My Completed Drawing

And this is the finished image:

Quick Post

This month I've got soo much to keep up with, and I feel 10x behind. Not sure where I stand, or need to go next :P

when I get the time will I post up my ideas and the stages I'm at with uni work, for now I will share with you a drawing I did for the still life project. It's incomplete but here it is anyway.



I have decided that this will be one of my chosen items to feature in my still life image, and I will share the details of why later :)

Thought of you...literally

One of my favourite blogspots that I find really inspirational, is the Character Design blogspot. Just taking a look at what other animators/illustrators are doing, is a good way to acknowledge and respect other great artists. what also fascinates me is watching the documentary video's, you get an insight of what really goes on behind scenes and it kind of rubs the competition in your face, but at the same time it all excites me ..So today I "thought of you" and decided to share this video with others, who are yet to see this animation. An animation by Ryan Woodward, has became my chosen animation for this week ...Enjoy :D

Summer, Summer, Summer Tiiime Pt:2

My summer break was dry lol, with not much to do but draw my life away. I was back home with the rents, in a city I can no longer stand. I will admit that I hadn't accomplished much over the holidays, with no funds, and the need of certain devices/software, I didnt get to develop my skills or produce any work. Instead, I was mainly trying to complete any unfinished drawings I had left to do, while outside enjoying most of the summer days.

Around the beginning of August, I start a new project. An artist had asked me to create a animation music video. He wanted me to create a comic style animation, for his new track that is being released soon. Keeping things brief I'll give ya'll a lil taste of what going on:

This is the artist guy playing the hero - named Rhythm Man



Jessica - playing his girlfriend




JLG - The good scientist (on RM's side)



Oculus - The evil guy (aggainst RM)



Oculus - in action (storyboard sketch)



Rhythm man - in action (storyboard sketch)




an the stage I'm currently at.


I still have loads to, including to finish each drawn scenes, scan them in and separate them into layers for animating :P ...and I am doing this all by myself, a true animator lool..

So I'm gone for now but I'll keep ya'll posted, good day :)

Today's session

Today's session was to built the hand of a robot. The idea here is to understand the process of creating a working hierarchy, for rigging and making movement. I'd say I'm getting there, its the part after you've linked all objects to follow the first objects, that confuses me :P ... But as I said I'm getting there, more practise needed. Here's how mine looks:

Summer, Summer, Summer Tiiime Pt:1

And soooo... I'm back after an hectic summer, with much to tell and share, but I'll keep it brief .

Before the break things didnt go very well (shall got go into detail here), but it was peak times. Alot had been lost, and alot had been lefted behind. But overall, I have made room for the new, and being back at uni now I'm feeling the high spirits ahead. I have new projects and feel quite confident about things going on at the moment.

At uni, we have all been given 3 projects, and already im ready and excited to get all creative on their ass (reffering to the work and not the tutors :D), will share my ideas of each project in another post. But for now I'll leave you with this:

God knows that I'm blessed, so I will get by, and make the most out of my life, aim for the sky...Fly pass the moon, sit with the stars, show them my art, but I never could forget my piece of showing them my heart...
(NoLay - artist)

The Latest

These are my creature designs in mind. Think I will combine the two to make one because I can't seem to choose one to work with.




I have added a gravestone to add depth to the atmosphere of the envirnoment, emphasising the cycle of life and death. eg. The scenery of trees and flowers indicate the sense of living things, and the gravestone to remind us of the ones we lost and love.

Random Rough Sketches

This pic was drawn for scale, only thing is I forgot to include the creature lol, but the nympth is there.


I suppose this will be the overall look of the environment, plain and simple :/




Some kind of half drawn plant, a quick 2mins was spent on this, and then decided that I could'nt be bothered anymore.





Just a pic I decided to draw out of mind, and I have no idea why a monkeys head is randomly involved, looks cute though lol.

Mad Nympth Renders

Just some random but weird renders of my nypmth

Some pics of what I've done so far, not much, but it's a little something.
(Environment)
























After losing this file..my autoback up file only saved upto this stage, so I now have to redo this character and the organic being i had already started
:( bad times... anyway here is my bald headed nympth.

Some Idea Sketches

Overall Environment Idea (Rough Sketch)


Character Design


Shroom Close up (Rough Sketch)

Giving life – (idea notes)

A woman/man who helps out their relative, who seems to be researching science.
- person loves plants and doesn’t mind working there. But after changes
their mind after they know the plans of their relative
- Person hates their workplace, and one day becomes very angry. With their
carelessness, something within the lab combines and creates something
rather different


A girl/guy who has an obsession with dismantled and unwanted pieces, of , anything.
- Flashback of growing up, and in every scene he dismantles something.
He finally decides to create something from these dismantled pieces but
It’s not quite what they expect.

A Bugs Life (Inspirational Notes)

Relating to the Film Inspiration post, I had said that while watching 'A Bugs Life' I managed to answer a few questions, which I considered,  if i was to hit a problem.
Here are some of the questions/answers:

If I don’t put grass, where will she get her materials from?
-leaves
-use crops (grass like plant) and copy several times

Where will she get liquids from?
-squeezed flowers (stem)

What will she get/use for light?
-glowing mushrooms

What will take you to the next rooms (entry/level to other rooms)?
-tunnels
-tree roots

What will the tables and cabinets be made of?
-dried leaves (styled)
-twisted dry stem (rope)
-stick/branch into leaves

This was my first frankenstein character design.









This is one of my favourite designs, but after more development, I decided to design something more simple for modelling reasons. I do have more character designs for this project but I've decided not to post them up.

'A Beautiful Mistake'

Here is a very briefly written description of my interpretation of the story and character involved.

'A Beautiful Mistake' will be the name of the animation.
As the creator intends to create a beautiful being, its development and existence is truly a mistake.



















(missing word after Naive - Feminine)

Film Inspiration

Illusionist

-visual enironment


9 (movie)
Some of my inspiration is from the film 9, it has the overall feel of what I want to achieve. One of my favourite scene is definately the opening scene, shows a little of the creator at work. Here is a video just to show you:


-visual Style
-composition/camera shots
-storytelling

A bugs Life

-visual environment
-scale and proprtion of small bugs/beings

A lot of the questions/problems I have, were answered and solved after watching A Bug's Life.

A spiderwick Chronicle


I found this film very inspirational for the undergoing project, from character designs to environment development. I would say that this film has given me the most inspiration, for what I would like to achieve.


-fantasy
-creature inspiration



Alice in wonderland















-fantasy
-visual environment


Labrynth (1987)

















-fantasy
-creature Inspiration

E on project

Today lecture was indeed a few people from e-on, asking for our help as young designers, to create an intersting video for their company. Has much as I would like to be apart of this project, I dont really have a team. Besides I have never spoken to any of my classmates, so I think it will be a little awkward to approach them now. You may think i'm wrong but im a very shy person, so trying to get someones attention doesnt quite work for me..so maybe next time I'll have grown much more confidence and get more involved in opportunies.

Back 2 basics

OK so it seems I have gone back to selecting one of the films off the given list, the reason for this is that I can not find a script to work from. So instead I have chosen to do 'Frankenstein', which I will be sticking to as I need to move on to designing.

Although I really wanted to do 'the illusionist, I think choosing 'Frankenstein' I can still create this scenery I have in mind. To be honest a lot of my setting ideas for 'the illusionist' can still be used for frankenstein, they both include an obsession, a principle of life, chemistry/philosophy, and both films include an fascinated creation or creations in the case of 'the illusionist'.

So now, as I dont quite remember the story of frankenstein I'll have to re-watch the film to get a good idea of what's involved and get a good understanding of the film, whilst also capturing any emotions I can incorporate into my animation.

Script/Film Ideas

Right so I now have a few films in mind, here I will state the names of each and give a short description of why I would like to interpretate this film.


My first choice is 'The Illusionist'.
great film, very interesting...As well as this film having a reasonable storyline to work from, I do enjoy the settings of this film.
I think this will be my chosen choice because I can connect it with animation being made up of illusions

second is the animé 'Bleach'
an animé series I have officially become obsessed with, and has everything I'm looking for when it comes to expression, emotion and conflict.




There are a few other film ideas, that I will try and post up later.