This week was so much fun! We started a bunch of great projects, had a few fun talks and I saw Zootopia!! which just overtook Tangled as my favorite Disney Movie!
OK, I still haven't gotten my alien invasion perspective assignment back so first off we have my perspective hand in for the drag race between a balloon animal car and a cactus car.
So the cactus car snatches a sneaky victory from the balloon animal car while the pit crew bunny removes a troublesome thorn.
So many ellipses! :p didn't realise quite how many I would have to plot before I got about half way through the block in. Oh well at least now I can plot ellipses in my sleep.
Here is the very quick block in for my Photoshop final. I spent a couple of hours figuring it all out but I am pretty happy with the overall composition. I am going to be replacing all of the columns and rings with my own Maya models. The droid is also going to be replaced with my Viscom final design, work smart not hard ;)
Here is the rough version of my Viscom Final. I originally came up with about 10 ideas in class but as Mark was talking through some previous examples and cautioning us not to do high tech glasses or light-sabers a few of my ideas got crossed off :p I took my favorite 4 and then went with the bottom left concept for a reconnaissance ship. I then had to create a few thumbnails visualizing the; beauty, detail and usage pages. (yes that is a mouse piloting the ship)
Figure drawing was really fun this week. In Aprils class we covered the basics of rendering! yay! We covered 3 value shading and edges. I think it will take me quite a long time to figure it all out but at least I have a decent framework now. In Silva's class we moved on from torso anatomy to arm anatomy focusing on supination and pronation. This means studying what happens to the forearm when your wrist is turned inside or outside. It was kinda complex but fun to get a little more anatomy preparation before next term. For homework I went back to the basics a little and focused on hands, feet and heads again. I haven't yet done my assigned homework but I have till 7:00pm tomorrow to get that done :p
This is what I was doing instead of my official homework! April had me looking at some awesome artists, like John Watkiss, as reference to get a better grasp on drawing the head and rendering with 3 values. I might have gone overboard trying to do this master copy but I think I have learnt a bunch of stuff to do with shading. We will see when I try to do my hour long studies for homework tomorrow.
Ray (one of my class-mates) gave me some tips too this week and omg! it has helped so much!! I think this is probably one of the best hands I have drawn! yay! thanks Ray! I have gotten so much help from other Gnomon students since I started whether it be quick tips or help that borders on an actual lesson! I want to thank all my friends for you help :)
Some sketches for my Perspective final. I have decided to go ahead with a slightly gritty Gothic church meets Steampunk tech combined as a temple dedicated to the original bunny! I will elaborate on the story a little more when I have some cool visuals to show you guys. The thumbnail may not make much sense but its all there... in my head.
Speaking of bunnies, check out this cute little guy I saw at Target! I love Easter time!
So despite everyone freaking out with their Viscom Mid-terms and Perspective double homework we actually had a great turn out for the Sketchathon day 4. That marks a whole month! its feeling more official every time! Even though for this one I actually showed up 3 minutes late and forgot to bring.... like everything :p We still made due and wound up with our random words being: Orc, Lawyer and Infamous.
This one was really fun! and despite announcing at the very beginning that 'she would never win one of these' Angela took the group by storm this week! yay!
This weeks presentation was a little disappointing. The content was very cool but I didn't care much for the format of the presentation. The presenter went over a lot of very cool things to do with the dynamics side of the VFX industry and the few examples he showed were very advanced. I don't really know much about dynamics and would have been totally happy to just sit there for 3 hours and watch some amazing explosions or water simulations but instead the presenter just asked the audience to ask questions about dynamics. The other problem was the majority of our term, including myself are pretty sure they want to go into games which has a very different approach to dynamics (from what little I know). So all in all not the best presentation but still I learnt a few things.
I also did a little work practicing value and edges while I listened to some confusing dynamics stuff. This guy looked much cooler under the red lights of the stage. In the harsh fluorescent lights of Lecture 1 he looks a lot flatter :p
Back to bunnies! It was quite a surprise to look up one day and see this guy poking out of a building with cute bunny ears! #OnlyInLA
We also has a presentation from Jared Krichevsky this week! It was really cool and my first Zbrush demo since moving to LA! It is so much fun to just watch people play around in Zbrush, there are so many workflows and techniques you always see something new.
Jared worked on the Gods of Egypt movie and showed us a lot of content from early sketches through, lots of ideation all the way to the final models for the movie.
OK now to this weeks highlight! Zootopia!!!!
We decided to get the most out of the day we would see the movie early then use the inspiration to do work for the rest of the day. We all met up before the movie for breakfast pancakes! with bacon! Nom!!! For some reason a lot of the closer theaters including Archlight are not screening Zootopia??? so we tried a new one. The 'El Capitain Theatre' did not disappoint in fact....
before the movie they brought out a real bunny and fox and sloth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what?! best build up to a movie ever!! I had the biggest smile when they brought out the cute little bunny and then went on to explain about how rabbits are the best animals in the world... well that's what I heard from the presenter!
The fox was very cute too but a little active, I don't think he was too happy to be on that table.
So after meeting some real animals these two guys, Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde came onto the stage to do a little dance. Did I mention best warm up to a movie ever cos seriously! None of us had any idea this was going to happen :p
6 very happy Gnomon students!
They were handing out fox and bunny ears after the screening so Cortana got an upgrade!
Wow what a week! but yikes on to week 9 now! I swear for the last few weeks I am constantly surprised at how close it is getting to the end of term! Wish me luck its going to be crunch time real soon.
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