Posed Chirop. Slaved for weeks on creating a manual/dynamic system for the feathers, fingers and tail so that I'd have nice secondary in the animations. Then I do a 360 and find that my IK Splines twist whenever they reach 170-190 degree rotations. Noticeable at 2 seconds, the mesh literally flips itself over 180 degrees. 

A pile of props.

rocks and grass and rocks and grass



Progress!

			3D	Polycount	UV	Texture	Rig	Software
ENVIR	Mount			150,000		PAINT		MAX+zBRUSH+MAYA
		Background Sky		xx		PAINT		MATTE PAINT
		Grass		30ea		PAINT
ENVIR	Cave			400,000		PAINT		MAX+zBRUSH+MAYA
		RockDebris		3000-5000		PAINT	5 VARIATION	MAX+zBRUSH+MAYA
ENVIR	Cliff			400,000		PAINT		MAX+zBRUSH+MAYA
		RockDebris		3000-5000		PAINT	5 VARIATION	MAX+zBRUSH+MAYA
		Background Sky		xx		PAINT		MATTE PAINT

Production Shopping List Progress                                                           Tim Clark 04/12/2014

Texture test for environment#1. 

 Environment#2, the cave. Basic UV, but will remake all of this.

  

Environment #3, will also need remake

Environments, rough pass. Something I've been working on slowly, but has been secondary to character rigging. Getting more confident with the clay polish tool; hard to juggle between keeping the topology manageable, whilst retaining detail in enormous environments. 

Intro Credits~

Another assignment, this time: Intro Credits.
A bit of silliness which will have to be removed; I like the format cos it gets me pumped to make a film, but they just don't flow well into the film.

Watch as these get scrapped in favour of something much more time consuminggg,.

spin me right round bb, right round~

Charlene turnaround~ Pretty happy with this girl, she's not nearly as much of a pain as the monster is. 

Chirop turnaround. Need to change the head feathers and redo the wings again. Which means re-UVmapping. This creature is a mess. I think I might show some of the cloth tests.

ART BIBLE SEPTEMBER MASHUP

 2D Charlene. After many deliberations I will probably be going with Colour Swatch 4. 

 Charlene as of September 2014. Ready for rigging.

Some expression sheets. Will need to learn how to do expressive faces in rigging.

Size comparison ft. Recycled artwork~. Chiropteramon hasn't changed much since 2012, when I used this artwork in my Dawson college application form. 

*tears are shed*

Colour swatches which make me feel like I'm running a cheap, deviantArt adoptable site. 

Where the beast is at; September 2014. Still topology fixes; feathers, wing mesh. Close to rigging this bouy.

Environment Silhouettes. Done because it was a requirement tbh.

The top of the hill~

 The dark and spooky cave where running around madly might save you from becoming dinner.

The ledge. I dunno if the breaking rock is feasible, or if i should just cheat it.

  

The environment. Reusing art from Matte Painting 2013. Who would have though I would actually just use that concept from back then lul.

Props. I don't want them but I feel like for the narrative's sake, I'm gonna have to run with using the map at least.

Some of the story beats I did for storyboarding last year. Good thing I had a chance to reuse them~. I like the interior cave colours so much in 2D, I feel like it's going to be much grimier and less interesting once I go into 3D. So here's a glimpse of how things would have been if I had pursued a career in 2D animation wow~

"moodboards"

FINAL FILM TIME!

Charlene is my baby from a long forgotten story. She's been around since about 2009 and gone through many, many iterations. There's a bunch of art for her in amungst the dregs of this blog, and stuff which I've forgotten about and will probably never post.

Final Film Charlene is a badass adventure girl, with a cool scarf and a thirst for adventure~! 

"Chiro", formerly Heelz, formerly Chiropteramon, is a Meso-American Monster, whose name I will never really settle with. Inspired by video game dragons, pretty Aztec/Mayan stuff, and Digimon~

The world is a bit of a mix and match of things I like: The aforementioned Meso-American theme, Golden sunsets tinged with  amaranth pink. There's temples and rocks, a big cave and clouds. 

The animatic~!
ft: explosions!/oil rigs/ skanky ladies with crab/barnacles over the pg13 bits/explosions/camera moves in 2D & other general silliness/1-2 more explosions.

FInal project this semester was to do an "escape from" scenario;
for anatomy: the character

for perspective: the environment

for preproduction: design/animatic

for art history: the columns and hybrid creatures 

Environments based on aforementioned thumbs!
boy oh boy do i love oil rigs right now. Watch as I rehash the second one for years to come~

thumbnails for backgrounds~

Value Backgrounds~

Painted version of an aforementioned Character Design for PreProd Class.

There's a coloured version floating around somewhere but I think it's at school perhaps iunno?!

Crabette // RockPubes

Crablady character picked from refined silhouettes; Painting her now ♥!

Refined Silhouettes; Line and ValuePainting.

LETS GET DOWN TO BUSINESS

Silhouettes for Preproduction class.

 Girls. Fish and girls and diving suits and water. Totally out of my comfort zone for serious;.