Horrible Week

Between taking care of an invalid and intense landlord drama, I haven't had a productive week unfortunately.

In short, I no longer have a decent connection to the internet.

We had an email about the degree show from Craig today, and apparently everyone who requested a monitor will have to share one with up to 3 other people. I felt a bit bad that, as a character artist, I get equal allowance as a 3D modeller, so I offered up my space to give someone a better go.

We had an Honours pin up on Monday. It was nice seeing all the work on the wall, but I wish there was a bit more. I put up my favourite characters and got to work on the 1920s background. The past few attempts I had were just awful and I felt a bit miserable doing them, but the one from Monday went a lot more smoothly. It's not finished, but I felt a lot more in the zone and I think it's already a big improvement over the others.

Jennifer

I should mention that the monster here is just the mouth thing, not really the girl. 

Jennifer is a parasite that lives in the mouths of its victims. It spreads its eggs to new hosts, where it grows more parts. I guess it's a zooid of sorts in that they're individual organisms, but they act as one unit. I think Jennifer could do with more detail, like little barbs or sacs to make it a bit more gross, but I'm happy for now!

Toby

Next monster done. I used a different style for both him and the background. I want it to be like an archive made by many people; someone sees a monster, draws it, puts it in the book. I hope they're looking okay so far.

Reginald

It was suggested a while ago that I do monster pictures for my Honours. I did my first one today.

I'm no good at naming things so for now, all the monsters are going to have regular names, like Alan and Kevin and Tim.

This one is Reginald.

Reginald is based off a monster in a nightmare I had recently. I don't really remember what happened; something to do with hell, and he was turning everything hellish and scary and trying to take people with him. 

I don't much like the background, but Josh and Rhoda said that it's good to have backgrounds for characters sometimes. It shows context and atmosphere. So, I gave it a go, and I guess it gets the feel across!

I also didit in a sketchier style for 2 reasons:

1) I'm better at it than super-polished things

2) I think it gives a nicer look for a monster book; like someone saw it, drew it and documented it rather than it just being a glamour shot.

So yeah.

Please tell Reginald what you think of him.

Mixed Day

You know how I said I'd be gutted if that picture wasn't perfectly finished?
It isn't. :(
Rhoda and Josh said that, if I'm planning to put her with other characters, she needs to look more like she could be interacting with them. Also, the intended setting doesn't suit the lighting on the picture. They're right, but I wish I'd done it better first time.
I got to see both Rhoda's and Josh's art today. It's kind of obvious, what with them being our tutors, but they draw so well. I wish I could be that good. I feel like I need to push myself a lot more to be at a standard where people would want to hire me.

I got to see Rhoda's creepy puppet today! It's sort of a skeletal Pinocchio. It was so cool but I was terrified of breaking it. Jack hated it. I don't think he likes creepy things very much.

Done!!

I finished the Assassin. I don't like it as much as that headshot I did, which is a shame, but I kinda like it. A bit. Maybe.

It took exactly as long as I thought it would - 16 videos - but 2 of them are corrupted, which means I have 14 in total. I have the start and the end, at least.

I really hope there's nothing wrong with it. If there is, I'll be a little bit heartbroken because it's going to be pretty hard to change.

Great news,

The colours on one of the videos has screwed up. Assassin's skin is blue. Desperately trying to fix it in Adobe Premiere.

So...

... Good thing I only did it in blocks, then. 

I could have recorded an 8 hour video that screwed up and effectively lost all of it.

Scaaaary stuff.

EDIT: Video is actually the right colour in Premiere. What?? Something is really messed up here. Any ideas?

Great song, or GREATEST SONG

Just to make sure it works! Jack suggested saving it in chunks, lest I lose the vid. This way, I only lose a bit.

For some reason, none of the toolboxes show up and the bottom of the screen is cut off. I don't know why that is yet, but I'll try to figure it out for next time.

All the rest

I'm starting the final images soon so I'm uploading all the characters that I haven't yet. There are still 2 more waiting - 1920s Civilian and Eastern Fantasy Tank - and they are designed - but there are some things I want to change about the pictures. They'll be up soon though!

Well, it's time to have a go at the first proper picture. Wish me luck!