YOU DO NOT REQUIRE TEA?

Ever since the first LEGO Star Wars game came out, I’ve been trying to make a 3D recreation of a LEGO minifig that has the same range of movement – bendable legs, arms, hands, that sort of thing. Then I found this custom LEGO model of a Dalek by Flickr user kaptainkobold. I thought “why not?” and with the help of the LDraw library (open source virtual LEGO pieces) made a virtual version.

The result was a homage to the Doctor wailing on a Dalek with a wrench in a recent episode:

The Daleks aren’t having much luck with serving tea, are they?

Showreel

My first of many showreels, which will be shown at my final year exhibition this week. It includes a couple of bits of never-before-seen animation.

For some reason the video’s frame-rate has ended up as 22fps instead of 25. And yet it plays at the original speed. Odd.

Client Project – Final Covers

I’ve now handed in the final versions of my covers for ImagineFX.

Deus Est Machina

Thanks to the addition of some blurring, textures overlays and image adjustments the final image looks really awesome. My brother was especially impressed, and asked if the machine depicted was a Necron C’tan (a being from Warhammer 40,000). I’m rather glad that my Kodak printer is really good with colour handling, because the CYMK preview in Photoshop wasn’t looking good if I’m honest.

Draconic Shaman

This one errs more towards my usual art style. The initial version didn’t have such stark lighting in it as this one, and there are extra details added to the outfit. I was very pleased to be commended by my client on how good my rendering and design of the head dress though, because if there’s one thing I pride myself on, it’s attention to detail.

Client Project – Both Covers

I’ve sent off both covers to my client for feedback. Here’s the small, water-marked versions of the two.

Some cosmetic changes will need to be done obviously, but the question is whether I need actual prints to hand in or not. Hopefully not, it would be rather awkward trying to find a print shop that could print A0 in time.

Also, in the process of making sure I have evidence to show my work on these, I’ve lost count of the amount of file versions I’ve made of these two (and that’s not including aborted ones). It’s a good thing my filing system is the only thing of mine that’s reasonably organised.

I’m currently going through my artwork folder to find images for the exhibition package. It’s a bit odd that some of them are a couple of years old, but they actually still demonstrate my skillset. And I haven’t even gotten started on my 3D work (I need to rig the 3D minifig I’ve been working on for that, shouldn’t take too long – I can practically rig in my sleep now).

Quick Client update

One of the covers is nearly ready for sending off to my client for a final once-over – the other I’ve started from scratch by revisiting one of my original concepts and so will take a little longer.

I found some really neat cloud brushes on DeviantART, so I’ll be using them on the nebula. Also, ignore the grey box, that’s a guide fot the space ship.