end of term: photoshop for digital production

our final project for photoshop class was to build our own matte paintings of a place that exists outside of our own world.

i thought a giant mushrooms underwater would be good fun :D




for a first attempt at a matte painting, i learned so much more than i thought I ever could. I got away with certain parts of the image mostly due to the fact that the scene is underwater, but emulating the lighting and its diffusion through water was such an immense challenge to try and bring that believability.

end of term: figure drawing

it's the last week of my first term at gnomon. i thought i'd post a few dumps of my classwork on here. why? just cuz :p

first and foremost and mostly because it's the only class i have scanned and laid out are my figure drawings.


























this class was pretty much life changing. for realsies. I can never thank Jack Bosson enough, he was an amazing teacher and really great to work with. Drawing nekkid people has never been more fun or educational. Even though I walk away from this class knowing that i could still use alot of work, i'm not daunted by that prospect anymore. instead, i am welcoming the challenge and I'm unafraid to meet it.

hunting knife concept

it was about time to get back to the roots. it was time to go back to a simpler time. yes. ladies and gentleman.....

it was time to design a goddamn hunting knife.



a machete for your hacking needs

photo manipulation, numbah 2!

another photo manipulation i decided to do for class all asian long neck vampire, complete with scales. i thought the first fishbowl manipulation might not have been enough in terms of changes to the actual element, so i tried to really bring it to become something completely different, which i think was pretty successful!



thanks in advance for taking a look!

photo manipulation assignment

for our next photoshop assignment, we had to manipulate a photograph of something and turn it into something else. i made myself a fish bowl sort of thing....that blows bubble....i guess...hahaha! it was pretty fun to do! thanks in advance for taking a look!

Drag racing mortal enemies

So for this week's perspective assignment, we had to practice drawing ellipses in perspective. what better way to exercise that than to select an object, figure out what its mortal enemy is and pit them against one another in an all-or-nothing drag race?

i chose an axe, its mortal enemy being a chain saw.



WINNER: OLD SCHOOL!

a laughing gas machine

for our third perspective class assignment, we had to design from the statement "a machine that in some way shape or form produces love/happiness"

so i chose to design a marijuana smoke puffer.




peace. love. puffer fish.

photoshop sky swap

this week's photoshop assignment was to swap out the sky in an image with a night sky. here's the before shot, a photograph of the statue of Peter Pan in London, taken from Google:



and here's the after shot, sky switched with a tweaked photograph of the Aurora Borealis, also from Google:



i totally underestimated the difficulty of the assignment; instead of taking me an hour or two, this took about 4-5 hours to get done O_o but selections and masks are now officially the most helpful tools i've encountered in photoshop :D thanks in advance for looking!

photoshop textures

assignment 1 from my Photoshop for Digital Production class! Create 5 textures using blending modes and adjustment layers. Since I've never really sat down and tried to make believable textures before, this was a challenge. I had a lot of fun with it though since we weren't limited to specific subject matter, but i decided to take it a bit slow to make sure i understood what i was doing.

overall, i'm satisfied with these. i feel that they are pretty good, though without having many other eyes to see if they're believable or not it's hard to tell. so we'll see!

school has begun!

Classes started 2 weeks ago at Gnomon School of VFX, and guess what? I have probably learned more there in the past fortnight than my 4 years at UofM A&D. That's not to say that some of the stuff i learned while i was there wasn't worth it, but it wasn't the foundation that i needed to take steps to being awesome :p

going back to basics has been very refreshing, especially now that I know what mindset to approach it with. spending an entire week of just drawing primitives was actually fun O_O but this past week, i've been working on my perspective homework which i'm surprisingly rather proud of. Here are the finished 1 point perspectives :D

traditional pencil on paper (sorry if they're not too awful clear :/):







digital in photoshop with grids made in illustrator (yes, i'm super weird):





overall, super fun if not extremely time consuming =___=.