Storyboard - 29/07/2015

Today I didn't spend much time working on my storyboard as I would have liked to :P, But I did managed to do some of my character's modelling in maya(can't show you yet hehe) and it is looking quite good so far :)

Well, hopefully I'll work on my storyboard when I get home unless I end up watching Anime(again)

Storyboard - 28/07/2015

Today I started working on my storyboard; I only managed to do a few rough drawings, because I spent some time playing around with Maya trying some cool stuff :)

Concept Development - 26/07/2015

I did a summary description of my sequence and the genre I will be changing it to as well as my character's profile.

Concept Development - 26/07/2015

I finally finished my character's turnarounds. I will probably have to fix a few things, but at least the main work is done.

I will probably end up using a blue cotton texture for his shirt and some other fabric texture for his pants.

These are a few poses and face expressions.

Concept Development - 25/07/2015

Today I decided to work on my final Character. This is the result. 

Concept Development - 23/07/2015

Today I had a really productive day(for once), I finished a few new color tests for the pants and my character's full body. I really like all the different versions of it, so it's going to be quite hard to decide which one might be my final one, because who knows, I might come up with new crazy ideas ;) .
 I had some great feedback from my tutor, one of them being about the hair of my character which had quite a lot of triangle shapes around the head(refer to last blog post), so my tutor told me to change it into a more basic shape and that's what I did or at least tried to do.


Below you can see a few different colors tried on my character, and like I said before, I like them all :)

So here you have the different color test for my Samurai's pants? (I need a name for my character soon)

Concept Development - 22/07/2015

I just finished working on some color tests for my character's face. I will decide on the final one by the end of the day.........(hopefully).

So instead on deciding on the final color of my character's face, I managed to come up with a bunch of different colors for the shirt of my Samurai. I like all of them, but my favorites are the white,black and green one.

Concept Development - 22/07/2015

Finally decided what Japanese Mask style I'll be using for my character.

I woke up this morning feeling really tired, even tho I had a good 6 hours of sleeping time :), it felt more like a 3 hours sleep :(. Anyways, back to the main point, While I was falling sleep in the bus I thought about changing the mask that my character will be using, from a Noh Mask to a Oni Mask, why? well because it's more terrifying and evil than the Noh Mask; I'll try to come up with a few new concepts for it today.

Japanese Oni Mask

Concept Development 21/07/2015

Another day in Mordor, trying to stay alive and come up with new ideas and concepts for my character . I managed to come up with a lot of new drawings and a face for my Samurai today(finally decided what clothes he's going to wear)and also came up with a new design for my Katana sword.
Sadly, the scanners weren't operating today(I think Sauron killed them all), so I wasn't able to scan any of my drawings :( ........................................but, once I get home I will scan my drawings and update my blog with the drawings that I've done today :) so you people can see my progress.
I have to go back to my base now and figure out a way to conquer the world and save everyone from joining the Dark Side of the Force.......

4 HOURS LATER..................... As promised, I have updated my blog with some drawings that I've done during the past 3 days or so,


By the end of the day today(around 3:30pm) I began to work on a new design for my character's Katana, I really like the design on the right side.

I did these 2 character poses today, really rough drawings done really fast :P

Today (21/07/2015), I worked on a few face designs(even tho I already had a pretty clear idea of how I wanted my character's face to look like), I really like the long hair one, with the pointy goatee.

The following day I worked on the outfit of the character, I was trying to come up with some basic samurai/farmer clothing style. 18/07/2015

In this drawing I was trying different designs and ideas. 17/07/2015

Concept Development - 15/07/2015

Character Style:

I was thinking of designing my character as a Medieval/Feudal Japanese farmer/samurai with possibly 2 props, one of the props being a Japanese feudal mask, because their designs were pretty scary and horrific.

The mask would be design from the main character's face changing a few details in it.

I want my character to look like a farmer samurai/ronin.

Film Sequence - 14/07/2015

Choosing a film sequence:

Today I decided That I want to work on the "Home Alone" sequence (Scream Scene).
I will be changing it from a family genre into a horror/comedy genre by having my character looking at the mirror and suddenly his reflection(represented as an evil spirit) shows up scaring him.

At first I wanted to have a monster appear in the mirror but it would be too hard to model it in 3D, therefore I decided to use the same character and only change a few features in his face to make him look like an evil spirit/being.

I'm still deciding if I want my character to be a young boy or maybe a grown up man (in his late 50s), but I have a feeling that an old man would be better.