Toolkit - Arnold Lighting & Rendering Tutorials

Part 11: Surface Shaders

Part 13: Geometry Override Sets

Part 14: Physical Sky Light

Part 16: Mesh Lights

Part 17: Ambient Occlusion

Part 24: Stand Ins (Proxies)

Part 25: Motion Blur

Toolkit Submission

Toolkit2

All Maya Toolkit

Life Drawing

Sculpting

Infographic 

Character Design 

Pipeline 1 Modelling Tutorials

Maya Animation

Arnold Tutorials


Film Graphics

Toolkit - Updated Infographic

Toolkit Animation - Moom Facial Animation

Jaw Bounce






Progress so far   

Sculpting Update

I decided to carry on after the lessons and added a bit more detail then baked it. I hope to get round to painting to hide some of the roughness and add detail you can't see with the surface.

Toolkit 2 - Pipeline 1: Body Modelling - Parts 5 & 6

Toolkit 2 - Pipeline 1: Body Modelling - Parts 1 to 4

This is my progress so far with body modelling. I still need to go back onto the legs and smooth out a lot of detail.

Toolkit 2 - Pipeline 1: Head Modelling - Parts 5 to 14 Completed

This is all my progress on the head modelling tutorials starting from where I left off ages ago at the start of the nose tutorial.

Premise - Sacrificial Ceremony Reimagined

I thought the sacrificial ceremony shot wasn't good enough so I decided to redesign it, this is just an early sketch just to get the idea out but something like this with demonic undertones and maybe some Gregorian chanting in the background.

Premise - Magazine Article

Premise - Reflective Statement

On this project I encountered many issues and certainly didn't make it easy for myself. I had an entirely different idea to begin with which I believed in at first but just kept questioning it and I became really unsure with where it was headed, to the point where it seemed like a good idea to scrap my project and start fresh. I chose to make a comedy as that's my main form of entertainment and something I think I am able to do effectively to a point. Writing a script and beginning character design was hard as the project was still a bit of a mess, but when I started just drawing creatures I started to get somewhere. A lot of the thumbnails I drew were pretty terrible and not even cute but this was to my advantage as by the end of doing thumbnail sketches for the species I'd really gotten the hang of drawing "cute" creatures. I jumped a bit ahead and was advised by tutors to take a step back and really resolve the character shape. So I went back and did a load of more thumbnails, which ended up with something similar to what I had before, but far more resolved and I was happier with it so it was definitely worth going back and spending more time on that aspect of character design even if it meant compromising other work. I very much enjoyed the design process of this project. As I started this project quite late I didn't get the chance to spend as much time as I would like on the environment and props. What I drew for environments was fairly generic so I'm definitely going back to them, but I thought that for the moment the storyboard would be most important just so I could convey my idea to others. I wasn't able to fully finish my animatic for the presentation, there was about 5 shots from the end missing which meant the big payoff joke for the entire short film wasn't able to be shown effectively so I need to go back and finish that. I also wasn't overly happy with some of the shots in the animatic, I want to try make smoother transitions and think about how the camera will switch between shots within that world. What I want to spend time on now includes: finishing and improving the animatic, more environment and prop design, more character design and some tests with my characters within Maya to try out the fur textures.

Premise - Submission for Crit

    

   I've added my presentation from the crit now as I wasn't able to upload to scribd previously despite saving it as various file types but it is the same presentation I presented from at the crit. Apologies for the size of the presentation this is the only alternative I found to scribd.


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 FILM REVIEWS 

MAGAZINE ARTICLE 

Premise - Concept Art

Premise - Character Concept

This is the concept art for the ugly character.

Premise - Concept Art

This is the final character concept I have come up with, there are still probably a few things I need to go back and tweak but pushing it out for now, I tried a few different overlays.