Evening painting

I was rendering some stuff for my VFX project today and painted Death while I was waiting.

First doodle 2012!

I was playing around with Dynamesh and this is what happened. A kind of faunish looking guy.

A dirty man

Well, bloggin' has been pretty slow lately, so much to do so little time! But here's a quick render of my character, now all that's missing is some hair and a little tweaking and then I will consider him finished. Feels like I could go on forever adding things but I have other more fun stuff to do so I got to let him go.

I'm in the middle of a VFX-project now, which pretty much rocks. It's a lot of new things but I'ma do my bestest to make something nice. Klick HERE to see the project!

A lot of school and some other stuff too

Time to update this here blog! It's been a while now, I've had a lot to do with school and some other stuff. Like I made this painting for an awesome stop motion movie that two guys at school are making. They have a blog, check it out! It's going to be really beautiful and I'm really happy I get to help them out.

In school we have a lot of assignments at once, both character and effects. This is a film of our last one, which was to put in some 3D models of a teapot and a cup in some live footage. The problem was that I did quite a bad job tracking the thing so my models skids around like disney on ice. Well, I guess you gotta start somewhere. :)

You can't spell particles without "party"!

Life is pretty sweet right now. I'm taking two new classes; Characters and Dynamics.
In the characters class we've been handed concepts that we're supposed to base our 3D models on. I got a pretty generic main character type of guy, who I named Frank. You can check the progress on Frank out by clicking this here link..

And I also tried out a tutorial on fariedust, using sprite particles, which is featured above. I didn't think I would like dynamics as much as I do, but maaaaan.. I do.

Ingela

So it's time for another portrait. This time of Ingela; my twinsister, best friend and partner in crime.

This was mainly an exercise in determining color and light. The main light comes from an artificial lightsource to the right, there's some purple bouncing of her shirt on to her neck and a strong, almost white light from the back. I also wanted to keep the background out of focus because it ads to realism and it looks pretty cool. 

It took about 4 hours.

I don't like to spend too much time on my paintings, because when I do they tend to look too much like those airbrushed portraits that you sometimes see on carnival rides.

"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world.. she walks in to mine"

I was thinking: "Casablanca is a pretty sweet movie" and then I painted this. I really like the lighting in that film, and also everything else about it.