Sorry for the delay
I apologize for updating this page so few times in the last couple of weeks, but the last couple of weeks have been quite busy for me. Anyway I have a few things I have been working on. I have finished the Sun image that I was working on for Deck Techs and handed it over to the director, you can check out the image after the jump.
I am pretty happy with how it turned out, I ended up using the textures from some NASA photography to get the sun just the way I wanted. I have yet to meet up with the director again, but I have the earth to get started on now. As soon as we have our meeting I will be able to more confidently grasp exactly what he wants to portray in that scene. In the meantime I have been working on my roommate’s senior animation Soup a da Day. He has me doing texture painting for the Island, and palm tree in the scene.
So the images above are a sort of timeline of my first take on the leaves. The director prefers that the darker color be the oustide color, and the veins weren’t working the way that he envisioned them. So I go back to the drawing board.
I switched out the colors and you can see my next take on it was much better than the last. I started experimenting with yellow outlines to see how it would appear on the leaves, and I couldn’t seem to get the ratio of opacity and subtle-ness that I wanted, so I scratched the yellow. David, my director actually really likes my first attempt for take 2 as it created a certain faux paint texture that he wants to now use for the entire film. I will have to do some back-tracking on the leaf now as I have really started pushing it towards the realistic, out of habit.
That is the start of my work on the tree trunk. unfortunately we found when the texture was placed on the model that the UV that I had was not the current model, but a previous model that had been updated since I had gotten my UVs. it shouldn’t be too difficult for me to back-track and re-paint this to fit the newer UV, I’ll let you know how it goes in the coming days.
I still have to paint the island, and a rock on the island but we’ll get there in due time. There has been talk about me possibly painting the main character as well, but I have not heard a final decision on that as of today. I am really enjoying this project and it is definitely opening up a new light to me, that maybe I would be more interested working on animated, stylized films than live action. I will definitely look more closely at the animation studios on my short list and send them work when I have a polished, final reel.
