Sunday, July 22, 2012

Sitting Warrior and School

A drawing I've been working on during classes at school to stave off boredom. In the process of coloring, but for now you can enjoy the pretty line art.

Seriously, in one of those classes, I'm relearning InDesign, to the point where he's even teaching us things that we've learned 10 times over in our college careers, such as not trying to resample images larger than they originally came. You can make things smaller, but you can't make things bigger. We learned this Freshman year, and I am now a Junior. Give me something more to go on than resizing images!

You know, maybe one reason his face is so stern is because he's reflecting my irritation at some of the things we're 'learning' in these classes. Hah!

Ranting aside though, my classes are very interesting and are quite time consuming. But they're sure to produce some nifty work! Especially my Conceptual Design class, where we're literally creating the concept designs for a movie (creating a new Wizard of Oz), starting from a style guide, to environment designs, to character designs. Be ready to see a Cowardly Lion from me in the next month!

Monday, July 2, 2012

Before Our Love Fell - Page 8 (finale)






Process:




 I had to seriously rework the ending of the first sketch, because it felt incomplete and I wasn't sure how to communicate the feelings and melancholy nature of the ending. Fortunately, that's what teachers are for! 













 Here's another example of where I had an older design for Anne's and her lover's home, which was changed in the final draft and lineart. I also had to change certain angles so that the flow wouldn't be interrupted. The 180 degree rule of site, you cannot move the camera more than 180 degrees around a subject or in a scene because it will cause a disconnect and they might think of it as a different scene. So I had to change how the angle of the wall/window behind Anne and Adam, and beside the vampire as she sits outside, to keep the relationship between the scenes to show that they are the same window.