Old university university bits and pieces (2005-2006)
These are some various odds and ends I did when I was at Bournemouth University. These include my major project (an animation called skyfall) a stylised group project from 2005 and a few character experiments. I haven't touched character art in 11 years now!
This is a still from my Major project 'Skyfall'. This was a fair few years before the Bond film!
Uni major project Skyfall. I was driven to make this piece after I was inspired by hearing the music. I decided to make an environment heavy narrative piece that fitted the music.
A small video which shows some breakdowns of how the project was constructed.
A still from the beginning section of the project. I had fun demolishing a card model for this shot.
I did a lot of work with matte paintings to try and give some scale to these initial shots. All camera moves were physically made with a real camera in a reference environment and then matchmoved into CG.
A still of the destruction section of the project. I spent a fair bit of time looking into cracking and physics simulation. It all kind of worked in the end but it definitely contributed to some hair loss!
A bit of a comp breakdown. I was fairly pushed for time on this project, the level of art and lighting was not as refined as I would like. I had to kind of save it in post.
Uni character project. I had fun making this character. Getting it to render ok in a Maya 2005 viewport was tricky.
A texture page of the character's colour map.
This was a 2nd year group project I made at university. I did most of the lighting, post and some texturing stuff. It's still got an acceptable art style but it has obviously aged poorly.
I made this charcter with all shaders and textures, he was designed to be stylised but broadly realistic. There are obviously massive content problems here looking back.
A still from the beginning section of the group project.
This was the second charcter model. He was inspired by the bowling character from the big lebowski.
This is a model I made while trying to push myself on photoreal head creation. I ended up giving up quickly when it came to constructing the hair as I couldn't find a sane solution.
This is a test sculpt I made when I was learning Zbrush. It's a fairly standard grizzled middle aged man. I don't know why I didn't add eyes.
Here's a full body sculpt full of anatomical errors.