Maya Tutorials: Character Part 1

These are the pencil and eraser characters I modelled following the online tutorial.

Secret Lairs: Influence Maps

 

As my character lives in early medieval times and sails a Viking style long boat, I have chosen to set his lair inside a cave instead of part of a pirate ship. Within the cave I want to include stolen treasure and weapons as well as the remains of a sea monster, similar to those featured in the 16th century map Carta Marina. I also looked at the black beaches in Iceland and sea caves.

Carta Marina, 16th Century created by Olaus Magnus

CG Artist's Toolkit: Animation 31.10.12

In our first animation session, we created these morph animations in teams. My group worked on the animation on the left.

Secret Lairs: Influence Maps

Here are my initial influence maps for this project. The first map relates to my research into medieval pirate ships. Viking's decorated the front of their vessels with dragons to ward off sea monsters. I plan to explore this style of design in my lair.

This second map includes images of sea caves which I plan to use to help design my space.

Space and Environment Project 2: Secret Lairs

In response to the two design components allocated to you at time of briefing you are asked to design the 'secret lair' for a key characters in a new cgi animation.

For this project I will be designing the secret lair of a Medieval Pirate.
Secret Lairs Initial Research

Maya Tutorials: Modelling

Here are the egg cups I created following the online tutorial using Polygons, NURBS and Sub-devisions (left to right).

Life Drawing 30.10.12

 

In this weeks life drawing class, I decided to use pencil for each drawing. In the first image each pose lasted about 2 minutes.













The next two poses were about 30 minutes, followed by a 15 minute drawing.