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Illustration Speed Paints

Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:25:12 +1200

Original intention was to create six illustrations, four of which are the following paintings, the other two being pencil renders. One of those times where you feel like you have plenty of time - none of it being wasted, until you have no time left. So I shall be doing them post-scholarly, and just for myself. Which sucks, because my grade may suffer a bit for it - but I do feel like my work this time had a whole level of planning behind it which I hadn't achieved before. Now the issue is to manage time enough so the planning pays off better.

Anyway; the images are the Bridge, the Escape vehicle/EVA Pod Vehicle/Medical bay, the Engine Room and a corridor. All rooms from within my Nautilus ship - created in Maya before painting over. A technique which should allow me to generate a lot of paintings and information from many angles quickly, after a period of 3D modelling. Then I also have a 3D model I can apply to other projects etc. Very fun and useful I felt.

As always, click for a bigger size.

3D Nautilus

Sat, 08 May 2010 15:28:12 +1200

Finished the Maya version of my Nautilus to a level where I'm happy to hand it in, but I will polish it a bit more before I animate the thing. not happy with the bump map and why some textures aren't showing properly (numbers on the rudder aren't showing in these renders for example).

For my Physical 3D class, I'm making the same ship but, well, physically. So to make my life easier and for the two models to be somewhat the same; I have cut the digital model up into many sections for printing (to scale) and then match up the real deal with my digital sizing. Hope it helps! (sharing because I think it looks cool, to be honest).

As always, click the image for a bigger size.

Concept Art

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:54:10 +1200

More 20,000 Leagues stuff, only really like the ship. Far too tired to explain further than it's the Nautilus.

Clicky click. Enjoy.

Animation + 3D Model

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:50:13 +1300

Pics of my Nautilus in 3D, made in Maya, obvious WIP. Sorry about the low qual on Alex (beaver) who is in a Disneyish style, Private First-Class Keith is in Hanna–Barbera style, Vlad (my fav) is in a generic Eastern European style. I'm not showing my last one. It's terrible.

Enjoy?

20,000 Leagues #1

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:28:17 +1300

My working processes of my big multi-class project based around re-imagining Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea". Good fun.

First off is all the first stage planning of the submarine's shape and the composition of the envrionment.

A sketch of the Sub with contours, lots of detail and time to go before it's even near complete, argh!

Following is a bunch of sketches for heads of Captian Nemo, so many. The last page on the right is where I am at now, and nearly there. Blah.

Enjoy?

TF2 Propaganda Entry

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:31:03 +1300

My submission to the TF2 Propaganda competition - hopefully I win a prize! Found enough time between work tasks to paint it up. I'm quite pleased with how he turned out. Throw us a line if you have any comments.

Apologies

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:40:12 +1300

for the lack of posts, almost finished my year at polytech, just a week to go. I will share all my stuffs in the coming while. But for now I'll just show you what I've been doing:

It is thicker than the phonebook - and each page has either a cowboy, or a zombie on it. Or both! Can't wait for it to be complete. Poor trees.

paint8 update3

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:59:39 +1300

Oh man, been way too long. I apologise. Just got back at school after a week trip to Wellington. Was fantastic and I love you all!

Throw me your thoughts, I should hopefully chew this one out in the next day or two, been a little too long IMO. Gotta get that portfolio together!

Edit: Yes Julien I know this no longer constitutes a speed paint thank you very much. :D

paint8 update2

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:04:57 +1200

Have to apologise again for the lack of updates, basically just been focused on animation during my art time and actually having a holiday when I'm not. I had done a bunch in the past week though and just didn't update, but that's below. Struggling with enjoying this one, but that probably means I have to persist with getting it right and finally liking the end result. Damn rock textures!

It'll look much better in the next couple of updates, just getting the colours and junk right is a mission in itself. Hope my painting is showing improvement..

paint8 update

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:57:06 +1200

Hey all, sorry about the delay, consarn'n tech work 'n all that. But now that the bulk of it is behind me, back to regular painting updates. Would have done a bit more but I am so hilariously tired I think half an hour is enough.

First image is a bit I did about a week ago and the second image is from this afternoon, just a bit of progress reporting to show my work.

clickyclick!

paint8 sketch

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:12:27 +1200

So tired, couldn't do too much. Damn essay. More tomorrow.

I hadn't been sketching in the stuff before now so I thought I should probably do so, especially for the geometric shapes like the castles and what not. Please e-mail me any critique if ya'll want.

Clicky click if you can be bothered.

because apparently you wanted more speedpaint7

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:18:42 +1200

here is another push, but that's the last one!

New one starting tomorrow (I mean it this time)

sick of speedpaint7

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:56:32 +1200

so I refuse to do any more. starting a new one tomorrow.

/blarugaege

Clickclcciclckliy

speedpaint7 wip2

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:47:55 +1200

Clickyclick

speedpaint7 wip

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:16:01 +1200

I'm really enjoying this one so I thought since I had given up for the night I'd share the WIP, should be finished tomorrow. Need to make myself spend more time on paintings like I'm doing here.

clickyclick.

speedpaint6

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:15:32 +1200

might spend a couple hours re-doing this watercolour copy as I think the original is fantastic. I'm loving doing the painting copies as they're really teaching me about landscapes, rock formations, colour, light, shadows, organic perspective and layering. There's so much the classroom can teach me but this is all fantastic stuff.

clickyclick.

speedpaint5

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:29:02 +1200

clickyclick click.

speedpaint4

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:26:04 +1200

hey again, speed paint time once more. This is about an hour and a half's worth of copying a painting I picked from Art Renewal Center which turns out to be a fantastic resource for high quality fine arts from all over the time spectrum, thanks Tom for giving me this site!

He also suggested I do this little task, and I really loved it, I don't want to delve too deeply into these paintings yet, I just really want to get a better general feeling for landscapes and lighting, then a little later start to refine my skills in detail and what not. Thanks again.

clicky click!

speedpaint3

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:25:24 +1200

more more more

gonna actually spend some time this weekend doing some paint fun suggestions my friend tom described. clicky click.

speedpaint2

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:24:12 +1200

more speedness, I'll try to do this every night. Can you tell I got frustrated at the end?