Court of Art

Court of Art was brought to life within 10 months with the help of amazing mentors.
Hope you enjoy!

Planning Scenes, and MISC

 

This is a breakdown and an a thorough analysis/planning of the last scene. To see notes and images properly, right click then click on View Image. You will be able to maximize the image to its full resolution.

Shot with Brent George and Francis Gagne 

Here are some drawings from the Lawbook and the crumpled paper

 

Drawing that was crumpled

 The final drawing and what made a change

PS: the text behind the drawing is taken from Wikipedia and is about Positive Liberty, a notion that can be described as "having the power and resources to fulfill one's own potential" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_liberty).

Storyboards and Animatics

The Animatic

Court of Art - The Concepts

Court of Art is my final Student Short Film

Here are some concepts and renders to show the work that went into Court of Art

Credits go to Raymon Fong for a huge help in figuring out the room's lighting scheme

 Expression sheet for Blendshapes

Demonstration of models, rig, and room all WIPs 

 

 This render was done when the protagonist was originally a little girl known as "Amana". Now the story is about a little boy whose name is Ayden.

What's cool about that though is that a lot of people still refer to the protagonist as a girl even though he has been changed to a guy. I wanted that ambiguity with gender since I first thought of making a movie anyway as means to say that this happens to boys, girls, and genderqueers alike.

The next following concepts were a part of my previous story which was more or less the same but a lot more complex and much too hard for a movie that lasts 2 minutes.

This concept belongs to me previous story which involved an "Imaginary Friend".

I might post the animatic of that story later!

Old Animations

Here are some animations that were completed during 2011

Progress - 2D Art

I thought I'd show some of my progress for a 2D work even if this blog is soon going to focus on my animations!

More Art Dump!

I promise I'll put up some of my animations soon! :) Just throwing some art dumps your way.

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Gesture drawing

 Art Dump of a selection of art from my first 2 years in the program

(2009-2011)

 

Revamped Silhouettes including those for my final film (The Kid)

Quick concept for project involving Robots

3D Room Render night and day of loft I modelled and lit (Yeah the place teleports at different times of the day)

3D Face self-portrait. It was for a project! Haha not because I'm narcissistic

Quick Speed Painting

Occupational Hazard - Speedpaint, still a WIP, will be finished eventually

Project for Matte Painting. Not much of a matte painting since I painted over all the pictures...

Cain and Abel Character Design

To start off the blog, here's some concept works I did for a particular story I created last year known as Brotherhood, a variation of Cain and Abel but with a lot more steampunk.

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It was a story about two genious brothers who are both mechanics. Abel's talents get recognized by someone famous and consequently, the older brother, Cain, gets jealous. The older brother accidentally kills his younger brother while trying to sabotage his success, and desperately attempts to revive him by replacing failed organs, and limbs, ect with steampunk mechanical pieces. The only organ he could not replicate was that of his heart. Abel's body rejected anything mechanical. With the last of his strength, the older brother transfers his heart to Abel and thus dies in his brother's arms. Abel held him until there was nothing left.