Hero minotaur form Refined and Coloured

I lessened the sharpness of the character as per Justin's suggestion and intentionally left this character until i had come to a refined version of the fleece so that i can keep the same colours and style throughout .

Stage 1: Sketch
Stage 2: Line Art
Stage 3: Colour
Stage 4: highlights and shadows
Stage 5: Saturation
Stage 6: Stylize

Golden Fleece Refined and Coloured

here is the golden fleece in its more realised form, as justin said the original idea for the fleece to be skeleton-like made it a bit too evil and i agree so i cut back on some of the skeleton and made the head more like a simple mask, the legs i replaced with fur that have shaped themselves into legs.

stage 1: sketch

Stage 2: Line Art
Stage 3: Colour
Stage 4: Highlights and Shadows
Stage 5: Saturation change
Stage 6: Stylize

Pre-Viz

here are some pre-viz i was asked to put together for our project they're a little jumpy due to just wanting the timings and "key" poses.

pre-viz 1:

Spider-man is stood in front of the camera and is asked to portray a range of with his mask on they start off with happy and there is no real movement the director then asks for sad again there is only little movement. The more emotions that pass the angrier spider-man becomes this is visible by him "shaking" Finally the emotion anger comes up and he starts jumping around and waving his fists in the air appearing to go on a rampage and storms off stage.
Director applauds his performance for nailing the final emotion.
Director yells "CUT!", end of scene and fade to black.

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Pre-viz 2:

Spiderman is swinging round and something goes wrong with the green screen, you start seeing some holiday snaps instead of a big city image. The camera starts to pan out to reveal spider-man tied up by his hands to the ceiling and his feet to the floor "for the swing effect"
Director yells "CUT!", end of scene and fade to black.

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Hydran Refined and Coloured

Hydran as justin said was a bit too human-like so i thought hey why not cut back the cloak a bit so that you can see more of the modified body with an addition of a tail. i also thought of cutting back on some detail to make it more cartoon-like plus i gave him a staff as sorcerers typically have some tool for their power to flow.

i redrew him in photoshop and coloured him in to get the right feel for him.

stage 1: the original sketchStage 2: The Line ArtStage 3: colour with highlightsStage 4: ShadowsStage 5: Saturation change (suggested by Tom Beg)Stage 6: Stylizing

Narrative work

we have decided to go with spiderman as a pastiché target. part of the idea is to have a film studio all set up to take green screen footage for the latest film.

The original idea that uses the studio was to have screen tests for the role of spiderman, and of course mishaps ensue.

I have been given the task to model a lot of the objects, here are the models i have done so far. (please click for larger images)

Spiderman (WIP)


Mic-stand

Green-screen

Box-light

Most of these models with exception of the green screen were box-modeled from either cubes or cylinders.

I'll post the older ideas after this.

Found the images and made a few more

I managed to locate all the images i had done in the character design lessons and scanned them in, except for the ones drawn in blue i had to take photos of them. (i forgot scanners find blue hard to read)

I also drew up some more and thought a bit more on the story.

first are some of the drawings unrelated to the main project.


The last two on the scientist images are redraws of my original design done by Zack Moat (http://wakkamole.blogspot.com/).

Next are the ones from the main project.

The Villain: Hydran

I designed the hands and feet then i decided to redesign the cloak to be a bit more sharper and torn, i do admit though that i believe the proportions are a bit off.

The villain's sidekick: ??? (name still unknown)

The snake i'm having second thoughts about for a decent character that will fit in with the whole aesthetic of the idea now.

The hero: ??? (name still unknown)

My drawing ability and design of the hero has improved with each step the last of the images i shall explain after the next image.

The hero's sidekick: The Golden Fleece

I was thinking more along the lines with this sidekick, the golden fleece is an important plot device and is an alternative to the hero having a generic curse. After obtaining the fleece from the forest without alerting the dragon, the fleece reveals its personality, a talkative slightly cowardly being that is able if worn as a mask to tranform the wearer into a minotaur of tremendous strength, hence the new drawing of the hero.

Lack of posting

Sorry for the lack of posting and it is totally inexcusable.

i was intending to scan and upload all the drawings i did over the character design lessons but they have been misplaced due to parental unit re-organizing the living room.

When i find them i will post them post-haste!

During the character lessons i came up with an idea for the hero, i couldn't quite fully fill the idea of the hero when i realized the whole setup of my idea seemed very familiar.

Before stating the familiarity i shall start will what i managed to come up with for the hero its not much but it IS an idea.

The hero is a regular village worker helping out in the fields when Hydran/Hydrax decides to destroy the town after failing to persuade them to serve under his rule. The spell he used to destroy the village had failed to wipe out everyone. The hero of course is the only one to survive, as he awoke from being knocked unconscious he found that he had been cursed to change to the form of a minotaur only to realize that his village had been destroyed and he set out for revenge.

When you put hero and the villain together in the most typical way it seems so much like an old game called 'altered beast':

altered beast is a game about a hero being resurected to fight of a villain during his quest he is able to change forms into legendary beasts. here is a video: