Unorthodox studios

final renders

2012-01-20T16:48:00.000Z

Recent renders p3: Clean up and joining

2011-12-10T14:15:00.005Z

From my last post, iv'e been cleaning up my geometry a lot and and trying to sort out many little problems i may have to deal with in the future.

i have also joined the layer together, wich proved to be less difficult then i thought it would be.

am almost finished cleaning the geometry but i just want to get it out of the way and complete the whole model. there are still a lot of different parts am not sure how to tackle yet and will take some time to figure out.

i have a lot to do and i think the best thing to do at this stage is write up a official time table for my project and my dissertation.

i want my model to be complete by Wednesday so i can start working on the tentacles and UVing by the week after.

Recent renders. p2

2011-12-07T02:18:00.004Z

i have been fixing my cleaning up my mesh a lot and extruding it and creating a inside for my Layers. here are some recent renders.

as you can see my layers look 3d now. this took alot of time and i still have about 8 layers to do. i am happy with the amount of work i have done today, and noticed i work better when am in a group of hard working people like Alex z and Andi. :D

Presintation

2011-12-04T01:14:00.001Z

Unorthdox studios

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Recent renders

2011-12-04T00:52:00.005Z

Completed with smooth and hardend edges

Process of creating my Character.

Basic Block out of mesh.

Block out mesh ready for more detail.

Detailed Mesh top and bottom.

full body

@ALAN

2011-11-28T17:06:00.005Z

Am not sure if am doing these corners right, the example you showed me got corrupted, so i have gone through the model doing number one on the corners but just want to see if it was right, can you let me know if corner 1 or corner 2 is the correct way or neither.

Hydra final shape

2011-11-23T08:41:00.004Z

Combined all of what i had researched and sketched, i had came to a conclusion on how my Hydra would look like.

development to color of my Hydra.

The Logic behind the machine .

i am currently working on maya with my design and will post something tonight!.... (or in another 10 years :D)

Hydra Shape

2011-11-23T08:18:00.004Z

so now i have a few things to go with my hyrda i will be concentrating on the base of my machine, the material and the look of it is essential to my design.

the Hydra has to meet these specs.

Smooth
Sharp in sense of edges.
Able to move like a sea creature (segmented)
Futuristic.
Logical interms of how it may work.

I spit the Hydra into 3 maine Parts Cockpit, Maine Body and Tentacles.

The cockpit will hold a team of 3, one for each part of Hydra.

i wanted the cockpit to look smooth but slightly different from the body so it doesn't look so simular and boren.

segmenting the body so it could move was targeted around the neck and the bottom of the hydra so it can move its tentacles around. i also wanted to brake away from the fluency of the layered armour by putting something in the middle of the hydra. i thought a energy cannon would be weapon to place in there as a last resort to the crew men of the machine.

there was a few ideas behind each design you see on this page. each with a different ability.

but i didn't want the hyrda to look over complicated in terms of how the city would look.

maybe with a development pages i can refine it even more.

Braking it down. and building it up.

2011-11-23T07:58:00.004Z

i have the creature influenced transport vehicles, but there was a lot of drawings to pick from. so i selected my favorites and some a make over,

Toothfish

Stingray

Seahorse

Frilledfish

as you can see nothing was changed too much, i just wanted to get a understanding of the colors i would of used.

I picked out all the things i liked about my sea transports and will add it to my hydra in the next few posts.

Inside the City.

2011-11-23T07:35:00.003Z

ok so i had a basic understanding of my city but i still have to develop my random floating objects.

in this stage all what was going though my head was what they was and their purpose.

i went through a large list of things that might be in a city and i thought none of them show technology more then transport.

making transport is fun but it cant come form a blackhole, there had to be something that would let me take its shape or some aspect of it to help me a rage in my head a logic form of transport.

The first thing that poped into my mind was Sea creatures but not normal ones, i wanted something different if i could and strange.

I chose 5 creature.

Dumbo octopus
Frilled Shark
Stingray
Sea horse
ToothFish

the Dumbo octopus was the hardest creature out of the five, i think this creature was so curved it didn't really fit my world or scenery.

the frilled shark had a very long slender body and i loved that the most about it, in my sketches i have tried to how the body would move if it was underwater by breaking it up into segments.

the stingray has this lovely fluent look about him. it looks like it was perfectly made for the water so i tried to capture how slim and smooth it looked within my designs.

The sea horse has a lot of body and shape towards its chest area, liked the idea of its shell, howit was ridged and layered.

the toothfish fit straight into my world, it has strong and sharp teeth a lot like my buildings. it feels really dark and dangerous from one look, and i liked that considering the world i was designing is contraled by evil people .

the next stage is now to add there elements to my Hydra base.

Bringing the world to life

2011-11-23T07:19:00.004Z

I was told that i was rushing my project with the last previous post, and that i needed to slow it down alot. all of the work i had done was pointless because i didn't have what was needed before hand.

Alen told me to chill (not in his words) and think it though.

He gave me a diagram explaining what was needed to be done before i could start creating my mechanical Hydra.

Understand your character.
Understand your world.
Understand the technology with in this world.
Create your Character, with in the logic of your world

pretty much he didn't want me to create something that didn't make sense and didn't fit within this world.

example.....a steampunk hydra within a tron like world, it wouldn't make sense.

so i started looking into it and making thumbnail sketch compositions on how my world would look like, form far or on the ground.

As you can see i have sound things floating in my images, they are basic thoughts of what i wanted but in the next stang i had to develop them more.

I kept all of my buildings in my thumbnails very pointed, and always tried to show a giant building in the background. after this i had to move onto the technology be hind the city.

Exodus: fall of Atlantis

2011-11-23T07:06:00.004Z

Here is the is the name of the new game i have made up, Exodus meaning the Movement of a large group of people.

i have stuck with the basic color's that my world will have.

here is the making of Pages

as you can see My whole idea of the process pages was to keep it very simple i got this idea from Feng Zhus designs, keeping the pages simple and with less going on the background helps the viewer concentrate more on whats the page then around it

An adventure in art

2011-10-31T19:40:00.002Z

This is a short Documentary to promote the Disney Animation 'Sleeping Beauty'.

i thought the things said in this documentary apply to almost everything that is to do with our course,

for 1st years : just because your style is different, it does not mean its wrong. but correct in your own eyes.

for 2nd years : putting aside being good by yourself in whatever you do best, working together to complete something as a whole is the the goal as a group.

“The great painter has something to say. He (or she) does not paint men, landscapes or furniture, but an idea.”

Atlantis Concept . (WIP)

2011-10-25T18:40:00.009+01:00

i still have a lot to do in terms of ideas of how i wanted Atlantis to look like in my world.

here are the recent development.

i still need to add sea life, coral and finish the main tower. i want to a a giant statue. and probably more interesting building. i will be working on different composition and different views in the city and some building concepts.

Disney's Atlantis. Stargate Atlantis

2011-10-25T16:02:00.008+01:00

This reading gave me a clear understanding of the Atlantis and how it looked 11,000 years back. it explained the five different islands that surrounded the central island of Atlantis and on top of that a temple with a golden statue of Poseidon the God of the seas according to Greek Mythology.

"Over 11,000 years ago there existed an island nation located in the middle of the Atlantic ocean populated by a noble and powerful race. The people of this land possessed great wealth thanks to the natural resources found throughout their island. The island was a center for trade and commerce. The rulers of this land held sway over the people and land of their own island and well into Europe and Africa.

This was the island of Atlantis.

Atlantis was the domain of Poseidon, god of the sea. When Pos

eidon fell in love with a mortal woman, Cleito, he created a dwelling at the top of a hill near the middle of the island and surrounded the dwelling with rings of water and land to protect her.

Cleito gave birth to five sets of twin boys who became the first rulers of Atlantis. The island was divided among the brothers with the eldest, Atlas, first King of Atlantis, being given control over the central hill and surrounding areas.

At the top of the central hill, a temple was built to honor Poseidon which housed a giant gold statue of Poseidon riding a chariot pulled by winged horses. It was here that the rulers of Atlantis would come to discuss laws, pass judgments, and pay tribute to Poseidon..

To facilitate travel and trade, a water canal was cut through of the rings of land and water running south for 5.5 miles (~9 km) to the sea.

The city of Atlantis sat just outside the outer ring of water and spread across the plain covering a circle of 11 miles (1.7 km). This was a densely populated area where the majority of the population lived.

Beyond the city lay a fertile plain 330 miles (530 km) long and 110 miles (190 km) wide surrounded by another canal used to collect water from the rivers and streams of the mountains. The climate was such that two harvests were possible each year. One in the winter fed by the rains and one in the summer fed by irrigation from the canal.

Surrounding the plain to the north were mountains which soared to the skies. Villages, lakes, rivers, and meadows dotted the mountains.

Besides the harvests, the island provided all kinds of herbs, fruits, and nuts. An abundance of animals, including elephants, roamed the island.

For generations the Atlanteans lived simple, virtuous lives. But slowly they began to change. Greed and power began to corrupt them. When Zeus saw the immorality of the Atlanteans he gathered the other gods to determine a suitable punishment.

Soon, in one violent surge it was gone. The island of Atlantis, its people, and its memory were swallowed by the sea.

This is a summary of the story told by Plato around 360 BC in his dialogues Timaeus and Critias. These writings of Plato are the only specific known references to Atlantis. They have prompted controversy and debate for over two thousand years."

http://www.activemind.com/Mysterious/Topics/atlantis/story.html

I thought i would look at different things that give me more of a understanding of the city of Atlantis visually. looking at two different interpretations of Atlantis through Disney's Atlantis which is a cartoon and Stargate Atlantis which is a live action television program.

Disney Atlantis.

Story synopsis

1914: Milo Thatch, grandson of the great Thaddeus Thatch works in the boiler room of a museum. He knows that Atlantis was real, and he can get there if he has the mysterious Shephards journal, which can guide him to Atlantis. But he needs someone to fund a voyage. His employer thinks he's dotty, and refuses to fund any crazy idea. He returns home to his apartment and finds a

woman there. She takes him to Preston B. Whitmore, an old friend of his Grandfathers. He gives him the shepherds journal, a submarine and a 5 star crew. They travel through the Atlantic ocean, face a large lobster called the Leviathan, and finally get to Atlantis. But does the Atlantis crew have a lust for discovery, or something else?- IMDB

the film was very interesting and used a lot of Mayan sort of influences in terms of city design and pattern work, there isn't really any influence of Greek mythology. which was disappointing, but i thought the colours and designs used for the Film where perfect and worked for it.

Stargate Atlantis.

Story synopsis

An international team of scientists and military personnel discover a Stargate network in the Pegasus Galaxy and come face-to-face with a new, powerful enemy, The Wraith

not much to the synopsis but in terms of the city they created was very logical and kept true to Plato's writings.

as you can see in the picture they have kept the 5 islands surrounding the central island, there is not statue of the Greek God Poseidon.

over the next few days i will try and create some concept art that will reflect the world i wish to design this will also give me a borderline of what my Character will have.

Hydra Shape

2011-10-25T14:19:00.005+01:00

Ive been looking into the shape of my hydra in terms of how it will look, shape and style of what it would look like but i couldn't think, i kept going into a loop and was not getting any designing done for my Hydra done. i was concentrating on the logic behind the machinal machine how it would be powered underwater because i thought that was critical in my design and it is. i was looking at patterns and shapes associated with the sea and natural flow of nature ie. Larva, water, ice, wood patterns for decoration of my hydra but then forgot i still needed a shape overall.

in failing to use Photoshop silhouettes and abstract shapes through Alchemy i thought i would try and research for things that where simular to the the Hydra but in real life.

i found something they call a hydra but its a bateria and its anatomy was very interesting.

using the shape of the real-life hydra made as a base for my machinal hydra is a great starting point in terms for how it works.

the tentacles work as source for catching the food, and the mouth is directly in the middle of all the of tentacles.

in terms of my machine/character i could have the tentacles as a sharp weapon point to cut victims or catch them, the mouth of the Hydra could be like a razor sharp ship eater or some sort.

i will keep developing the the thought and the look behind the hydra over the next couple of days.

Greek mythology: Hydra

2011-09-29T14:30:00.003+01:00

HYDRA LERNAIA was a gigantic, nine-headed water snake, which haunted the swamps of Lerna. Herakles was sent to destroy her as one of his twelve labours, but for each of her heads that he decapitated, two more sprang forth. So with the help of Iolaos, he applied burning brands to the severed stumps, stopping the wounds and preventing regeneration. In the battle he also crushed a giant crab beneath his heel which had come to assist Hydra. The Hydra and the Crab were afterwards placed amongst the stars by Hera as the Constellations Hydra and Cancer.

HYDRA. This monster, like the lion, was the offspring of Typhon and Echidna, and was brought up by Hera. It ravaged the country of Lernae near Argos, and dwelt in a swamp near the well of Amymone: it was formidable by its nine heads, the middle of which was immortal. Heracles, with burning arrows, hunted up the monster, and with his club or a sickle he cut off its heads; but in the place of the head he cut off, two new ones grew forth each time, and a gigantic crab came to the assistance of the hydra, and wounded Heracles. However, with the assistance of his faithful servant Iolaus, he burned away the heads of the hydra, and buried the ninth or immortal one under a huge rock. Having thus conquered the monster, he poisoned his arrows with its bile, whence the wounds inflicted by them became incurable. Eurystheus declared the victory unlawful, as Heracles had won it with the aid of Iolaus.

Hydra was my first choice in what i wanted to model for my minor project but with time i will pick what i believe will be most suitable in terms for design and development.

Greek mythology: Griffin

2011-09-29T14:29:00.008+01:00

THE GRYPS (Gryphon or Griffin) was a beast with the head and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion.

A tribe of the beasts guarded rich gold deposits in certain northern or eastern mountains.

GRYPS or GRYPHUS (Grups), a griffin, a fabulous, bird-like species of animals, dwelling in the Rhipaean mountains, between the Hyperboreans and the one-eyed Arimaspians, and guarding the gold of the north. The Arismaspians mounted on horseback, and attempted to steal the gold, and hence arose the hostility between the horse and the griffin. The body of the griffin was that of a lion, while the head and wings were those of an eagle. This monstrous conception suggests that the origin of the belief in griffins must be looked for in the east, where it seems to have been very ancient.

is a quadraped like a lion; that it has claws of enormous strength and that they resemble those of a lion. Men commonly report that it is winged and that the feathers along its back are black, and those on its front are red, while the actual wings are neither but are white.

Ktesias (Ctesias) records that its neck is variegated with feathers of a dark blue; that it has a beak like an eagle's, and a head too, just as artists portray it in pictures and sculpture. Its eyes, he says, are like fire.

the Griffin has a also has a lot of description towards its general looks and the color, but designing this synthetic creature can be tackeld in many different ways. ie, some of the latest flight jets.

Greek mythology: Minotaur

2011-09-29T14:29:00.006+01:00

THE MINOTAUROS (or Minotaur) was a bull-headed monster born to Queen Pasiphae of Krete after she had coupled with a bull.

The creature lives in a complicated maze of a Labyrinth and offered a sacrifice of maids and youths to eat, he was destroyed by Theseus in his later years

Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 8 - 11 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"Minos aspired to the throne [of Krete], but was rebuffed. He claimed, however, that he had received the sovereignty from the gods, and to prove it he said that whatever he prayed for would come about. So while sacrificing to Poseidon, he prayed for a bull to appear from the depths of the sea, and promised to sacrifice it upon its appearance. And Poseidon did send up to him a splendid bull. Thus Minos received the rule, but he sent the bull to his herds and sacrificed another . . . Poseidon was angry that the bull was not sacrificed, and turned it wild. He also devised that Pasiphae should develop a lust for it. In her passion for the bull she took on as her accomplice an architect named Daidalos . . . He built a woden cow on wheels, . . . skinned a real cow, and sewed the contraption into the skin, and then, after placing Pasiphae inside, set it in a meadow where the bull normally grazed. The bull came up and had intercourse with it, as if with a real cow. Pasiphae gave birth to Asterios, who was called Minotauros. He had the face of a bull, but was otherwise human. Minos, following certain oracular instructions, kept him confined and under guard in the labyrinth. Thislabyrinth, which Daidalos built, was a “cage with convoluted flextions that disorders debouchment."

Designing the weapon based Minotaur for my world is so straight forward as a design, the description of the creature and his characteristics. i dont really believe it would have much development stages, but at the same time i think i can make some interesting concepts for it.

Greek mythology: Chimera

2011-09-29T14:23:00.006+01:00

THE KHIMAIRA (or Chimera) was a monstrous beast which ravaged the countryside of Lykia in Anatolia. It was a composite creature, with the body and maned head of a lion, a goat's head rising from its back, a set of goat-udders, and a serpentine tail.

The hero Bellerophon was commanded to slay it by King Iobates. He rode into battle against the beast on the back of the winged horse Pegasos and, driving a lead-tipped lance down the Khimaira's flaming throat, suffocated it.

the description of creature is very strong but leaves a lot of for the imagination in the sense of how it these three creatures are pieced together or the textures that might be used to merged together.

The Chimera can breath fire and was said to symbolise winter, the head (lion) representing

Frost, the goat head representing storms and winds of the winter and the snake to represent sickness and disease.

in terms for making this creature more futuristic it would be hard change the main features that make this creature. i have no idea how this would look which is a good start but if i feel like incorporating these three animals into a design, i would somehow need to show there likeness in a form.

This Creature has a mix of some interesting combinations that would look great but i don't really believe it would work as a design or i just haven't had any ideas of how it would look like yet.

Little Change, Big effect.

2011-09-26T23:52:00.005+01:00

I have re edited my synopsis for my story. even though these are little changes they will have a heavy huge effect on how my designs will work and the logic behind them.

here are the changes i have made to the brief in terms of research and things that will have a heavy influence in my designs

Story.....

Sci Fiction first person Shooter RPG video game developed by Unorthodox studios.

The game will focus in a parallel universe from ours and will concentrate on the story of a warrior on a mission to rescue his family from the capital city, who have held them for slavery. The main character will be from a village and therefore will be getting upgrades his/her weapons and armour throughout the whole game.

The designs and theme for the game will be based on ancient Greece and this will be reflected by the designs and patterns shown. The main look will be focusing on a well-developed and advanced city but mysterious (similar to how Greece would be in the future or Atlantis).

Style

the style of the game will have a dramatic and very strong with orange colours and colours that will reflect the beauty of the lost world and its mood. I will be looking at images that are revolving around the sea. I.E coral, Mother of pearl, Sea anemones, shells, lava, contemporary/silver/Greek jewellery.

I will be looking at games like final Fantasy, God of war, mass effect and dragon age along with films heavily revolved around sci-fi its self like star wars, real steal, Ai and I robot for references on how it will be styled.

i noticed that maybe the design of a character and modelling of another Character will not be as interesting as the world that i have created for this game, because it is unique in its own sense and i think it would be a good idea to also make a few concepts on which my world will be based on.

Influence map on how the world and some props for the world.

Possible textures that will be used on city and characters armour

Patterns that might help with the design of the amour

Hydra influences scales patterns

there is a lot of influences that i will need to take into account for the game world. I will be looking forward to designing the hydra ...

with great concept come great responsibility.... yeah i made that up but sounds good :)

Minor project synopsis/ brief

2011-09-22T22:47:00.002+01:00

Minor synopsis

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New Look... if fish decided to walk

2011-09-11T02:42:00.006+01:00

'New Year new look' was the whole push for this year and with that comes a new name.
the word unorthodox for those who dont know means, not sticking to rules and regulations, (no it don't mean i will be a rebel this year Phil) just means i want to brake out of my particular habits, start a 'Fresh' and stick my neck out even if its for the chopping board .. the logo came from boxes really or tanks you can say. when i was thinking of the name "unorthodox" i was thinking of the term ."think out the box" and helping my friend clean his fish tank because it was square sort of lead on .. the fish has sort of headphone shaped water containers so he can breath when hes on land.. someone pointed out is petty phallic shaped haha true but am happy with it.
anyways hope you all like the new Blog. :D G.

MODELS AND METAPHORS: back ground and lighting

2011-06-01T09:20:00.000+01:00

the background for my scene was also based on a simple idea, i wanted to have trees and buildings to show that the e4 was in a local place, the only lighting used in the whole scene was for four lamp post the phone booth and also the background itself was a light.

MODELS AND METAPHORS: 3d renders

2011-06-01T08:26:00.016+01:00

designing my characters in 3D wasn't every hard because my characters were really simple. i also applied a simple n cloth on the cape of my super hero so it had some animation on top.

maya tutirals

2011-06-01T08:26:00.009+01:00

there was a lot of work that still needed to be finished with my tutorials . and alot of work i will need to touch up on through out the summer

over all i think i grown in my skill but i think i need alot more presentation skills within my work. and to also keep ontrack with my maya tutorials in the future.

MODELS AND METAPHORS: Characters

2011-05-24T22:13:00.006+01:00

the characters thats will be used in my animation will be very simple and monotoned, the characters will be just based on superheroes and capes really so there will not be much referencing towards it.

normal 4 is ment to look weak and thin with a very 'square' shape. like a every day person.

The super E4 is thick and muslin the complete opposite. the average 4.

MODELS AND METAPHORS: Ideas

2011-05-24T20:38:00.003+01:00

i had a few ideas for the eastings project one involving a dehydrated 4 tat turns into a E4 when a purple liquid is poured on top.

the second idea was the one i went with, and involves a 4 transforming into a E4 logo in a phone booth. i think that this story brings many different aspects to my animation that make it fun and interesting that is suitable for all age groups and family. i feel like the story goes with the type of media that is on tv now times.

E4 Eastings

2011-05-09T14:21:00.003+01:00

Chanel E4 research

E4 is a Chanel aimed at the teens and youth, the Chanel in voles many programs like

The Cleveland show
Misfits
Shameless
90210
Tool Academy
Scrubs.
and many more

most of the E4 adverts are really weird and is very different from regular adds, they usely involve comedy.

for this project i want to incorporate what E4 dose in their adverts and try and bring that into my ideas.

Maya

2011-04-11T08:37:00.001+01:00

Character.

time machine Final image.

2011-04-06T21:36:00.004+01:00

Today i had help sorting out my rendered image of my Time machine, here is a final shot of the Time machine.

time machine update (WIP)

2011-03-30T17:54:00.002+01:00

working on the texture for a while and there soo much i need to add. am also having problems with the render images coming up a s black textures (any suggestions). here are some screen shots of what i have so far.

time machine update (WIP)

2011-03-27T20:41:00.005+01:00

over the last week i have been touching up on the time machine iv had many problems but am happy i over come them.

i will be looking at a number of textures for the machine in hope to create that comic book style boarder lines i first wanted with in the models.

charater development

2011-03-27T20:40:00.006+01:00

taking a natural shape like a grass blade i had used thi to make the shape of my character weena.

i thought i would stick with he flower hair style because i thought it was unique

i also thought i would the same clothes as what i had decided on before. and have the character with role for the Eli people.

final design of Weena.

Character Design: Weena

2011-03-01T05:32:00.005Z

I was told to re look at shapes that related with my characters and try to make a character out of them. i must say this one of the most hardest things i have ever done. ad disapointed with the results (so far for) this experiment. but there is always failure, before success right??? i don't know.
*_*

these are the different shapes i had silhouetted for this character.

well sitting there trying to make sense of what different parts of nature would make a character really hurt my brain. any way this is what i came up with below

the Top of her head is flower bud, shoulders made out of leaves, upper torso made fro a tomato and lower made from a Bonsai tree trunk. more leaves for a skirt or some sort. and the bottom half of a Venus fly trap for her legs,
:S .. yeah i know not a good look for a lady but it was a start to creating a character.

next i copied my layers and then try to make sense of of them more, to create a shape out of my garden lady. i then keyed in the points to make more sense out of them head,joints ect.

i then try to just get a final understanding of how she would look with a pose but don't think it worked to be honest.

so moving on i thought i would start to put some more ideas down on photoshop and play with other ideas to make her. am going through this phase, were i want to make this character more then she already is, because the Eli, live with nature i thought would make Weena have a role within the civilization. i thought i would make her into a planter/florist . in the book Weena gives the time traveler a flower, in his confusion if he was really dreaming the flow proved that what happen was all real. i thought i would play with this idea and make the character Weena plant different plants in earth so i will be looking at tools and such and baggage to help her do this.

going on form my original plant silhouettes this is the next few stages i took with the character.
i dressed he humble with long sleeves, i thought this would look good because it would flow in wind . abit like plants
i added pots and stuff in a bag she would carry. like i said i want to make this into game characters, so have the sidekick Weena by your side ready to plant seeds to grab the things you could not reach sounded interesting to me.
i cut the sleeves off, i thought mabe it would be harder for her to move because of them, more seed and pockets have been added.
just a basic understand of her utility belt :D i will change it more.

iv realized i should be on the modeling stage of my project so in the time i will be designing my two characters i will also be blocking out my time machine in Maya. i have alot to do and i can slowly feel the hands of 'sub-mission day' creeping on me .... -_- ... but overall am excited about this.:D

Time Machine.

2011-03-01T05:30:00.001Z

TIme Machine finished.

2011-03-01T05:04:00.004Z

here are the last two time machines i have done. i will pick 1 of my four designs and start drawing blue prints for how they are made. and later on this week i will start a basic mesh for the time machine. hope you enjoy.:D

i thought steam for a stabilizer would be different because it isn't a solid object, so when the time traveler
is traveling and the floor is not moving and changing the steam will keep the machine stable for a smooth time warp

this idea was seen in my concepts of the time machine, i wanted to play with the theme of steam punk/ Victorian a little more so i added a lot of clogs to show how the machine would work, i think would also look good on blue prints.

Character Design: Time Traveler

2011-02-22T11:22:00.003Z

iv been doing basic Character shapes for both the time traveler and Character Weena.

in these drawings i was playing with hairstyle of Time traveler and also trying to keep the style of Michelle Czajkowski playful drawings.

playing with hats and trying to keep the features i liked with my older drawings.

Final: Time traveler.

i was happy with this drawing of the Time traveler because it spoke to me as a Victorian English man.
i be coloring the time traveler this week and hopefully modeling in the late week.

Weena

i looked at some of the poses that i had drawn in life drawing. and picked two i thought would look good withe this character.

am still experimenting with this character but i am sure am going to keep the long hair and maybe a flower in her hair add that she is related or close to nature.

Influence maps for time traveler and Weena

2011-02-22T10:27:00.003Z

I stumbled on this artist a a while ago via someone else blog and was amazed by the style of drawing, Michelle Czajkowski has a cartoon/realistic style to it and i think it will go well with my characters. i will be also keeping that hard boarder look as well involving hard edges and strong lines to mark out detail.
Michelle Czajkowski artistic style influence map.
i hope to create characters that are close to this style.

Time traveler:
i thought i would have a look at Victorian clothing and hair styles. my character is not so much of a gentleman like these lot but more of a well distinguished scientist. i want to capture his smart, classy, high class and well educated character but also have him stand out as not a every day scientist.

the character Weena, a small blond from a more natural related futuristic background has to be young.
i thought i would not only look at the figure of this character but also look at different things that are related with her. Yoga was one of the first things that popped into my skull. i think this character needs to be very neutral and energetic to always have a smile on her face, i also looked at clothing for her. i was thinking of very natural things like cotton of furry stuff, i wanted her to be thin and flexible abit like a child or something playful like a cat. i will probably add a thing that will involve a animal type sign or body paint to make the Eeloi civilization more believable.

i look forward to refining my ideas so they look like what they are meant to represent in their time period.

Chiselhurst caves

2011-02-22T09:31:00.005Z

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Being in bed for 4 days (ill) really made me want to grab some fresh air, so on Sunday 20th. i went to Chiselhurst Caves in Chiselhurst, the journey took a hour to arrive but luckily my tour started 5 minutes after my arrival. the point of this journey was to have a look at caves for some live research and to get a better understanding of the atmosphere one of my characters would be living in.(morlocks)

Pictures:

we was all given a oil lantern so we could see within the dark because there was no natural light with the cave.

there were numbered markings on all of the walls around the whole cave called pitch numbers, they were used in the war times to mark out where family's of 6 (max) would stay for the night.

there was random carvings everywhere that dated back to the Saxons days.

a artist that used to work at the caves had carved this over 9 months, i thought it was very interesting, it discripts angles and demons in the world, a balance between good and evil.

i thought overall the day was less successful then i hoped it would have been. i was hoping there would have been more of a natural area and i didn't get the shadows i needed. it was intresting in general and i can take back some knowledge back to my bed.

videos of caves.

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Time Machine process and final concept 2

2011-02-10T01:42:00.005Z

here is the second time machine, i have added a second brass ring onto the machine.
first with its basic shape

inner ring to support the mechanics of the machine
shading around the ring and specular

Final

i wasn't sure about how the ring would really work. i was thinking magnets to make it hover but i didn't know where i could place them so that people can see how it worked. so i gave it grappling arms to support the ring. keeping the grapple arm circular towards the base, allows it to rotate as well, i think this animated would look great.

Time Machine concept ideas..

2011-02-10T01:38:00.004Z

i have took some time to put my ideas into drawing. to help me visualize my other time machines, add parts
i had no idea were to go with my original design. i wanted to make it more interesting but had no clue how to start. Here are basic ideas that i thought would be great to have on a time machine, all the ideas were mostly based on how the time machine would travel form point A to point A really. :D

the far left picture is one of my favorite designs out of all the ones i have designed, i used alot of cog shapes to make the machine really interesting.
The machine on the time was made more for comfort, i thought the time traveler would appreciate being safe from any unappreciated weather.
the bottom one was just a quick idea... but i was told it was a failure.

next i thought i would play with a different design, if you view my silhouette list this is on the top left corner, i thought this would look nice as a machine but not every one must have saw the shapes in the silhouette as i did, i one on the top right also has a transparent window for protection.

These last two machines was made from the silhouettes of other time machines turned upside-down, i got this idea from JJ, and paul i think they were messing around but it was successful.
i will be looking to make some of these designs into photoshop drawings, and doing some research for characters.

Time machine process and final concept 1

2011-02-08T14:03:00.007Z

so over the last few days i have been refining my image of my time machine.
here are some process pictures of what i have been through.

first i thought i would rough out some simple shapes so i could tell what i was going to draw

next i made a layer so i could picture all the little detail that i was going to have on my time machine.
with a lighting points.

i wanted to show some sort of sophistication in the time machine because in the Victorian days everything was built for its purpose, and not really design.

i started to block out a basic color so i had a understanding of what material is used for the time machine, i thought in the Victorian days that most material was made out of copper and steal,

copper because it was cheap and flexible and steal because of how strong it was.

i started to block out my legs, i had to think how i wanted them to look and how they would hep the time machine, in terms of if there was any quakes while time traveling.

I wanted to keep the colors to what i had but Richard and bob said it would be better if i desaturated it a little.

i thought i would have a nice vintage type of arm chair on my time machine, for comfort and style, a little touch for the time traveler.

i was told by Tom and Zack that i needed some sort of clock so people that didn't know what was it was by first glance, so i thought a clock at the front of the machine was best suited for it.

all i needed now was just a few buttons to show time machine would work not only by a leaver.

Final

my finished time machine.

i think over all i am disappointed that it had taken me SO long to do this concept, i will will be making 3-4 different ones and coming to a final decision, i will also be looking into research for the three characters i will be designing and what i can do with them. and possibly a sidekick character.

i have allot to do, and i feel like am slowly falling behind. so this week i will be working extra hard to get at least 2 more concepts done for my time machine, and research for all my characters. by next week i want all characters finished,design and a final selected for modeling. a heavy task is in front of me but i need to press froward

time Machine Silhouettes

2011-02-02T19:06:00.005Z

well ive been trying to get my head around trying to make a time machine and was really struggling with it, Alan suggested that i should look at a different way of creating the time machine intsed of just looking at pictures for refrences i should look at the shadows and peace them together.

so i had taken random machinial - steampunk themed pictures and turned them into silhouettes on photoshop, i then rubbed some of the egdes out and added my own shapes to make a time machine shaped silhouette.

i have five different sihouettes, are there any favorties?

Scientific Aproach for Morlocks

2011-01-31T19:33:00.004Z

I wanted to have real logic behind the understanding of the Creatures Morlocks.
so i done some research on different topics that might help me get a real image of how Morlocks would look like if they really existed now.

What if humans had no sunlight?

everyone knows that you can take daily supplements of Vit.D, but Vit.D can also occur when the suns Rays hits the human skin, it develops a Vit.D synthesis. Vitamin D is used around your liver to help absorb calcium and help the kidneys work.Vitamin D helps growth, neuromuscular and immune function, and reduction of inflammation to help the healing process but Vit. D can be found in fish like salmon, tuna and mackerel. and very low amounts can be found in Beef, cheese (like the morlocks know how to make cheese) and milk.

So what dose that tell me?
The Morlocks will not be the right size of a real human because they live in darkness and probably need a large amount of meat and fish to sustain their growth within the darkness

Why do the Morlocks have reflective eyes?

The eyes of the Morlocks is described in the as Wide eyes that reflex light.
this is because they have involved from staying in the dark for too long, the reason why eyes shimmer is because of the tapetum lucidum "mirrors" behind the eyes which is a thick refelctive membrane that collects and re-emits light back to the original source. the reasons why humans can't do that is because they have a different lens behind our eyes that lets us see in color.

So what dose this tell me?
The morlocks have lost there color lenses and involved to a more of the black and white reflective lens.
i hope none of this is really possible over the human race but we will never find out.

i think these two questions answered my main thoughts about Morlocks and the rest is pretty straight forward.

i look forward over the next week designing My Morlocks and refining them to what i believe is suitable for my teen audience.

Art Direction: Victorian Pulp

2011-01-31T17:59:00.004Z

I missed Phil's comment on adding Pulp art to my Victorian theme and when i had a look at the links that were sent, i noticed this was what i was looking for. as i said in my earlier posts i wanted something with a strong boarder line dark edge, something like a American style comic.
here are some of the pictures that the pulp style.

Adding the Pulp-ness is hard to do in a game, and i can think of one game that has succeeded with the pulp style and that is Bio-shock.here is there newest release of the game, Bioshock infinite

The Time Machine film 2002 simon wells

2011-01-31T15:51:00.007Z

Ok so watching the Time Machine 2002 film was totally different from the original, there was a lot more logic behind the characters and it but also wondered away from the original story. i was glad to see all of the questions i had asked in my old post answered like are there other children with the eloi and other questions about the morlocks.

in the this film i found out there are three different types morlocks, spotters, brutes and brains is what i called them.
the spotters would first target their prey and then tag them with what i was guessing a potent dart. the anatomy of the spotters were small and skinny to give them the ability to climb in high places and probably swing from them for shooting darts, the Brutes will then retrieve the prey by smell, the brutes have the mussel and strength to carry away any human and the speed of a raging bull.
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the brains where like normal humans but looked different. they could talk normally and communicate through thinking. the brains where also the master mind behind each colony and never came out.

the book, dose not state there was a higher morlocks controlling the other morlocks. but the film gave more logic behind the characters which i appreciated, the time traveler stays behind after destroying his machine and the morlocks at the end. but the book has him return to take photos and for a editor but never returns.

Art Direction Influence Map

2011-01-31T14:26:00.006Z

Alan gave me the idea that i should play on the concept of a group of Morlocks for project. not to create just one Morlock but have a few differences in each one maybe different hair style and anatomy form another but have the same concept as another.

The characters will have a toned down realistic style to them and maybe a hard black boarder edges to things that may need to stand out this style may be seen in American comic books, i have chosen this style because its probably the style that appeals to teens the most, and with the grey tones used for the characters it will be hard to see any detail that will used so the dark boarders will also help with the textures using this style will also mean that i can't always use real realistic textures but paint my owe ones.

Target Audience: teen

2011-01-31T12:26:00.004Z

From reading The Book i didn't get a strong sense of gore, the book mentioned that the Morlocks were carnivals and there was signs of meat and blood in the air but that was about it.
My target audience is aimed at teens around the age of 13-18 year so i can add a little bit of blood in it but not too much gore like decapitated legs and arms. everything will be based on a game so i will be looking at different games with a horror themes.

Morlocks Descritpion

2011-01-31T10:55:00.002Z

Finally after a couple of days of reading the time machine, I have a description of the morlock’s.

Chapter seven

'I do not know how long I lay. I was roused by a soft hand touching my face. Starting up in the darkness I snatched at my matches and, hastily striking one, I saw three stooping white creatures similar to the one I had seen above ground in the ruin, hastily retreating before the light. Living, as they did, in what appeared to me impenetrable darkness, their eyes were abnormally large and sensitive, just as are the pupils of the abysmal fishes, and they reflected the light in the same way. I have no doubt they could see me in that ray less obscurity, and they did not seem to have any fear of me apart from the light. But, so soon as I struck a match in order to see them, they fled incontinently, vanishing into dark gutters and tunnels, from which their eyes glared at me in the strangest fashion.

'In a moment I was clutched by several hands, and there was no mistaking that they were trying to haul me back. I struck another light, and waved it in their dazzled faces. You can scarce imagine how nauseatingly inhuman they looked—those pale, chinless faces and great, lidless, pinkish- Grey eyes! as they stared in their blindness and bewilderment. But I did not stay to look, I promise you.

1. Stooped White Creatures
2. Abnormally Large light reflective eyes.
3. Pale skin
4. Chinless
5. Lidless
6. Pinkish Grey eyes

There other desperation say that the Morlocks are brutes and judging from the fights with the time traveler they are small about chest height.
They have slower reactions then normal humans

Influence and reference maps

2011-01-27T21:37:00.001Z

iv been looking at different things that is related with the Victorian period and may have some relevance to what i may use in the future for this project i think that these pictures are relevant because they have a strong sense of technology within the Victorian time period. the colors used within these times is also a big help to me conceptually.

for the red Influence map, i will be using most of these images to create my own time machine model. as a side project to my character designs.

history of time travel

2011-01-27T13:13:00.000Z

There has not many stories that can be related with H.G well's Time machine but another story that was lunched in the same year by Grant Allen called The British barbarians.
the story involves around science, ownership of land, sex, and treatment of women it is said that in this book that the main character is more of a anthropologist where he studies how humans are their life in general.

in the filming industry many films have had the same theame of time traveling, all of them ask the question what if?

Some of the great Time travel films like Butterfly effect, twelve monkeys, terminator and back to the future ect. have all explored time traveling to the past and that what makes The Time machine story still stand out.

the strong theme is kept through out all time travel films and books, in The time machine by HG wells the theme is based on a Victorian time period, the characters and machines have to have that feeling like you are staring at a machine that was created in the late 1800's and also have the art direction and style to fit it. everything that is designed has to have a understanding towards it. most machinery withing the Victorian was created so that you can understand and solve problems within a instance.

The Time machine table.

2011-01-27T12:56:00.000Z

The Time Machine (Pre porduction Pipeline.)

am sure there's a few things missing but ill get my head around this first.

The Time machine (1960) film

2011-01-26T09:46:00.000Z

Am reading the Book of the time machine written by WG wells.

and thought i should also download the two films that have been made from the book.

The film The Time Machine was made in the 1960 and directed by George Pal. so far from what iv read in the book has been accurate towards the film.

The plot of The Time machine is of a young inventor who creates a Time machine and uses it to prove to his friends that the idea of a Fourth dimension (time travel) is real, in doing so the time traveler George gets stuck in his interest of how the human society involves over the years and lands in a time where humans have been split into two different species eloi surface walkers and morlocks underground cannibals.

The eloi are in need of help but do not have the confidence to fight back the morloacks.
i found the film very good and interesting. The concept of it all made sense but there was a afew things that i wasn't 100 percent shure about, like the eloi didn't care about danger and didnt help one another, i was thinking to myself how did they even conceive and raise children?

i was slightly annoyed that they didn't speak full English, but spoke or understood alittle English, so did they have a first language? if not surely the human language would have depleted away and something esle would have been made for understanding between another.

The Morlocks only came out of hiding in the night time and ate the eloi once in a while. but how offen was that? and why live underground and eat eloi when they supply the food and well tailored clothing for them?... and they don't even dress them self.

I was told by Alan that in the book its different so i hope all of these questions that didn't make no logic will be explained in the book.

Transcription

2011-01-25T13:53:00.000Z

After talking to Phil about the Transcription Project around Christmas time, he suggested that i do a Character design transcription because that was one of the main industries i would like to be in for the future. my last Character design was a major failure because my pictures where not clear enough to be presented so in this project i will be working on changing my style of drawing and basic skills needed for this.

my source will be coming from a book time machine Written by H.G Wells

the reason why i had picked this book is because Phil told me that i need to a character that is not so realistic and not to basic but has to be interesting.

over the next few days i will be doing some research on the book and the description on the creatures Morlocks. and getting some pictures i can reference with.

mustang maya

2011-01-25T09:22:00.001Z

once again i have learn that i some of the values of modeling and that will help me in the future.
i think that i will also carry on this project aswell to inprove on my skills

11 sec lip sync

2011-01-25T09:08:00.000Z

lip sync is a total joy for me.this is were all the work comes to life.

Maya character

2011-01-25T07:52:00.000Z

there has been alot that i have learned from these tutorials that i will still continue to practice.
i feel that my modeling skill has dramatically improved, i have more of a understanding to uv's and understand more that if your model mesh is not clean, your uv's will be just as bad. as alan said dont let Maya control you its just a tool
i have have more confidence with the maya and now starting to get a hold of Maya more, even though this project has ended i will be posting updates to this tutorial because i wish to learn more.

maya : Character design

2010-11-26T02:44:00.000Z

were i am currently on character modelling almost finished with head.

submission peek

2010-11-25T06:38:00.000Z

Character Silhouettes

2010-11-23T03:30:00.000Z

to see if the shapes of my characters have worked out, i thought i would turn them into silhouettes.

am happy with the height and the the silhouettes of each of my characters i think they all work together and it is clear to see which characters belong on the side of good and evil.

expressions

2010-11-23T02:52:00.000Z

i think one of the most funnest part of that's of this project was staring at the mirror and playing with my face to get the expressions that i have drawn, when doing this it really felt that i was bringing my characters all to life.
i believe that the expression on a characters face is all it takes to make the character believable and understandable to anyone that has met them for the first time even despite the art style they have picked for the characters and their story background, you could say expressions on a character this is the soul of a character.

Hero-

in this expression sheet i have tried to show that my Hero character is nice, playful, cheesy, slightly lazy

Sidekick - human-

Sidekick- ghost-

in this expression sheet i have tried to show that my Side-kick character is fun, quirky , crazy, funny, sarcastic

Villain-

in this expression sheet i have tried to show that my villain is mainly just angry, when he is happy i wanted to create this evil humour in his face.

character turn arounds

2010-11-23T02:02:00.000Z

Here are all my character turn arounds. starting from hero and ending on Villain.

Hero normal high school clothes-

i tried to keep the characters really simple.

Hero Ghost hunter clothes-

Sidekick human form-

sidekick ghost form-

when i designed the ghost characters (Side-kick & Villain) i wanted to make them with minimal features as possible. but enough to have a bit of character towards them.

Villain-

villain update

2010-11-23T01:48:00.000Z

i have been having alot of problem with the villain for a while, i wanted to show that he was in a war but he also has to be a ghost so he had to be a character with very little detail, i still wanted to have the flame idea but i wasn't sure on how i can show this on a character.

i think my final image works as a successful face for my villain, he looks old, and he looks like he has the magical power to bring back the dead.

Art style

2010-11-22T14:26:00.000Z

My Character is a ghost hunter and he will have to fight ghost. so i thought i would take some time to do some action poses with him, these poses test the shape of my character with and the clothes and equipment that he wears.

Justin said that it would be nice to make my art style like the cartoon Kim possible, this style has fluent curves and shapes to it.

Justin's Drawings

the style that Justin had set me i think is perfect for my characters, its also alot more simple a clean looking.

here are examples of the art style in Kim possible.

Toby Synopsis

2010-11-02T18:14:00.001Z

i spoke today to Justin and we talked about my synopsis he said he was pleased with it, but we still talked about little issues that may need to be added to my synopsis. the side kick Toby will have the ability to change into a human. the reason so is because the villain was in the process of processing his body and he was stopped half way. so i will be designing the Sidekick Toby as human and a ghost.

the shapes i will be looking at with Ghost Toby is fluent, i don't want no hard shapes with his ghost form, i do want to show that he has joints with in his body.

Character story Influence

2010-11-02T02:00:00.000Z

i think huge part of my synopsis came from the cartoon "Ben 10" which am a huge fan of.. (-__- yer am a Geek ...so what!)
any way Ben 10 is a great example of Amazing story writing. a 10 year old discovers a watch that helps him transform into 10 different aliens each with there unique power or ability
this cartoon has been soo successful it has already had 2 low budget real life movies and 2 cartoon movies made for it.

.. :)

Other programs like "American Dragon", "Kim Possible" and "Totally spies" has also taking a part onto my story line, i think these cartoons take the element of being in high school and martial arts and mix it together very well. and yes this is a huge confession, but they are good animations and i doubt no 1 reads my blog so this should be funny

American Dragon
Kim possible
Totally spies

character Synopsises

2010-11-01T23:47:00.000Z

i have been thinking about my characters and i still don't think i haven't really developed much on the synopsis part.

(Hero)-Tai : a Young and athletic Student at a American High school, he is Asian and knows martial arts taught by his Uncle from a young age, Tai has been passed the Ancient Title of "Sei-Liuren" (dead Hunter) that is passed down every 100 years. the power of a Sei-Liuren is to sense the presence of a all types of sprits and to be able to interact with the spiritual world and sprits. On Tai's 17th Birthday, he realises the he has the ability to talk to Student he has never seen before in his Life but then finds out he is a former student from 10 years back that is dead.

(Sidekick) - Toby: Toby is a Ghost from ten years ago, he is also extremely cleaver. he decides to pair up with Tai to help vanquish a Ancient Evil the has recently taking shape into the spiritual world, the only way Toby knows how to help is by helping Tai with Ghost fighting equipment designed by him but made by him possessing Tai's body. Toby is very scared of every thing even though he is already deceased.

(Villain)- Shenji: A powerfully unknown Dead Sorcerer from the great war between the Spirits and Mutuals, Shenji is resurrected after his imprisonment of 8000 years by a teacher. his only mission is to supply his former evil army soldiers with a host until they consume the host completely enough to be immortal for the final awakening of their master.

the story will follow with Sheji resurrecting a evil spirit that will take host into a student of the high school, Tai will play the role of sort of a detective until he seances the possessed student to then extract the evil spirit from the body and then lay some magical Sei-liuren kick ass on to spirit so its weak enough to then capture in Toby's Ghost capturing device, each Evil spirit will also have its own special Ability that Tai can only use once.

and thats my synopsis if there is any
ideas please leave comment :)

story update. hmmm

2010-10-31T01:43:00.000+01:00

i had a talk with Justin Wyatt and i was talking about my cartoon characters. had a talk about the villain and the sidekick and we where thinking if some how we can link these to characters together and make them into a team or some sort of mixed personality character. Simon said this was a good idea but i would really have to work the the face of my sidekick character, to show that he is not so innocent. the other idea we talked about was having the geek work for the villain, we talked about where the ghost go after they have been captured, and Simon brought a great idea about the geek using the Ghosts that had been captured to bring the villain greater power.i was talking about the ghost having there own unique powers i also Had idea about the hero using the power of the ghosts for himself as well.
.. theres still some thought into it but am sure ill have some thing am happy with.

Character development

2010-10-25T19:01:00.000+01:00

so i talked to Collin white and we started talking about the ideas of my characters.
i forgot to tell you that i have made a few changes, like instead of having 4 different hero characters, am now sticking to one hero and a sidekick.
i found making four different hero's might be little too much to handle.
instead i will be sticking with the strongest character (the jock) and having the complete opposite of his characteristics as a sidekick, the Geek, which will make a great complement to my main character.

designs and personality of the characters i was going to design.

i played with the faces of the Jock. i split my designs into more realistic and carton like characters.in the end merged the styles together to create something i was more happy with.

i then started looking at the shape and how my character will dress, i wanted people to notice that he is layedback and athletic, this will play more of the part of a hunter.

i kept the style of my character more tight, as you can see he is made out of a few shapes.
Collin was really pleased with this and said i should change the style because its simple and works.

i started to look at different emotions that my character may have. and positions his face my take.

The hardest part so far was the device i was going to use to capture my ghost.
the idea behind my designs are that, he has some sort of suction device attached to his arm when Ghost hunting and he has a Ghost storage bag on his back to keep the ghost in. this is the best idea i have came up with and am open to any other idea's if you leave a comment.

the geek will be the complete opposite of my main character, he will be more friendly, he is the mastermind behind the ghost storage device, unlike my main character the geek will fight with his brains rather then his fists.

am going to have to develop my sidekick character allot more, am not happy with it.

i showed Collin a quick sketch of my villain and ran some ideas of what i was thinking of doing with him.

the picture above shows the ideas i was thinking of with my villain, as you can see i was looking at a sort of flaming ghost type villain, Collin said he liked this and he said he reminds him of the Walt Disney's Hercules, character Hades

i feel that am still stuck on my villain character, and my need some more development behind him. the idea of my villain is to have him like hes on fire, or like smokey.
my villain is like a parasite, he infects students with ghost that my hero will need to hunt down.

i feel like i have alot to do, next i will start to develop my characters even more and then start to add more things that i think might be a flaw within my character.

Maya 3

2010-10-14T12:57:00.001+01:00

maya part 2

2010-10-11T19:30:00.001+01:00

i forgot to post a more recent picture, but this is quater way through 3rd totorial

lips sync part 3

2010-10-07T16:55:00.001+01:00

added animation to the eyelids, eyes and eye brows.

Maya: Mustang part 1

2010-10-05T16:39:00.001+01:00

Maya lip sync part 2

2010-09-30T17:03:00.000+01:00

i found myself going back to the jaw bounce to try and edit the lip sync alittle more to make it more realsic. i really enjoyed this and ill try and do more to this animation on my own to make it more intresting and funny.

Mulholland Dr. 2001 - Post Modernism lecture

2010-09-30T00:51:00.000+01:00

iv watched many different films and was happy with the ending of the film, by this film was very different i couldn't believe that the ending was so unclear to me.
am not sure what i thought of the movie but i will try and make seance of what i did understand.
to me there was to different stories, one of them was a story about a lady called 'Betty' who is an actress who finds a car accident victim named 'Rita' suffering from memory loss.
to me the story was pretty straight foreword but also abit random in some scenes,
i think the director David Lynch tried to create a ambiguity and confusion to the film on purpose so the narrative would be clear to a viewer like me. the film sparked many interest points and questions in my head, and i believed in the film there was a real story i was missing out, was the story a dream of one of the two characters? or maybe the character Betty was imaging the other character Rita as a comfort to a bad exprience in her life?

i think i might to watch this film again i did enjoy it

Ed wood 1994

2010-09-30T00:50:00.000+01:00

This film was very interesting to me. i was interested in the way that Ed Wood really could not see what was wrong with his films, he was in total denial about things that were obviously bad about the film like bad props and acting, in total self pursation that everything was ok and that it added a certain qaulity towards the viewing of the film Ed wood decided to carry on filming and to also publish them with hardly any editing.
to me this film did seem abit like a joke but i really wasn't at the time of filming Ed was dead serious about beleived that he was going to be a great Director, actor and film writer dispite the lack of money he put into the filming.

The Faculty (1998)

2010-09-30T00:24:00.000+01:00

Watched this film a couple of days ago with class mates.
i thought this film is like the deffinition of my character desgin project,
the film consists of basic highschool characters that have to function together to defete the invading enemy in schoo. The story, is based on a lifeform that takes over its hosts and then spreds to other victoms by penitraion through the ear.
allmost every loaction that i had picked for my stroy within the film has been uesed as a climax point of horror, i also feel i can use these loacations to create atmosphere.

Maya Lips sync pt 1

2010-09-28T16:30:00.000+01:00

i might try and do another audio lip sync later.

Story idea

2010-09-28T13:04:00.000+01:00

I was talking to Justin today about ideas with my Words he saw that i had put my influence maps up and asked me a few questions about where i might want to go with the story.
he saw that i had the regular characters that attend school, my locations that i had picked for the story and the weapons i had picked for the story. i wanted to base the whole story in the high school, because of the multiple locations within the school, i went with story that my hero's have found out something about the school and realise that the students are being transformed into morphing ghosts and ghouls. the series will continue withe the schoolkids trying to find out the master mind (villain) that is turning the students into these monsters.
the original idea for my sidekick was to have a object that may be able to tell if the students where disguised as ghosts, in order for them to proceed with hunting.
but am still 100% sure about it. i was given a idea by Alex to make my sidekick into a Ghost,
but would that take too much mystery away from the story, unless i make the ghost sidekick into a mute.
i will still need to have a play around with some of the idea's

Quenin tarantino Post Modernisum : Kill Bill

2010-09-27T14:50:00.000+01:00

Most people couldn't believe that this was my first time watching Kill bill, and i soon realised half way through that i couldn't believe it either, this film had almost everything i enjoyed in the movie genre's

Tarentino brought a number of different styles together and genre's that all mixed perfectly.

from what i remeber he had a mix of Western, Japanese anime & weponary, action and comedy and thats why its classed as a post moderen film.

Influence map : highschool . Ghost hunters

2010-09-27T11:06:00.000+01:00

my two words chosen for my character design was School kids, Ghost hunters

which is ok i guess it could have been alot worse.

the immediate thing that popped into my head was

Scooby Doo

which is based on middle aged college students that have stopped going through education to find ghosts and ghouls all over America for no reason.

the main cartoon character is the hero/Coward and is also a Dog.... that can speak.

the Mystery inc. always catch the villian which just turns out to be regular humans,

Scooby doo will fall in the catigory of mystery, highschool, ghost and comedy.so i will try my hardest not to go on the same lines when looking at my map.

iv been looking at different things that might go with my words.

i have done a few influence maps of where i might be heading with my character design.

here i was lookking at basic charaters for the animation

a Geek, sports player, cheerleader, teacher and goth

i was looking at posible weponary that might be used to fight ghost, i was trying to get regular like baseball bats and balls,

then i thought i would have a look at the ghost busters equipment becasue there is alot of technical stuff that can give me new ideas.

i checked out all the locations at a highschool like gym, feild, changing rooms, class room and hall ways. i want to base my ghost fighting crew in the school, becuase it adds to the theame. if am not happy with what i have i can always take my ghost busters to a different location.

Bad kids Good to hell

2010-09-27T10:50:00.001+01:00

I love reading Comics so i was looking foreward to reading this,
i found that the story was really straight foreword, it pretty much starts off with six senior school students trapped in a blizzard in school on a Saturday but the reason for being in Saturday detention is a strange plot planned for revenge by someone,

i thought the story started getting interesting from the middle onwards were the students start to explain the reason why they are there, and how all of them say " its like something popped into my mind" after they had read something via email or paper.

I read and watch alot of things media wise, am one of the people that end up guessing every possibility and talking to myself trying to figure it out, after the second story was explained, the ending of this story was guessed. it was a little obvious but it was nice seeing some Comic death :)

Starting of new year: Unit 1&2 : unit two Character design : Justin Wyatt.

2010-09-21T20:13:00.000+01:00

Well we have been giving two units this year,a retro project and a character design project and they seem very interesting.

The retro project was based on a coupe of words we picked out of random as a group, the result of the words we picked was.
The Attack of the Horrible Bicker from the Black Lagoon.

its a bit lengthy but am sure we can make it work.

here is the sites URL: http://retroincorporated.blogspot.com/

check it out ;)

the other project is a character design project and we had our first day with the illustrator Justin wyatt.

and he talked about the rules of character design.

mr. wyatt talked about certain things in a characters that is usely familiar

and when you really think about it, its really noticeable.

you can always tell who the evil person in a Disney film: they share the common features.

Villain

pale skin (lilac, light pink)
resembles animal

dark clothing. (purples, black, blood red)
strong posture
Iver tall or wide physic
long eyelids
over extended features ( chin, nose, fingers, natural facial expression)

with these rules used in the correct way a successfully villain can be easyly created.

Sidekick.

sidekicks are much different from villains, the have a little difference from the main hero's or villains.

here are a few things I picked up from them.

Sidekicks can have any sort of shape. (shape that suits there personalty the most)

they are the most animated this with in the cartoon, ( like slap stick)

natural colors help the sidekick not stand out too much but just enough for the animation

eyes of the Sidekick are large to create more facial expression when being animated

thin characters are used to bring flexibility for the animation

the bigger the character, or greater in strength the dumber the character.

Hero

heroes are usely all the same, because they have to be heroes

brave,bold and handsome
cut muscular face
long hair

good posture

for the final part of the day we was given 2 word and asked to do a influence map.

Medusa.

2010-07-11T12:40:00.000+01:00

i watched the film percy jackson and the lighten thief the other day with my little brother, the whole Greek Olympians thing really sparked of a intreats that was dormant form a couple of years, there are so many characters to greek mythology that have good story to it, i will be looking at some and trying improve on my 2D skills, i will also try and create in on maya and see how that goes,

the story of medusa was she was cursed my the Goddess, Athena, for her beauty and making love in her temple with the god of the sea, Poseidon.

I draw Medusa with a face that might say, "Why are scared? am still beautiful" sort of a worried look. i wasn't so
sure about the scales i put on her back my sister said it looks fine.
i only used two layers on this because i still haven't gotten 100% used to them, so am working with them in a different drawing.

character design

2010-06-28T16:44:00.000+01:00

so iv been looking at different things that will give my child character a western feel to him,

and put them all together, i will also be looking at the chicken later, and i really want to play around with the faces of the characters.

character 1: child

when i first started off i just wanted to get the basic figure of the character down, so that i would understand where some of the features of the character.

next i started mixing some colours together to create a skin colour i was happy with, i thought i would add freckles to the character and would keep all of his features really basic. on the lines of eye, outline nose, and freckles

after i wanted to play around with the colours of the character's clothes to see how he may look like

Alan Help!

2010-06-28T16:09:00.000+01:00

my wire deformer isn't connecting with the ground layer, and am not sure how you are doing it on the tutorial, maybe am missing a button, am still trying to figure it out.

am having trouble trying to change the weights, it says at the below the influences are locked and am not sure how to unlock them,

Summer Project :SoundScape 19

2010-06-21T01:02:00.000+01:00

Now usually i would say some thing like my soundscape is very hard, but i had a listen to the others and i was shocked! some of you have some very hard stuff.

my sound scape is 19..... and it has this country hoe down sort of vibe to it. i get a image of a chicken straight away! am sure most of you will agree with me

am thinking on more of the lines of a small country child trying to help out on the farm and a troublesome chicken.

2010-06-02T08:06:00.000+01:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2ODWJKtMbY

sorry guys i have had real difficulty with this, and yet i still have a play blast in here because one of my renders got curpt again
hope you enjoy what i have anyway.

camera control inpiration

2010-05-23T20:41:00.000+01:00

i would like to create a "follow" camera to ride the mycelia i want to be dynamic and kind of thrilling at the same time,

i have been looking at Disney's Tarzan.

i didn't really find the scene i was looking for on youtube, but i found one similar, u have to forward it to the end.

Camera control problems. recent devel.

2010-05-23T20:03:00.000+01:00

i having a few camera problems and other problems but mostly camera ones.

anyway i thought, i would paste some more images on how it's looking at the moment.

am going to start my new scene because it shouldn't take as long as this one. :/ i was playing with this sphere just to look at the second colour of the mycelia, i liked this green, but am sure all of you can see its too bright and will take away the effect i was trying to create

so i decide to keep playing until i was more happy with it.this colour looks fits my concept art of inside of my mycelia, and i thought looked great.

i took a shot of the mycelia together and was pleased that the colours didn't mix to bad.maybe you haven't noticed but i had put a bump on the floor and made in transparent, am not sure if it works but maybe one of you might have courage to say if it dose not.

not finished. inside the mushroom will have loads of mycelia inside. It'd going to be tricky but i want to fit a camera in there aswell...

image Renders

2010-05-20T00:40:00.000+01:00

as some of you know how much i love maya with a passion.

i have been playing around with lighting a lot today and ... some how really enjoyed it. :D (found something i enjoy in maya) yyeesss!

because i will not have certain textures for different object and have kept it very simple, i will try my best to get a some nice lighting effects and colours within the animation.

i think i want to look into lighting a bit more, allan showed me a few things with 'glow' as well that i found very useful. i feel that my scene has almost reached the strange world the jellyfish live in.

close-up

still working on it but there is going to be more glowing tubes inside of the mushroom.

anamatic

2010-05-19T08:34:00.000+01:00

i should have posted this a while ago.

the main point of my animation is to show inside and how a mushroom is, from the inside, i wanted to create a POV of inside of the my

the weird transparent and glowing world!

2010-05-18T20:58:00.000+01:00

i have been looking at different things that are transparent and glowing, most of these creatures use their glow to catch pray and that have grabbed my attention. The reason why i have been looking at these things is their colour, i hope that i can use this sort of colours with shaders and will definitely have a look into them.

looking at the different types of jelly fish colours really interested me, i love glow of the jellyfish,
moving on i thought i would have a look at ice and the lighting some artiest use on there sculptures

i thought ice had the right sort of transparency to make the lighting seen.

here is a great example of the lighting. the way both colours are used within the sculpture brings out sharp highlights about it.

i looked at more glass sculpture with lighting though, i could find the artiest name but i thought i looked great, the inspiration of the sculpture was jellyfish of-course,

once again the lighting on these sculptures really bring out the highlights of the edges and the patterned detail within the sculptures. i will be looking to do this with bumping onto of my transparent glass looking mushroom.

i found this video on you tube while looking on a website, its called a palagic tunicate. i found it hypnotising in some sort of way. apparently the home to all of these weird strange creatures is the Galapagos islands.

i think one of the most interesting things i have looked at in this research is the ctenophore bathocyroe, i looks so beautiful because of its glowing sides and strange shapes.( i think)* intouch with my feminine side.

change of plans

2010-05-18T16:14:00.000+01:00

so i have been talking to phil today and he conviced me to change the direcetion of how my project is heading slightly, because i had drawn all of my concepts in a transparent way, i will now be making my whole entire animation transparent. phil was talking about jelly fish and how the transparency goes well with it. so i thought i should do some research on it.

basidium

2010-05-14T06:21:00.000+01:00

i just tried to play with the some of the colours that Chihuly,

am thinking of keeping my whole animation with this transparent theme to it. like glass so i want to be working with colours like these.

subconscious influence - chihuly.

2010-05-12T15:04:00.000+01:00

iv been looking at other things that i think can relate with the research i have been doing.

and i found this old artiest i remember looking at when i was a young man.

chihuly is a glass sculpturer and he makes galss in more abstract way to other glasss blowers.
here is some of his work.

this kind reminmds me of the concept art i had drawn of inside of the fruiting body.
this picture reminds me of the mushroom shape i love the colours used in this sculpture.

Maya unit 6

2010-05-12T14:58:00.000+01:00

arm skinning

i kept having errors with the stuff i downloaded ... as you can see the detail didn't show.

Non linear deformers

Head Chin deformer

heart deformer

second option

first option

Concept 2: inside Basidium

2010-05-06T01:06:00.000+01:00

wow its good to see no ones asleep! and posting work,

iv been trying to touch up this concept art for a while now, and i think lack of sleep has got to me.

these pantings are meant to be inside of the Basidium. i been struggling with what angle to show us in the Basidium, and will show you my failures of my drawings (because phil says its a good idea) so you guys may be able to bounce back and tell me what angle would have been more better.

here are some of the drawing i looked at to help me understand what angle i do my drawing.

and here is my paintings.

this painting was meant to be in the neck of the Basidium, i was going to look to go for a more watery or glass like effect, overall i wanted the basidium and the spores to be transparent, i think thats when i started to have problems.

i gave up on this idea because there was too much transparency going on and you couldn't see the background and other things i had put effort into. and when it came to the spores, the looked more like penises flopping down..... enough said.

i moved onto this idea below, which is the Basidium from a below view (so we are looking up), i thought this could cause problems at first be soon realised it wasn't as half bad as i thought it would turn out to be. after a while i carried on and added the spore in its meiosis stage.

ok brace yourself, this is rubbish. when you look at this picture imagine you are in Zero gravity or water it helps a lot

if u didn't read above then you may get confused.

Concept: before reaching the Gills

2010-05-04T23:44:00.000+01:00

so i have been looking into my story and i must admit tis is the first thing i saw when, the lecturer was talking about the mushrooms. this is close to what i was thinking about but it looked nothing like this to be honest.

these images were to show the haploid mycelia before they reached the basidium, i was thinking of showing a long clip of the camera moving upward towards the it as then slowly turning left till it reached the basidium... all of this will be in a POV style.

originally my vision was of the two haploid mycelia in its mating stage, were i will show the two type mixing and joining together, i thought i would go for a more lower look of the mycelia joining because it will look more spectacular.

this is the second development picture and iv added spore in the mycelia iv put a fait outer glow if any1 is thinking how i did that i added little thin lines on top of the painting to fill any negitive space and make u feel more lie you have been shoved into a mushroom.

ok call me what you like but i just want to point out it was more of a inspiration then copy. i started to change the colour of my concept after seeing Leo's concept. the reason why was because i was trying to show a POV of a of a mushroom, the main reason why i went blue is because i thought when things are seen more close up they look a lot more different, eg. blood cells are more orange then red. i thought i would change the mushroom's colour internally blue.. and when zoomed out more it will look white...... well you guys tell me what you think and let me know!!! if its not too much to ask