Another one

Guys, I'm working on another moment piece.  BTW, I won't color until I got my comps done. 

Hell train moment

Hey guys heres the shot Hillary told me to work on with Vince.  I post 3 different version cus I dont know which one is the best.  They all really similar, only how much the water tank is pushed back to the background.
I've sent this to Vince.  Let me know ya feedback.

BTW, about the style....I did this straight on PS and I'm not sure if I should add line drawing onto it because everything is far back in the background  I can always add pen lines on it later tho.

Ending Shot Line Art

Ben's Office Line Art

Ben's Office Comps

Hi everyone, I did some B&W comps for Ben's office, I thought since the teachers wanted to see more mood in the work, I wanted to approach the office a bit differently.  Let me know which ones you guys think are working. Right now i'm leaning towards the tall one.

Hot Wheel!!!

These are just my doodles of fire effect and fire color.  I do think the fire shape could be simpler. 
What do you think?

Hi guys, here's the isometric for the station. let me know what you think. i'll plan on having color on it tuesday.

Train revision

I combined the front of #2 and the back of #3 from previous drawings. 
I redesign the body part (the central part) of the train to have more curv and make it a little more interesting than just simple straigth line.  (Most Kley's drawings are very organic) 

And I think it would be nice to show some tranformation or at least show how the train looks like before it will be covered with fire.  So the modeler can understand more. 

So the idea is the fire emerges/ erupts out from the inside and melt down the train and reveal the soul that were trapped in the train.
I'll try to do some color and upload them later.
Tell me what you guys think.

Playing around with ways to color the line work to soften up the images where there's a lot of it. (Particularly around the face etc). I want to be able to indicate color a little better, but I still have the black line layer if this isn't Kley enough. :]

Benjamin's progress so far, going to try to work out an a-pose for him next. 

Train design & For presentation

Note: First page shows study of different style influenced by each artist's work. 
Schoonover--> realistic
Kley--> ink based, very loose
Tenggren--> shape driven, stylised, more whimsical

Hey guys, these are most of my scribbles for this week. I'm starting to push the station master in a different direction, more of a fatherly/caring figure since Hillary mentioned that she liked that aspect in some of the sketches from Wednesday.

Stations

Hey folks, here's some stations and water towers, one page is done while looking at Tenggren's layout work for Pinocchio, and the other page is based off of Kley.

  

       Ok guys, I narrow down the station design from my previous thumbnails.  The feedback from Christ and our meeting, seems like we want to go for more "tower/two stories-look" than just a house-look.
     I try to marry the design with "classic haunted house" element. 
      The first two are very similar. No.3 is more "train station-look"  with a tower in the center and extended roof.  No.2 and 3 are more caricatured. 
      Silhouette on the left are the front view of each design. 
They will covered with snow after we pick the design. 
Sorry I'm still working on the train.  Not sure if I can post them by tonight. 
Tell me what you guys think?

Update: Sorry my first post was too small, so I post them individually.

Hey guys! Sorry, I meant to post this yesterday, but here is a list of suggested props.

Stationmaster
Pocket watch
Lantern
Ticket machine
- Example

Charlie
Playing cards

Train Stationy Things
Ticketbooth
Flower cart
Steamer trunks
Benches
Signage
- Directional (ex. heading towards San Jose etc)
- Exit Sign
- Signs for the stationmasters office
- Ticketbooth sign
Newspaper/Novelty stand

And anything else we think of :D!

 Here's some color comps based off of the earlier silhouettes.  I was looking at Searle for the line style/ shapes and Schoonover for color.  also there's a line drawing that I'm hoping to paint up as a style test for Friday.

Train Station thumbnails/Studies

First pass thumbnails, more like studies tho.  I don't know how much stylize you guys want to do and these drawings based on Schoonover style.  That's why they are little realistic. 

Hey guys! These are just some early explorations with style (some of them are from before we narrowed it down). I will be taking a step back to work on overall shape design more for tomorrow. 

I tried to base them off of these palettes (Schoonover and Kley). 

Vis Dev-examples

Hey all! Here are some hand-picked examples from our beloved Madam Bradfield as to what she'll be looking for in future vis dev work.

Some notes on the artists:

For Searle, pay close attention to his use of contrast between blank/simple spaces vs the busier areas (how it guides the eye) and how he uses just a few lines to suggest/extend form rather than describe every detail.

For Kley, look at how he uses his line work to wrap around forms and build up geometry, and how the lines all follow the perspective planes. Also, look at how his creates his values.

Progress Update

Hey everybody, so far I've got a handful of silhouette comps for the train station; just playing with shapes.  I want to go over them with line art next to try to capture the feel of the artists we choose.  Also I've got a line drawing for a style test that I can post up in a little bit, right now its too scribbly to understand.

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