Also, project-wise, here is the finished painting of the main character, its taken a little longer than expected because of dissertation work.. But do let me know how it looks and what needs improving.
For Matt's click here
For Beth's click here
Sunday, 9 December 2012
Woo! Adobe Certified!
As the title says. I am now an Adobe Certified Associate! Which basically means that I have the skills to plan, design and build manageable projects in Photoshop This also gives me greater standing for when I get into the wide world of work. The exam describes parts of project management, photo manipulation which I didn't understand that well since I only do digital painting, but overall the exam is fairly easy, so anyone viewing this looking for a line of work in design I strongly recommend you take this to increase your chances of finding a job. It makes you feel good too, the people I've talked to after doing theirs felt the same way and wanted to do more. So what are you waiting for? Go! Take it! Take it now!
Also, project-wise, here is the finished painting of the main character, its taken a little longer than expected because of dissertation work.. But do let me know how it looks and what needs improving.
Check my team's blogs out too! You know you want to!
For Matt's click here
For Beth's click here
Also, project-wise, here is the finished painting of the main character, its taken a little longer than expected because of dissertation work.. But do let me know how it looks and what needs improving.
For Matt's click here
For Beth's click here
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
Is my photoshopping getting better? You tell me!
As I have said in some of my few posts, I am not very good at Photoshop So I have been practising for a couple of weeks now and I just wanted to post up a few pictures to see how my progress is coming along. So leave any comments about how my progress is coming along, or anything about my work, it will be much appreciated. (there are possibly more e-cookies if you leave a comment. I can't get rid of these fast enough!)
BEFORE:
AFTER:
Also a big thanks to Beth for helping me! See her blog here
Sunday, 2 December 2012
Winter is coming... and too much neck...
OK... playing Assassin's Creed 3 took longer than expected... a LOT longer.... plus my dissertation got in the way... but don't fret, I have been drawing in order to carry on with the project and to show you lucky few the things I'm doing.
OK so as the title says Winter Is Coming (anyone who gets the reference: applause and an e-cookie for you). Now as a big guy, I never really feel the cold (due to my extra 'padding'), but the other day I did.. So I made a small drawing to express my feeling for the cold so here it is..
Anyway, back to the project, a LOT has been happening since I last posted. Character revamps again and a couple more sketches and colour tests. Now with the recent character change, I decided to do a couple more polished images because I kept varying on what he looked like, so here they are:
So as you can see, the first one was good, until Matt pointed out the neck... it had way too much neck. So back to the drawing board (even though I don't have a drawing board..) I re drew the characters so the neck didn't make him look freaky. I also decided to do colour tests. some of the colours don't really go but hey, that's why they're called tests.
Some time later.....
So last Monday we had one of our formal/informal group presentations, that went really well and saw most of the other groups projects which were going well, we then sat down and decided that the character didn't look right again, so we sat down and suggested that we go back to my first initial sketches (seen on my previous posts) and go for a shorter, stubby character. We came up with a body type that the guys were happy with but I wasn't as I thought it looked more human so I created 6 more body types around that shape and looking at my design mood board of short and round characters. See below:
This was my preferred choice because it was very stylised
This was the body type chosen
This was one of my first sketches with the new body type, I added a scarf/ pelt to restrict the model from doing too much neck animating when put into 3D. I tried to keep the old clothing but due to the wider figure, it just didn't seem to work.
Well that's what has been happening... sorry for the long post but I'm going to try and keep up with updating now. I might even post something later if you're lucky.
Aaand while you're here check out Matt and Beth's blog too, you won't be disappointed!
for Matt's click here
for Beth's click here
OK so as the title says Winter Is Coming (anyone who gets the reference: applause and an e-cookie for you). Now as a big guy, I never really feel the cold (due to my extra 'padding'), but the other day I did.. So I made a small drawing to express my feeling for the cold so here it is..
Anyway, back to the project, a LOT has been happening since I last posted. Character revamps again and a couple more sketches and colour tests. Now with the recent character change, I decided to do a couple more polished images because I kept varying on what he looked like, so here they are:
So as you can see, the first one was good, until Matt pointed out the neck... it had way too much neck. So back to the drawing board (even though I don't have a drawing board..) I re drew the characters so the neck didn't make him look freaky. I also decided to do colour tests. some of the colours don't really go but hey, that's why they're called tests.
Some time later.....
So last Monday we had one of our formal/informal group presentations, that went really well and saw most of the other groups projects which were going well, we then sat down and decided that the character didn't look right again, so we sat down and suggested that we go back to my first initial sketches (seen on my previous posts) and go for a shorter, stubby character. We came up with a body type that the guys were happy with but I wasn't as I thought it looked more human so I created 6 more body types around that shape and looking at my design mood board of short and round characters. See below:
This was my preferred choice because it was very stylised
This was the body type chosen
This was one of my first sketches with the new body type, I added a scarf/ pelt to restrict the model from doing too much neck animating when put into 3D. I tried to keep the old clothing but due to the wider figure, it just didn't seem to work.
Well that's what has been happening... sorry for the long post but I'm going to try and keep up with updating now. I might even post something later if you're lucky.
Aaand while you're here check out Matt and Beth's blog too, you won't be disappointed!
for Matt's click here
for Beth's click here
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