Shine on, you crazy diamond.

I developed an old picture I did three months ago.

After viewing some of Ken Wong's artwork, i saw how he had upgraded one of his old concepts and made it a lot better with the skills he'd gained since producing his first concept two years ago.

I look at mine and thought id do the same

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\\\ Zine Project ///- The Great Zine Exchange.

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Three weeks ago, A team of us made zines for a Illustration module at university. Afterwards, the whole class held an event, where we exchanged each others zines as a fun alternative to forgetting about the project an moving on to the next.

The Process it took to make a zine. I only produced two individual pieces but i compiled most of the typography for my team.

HO HA!!! laughter is the best medicine.

I primarily focused on paper cutting for the lettering of each illustration produced.

One of my ones shown, in book format.

Stay awhile comrade. We'll adventure together.

Its a mix of Playing Diablo III and Sword and Sworcery this week, that i couldn't help but produce a tasty photoshop painting of adventure and friendship...Awesome.

The type-font used is 'Roadway' downloaded from DaFont. The link is here below.

http://www.dafont.com/roadway.font

Update coming later.

Lighter side of my week; Character design for 12 principles of animation.

The more colourful designs of my week have been focused upon;
-----------------The 12 Principles Of animation -----------------
I've completed four so far. and have made them into gif files for you fine people to enjoy, from the comfort of your house (or boat)

I did some character design for the short 12 principles of animation brief set for uni. This character sheet shows appeal and solid design for the twelve principles.

I thought since I made a half parallax in the designs, I should make a gif out of it. I like it.

Using the same character, this time I've gif'd her doing the 'pose to pose' principle.

Just a nice fish gif at the end. Might show the principle 'squash and stretch' since its a water balloon.

Side note*
I also did some characterisation for my 'ideas through design' module, but its a little too big (A1) to fit under my scanner (A3). I will photograph them as soon as I've got the time to live life….

The Serious side of my week; Prague 1968 and the Erlkonig.

Okay, so, I've finishing up my recent group animation based on the novel, 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' and hope to upload it here very soon. But since I've changed hands and am starting a new group project, it might get lost or pushed back for another two weeks. Sorry people. Anyway, since I haven't uploaded anything recently for the past two weeks or so, I decided to upload two blogs. Below is some concept art for what I've been doing and what I'm doing now.

A 1 hour painting done on photoshop. Its for a new group animation I am undertaking for University about the poem of the Erlkonig, and the father who loses his son. Dramatic.

The Unbearable Lightness of being' Sequence. It starts at the window, and moves down to the street level, thus playing the running cycle below across the scene.

'Running sequence using a muybridge reference',

Concept for the streets of prague. This is going to be used in my final animation as a 3D layered image, which is going to be cool…. hopefully. Ill have particles flying and a serious amount of depth added.

My very own coat of arms

Ive been making headway for the new project at University, in which i work with a team of three other people to make a 45 second animation, so my blog has been neglicted for a while. I will share it once it is finished, but for now enjoy my Coat of Arms…..

I designed my own contemporary coat of arms this week, Im rather proud of it myself.
-Blackbirds provide peace and affection for the home and family, and also I think blackbirds are funny to look at.
-The embellished lines around the bottom mean 'Clouds on Air'.
-The porthole is from my bedroom back at home, with a deep brown night sky in the centre. I like starry skies, and often we forget they're there at night.
-The violin is the instrument I play, and also makes up the shape of the crest in the centre.
-The orange colours mean 'persevierence' and relate to the colours of the blackbird.
And the words 'Esse Quam Videri' meaning 'to be, rather than to seem' which i think in modern terms means 'not to follow' (ergo. I am probably a hipster)

I will wear it with pride!!!

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Nothing much has happened in the development of Lilith this week.

Random invented drawing of a guy in glasses, probably suffering from a cold or something.

\\\Fantasy Storyminds, Lets continue...

This is Childhood. His personality is always happy about life and always loves to play games. Often seen hanging upside-down from trees, it has come to the extent his own hair is stuck upwards. A knack for adventuring, he exists in the forest area of lilith's mind and happily joins her in exchange for a truly amazing adventure.

I'm satisfied with the left profile face. I also removed the top panel of the armour of that one to reveal more of the face from other angles.

I'm trying to think of an appropriate entity for this character. His personality is laid back, fairly sarcastic and he smokes a lot. When he's angry, his bitchiness becomes much worse, to an extent he himself starts to smoke. Oh and he wears a sweater/scalf. 

Some of the primarily sketches for childhood.