Dodo Backgrounds

As promised here are the backgrounds I've been doing for Don't do the Dodo over the past few weeks. There are still a few more to go so keep an eye out :)

Long time...

..no post.

I have done work, I promise, mostly animating which I haven't managed to put into my animatic yet but I will be updating that by Wednesday. I've also got a couple Don't do the Dodo backgrounds which I'll be posting probably tomorrow.

In the meantime here's a happy, drumming southerner for you guys.

90 Second People

Here are some sketches I did using the 30 Second Drawing tool on Posemaniacs, an awesome website for all you arty people. Each of these fellas (and ladies) took 90 seconds to do. I'm planning to do a few more and hopefully get quicker :)

Pings

Here's a sample of some frames from the shots I coloured today which I've done in Photoshop and saved out as PNGs which will then be composited in Animate Pro. You'll notice than the lines are still sketchy and rough. This is because rather than ink my completed animation and then colour in Animate Pro, (my usual pipeline), I have chosen to try and keep the freshness of my pencil line-tests by colouring underneath them directly and therefore forgo inking, which often seems to deaden 2D animation I've found.

I'll not upload every frame but I'll try and upload an example from each shot as I go. Here are shots 3, 5 and 22.1

Gums Layouts

Sticking with the layout theme here are the layouts for my short film Gums. They may look a bit boring with all the trees, and somewhat flat, but again colour should fix this. These took me a day to produce but will be very helpful when it comes to putting the scene together. Normally I wouldn't put this much detail in layouts, Tafti's where much simpler, but I in putting the thinking in here, as it where, I am hoping to save time in the painting stage.

Dodo Layouts

Here's the first of a few updates for this week, my apologies for spamming your feeds guys but at least there's pretty stuff to look at ;)

Here are the layout sheets I produced for Don't do the Dodo. These will be used during animation to position the characters within their scenes and will be used by me to make the final coloured and layered Photoshop backgrounds. They may look a bit boring now but I promise the finals will be prettier :)

Dorne

Finally anther pic of Doran Martell from ASOIAF. I've been meaning to repaint him for a while so I'm glad he's done. Doran is definitely one of my favorite characters from the series.

Xaro Xhoan Daxos

A really quick doodle of Xaro for ASOIAF 'cause he needs more love ;)

An Island...

....Half the World Around

Here's a pre-vis background I did for an upcoming animated short called Don't do the Dodo. I'll be acting as background artist on this project so keep an eye out for more stuff from me and links to what's going on with my fellow team members as the short develops. To see more updates on the whole project take a look at the producer's blog.

This was made as a test mainly to see if I could incorporate the composition of the original book's backgrounds and add my own flair while making it more animation friendly. Overall this seemed successful, however the sea will take a bit of planning in order to make it animatable but I'm pretty sure good old Photoshop and its wonderful layers will solve that problem.

Environment 2

Another environment attempt