Texturing...

If I see another wood texture I think I shall cry... Anyway Jenny and Lucy have had me texturing for their project 'The Little Helper' for the last few weeks now. They send me a couple of the rendered shots and it is the first time I have actually seen my textures on the models in the scene. It is an interesting insight into what this project is going to look like finished as when you are painting a texture in a UV map it is difficult imaging how its all going to fit together. It hasn't all been smooth sailing though, like any project there has been problems. The biggest one being my laptop screen displays colours quite differently from Jenny and Lucy's screens. To get around this problem they created a stricter colour palette that I could drop from.

The texture for the scenes are nearly done and I am about to start doing a few more interesting textures and the matte painting for the outside streets. I can't wait to see what it will all look like with Pete amazing lighting skills. Exciting stuff.

Web Textures

Here's a web texture for 'The Little Helper'. It was practice for more complicated ones, and also to test if it would actually work rendered. It will be interesting to see it in the scene.

First Background

This is the first background coloured and drawn from a layout I had worked on. It's the end of a long opening pan and one of the first things you will see in the animation. I adjusted the colours the Steph had been using slightly to make it more vibrant and more in the style she had originally pictured. I think this has worked quite well and I look forward to doing some more in this style.

I have discovered some new brushes in Photoshop which I used for the out line and shading. They give a more pencilled and hand drawn feel to the image.

Concept work

Here are some quick concepts for 'The Little Helper' project, they wanted some images to help get an idea of the lighting and feel for the animation. They aren't very detailed but I think they give an idea of the atmosphere. However, I think the composition of some of the pieces aren't great and I could of put a little more thought into them.

Props

Couple of Model Sheets

Massive Catch up on Characters

I wont upload all the characters individually as there are 30 of them so here's a pretty shot of them all standing together. We have tried to add facial features to the designs to make it easier to express what they are feeling during close up animation. However, we have discovered that you can not just have the eyes, you have to have all the features else they look creepy. I have also done turnarounds for the seven characters that are closely involved with the tree.