Slightly harder to stay ahead of the workload this week. I still have a few things to finish before I get my tough Tuesday work pile on. I have actually started timing the hours I spend on each subject each week. It has been pretty revealing since what I usually estimate is waaaaaay less time than an individual homework actually takes... It hasn't changed my routine at all but it has been kinda interesting to actually have timesheets again, though I used to hate filling them in for work.
Digital painting in class still life. I am loving the way we are learning to paint digitally in this class! It is very slow but the results are just so cool!
For environment design we had to do a very similar homework to digital painting. Since the assignment was the same I decided to approach the drawing style differently. One of my peers suggested I try a technique where you just throw down brushstrokes and then carve in and try to make a narrative. This was actually pretty fun and was very different to my usual way of relying on linework. I can see it being very helpful if one is stuck with an idea but since the outcome can be kinda random it may not be the best when the story or style has been locked down.
I also had to come up with a story for some of my future painings. We were advised to take an existing IP and put a twist on it. That way we don't have to worry about developing a complex story. I am going with a redesign of one of my favorite games from my childhood; Baldur's Gate. I am going to design it as a first person action adventure game (think Skyrim) but I am also going to intertwine it with the Warhammer fantasy world by looking at the origin story of my favorite army the Skaven! If any of you are interested in the Warhammer fantasy universe I will be basing my story on the Doom of Kavzar.
For creature design I took my silhouettes from last week up to linework level. It was really fun getting to play around with forms and really run with some of the ideas I had last week. I did wind up refining the silhouettes a little and changing the perspective on my quadrupeds to make the overall form more readable.
My story for digital painting is based on the Blue light, a Grimms brothers story. I am twisting the story a little by making the creature summoned by the blue flame an automaton rather than a dwarf. I am planning to try out a slightly World of Warcraft or League of Legends style to my paintings for this class but I haven't gotten the full brief yet so I am keeping my style options open for now.
This weeks homework was to take one of the two scenes we will be working with for that class and experiment with the composition. The first scene I am doing is the point where the knight, exhausted, abandoned and injured falls upon the steps of the witches house and begs for help.
Sculpture 2 has been very chill so far. We are working through the stages of sculpting a bust in class which doesn't leave a lot left to do for homework other than finish up and refine. The class moves pretty fast so it is a little tricky to keep up but I can see the forms starting to come out. It is such a gear shift from sculpture 1. I know everyone including the teacher has said this already but I have to say I was assuming people were sugar coating it.
Lastly we have moved onto horror for this weeks Film History. We finished up taking about comedy in class and had a very brief discussion of the films we watched last week. I was expecting a little more, I hope we get a little more time to talk about this all next class.
Anyway the two movies we watched this week were: The Cabinet of Dr Caligari and Freaks
I didn't care much for the Cabinet of Dr Caligari. It was very very slow and the font for reading the cards (it was a silent movie) was, as you can see in the above poster almost illegible. Which combined with the inaudimate time given to the audience to read them and the frankly boring subject matter resulted in a very dull movie. There wasn't really any horrific elements for me maybe I have been spoiled by modern horror movies or games but I always thought it didn't really take much to freak me out.
Freaks on the other hand was great!! I was actually first introduced to the story when I was binge watching 30 second bunnies! and I have been curious about the film for a while but I never found the time to watch it. Again there was nothing really scary about this film but it told a great story of acceptance, exclusion, betrayal and retribution! I would say it is more of a drama than a horror film but I guess the ending probably does shift it more towards horror.
So onto week 3 and away from thumbnails!
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