Mood

Not as much time this week for art, which means more rushing on assignments, and less desirable outcomes. Exploring mood is an exciting prospect and I will delve into it alot, now that I have a bit more time :)

Here is one of the pieces i liked from the past assignment of doing almost color script type paintings. quick and rough with basic color/light exploration.

Tablet Paintings

Very busy this past week with non art related things, so I only had a couple opportunities to work. One of those opportunities was while flying, so here are a couple paintings done on my tablet (Asus Transformer). I'm getting more used to the setup, and its alot of fun! Plus, painting at 30,000 ft...

Cinematic Concept Designs

Over the weekend I had the opportunity to develop some concepts with a more cinematic edge to them! The lighting for the night/black market was really fun to play around with!

Light logic

This exercise required using no color picking of any sort. Viewing the reference and using your knowledge of color and light and observation skills to learn the logic of how the lighting would affect objects if you placed them in those environments.

A tremendous exercise! I can already see some of my mistakes, but always moving forward, eh?

Material Coolness!

A really cool bit of cross discipline here. A co-worker, and talented character artist, friend of mine Michael LaMorte grabbed some of the texture spheres I had been painting for CGMW and tested them out as Zbrush materials! The results varied, but some of them came out really cool! I had to share :)

Material Exploration

Some more material exploration. I would have like to take more time analyzing the references and painting more materials, but sometimes work and life gets in the way. I think i will continue this practice though as its a great tool for learning light.

The materials are labeled from top left to bottom right.

Hot Rod paint job

Reflective material

Matte material

Hard candy/semi translucent

Foil

Flesh

Transparent

Gummy Candy

Reel

Something quick I threw together over the weekend to demo some of my work. I would probably view it small since the upload downgraded the resolution.

Rapid Iteration.

Rapid iteration on robotic/bipedal characters for a game pitch. Maybe ill put the final one up at some point!

Basic Color and Light

For this project we worked with basic forms to explore color relationships. We used standard Key, Fill, Bounce lighting setups for with warm and cool. I took the liberty of exploring a bit with materials and surfacing.

Value simplification and Lighting

For this project we were instructed to use only 5 values to recreate a movie still. Each image must represent a different type of lighting and thus a different range of values. Learned some great things from going through this process.