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This is my most recent one I’m still working on just need to wait until exams are finished to complete it 😬. This one was heavily inspired by WLOP who is an incredible digital artist and uses 3D art in their work for clear lighting and perspective. 

I’ll post a couple photoshop paintings that I’ve done recently but I won’t linger on them that much, as they are less character designs but rather practice for character proportions and how to use photoshop. 

I think I posted the link to the Maya modeling tutorial with the topic of topology but these are my notes that are super messy haha lol but kind of helped me with modeling tips and was easy to just go back to where I needed to without having the tutorial constantly up. [please excuse my scribbles it helps me think haha].

Another quick character design, this one wasn’t as clear as the others but I feel it holds a lot more personality. I want to go back to these two and maybe make a short story about what they're blowing up haha. 

Character design for a young girl in Korean inspired clothes the small images up the top were for reference. 

This was the original drawing before the 2d animation. Wasn’t able to post it with the actual video.

Just a funky little down before and after sunset. 

Following the other sketches I thought I would try 2D animating this persons hair in the snow. This is early line work and I’m not too confident with 2D animation but this was good practice. 

These are two greyscale images I used when focusing on hair movement and object weight value.

I like to sketch out some costume designs or camera angles when watching some tv shows and movies to help understand what might be effect. The top one is from Mandalorian and the Botton two are from a drama titled The King. The depictions aren’t perfect and I think I changed the design of the Mandalorian’s helmet but the lighting was interesting and the backgrounds can be just as important compositionally as the foreground. 

Thought I’d share some storyboards, character designs and short animations I’ve done this semester outside of this unit to help hone these skills for future use. This character was a concept for a wandering swordswoman, Nakamura. 

SO many things I would change about this piece but I will delve into that for my critical reflection and documentation. I thought I would share some screen shots from the animation after showing my sketches as planning. Slightly different head and some major modeling flaws with vertices that were not properly weighted to the skeleton. All things I will do better next time 💪🏽

These were some initial sketches before modeling the Ethos statue. Initially I wasn’t going to sculpt a face and then I changed my mind, thinking its would include more of a personality for her. Sorry it’s kind of messy.

Tried some short Maya modeling for a set of stairs outdoors and did some painting over it. I used an Arnold ai dome light of a cloudy HDRI so the image is a little dark and I might utilize that to add some rain and maybe a character in the middle.