Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Livestream Launched. Vivi Monster take over.

So I've started livestreaming :) Vivi Monster

A nomadic princess : around 45 mins or so.

Cell shading Vivi style tutorial, as requested by viewer.


Friday, April 23, 2010

Workshop 04-17

Original image: a character concept by nna (Deviantart.com)
My sketch during the workshop:
He is a dwarf kind of thing I guess.

Alternative:
I just picked a few designs I really liked from the workshop and kind of made an alternative out of it.
Motoki: Return of the Messenger
Scene illustrates a Japanese like town, its messenger swings in from his mission as the others alerts the town, that he has returned.
Music: The New Gothic Power - X-ray Dog

My sketch during the workshop:
An execution scene, the executioner is escorting the prisoner to the chopping block.

Alternative:
Star Cobra: Instead of the male executioner, I've made the character a female, possibly an assassin of sort. She is captured and chained to her misery.

Little Concept Workshop cont.

--This latest meet (04-17-2010), I implemented a couple of new ways of approaching concept design. The main focus is construction and deconstruction, and the other is emotional implantation.

  • The first, has to do with taking something existing, deconstruct it to its bare elements, and reconstruct something new and fresh from those bits and pieces. I see every thing as an embodiment of many things, an echo of one and another. Therefore the artists are presented a random conceptual photographs or a pre-existing characters, their job is to study the image and create something original from it.
  • For this I pretty much randomly pulled some character and photograph off the internet, I don't want to use something that is familiar to the artists, I want them to have a clean pallet. I think sometimes after we are familiar with one subject, we tend to become quite biased to a certain view. If we see something new and random, it encourages our brain to think, and our mind to search through all that we know and experienced.
  • The second, comes from the musical part of my background. I was brought up in music, rather than art. Music always seem to paint a story for me in my mind, just like we can create echos of pre-existing images, I believe people are able to create from music. So for this section, a piece of music is played for 5 minutes (or 6 minutes depends on the piece), the artists are to draw as many things as they feel like during this time. The key is to feel the mood of the music, the way the beats are played, the way the melody sings, and anything that can be felt.
More experimental exercises to come, and more exploration are to be conducted :)

The Little Concept Workshop

This started around summer of 2009. After working with some friends for a pre-production project, I started to really like working in groups, to get other people's opinion on things and return with my own feedback regarding their works.

So, I gathered a couple of friends and decided that we are going to meet every weekend and experiment with different concepts and challenges. We started by having a set of criteria that we must satisfy within 5 minutes after 1 minute of brainstorming. This challenge ended up to be something really fun, funny, and overall interesting. It is amazing how one single concept can be viewed in such a vast amount of perspective.

I brought it back mid spring 2010 semester. I've met quite a few talented folks, and each one with their distinct flavor of artistic interpretation. I hope in the long run, people do learn form this little workshop, and create more beautiful worlds.

Inspired

School has been so busy lately, I have a lot of sketches to scan and post...

Yesterday I discovered a few artists that are extremely inspirational. I love film music, I must say, there are a lot of feeling in the melodies that I can fee. They makes my mind tingle and fingers wiggle, inspires me to create. :)

Enjoy.

(Music) Inspiration: Clair Voyant by Two Steps From Hell.