And about this one, “untitled animation project” is all that I am allowed to say due to a confidentiality agreement. 😉
This is a set of 6 color concept art small sketches/paintings done over a weekend.
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It was not in my plans to create an animation out of the low poly basic models I did in Blender sometime ago but things just kept building up and I ended up with a bunch of random animated “takes” somehow.
Then I thought that maybe they could be edited to form some sort of animatic although I never planned any logic into the thing when I first build this stuff.
Also it was never my intent to create a complete fully rendered animation or anything as I don´t have the hardware for more complicated adventures or time for 3D, unfortunately.
I built this “space city” model because I wanted to create some illustrations based on a pre-existing 3D Blender model to paint on top, but then I thought that as long as I had built it, I should try to animate it a bit…
A few weeks later I ended up with more than 40 different “animated takes”.
So what you see is a really rough space port thing. I had a lot of fun edditing all those bits togheter and adding the sound effects into it, using the amazing free video editing software HitFilm 4 Express which you can get at : https://hitfilm.com/express
If you found that some bits had some fuzzy “narrative” logic that´s because I´ve worked with random takes which had no initial planning of being used to build a logical storyline animation. 😉
If you are a potential illustration client, if you are looking for an affordable children book artist , concept illustrator or need a freelance artist to work on a pod project ( I do not descriminate print on demand material for sure; I love it ); do not forget to take a look at my illustration portfolio (Fantasy or Childrens Book art ) and I´m always available to discuss future work.
If you have a dream, no matter what your budget is don´t hesitate to contact me and let´s see what we can do.
What follows is an animatic and some concept art, out of what started as a regular project but now has also become a portfolio piece for me. It´s the first time I use a 3D software to create the base for illustrations and in this case I used Blender from Blender.org to create the next animation.
Unfortunately my old 2011 hardware is no match for the current rendering requirements out of these programs and so instead of a fully complete high res detailed model animation I was only able to do the rough animatics which you can see below.
Nevertheless the idea was mostly to give some depth to the original 2D work I did out of the first Blender model work and so for now it´s enough for my objective here. Enjoy.
Each 12 seconds of this simple animatic took me about 18 hours to render and this was in low res, so you can guess how old my 2011 hardware now has become. It´s good for traditional digital painting but I know that if I want to continue with this animation experiments I will need to get a new computer soon.
LIGHT YEARS : CONCEPT ART
(BLENDER + PHOTOSHOP)
Next you can see some of the 2D concept artwork created out of the original Blender files with aditional painting work done in Photoshop.
Of course these types of pics can reach the level we want but for me this was a test and so let´s see how this goes when related to future projects using these same techniques.
This is a test I created while I was learning to use “MUVIZU” which is a real fun animation software if you want to create your own animation films.
I love Muvizu, but I think it has a real handicap when it comes to characters as we can only create new ones using the internal graphic library inside the application. This and the fact that most default character design is really ugly takes a few points out of what it is generally a fantastic hands-on animation package.
Easy to learn, great to use and extremely fun to work with. Too bad about the character limitation and also the fact it´s only a PC based software and there is no MAC version which to me is the worst thing.
Nevertheless if you´re looking into experimenting with animation check MUVIZU because it´s really, really good.
I´m planning to create my own movie for ages now, but I´m still waiting for this to have a Mac version.
