Dynasaur!

One of my first sculpts using Z brush’s dynamesh tool. Sculpted and painted in 4-5 hrs, I can see this being another badass tool to add to the concepting process, Artists like Ben Mauro have been using this process for a couple of years, I’d heard of how good dynamesh was, but I had no idea how much faster it would make sculpting. This little critter is a Troodon, known for their general dinosoariness and apparent lack of lower teeth according to my model.

VEHICLE PROJECT

I was very excited at the start of this project, as I'm a massive fan of codies’ racing games, and to get a vehicle brief set by them was always going to be exciting. But the brief was so open that I found the idea of choosing any vehicle in the universe to make a little overwhelming, especially for a massive car/military vehicle nerd like me. On the first day of the project I concepted a range of ideas, from racing cars to futuristic military trucks. But I ended up sticking a bunch of ideas together to design a vehicle that combines all of the things I love about cars. Basically an over the top racecar. The general basis for the design could be described as a Max Rockatansky's interceptor having a metal love child with a GT car.

Coat Collaboration

Here’s a short project I did early last summer for a friend who wanted to develop his degree show a little more as his project had been selected to be displayed at the graduate fashion show at earl court.  His project was titled Zero Waste Menswear, and the idea is kind of self-explanatory as the clothes are for chaps, and the pattern designs have zero wastage, meaning that when the fabric is cut for the separate parts, arms, pockets, etc. nothing is thrown away, so every part has a purpose e.g. the semi-circles from the arms cut into the back are used as pocket flaps. The idea may sound very simple but the great thing about his project was that it didn't compromise the design as in theory you could do this with any pattern just by sticking all of the offcuts onto the elbow, but this would of course make it look shit. Anyway, he asked me to 3D model the coat, so it could be animated and cut apart to show this in a clearer way. We only had five days, but we were pretty pleased with the results in the end, there are just some screens from Z brush below, but if you click on this link: http://zerowastemenswear.tumblr.com/ you can see the final rotation animation we created, with together and exploded 360 views. We were unable to animate the “explosion” as there was a slight hiccup during the project, in the form of me being involved in a cycling accident on the 3^rd day of the project, and sustaining a minor brake on my right arm. This was a massive pain in the arm, but I soldiered on with my arm in a sling and managed to throw together an impressive piece of work if I don’t say so myself. Not to offend anyone who likes clothes more than the average human, but It may have gone completely over the heads of most of the visitors of graduate fashion week but there was some definite interest from interest from the tutors of Nottingham Trent, which could be useful in the future if they ask me to get involved in a similar project.

Rooftop

Originally this project was the NYC rooftop project, but after some cool, quite clearly not NYC rooftops made by last year’s 3^rd years the projects brief was widened to any kind of rooftop. I wanted to still create a grounded environment, so I chose an urban, modern day/ near future rooftop. I wanted to give it a near future cyber punk setting, so I’d have a little more freedom on what to design and put into the level, but also so I could experiment with some more interesting colour palettes. I ended up choosing a bleak and quite liner palette and light setup heavily inspired by the Tyrell office scene. Whilst researching I looked a lot at Michael Mann’s cinematography for his awesome night time lighting and screen compositions.

I still want to do some more work on this project, as it definitely needs a bit more clutter, but also some layout changes are needed, as I don’t think I'm really taking advantage of the triangular layout as much as I could. Also some lens flare wouldn't go amiss.

3rd Year

Looking at this blog it may appear that I have faked my own death, but I assure you that this is not the case, I have simply been doing too much colouring in to write anything! (and possibly sleeping and drinking).