Personal Work | Gesture Drawings

2 minute gesture drawings from ballet references.

Toolkit 2 | Progress Report

Drawing:

Life Drawing:

Compilation

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

Character Design:

Production Bible

Mudbox:

Fruits and Vegetables Part 1

Fruits and Vegetables Part 2 - Needs to be Posted

Bowl

Final Image - I have to create the table for the objects to sit on and then place them in the same scene.

Sculpting:

Weeks 1 and 2 - I have to add a more recent photo of the sculpture's progress as the last photo is not the most recent one.

Maya:

Jetpack Jones:

Head:

Progress 1 - Part 1 through to Part 4

Progress 2 - Part 5 through to Part 8

Progress 3 - Part 9 through to Part 11 - Currently working through the end of Part 10.

I will be completing the head and working through the body over Easter.

Lighting and Rendering 2:

Ray Depth

Sampling and Noise Reduction

Maya Lights

Light Filters

Stylised Internal Lighting - In Progress

HDR Images - Need to be Posted

Animation:

3D Body Animation:

Poses:

Posing Moom

Acting Poses

Weight Lifting:

Weightlifting Poses | Extremes and Inbetweens

Weightlifting Animation

Info-graphics:

Title Sequence. - Complete. I will be taking another look at the pacing of the later half of the sequence as well as the font used. I will also be re-looking at the colours and refining some of the images used.

Acting:

I have yet to write about acting, I have been present for all sessions.

3D Facial Animation:

Suprise Animation - I will be working on a version 2 as I forgot to animate the tongue in this version.

Phonemes - I need to catch up on this.

Mudbox | Fruits and Vegetables 1

Pepper

Potato

Maya | Jetpack Jones Progress 2

 

Modelling the Eyelid 1

Modelling the Eyelid 2

Modelling the Eyelid 3

Modelling the Eyelid 4

Modelling the Eyelid - Final

Modelling the Nose 1

Modelling the Nose 2 

Modelling the Nose 3

Modelling the Nose - Final 

Modelling the Ear and Neck 1

Modelling the Ear and Neck 2 

Modelling the Ear and Neck 3

Add Modelling the Ear and Neck 4

Modelling the Ear and Neck 5

Modelling the Ear and Neck 6

Modelling the Ear and Neck - Final

Mudbox | Bowl

Sculpting | Weeks 1 and 2

For week One's sculpting class the goal was to create a solid base to sculpt the bust on. This was created using wire, tinfoil and milliput on a wooden board. The wire was twisted together and bent over itself to form the stand. It was then covered in tinfoil near the bottom so it would stay wedged into the metal tube holding it. The top was also covered in tinfoil to create a middle for the clay to then be wrapped around. This prevents the use of too much clay as well as creating something more solid to work onto. The milliput was used around the place the metal tubing met the wire as an added way of keeping the wire still. The characters eyes were also created using milliput.

The character I have chosen to model is Hanzo from Overwatch. I began to model him by creating a lump of clay that was about equal to the size his head needed to be. This allowed me to then place his features according to his head size.

I created the structure of his Jaw so that I could then have a point of reference for the rest of his features. The next addition was to bulk up his neck and have it so that the connection was behind the jaw and ear. The brow was the next thing I looked at, this was done by slowly adding small pieces of clay to the brow and smoothing them in until the brow protruded more to where it needed to be.

Life Drawing | Year 2 Compilation

Life Drawing | Year 2 Compilation by Alex on Scribd

Maya | Light Filters

Tree

Creating Blinds - 1

Creating Blinds - 2

Creating Blinds - Final

Maya | Maya Lights

Area Light

Arnold Area Light

Directional Light 

Point Light 

Spot Light

Maya | Surprise Facial Animation

Maya | Suprise Facial Animation from Alexis on Vimeo.

Life Drawing | 35

Film Review | Waltz with Bashir

Waltz with Bashir (2008) was directed by Ari Folman. It tells the story of Folmans experience in the Lebanon war through the film by showing him searching for his memories of the war.

Fig 1, Movie Poster.

The film uses an art style based on that of comic books to show the search for memorias. The use of animation in the film works 'as the best way to reconstruct memories, fantasies, hallucinations, possibilities, past and present.' (Ebert, 2009). This is because it gives a sense of something not being real as well as allowing for the distortion usually seen in films. Thus the 'freedom of animation allows him to visualize what they tell him -- even their nightmares.' (Ebert, 2009).

Fig 2, Ari's Memory

The film is a retelling of memories of the event and thus doesn't 'claim to be an accurate historical account of the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, and is most certainly nothing of the kind. Instead, it presents itself as a psychodrama focusing on the long-term traumatic effects on some individual Israeli soldiers' (Ibish, 2009). This is shown in the focus it gives on the importance of Ari remembering the invasion and in the expressions and feelings of the soldiers he talks to. This allows for the film to look at the way people were effected by the events and a more personal view instead of just retelling them factually.

Fig 3, Remembering

The film's focus on the individual emotions of the soldiers is important. One reason for this is  'Since the vast majority of young Israelis serve in the army and many face disturbing episodes or encounters, the film has opened a rare conversation here about the impact of those experiences.' (Bronner, 2008).

Bibliography:

- Bronner, E, (2008), In Search of the Soldier in His Past, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/movies/14bron.html (Accessed on: 15/02/18)

- Ebert, R, (2009), Waltz with Bashir, https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/waltz-with-bashir-2009 (Accessed on: 15/02/18)

- Ibish, H, (2009), A Waltz with the Dogs of Memory,https://www.thenation.com/article/waltz-dogs-memory/

Image List:

- Fig 1, Movie Poster, Found At: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1185616/

- Fig 2, Ari's Memory, Found At: https://oneroomwithaview.com/2015/03/13/cel-mates-waltz-bashir/

- Fig 3, Remembering, Found At: https://www.documentary.org/magazine/waltz-bashir-fallibility-yet-persistence-memory