Render-wait Paintings

I'm starting to do painting studies while I'm waiting for Maya to render so here's my most recent study from this gorgeous picture of the highlands of Scotland.

I wasn't going for complete accuracy this time around, it was more of an exploration of the colours in the image, combined with textures.

Lots of BG's - El Flamingo

SO our film is finally done (as I hear) and is in the wonderful hands of audio mix-masters for final levels.  Once it's online I'll be sure to link it.

Now I can at least post up more of my background work for the film.  I felt that these ones came out the strongest in the end, the first being a colour sample for my own studies while the latter colour palates were more for the film.

All of the above BG's were drawn and painted by me, however the biggest painted piece I did was the opening pan which was drawn by fellow classmate Devin Cherubini.  Please view at full size, it is one mother of a pan.

Semester 4 Layouts - Tonal Studies

It's almost the end of the semester so here's another little update while I procrastinate.

Here is my big project for Layout this semester.  We were to create two environments of what ever we'd like then using dramatic lighting create a tonal study for mood and story using only the lighting.  

These are more conceptual lighting studies as opposed to plotted light sources, focusing on that mood.  For mine I wanted one to be a bit more technical with some architectural elements and the other to be predominately organic because I love drawing organic layouts.   

Flash BG - Test piece for El Flamingo

We're currently well on our way with our mini group film this semester, however to get there we had to do a bunch of test concepts.  Soon I'll be able to post my finished layouts but here's a small test piece I did for a little class assignment.

Background Concept

More digital painting!

This one was our background painting, staring from intial concept to final render.  I had a lot of fun with this one because I love exteriors.  Next time though I wanna try something that's a little more graphic, and stylistic than so realistically rendered.

I wanted too with a more "painted" painting focusing my detail and attention on the temple.  The first large image was the file I handed in for class but then after I messed around with the lighting more and got my second version.

The work-in-progress is much the same as my last paintings.  Stared this concept out as a really rough little thumbnail then enlarged it to the size we'd be working for the final.

Historic Pan and Digital Painting

For my Layout class we were instructed to design a pan of at least a Twelve and a half field in length and it had to be based off of something historic.  I chose the Urnes Stave Church in Norway and did a little grassy field. 

 

Then for Digital Tools we had to take a part of that original drawing and do a complete painting of it without keeping the line work.  I wanted to keep my tree so from my original I just shifted it over into the foreground more. This painting took me for ever to complete and I probably put far too much time into it.

Oh well, onto the next assignments!