Steampunk Project

Step 1-Mood Board

For this project I started of with a mood board that I put together, with that were able to get me an idea to design a character.

Step 2-Ideas

From the research I was able to come up with a character that I called Felix. I was inspired by one image in particular on my mood board; which shows a man with one of his shoulders and arms that was armoured up. From that image I came up with an idea that I drew out on Photoshop and the developed on to.

Step 3-Final Outcome

The final outcome came out really well considering that the male body is something that I struggle to design from. Over all I think it was a success and has helped me to practice the male proportions on a human character.

Practice Project

Before

Today for practice I decided to produce a landscape painting of a world in the clouds. Once I painted the background I decided to add three colours such as grey, blue and yellow too see which one look more bright and heavenly. The red colour is suppose to represent something beneath the clouds.

Final

After I selected the colour I wanted, I then moved on to adding buildings of a Si-Fi culture. In the end the result was amazing and I am quite proud of the outcome.

Rock Monster Project

Step 1-Mood Board

For this project I struggled on what to design but I used the mood board that I put together, with that I was able to get an idea to design a Dragon made of stone.

Step 2-Rough Sketch

So after the research I then moved on to drawing out some rough sketches in Photoshop and from there I chose my chosen design to further develop.

Step 3-Final Outcome

Finally I started to paint out the base colours and then I practices some of the new techniques I had learnt in class. Such as overlay layer, texturing and the lava technique. This was a perfect chance to experiment with some of the new techniques which I think I have improved on, apart from the lava one that was a bit more harder to understand but over all I am happy with the outcome. 

Paint Over Vampire Project

Vampire Model

After the Spaceship Turret we moved on to a 3D model image of a Vampire which we had to apply the same skills and technique we learnt for the Turret.

Vampire Model Textured

Paint Over Project

Step 1-Spaceship Turret Model

For today's session we learnt a technique in Photoshop called Paint Over. This means a 3D object like the Spaceship Turret would be placed into Photoshop as a flat image ready for the Paint Over technique.

Step 2-Spaceship Turret Model Texture

After the image is placed into Photoshop we then use textures a manipulate them to fit the object, the texture layers are also on a mode called Overly. This allows the textures to lower their opacity while keeping it's visual strength.

Step 3-Spaceship Turret Model Details

Finally after the textures are placed over the object, I then took the chance to add a few details like a colour layer which changed it to have more of a blue tint, then a rough painted symbol and a painted  hatch door with type.

Lava Monster Project

Lava Monster Model

Today's session we learnt how to create a lava effect and then apply it to a 3D model as seen above.

Lava Monster

To achieve the lava effect we used a normal brush but added a glow effect which was done by double clicking on the chosen layer and ticking the glow boxes. This meant on this layer where ever I drew a glow effect would appear. As you can see my attempt at the lava effect was a great start in my opinion but I think it maybe a bit too vibrant. All I can do is practice some more and gain the skill to make it more of a success.

Lava Light Show

Isometric Pixel Art Project

Cube and Cylinder

Today in our morning session we were taught the basics of isometric pixel art, which as seen above we started off by making a cube and cylinder which would be the basics of our retro robot.

Robot Outline

After that we were then allowed to make a retro robot using the techniques that we used to make the cube and cylinder.

Robot Colour

Finally after the outline I then started to colour in my robot with some flat colours. Then I started to add lighter colours with the opacity down to build up a level of 3D quality to my robot.