Sculpting In Maya

One of my Jobs is to model the environment, I was using the sculpt tool in Maya and produced some interesting results. I decided to make a valley so that the characters, could run through, and the audience would get a sense of being isolated by these giant mountains on either side.

The Poly count isn't anything to high, however the mountains are a tad bit realistic at this point and well will try to make them more simple in their style. 

Latest Tasks And feedback

• Put in more close up shots
• Research buster Keaton
• Confirm artistic Style
• Test Render
• cut down animatic it may be a 30 second short. 
• Sit with Sam and work out how we can achieve the style we want. 
• We really shoudl be good to go at this point.

• I need to 
• Model
• UV map
• All about the visual look and style now. renders 
• Model Hat asap

Landscape Concepts.

Here are concepts of how are environment could look like. I developed these concepts on my previous design. Sam had been producing some stylized renders and he used this to try and match the style.

This was the concept prior to the latest one.

Chracter Development

The character of the man is still changing and here are the latest developments, the colour palette is earthly reflecting that of Mongolian culture. I also have made the character more stocky and shot, as most Mongolian men fit this build.

This reflects the original style we were going for.

This shows the progression of the character and how I would like him took, I kept on applying more tones using photo-shop.  I would ideally like this to have some folds and his materiel to resemble some sense of realism.

19 January (meet Up)

Me and Tara Decided to meet up to see how the production of the film was going

This was the firts time we had got together after the Christmas break, People had been prioritizing on dissertation Dan Dalis skills unit and to honest most likely Christmas festivities.

I had spent the majority of this time working on modeling a character please see link.

http://davidleggedansunit.blogspot.com/

Hayley had continued experiment with character Concepts, Sam had began modeling the eagle and Tara attempted to create an animatic. 

18 latest tasks

• Edditng and adding to animatic 
• envriomental conceptual development
• chracter concepts fully explored

17 enviornmental concepts so far

Here I was experimenting with different environment styles, from a textured look reflecting that of a chinese scroll type painting to a more Matt painted style.  I personally feel the textured one at the bottom and the black and white picture are most effective as they are more simple which makes them more effective.

I will further develop this style at a later stage.