pre 30's photo study/self portrait skNo1

1st attempt in a series of character development pieces for our spring break challenge:

...tasked with creating our own Manga character - think I will do a few photo studies/mirror portrait, then move onto maybe a samurai & android combo to cover 2 different genres....

sketch book stuff

SatNightWip

28thMarUpdate:

Sentokun Sketch

Taken from the 'Kawaii' exhibition at the Sainsbury centre Norwich_March12

Door section break down

identifying the components to model

temple door study

Had to have a break from sci fi grey - 45Min photo study

BlastDoor_SkUp_Montage

thrashed out a mock up in sketch up to try and understand the design before attempting to model in Maya...

16thMar_LectureNotes

some great artists to look into

composition time...

heres my reference montage & initial layout for the final composition

back to black

returning to values:

Ba3_Entrance Model

Taking my inspiration from the Star Wars Universe - here are my references and thumb sktch/studies, with my own version of a blast door from the deck of a federation cruiser from episode 1...

...The plan is to model in maya then render the textures and light etc - maybe an alternative 'decayed' render showing the after effects of a crash/explotion?

14thMarWip

finalising my characters before creating new document with bot characters posed - then on to the background...

GunDam Study

Sketch of man size gundam suit at the 'Kingdom of Characters' exhibition

Obama_Update wip_aka_ObamaMammaDrama

demon_wip1

2nd character intial skecth for the cghub challenge

armed & dangerous

Wip for my next mudbox sculpt...