work from last semester in my first visual development class. Our assignment was to illustrate a story moment that could possibly be featured in a coming of age film inspired by the writings of Gary Soto.

We'll start off with some early development drawings. As I was reading through Soto's stories, I noticed that despite the overall happy tones of his stories, the struggles of the times of then were definitely apparent; his family was overworked and his stepfather was developing alcoholism due to being overworked and underpaid. I wanted to capture a moment of loneliness and betrayal that could have been caused by such a situation; the drawing on the very right of the first page captured the spirit of what I wanted the final piece to be.

For the isometric, I ended up constructing the entire scene in Maya. This was extremely helpful as it allowed me to worry less about constructing my own perspective and allowed me to figure out different layout views a lot faster.

Final line layout:

Value and color development. My professor showed our class some really good techniques on how to design the values in our scenes to make them read clearly.

Final lighting comp.

The final illustration.

Figure drawings from a session at SJSU. This particular model frequents Dreamworks Studio, so we got a healthy dose of stories from her. As I was drawing her, I couldn't help but notice something particularly alive about this woman.

Later on in the session, she told us about a story of a model who had to come to terms with her overweight issues and how the story of that model influenced her as well. I have to say, she really changed my perception of what is beauty; she herself has to be one of the most beautiful persons I have ever met.

Digital Painting Studies

Here is a collection of digital painting studies that I have done throughout the course of this semester. The first three are photo studies done in my illustration class as a means to warm up to painting in photoshop. The rest are quick studies I've done in my spare time.

Still Life Object (original photo here)

Monument Valley

Rockerfeller Center

 Speedpaint screencap studies from Martin Scorsese's Hugo (2011).

Speedpaint screencap studies from Carl Reed's The Third Man (1949).

Anna Lee Fisher, the first mother in space. I believe this is from a 1985 issue of Time. Original photo here.

115- Background Studies

Today shall be known as the day I learned to paint really fast, lol. Jesus my main hand hurts in the joints.

These are various background studies of particular animated films, specifically those that feature forest type backgrounds for the most part (save a few that I did for fun). This study is meant as sort of reference material for the short I will be working on in my second animation class.

The individual studies are pretty small in size, but the sheer number and my own time constraint challenged me to paint faster with bigger, looser strokes. I feel a bit burnt out from this, but I think I've actually learned a lot from doing this haha.

Skyland Citadel- Rose's Post-battle Repairs

A different rendition of Rose in a more of a battle-ready look. This was the result of my experimentation with using only three flat tones. I quite enjoyed how this came out.

Skyland Citadel- Riyo and Rose

These are finished character designs I did for Skyland Citadels, a story based upon a vivid dream I had of floating skyscrapers that were chained to the ocean. Their names are Riyo and Rose, a couple of orphans who live in a shanty town area of the Skylands known as the Chain Slums.