Narrative: Maya Tutorial and Film Review Masterpost

CG Artist Toolkit and Animations

Isometric Camera

2D Facial Rigging

Max Poses Animation

Lipsync Animation

Narrative Film Reviews:

Hero's Journey

Character Archetypes

Narrative Structure

Narrative and Character

B-Movies

Exploitation in Cinema

Drawing Exercises: Master Study

Fig 1: Master Study of Environments

Fig 2: Master Study of a Portrait Painting

Fig 3: Master Study of a John Singer Sargent Painting

Colour Comps Low Angle Exterior and Interior Shots

I drew some more colour comps, primarily focusing on the exterior low angle and the interior shot and the perspectives of each, with the help of Jordan, by copying the original image and scaling it down to include more of the environment. I wanted to have a more layered approach, by having a foreground, mid ground and background.

For the exterior low angle shot, I wanted to have the street lead to the market hall where the interior shot is based. Putting it near the ocean to give the sense that the city does lots of trading of the coast. For the final piece, for the interior I will included more items for the travellers travel in from the desert. Such as carpets and traveller gear for the harsh sun.

Interior Shot

Low Angle Exterior

Photoshop: Colour Composition Thumbnails

Below are my Coloured Final thumbnails for my city, Despina before I draw the Final pieces. There are a few things that I'd like to change in the Final piece. I might even do the establishing scene again from the sailor's perspective, from which the cities silhouette is a camel. But I still want to have the concept that the viewer is exploring the cities along with traveller. Also I will sort out the pespective and expand of the city seen in the second shot, to exaggerate the scene and give it more depth.

Photoshop: Buildings and Building Collage Thumbnails

Fig 1: Building concepts

For the buildings I decided to produce a lot of tall buildings with odd shapes. As this would of given the sense of how tall the city is. However when I was placing the buildings in a collage I had some trouble of where to place the awkward tops of some of the structures. So I have decided that for the final pieces I'd go for something a bit more simple but still have that depth and uniqueness that the buildings here have. 

I also really like the angle I put the city, in the first image of the collages. I most probably will have that angle feature in one of the final pieces to give a more dramatic feel, and to be able to give a sense of range for Despina.

Fig 2: Building Collage

Photoshop: Master Study and Abstract Thumbnails

Here is my Master Study works and the Abstract Thumbnails of Baucis with and without the lasso tool, then I merged them together. I enjoyed using the lasso tool but I had a few issues with merging the two, I feel as though I should of experimented with masking and some of the layer options a bit more.

Still Life Photoshop Drawings

Exercise 1- Black and White

Exercise 2- Colour

These are the two Photoshop still life pieces I drew today in Lesson. I dont usually draw this kind of thing but I had fun and I like how they both came out even though it seems rushed in places. The brush that was used for both of these pieces was very interesting and easy to colour with, the effect of dried paint it gives off is a big appeal to me and it blends colours reasonable well.