Personal Work

I've been trying to take some breaks within my homework time to do some personal sketches, since it motivates me a lot more.

I drew this to take a little break from homework and do something for myself.

Another little break I took from homework. I drew my characters more expressively to bring out their personalities. They came out a lot more cartoony than what I usually do.

This week in Portrait Drawing we did more full body poses. We were supposed to do two class sessions, but this one wasn't coming out so good, so my instructor recommended me starting a new one the next class.

The revised version that I did the next class. I think it turned out much better than my first attempt.

Sketches I did at Weeklies this week. We drew from Lilo and Stitch.

First 3D Animations

So we just started learning 3D animation this week in class.

This was a really quick test I did just to learn how to use squash and stretch and start moving them around.

 
Initial Storyboards I did for my final.

And these are my revised storyboards for my final.

Rough Animations Progress

I'm almost done laying out all of the rough animations. I just need to fix up some of the ones I already have and do about one more, then I'll be ready to start into clean-up (I'm hoping by Thanksgiving). I also started on some backgrounds.

In-progress Animation of my first walk in perspective. Obviously there's a lot unfinished in this scene, but I just wanted to post what I have so far.

And this is a quick little background test I did using Goro's brushes.

More Characters!

So I've been working a lot more on my concepts for Drawing for Entertainment Design class.

 
 Some finalized sketches I did of Sibyl, Armon's younger sister.

More sketches trying to figure out Laya's design.

 
Some not very successful attempts at dream sketches of backgrounds.

Maya Subway Interior

So I finally finished my first official environment in Maya this week. It took all semester, but it's pretty much done now. I did a few renders to show the whole thing.

 

 
 

And below are the previous renders I had. I'd say the above ones look a little bit better.


 
 

Character Development

Developing my story and characters some more!

Sketches of Lilith, my bear character.

 
Sketches of Sibyl, Armon's younger sister.

 
 

Sketches of Osmin, Armon's father.

 

Sketches of Layla, Armon's younger mother.

Finals are Coming

Classes have been keeping me super busy! I've been doing some slightly more finalized work for some of my classes, and really getting prepared for finals, since they're coming up extremely soon. Just like last fall, finals are piling up on me and basically driving me crazy! A lot of them are really fun and great projects, but so many at once can be daunting.

A quick portrait study I did to try and take a break from homework and warm up before doing more. I wanted to work on my digital painting skills more and incorporate what I've learned from Portrait Drawing so far. This one took about 40 minutes. I took reference from here.

Colored Pencil portrait that I did in class this week. It was a free-for all, but I've come to really enjoy colored pencil, so I stuck with that. This was another two session drawing.

A little doodle I did for fun to try and take a break from homework. I tried working with no sketch and just painting straight on in SAI.

Some quick traditional sketches of Armon I did at the end of class one day.

Gesture drawings from the ASC this week.