ultimate image design nears conclusion...

 

After looking at some more artwork, I stumbled upon the art book for the Dreamworks film, 'Rise of the Guardians', which featured an image on the front that instantly struck me. It had a white background and a sketchy style that matched that of my business card and CV, and featured a fantastuic composition of characters coming in from the side leaving lots of opne space that really drew attention. This seemed like something I wanted to try so I set off creating some new designs...

 

ultimate image designs

 

For the second module of business studies, we were set the task of creating an ultimate image- an image that would show our style, advertise us and show our work quickly to onlookers for use on websites or other promotional material. The process began by looking at various images, posters and pieces of artwork to study layout and compositions, before starting to design one of my own. The fun then started when it was time to create a selection of designs and compositions to choose from to become the final piece...

 

Then desk designs would allow me to show various characters aswell as a selection of art and design work to show off other things that I am able to produce, to they seemed overall a little too cliche and busy...

These seemed nice and keeping then clean and simple suited the business card and cv, but something about them just wasnt working...

 

I liked some of the designs, but something wasn't quite working. The pieces weren't suiting my style and mixing well with that of the business card and logo, so it was back to the drawing board...

'Monkey on a Horse' is born...

 

Together with fellow animation student, Matthew Burnham-Jones, we're currently in the process of setting up a little animation studio called 'Monkey on a Horse'. It's an exciting time, and things are coming together, so you can follow us at:

                           Twitter: @monkeyonahorse
                           Facebook: monkeyonahorse
                           E-mail: monkeyonahorse@gmail.com

And here is our first showreel, so we hope you enjoy and keep posted for more very soon...

The loyal sidekick goes digital...

After a fantastic talk from Chris Phillips on Friday in university, I wanted to try some new styles that could be used for my Ultimate image, so this is my first proper attempt at digital painting on Photoshop, and i'm happy with it, its turned out quite nice and I'm looking forward to doing more, improving my skills and hopefully getting quicker at producing them...

'Showtime' animation starts to progress...

The animation was becoming too clean, too quickly. It was meaning that the animation wasn't flowing or free enough, and was almost becoming a chore. So between now and the next couple of weeks, it's back to good old blue lines and more of a rough look to achieve the more detailed animation that I want before outlining and cleaning can happen.

So heres a sequence that has been roughed so far to give an idea of the animation and final look of the film...

 

It feels now that I am enjoying the process more, feeling more free and creative with the characters and it means that the animation can all be seen in rough for any tweaks to be made before outlining and finalysing.

A loyal companion for the 'Showtime' master...

 

Here's another little sneak peek at the animation for 'Showtime' so far. Here, the Master recieves his loyal sidekick - not that he necessarily asked for one... 

 

It's 'Showtime' for the Master...

 

Just though I'd give you a sneak peek at 'Showtime' so far -

Here the master is introduced, much to his surprise, but little does he know just what lies ahead for him...

 

 

There are still little tweaks and alterations to be made to the animation, but it shows the final style that I want for the whole film, so gave a chance to see how it would look and how much time it would take to achieve.