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Finished Flash Animation: Snap Kick 04/12/2015

Before Refinement After Refinement On my final animation the kick came out super good, I like the way it has some real spin to it, the belt also has some nice flow to it too. The head and back knee can be a little out of place at times but it looks okay.

'The Shining 1980' Mundane Madness 30/11/2015

Fig 1:  'The Shining 1980' Poster This film review will focus on how the father, the mother and the son are portrayed as a hierarchy, the hotel's influence on its inhabitance and the designs of the sets in the film. The film was made in 1980, was directed by Stanley Kubrick and Roy Walker was the art director. The Shining is one of the most recognisable, if not the most recognisable horror films of all time, the acting for the film was brutal and the acting was so real that at times it could make you feel a little ill  "In accordance with the Kubrick legend, the process of making the movie took meticulousness to staggering levels — Shelley Duvall was reputedly forced to do no less than 127 takes of one scene; Nicholson was force fed endless cheese sandwiches (which he loathes) to generate a sense of inner revulsion, and the recent invention of the Steadicam (by Garret Brown) fuelled Kubrick's obsessive quest for perfection. The result is gloriously precision-ma...

Maya Texture Experimentation: Outlines

This Gif is meant to be somewhat of a loading screen, just using textures to make the wireframe a little more bizarre, then altered in after effects, looped and turned into a GIF in Photoshop and it was done. Might need to give this a little more pop, but for a test it works fine.

Comp Test: Ascend 30/11/2015

Final Image I was just experimenting with some laws when painting, I need to get my skills up and this was quite nice, Having the entire area being this nice orange blue contrast then having this centre of attention point (The massive white orb) you get a sense of scale and direction when looking at this image. I would change the colour of the tree glow just because it does clash with the sun quite a lot but it came out pretty nice!

Flash Animation: Side Swing Kick 27/11/2015

Animation Since I am having technical difficulty getting my life drawings onto blogger I have done an animation of someone kicking, the spin is real nice and maybe I will even come back to this and make it look better in the future.

Maya Tutorial: Scene Lighting 5 26/11/2015

Maya Tutorial Result This is my final render for the Maya interior tutorial. I have brought the saturation and contrast up a little but overall it came out quite nice!

Maya Tutorial: Lighting Scene 4 24/11/2015

Maya Tutorial Result 1 Maya Tutorial Result 2 This is the night time lighting tutorial scene, there are two scenes actually, the first was my own Photoshop result not following the tutorial. I do like the top highlight but the second render just looks so much cleaner. Happy with my progress and hopefully the last one will be done today!