Thursday 27 November 2014

IM MAKING A WEBSITE!!! AND LILITH IS BECOMING A PROJECT PROPOSAL FOR UNI!!!

For anybody wondering if i just fell off the radar, i haven't. Well i have, but I haven't been twiddling my thumbs.

NO! For i have been making a super cool website.  But whats even better is, project Lilith has been shifted as part of my university time. THATS RIGHT!!! Its gonna have its own interactive web-page, dedicated project proposal video and a ton of concept artwork. is in store in the near future and I'm aiming to get it active over christmas. 

Hopefully if all pans out well, Lilith will potentially become my final major project for university. 
Its an exciting time for me, but i might be off the radar to prepare for all of this.
Check back after the 5th January to see the website operational and stuff.

THE NEXT FEW WEEKS ARE GOING TO BE EPIC!!!

Saturday 27 September 2014

{Matte painting gif.} Mid Point Bonus!!!!

Thought i'd add this here, as a mid-point time breaker, 

The colours and coat for this have been reverted back to a simpler design choice, inspired by one of the first images of Lilith, made a year ago.

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Taffy Hair Lilith
"Im imagining like flowing hair, coat movement, and possible breathing, similiar to a test i did a while ago."
Check out the Vimeo Video thats attached below;

The technique is called matte painting, but I've simplified the process here using simple geometric shapes for the design choice. 

An in-depth description can be found on the Vimeo page



Saturday 13 September 2014

Children's E-book's of a Experimental HTML Calibre. {2 of 3}

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An Overview of the story-so-far…
A boy investigates the different discoveries that man has found… And ends up him asking his father one of the most important questions of his young life.
The storyline is 65% finished.
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Thinking about its content, the age range is towards something higher that of a three year old. I was inspired by the children's books I saw in France, that held a deep meaning or narrative considering their age.

This book will be very experimental, considering its for research purposes into the capabilities of HTML-EPUB Scripts.
Im hoping to make my illustrations as animated sequences using gifs and video clips; containing some elements of interactivity {not too much} and possible camera/tilt controls.
Heres a cool example here;
Works on iPad, so its entirely possible.


First colour drawing i did for the book. Transition might go inside the boys face, to different body parts;

The possibility of swinging lightbulbs using tilt sensors within the iPad would be a nice touch. Enabling them with scripts is the hard part.

"Man has touched the stars and walked on the moon"
Below is a video test I compiled recently. Having a Colourful Paper style with painted elements is what I'm trying to achieve for style for its simplistic appeal to the children's story genre.


Fan painting for paper animation and photoshop character design. {1 of 3}




The basis behind this character design was to produce a shapely figure that was both appealing and easy to duplicate in different poses for animation design. Possible gif loop after seeing this piece.

While producing character design for some fan artwork,
 RubberRoss AKA Ross, manages to make my design look like him!!!
All jokes aside, its not him. Its based on the design for  Pooch Proposal, a nice little animation project happening in Manchester.
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When i painted this, it reminded me very much of my dog, Holly. I changed the dogs design since then to fit what my friend wanted, for her fan artwork. The artwork was finished a while back, but i'd rather wait for them to post it before me on their Facebook page, because Spoilers.

Solo eyes, could be nice for a book cover, about love or something. 

I had a rule when painting this. Trust your eyes and not the canvas. So i painted this looking mostly at the reference material. Surprisingly, it gave a much greater sense of accuracy then trying to replicate it looking from picture to canvas very early on.


Thursday 28 August 2014

Photoshop paintings, Storybook gifs and stainglass warriors.




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Having an incredibly long holiday is so uninspiring.

It almost feels as if what I've been doing for the past month has been wasting time.

But maybe I've just lost touch with what it is i used to do.
I think its time for some back to basic project-making-go-nuts-period that I tell others to do whenever they're down or uninspired.

So expect a lot of paint….
A lot!
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For now though, I've done all sorts of pencil drawings for my E-book development and photoshop colour work because i forgot how to photoshop last month-

\\\ See last blog post, below this one ///

A succulent looking apple painted using new brushes in photoshop.


Fairly rough but quick painting of a tower. The clouds particularly remind me of a turner painting
Shiny bubbles i made following a tutorial on Pinterest/Deviant art.

I wanted to remind myself how overlapping blues would cool the underside of the gem shape.
A painting i produced late last night. the colours are beautiful. Now i just got to work on the compositions and producing solid shapes.

About a month ago, i said i was producing an E-book for uni. I have some characters set-up but now i just need a story. We have a bored king who craves adventure, a cunning apple headed chap who craves sweets, and a air commander girl who says some funny mature lines that she herself doesn't understand. Theres also a Lilith cameo, just to see how to style would affect her.

Geometric designs, My first thoughts were going to be focused just on lilith's story in a geometric stain-glass style 3D wonderland.  I've had some trouble with being inspired by it.

Astro-naught swordsman, cookery knight, and victorian gentlemen. Just some combination imagery drawing.



Friday 8 August 2014

This Week; I forgot how to Photoshop.

Okay…. let me elaborate.
 For the past few weeks I've been researching into the methods of in-app development, which links in to the research project I'm undertaking for my University.

Potentially, my end result is making a successful prototype E-Book in which i report my findings. So Ive been all over the internet trying to find the best software to use, all the while finding software that uses;
- the least amount of coding,
- is free and…
 - gives me open possibilities/fun when it comes to making my Book.

Turns out the best solution is Xcode, and even then that involves knowing your way around c++ scripts and coding to make even the easiest apps.

So my brain completely forgot how to photoshop. anything.

So whenever i forget, I start from the basics and before I knew it, I'm riding bicycles.
{I think that allegory's right}
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So I've made two {3} images from sketchbooks drawings or spur of the moment randomness.
/. ENJOY.\



Hip Hop Pop, REDUX!!!
The intention was to see how the black outlines change the visual style of the piece.
It gives it a sense of weight and existence.
This was taken from a line doodle in one of my sketchbooks
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Reminds me of the new smash brothers game coming to 3DS.
Hot Coffee Guy. Could Be A New Coffee Logo? Shirtless COFFEE! For the morning person
In comparison to the black outline {REDUX} version, Hip Hop Pop!!! definitely has a lighter feeling when its missing that weight.






Friday 1 August 2014

Lilith and the E-book of Short space of Time.

UPDATE COMING SOON.
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I'm currently undertaking a research project where i have to produce my own e-book to understand the creative process behind the production of making one. I think this is the perfect time to try making a story with the character I've been drawing for almost a year now.

-What I've been focusing on recently is the style. Should i go for realsitic serious, or cartooned storytelling?
- Should i produce a simple style, in turn a simple book for a lower age group, or can i make something deeply badass that serious?
Like bastion, or zelda?




This is what happens when you don't have any references. Big chins and similar faces.


The Stone was held by an evil looking eye. OHHH!!!!

Conscience appears.

The story of conscience has been half made up in my mind but i don't want to give anything away, Just a powerful spiritual entity that gives Lilith power, nothing special.


This is a disney looking style. But I cannot recreate it again. 

I was thinking a stain glass window effect with this page. Its definitely worth looking into.


On the far left is drawing i made that reflected the very first drawings i produced for Lilith.
Then i remembered why i made the character. It was for an animation i did almost a year ago.

And its online on VIMEO;
https://vimeo.com/66417898

Sort of a samurai, raincoat, knight trying to battle her way through the deep abyss that his her own subconscious.  
Im thinking about capturing some emotions. This is sad. Ill do angry sometime.

Completely different. Hip Hop Pop Bubblegum.

version 2.Im imagining block colours and green highlights



Monday 21 July 2014

/// I modelled a butt. {Sculptris, one day}. \\\


So I've been messing around with sculpting software Sculptris, during my spare time between research. For a single session of messing around, I've go ten use to its easy interface.

This short session has also showed me how much of anatomy I can recall from visual memory. It helped me to understand which areas I need studying in, in order to achieve a more accurate representation of the human anatomy. 
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Probably the closest thing to lilith becoming 3D at the moment. But I'm very pleased with how easy it is to sculpt figures from a single sphere.


I was actually hoping to stylise the look of the coat more but i thought id try realistic approaches before learning about exaggeration. Last time i exaggerated before learning proper anatomy, I was stuck in the manga style phase for two years. 

Must be Michelangelo inspired, when you have man pecks on a female model.

http://renresearch.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/michelangelo-night.jpg

I have no idea how eyes work in sculpting.



Oblivion Face.






Strange enough, i did model an accurate representation of a butt. What does that say about me?

My attempt at moiling hair. The problem was having it in mirror mode. 
My skills aren't exactly Davinci, but considering i made these without any references at all, I'm pretty pleased with myself.
I call it, the powdered ponytail. (Because it  reminds me of a powdered wig.)