Tyler Reinhart

The third character for this assignment is Tyler Reinhart, the brother of hero Terra. He is a somewhat rebellious student who is having troubles adjusting to life without his parents. He collects superhero memorabilia, and always has a pocket knife on hand. Total amount of time spent on Tyler is even less than The Wolfman, I wanna say around 8-9 hours.This kid keeps getting the short end of the stick on this project. I always put him off until the end and get frustrated at how I can't work fast enough, and so he ends up looking the worst of all three. He has made major improvements from both the midterm and the first version of his character sheet. I feel he is still in the "has potential" stage of his development, but I could grow to like him.

The Wolfman

This is the villain character. He is an assassin who goes by "The Wolfman" in reference to the mask he wears, and is part of a secret league of mercenary assassins who all wear different animal masks. The character is inspired by a random sighting of a person on a motorcycle actually wearing a wolf mask, I thought it was pretty interesting of course. The total amount of time spent on The Wolfman is unknown, I would guess somewhere in the realm of 10-11 hours. Again I am very slow and need to work on speed. But I think I at least deliver good quality work. Honestly the only reason I am not farther on him is because of a twelve hour snag I hit doing my hero character. This is why The Wolfman has yet to get a model sheet.

Terra "KillShot" Reinhart

This is my hero character. Her name is Terra "KillShot" Reinhart, and she is a bounty hunter/new age superhero. I spent the most time of all my characters on her and she is the one I am most proud of. The only thing I am not completely happy with is the model sheet. Some of the views aren't completly accurate. In total I spent roughly 24 hours on all her pages. I have a problem with everything having to look perfect, or as perfect as I can get it, and it can make my timing go seriously awry or even make what I'm doing look worse.



Matte Painting....yeah.....

Not gonna lie I really disliked this unit. It seemed an illogical next step for these thumbnails we've been stuck with since the midterm. I did however think that the final outcomes were pretty neat. I would have wanted to work on it more but I doubt I will unless I want to freshen up on skills.

If you can't tell this is the lame green bamboo thumbnail. You can see how it progressed from the first attempt at getting textures and junk in to what ended up being my final pass at it.
The other part of the final for this class is another reworking of the midterm thumbnails, but I couldn't do much of anything with them because last time I merged the layers stupidly thinking I was done reworking them for homework, so I don't know if I will be uploading them.

2D Art Redo-Midterms That I Never Posted

I don't know how I forgot these....Oh yeah...I was very disappointed in only getting half of them done how I wanted. Freaking tech problems, I started over from scratch like three times. The ones I actually got to do digitally I am happy with for the most part. The other four almost look worse than what I had them on the original midterm but that's because they pretty much just went back to sketchbook form.

Simple User Interface

So I decided that this blog will no longer just be assignments from Character Viz and 2D Art but really all my major classes and just my art in general.

I thought I'd start off this by posting the latest assignment for 2D Motion becuase I just liked it so much. It's a simple ten second user interface designed in After Effects. Some of the timing is off because I'm still getting used to how aftereffects renders in real time. Other than that I kinda like it. Credit for the original backround image goes to whoever made this. I found it on some desktop background site.

First Color Ever

Seriously. Forget all the improvements and changes it needs, I'm just excited about how not terrible it is for my first coloring job ever in photoshop. This overall was a very cool and fulfilling assignment and something I look forward to doing in the future. Forgot to time this unfortunately. Spent roughly 5 hours I would say. So much more was spent on the inking than the actual coloring.

Thumbelina...oh and Primitives Too

This week we had to do sihlouettes of a fairytale character. I had no idea who to pick and was thinking of just doing "evil queen" cuz it was easy, but a friend of mine suggested Thumbelina and I accepted because of how challenging it would be. Turns out, I might have bitten off more than I could chew with her, I overestimated myself when it came down to time management and the techniques of making these. Originally they had no grey, just black, and now I think there's too much grey but whatever! I am proud of my designs not so proud of how it turned out. Spent at least 4 Hours when combined with the shading.

We did this to get practice with primitive shape shading in photoshop but I kinda botched it. First the layers weren't totally accurate. Second my one sweep approach did not help. Third. I did not erase and try again enough to get the best results. I was trying to see how I would progress in the exercise without erasing and this is what happened. Spent about 1 hour once I got the layers somewhat correct.

I've Got My Eyes On You

Yeah the whole class sucks at making eyes with soul. So we had to do 20 sets that were different. They took forever because I have hardly ever used a tablet before. The only good thing is that erasing is easy. Overall I spent about 6.5 hours on it. Too long considering the quality I think.

Thumbnails

I guess we were supposed to redo our midterm thumbnails in digital values, but the homework I saw said to do new ones so that's what I did. I know they could use some more work, but overall I like them and am impressed with myself as before this assignment I had no experience whatsoever in creating art like this through photoshop.

Sleuth Week

We returned to the genre thing in character viz this week, and did some mystery/detective/crime stuff. Here's my set of ten images for that. I like how I did most of these. That is the best car I have ever drawn in my life. I like the guy at the top too because I did better than I thought I would however his eyes are jacked up, too large I say, but hey it was good practice.

Character Viz Midterms

There was a lot more to this project. Mostly like 300 supporting sketches but it'd be too much of a bother to upload them. So these are just the three final versions placed on the provided template with a selection of supporting sketches. I really liked my character concepts but unfortunately only the main character does the concept justice for me. The other two fall short. But I couldn't spend as much time on them as I did the main character, time was running out.

2D Art Midterms!

We had to pick eight images to refine even further and then put them in a fancy template. I'd say I managed to make some fairly decent improvements. Not gonna lie, I did rush a bit.

2D Art Midterm Pre-Final Version

We had to color the thumbnails again. So I did. They were better than the first run through.

Character Viz Silhouettes

So during my midterm weeks I have neglected to upload assignments to the blog. Here's a second set of silhouettes we did. I know I did better on these than on the others. But I still have a problem with head size!

Colored Thumbnails

I don't think I did so great on these, but I think the fault lies more with my poor orginal images. I still felt that progress was made from the first to last. Kinda wish I got a redo on this whole assignment because I could do it much better now.

Figures and Silhouettes

Well I definitely have a problem with proportion. For some reason I guess I think it's okay to have them all outta whack because the ball figures and silhouettes are more primitive and can be more cartoony. I think I'm getting better though. The figure drawing we did that week helped a lot.