Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Ben Procter - Concept Illustrater



I thought it would be nice to share with people the online portfolio of a concept artist by the name of Ben Procter. He has made concept work from big titled movies such as Superman Returns, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matrix Reloaded/Revolutions and of course, Transformers. The site itself has plenty of concept images and 3D work, it also has small animations that show some of his 3D work. The site itself hasn't been updated recently but it's nice to have a goggle at every now and then.

I really like how in the Transformers artwork he shows what he used as reference for tones/shading/colours. He has that for a few of his pieces. It's really interesting to see how they do those types of things. =D

To see more of his work, click on the link below~

Ben Procter's Official Online Portfolio

Friday, March 21, 2008

First costume of this Year COMPLETE


This is myself dressed as Alicia from Valkyrie Profile 2. [Original artwork pictured above] Besides a slight belt malfunction that I need to amend to, my main outfit for SupaNova 08 is finished~ Minus the Sword...I will...be hunting that down from someone soon...*watches person making sword intently*

This outfit was a LOT trickier then Zelda. She had much more detail and gold..lots and lots of gold!! I would have to say that Alicia takes top place for being one of my favourite outfits. Besides the fact that this outfit is incredibly hot to wear, I am praying that the day I wear it, it isn't too hot. A very Winter outfit. *nod*

Thursday, March 20, 2008

3D Cell Shaded Model/Animation




First of, This is not my work, obviously...This wonderful work was made by 'Sledgehammer', who has posted his work on a art thread on a forum I go to.

Anyway~ To the topic! He's created a 3D character
[Optimus Prime from the latest 'Transformers:Animated' series] using the program Max 7 and the meshes are low-poly Ink n' Paint jobs, rendered out with Mental Ray. [I have no idea what these particular programs are, I'm just typing what he's saying] I would really like to make a 3D character in this style. I'm planning on making my Wildwarp character in this style. *nod* [Ian~ Is Maya able to do this sort of shading/style? If so, could you please possibly show me some time =)]

It's so toony~ <3

EDIT- For some retard reason the last image isn't animating -_-; So I'll host it on photobucket. Since the original link requires Forum User Id.
Animated Gif of Character

Link to Sledgehammers Art Thread


And for some reason my font has shrunk...

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

More Maya facials


The return of the facials! from Robyn Murphy on Vimeo.

Another Maya video for Ian's class. It's an extension to the first video..kind of makes me want to fix up the first part of the clip with more eye and face movements...perhaps in my free time.

Monday, March 17, 2008

The Tafe Trio

















Oh boy, I might be turning this blogspot into a dA page x_X...oh well~ it looks pretty on here...kind of...Who is actually reading my page anyway? *has a em0*

ANNNNYYWAY~ This is Cory, David and I as our cartoon selves. Cory drew the lines and I did the colours, I have to start/finish the background that David trac-er-drew...which I need to do sometime soon but I have priorities jumping ALLLL over the place. x_X *has another em0*

Transformeeez


Another unrelated topic to Tafe~ woo!

This is my Original character, Wildwarp who is based of the new series Transformers:Animated. It has only aired in the US so far but I'm pretty sure it'll slowly get over here...That's why we have torrents! =P

Anyway~ This is my first go at trying to look 'cell shaded' I was very tempted to grab my gradients and smudge tool..so..tempted..but I think she turned out alright. A bit more detailed then the actual TF:A charas but y'know~ It's my first shot! ^^; [probably need to make her wings stand out more] I'm curently working on her alternate mode aka vehicle mode.

Monday, March 10, 2008

The many crazy faces of Me


I wont do this often but I thought I would post a huge collage I made of myself being silly in costumes. Comes with mini doodles~