School - The Ruins Composition

Yes, it's going to be an odyssey! And for now.. the composition sketches!

School - "De ruine van wat was"

Well a little translating here: "The ruin of what has been". This is my third assignment, and I've started sketching to let loose of some ideas. So here goes!

I'll clarify what everything should represent.
Upper-left: An ancient dinosaur has been revealed by a river bed that has dried up. However due to erosion half of his skeleton has "melted" into the rock.
Upper-Right: Two rotten apples. I had an idea to make a story-board like effect to show the process of these "ruins".
Lower-left: An old watermill which has been abandoned and forgotten. Located at the edge of a forest/cliff/river.
Lower-right: Old ruin located in Combodja. Those ancient vietnamese ruins of legends fascinate me.


Well I nearly made my decision when I continued sketching and I stumbled upon these designs:

The ship of Odysseus, which has crashed upon the waves in a storm of Poseidon.
While the original concept was to make a ruin for a certain theme park, this would be a great combo. A ruin which really caught my eye and at the same time it's capable to be put in a theme park (as an eye catcher or maybe as a sort of ghost ship attraction?) Here we go!

School - Matte Painting 02 - Sinkhole

My second but my first finished Matte Painting! Here I portrayed Rotterdam being tortured by a sinkhole. It's even big enough to create a second sinkhole to the left. Cars are trying to hurry out of Rotterdam by the only road that has not yet collapsed.

 And here are the resource photo's I've used to construct the whole image. Oh the smoke? I've used brushes.

School - Matte Painting 01 - Meteor Shower

Posting an update on a Matte Painting. Thing is that I need to do a hell lot more updates if I'd plan to show my recent work.

This obviously represents a meteor shower. And it's missing quite a few elements. Destruction, rubble that flies about and a bigger impact. It's all going to be in the picture.

School - Photo research Matte Paintings

I'm shortly a proud owner of a SLR camera and I decided to use this to help me out getting good shots of Rotterdam. And here I present my research on good photo's for matte painting!

School - Vervorming Background

Final assignment for school. I've changed the background towards the Asian theme so it would support my character.

Not too much time has been put into it - sadly. I guess this will have to do.

And this ends my first semester of this year. Bear with me!

School - Concepts "Toen we uit Rotterdam vetrokken"

I made a few quick concepts (However the blizzard one was too much fun so it quickly got out of hand!) for a matte-painting.

I suppose four are plenty to work with and I'm sure you can guess the theme of the matte-painting!

School - Colour & Lightstudies

In one word: Exciting! I love how much you can do with colour and what effects you can achieve with it. Loads and loads I tell you!

School - Character & BG Combined

Finished up my character!

Now that's done, I've combined the two to put them together. 

However I'm not really satisfied with the result... 

Ahh well, I won't be too much of a critic this time, else I'd never get this done with!

School - Background final

I finished up the background a while now... Time to finish up my character and do some colour/lightstudies!

Stay tuned!

School - Background character

Time to work on the background!

The assignment tells us we need to choose a photograph about a background with at least one building on it.
(Well that's correct for sure.)
But there's a twist to it... I need to choose a background that's totally unrelevant to the theme of the character.

So now you know why I and my group has chosen for this photograph.

Above: My W.I.P Background.
Under: The real photo

Not judging about pros and cons this time... I'll wait till I've finished it up since I'm going good right now.

School - More Clothing, More poses!

Time for two updates! First off: More clothing!

I made two quick sketches to get a better idea of what I could do with chinese clothing. I'm not totally satisfied yet, since there is more to be gotten out of this. 

It's a nice sketch and worth posting, though.

Pros:

+ Clean

+ Poses

Cons:

- Character on the left

- Simple, maybe a bit bland clothing design