SketchBook 4

 

 

 

 

 

Sconce Model

Well, I got an email from my animation professor that class was canceled. However, he said our assignment was to come up with a Sconce model. Anyways, after a lot of trial and error and 3DS Max screwing up on me, I managed to make something that looks semi-decent. 

 

Lighting Practice Two

Just a bit of tweaking I did with the lights, this one turned out a lot better! I figured out how to change the colors and managed to make it more realistic. I was going for a nighttime type of setting with the moonlight coming through the window.


Camera 1: 

Camera 2:

Nail Art 2

 

So this design was entirely made up by me! I first started with a white coat on my nails, then marbled a grayish color on top of it and this is the end resut! I was really proud to call this my own design since I came up with it by just experimenting. All the tutorials I saw online kept on using so much nail polish in every nail. I wanted to minimize this, but keep same cool marble lookm so this was what I came up with! I kind of failed when it came to cleaning up my fingers since I didn't have any Q-tips. Next time I'll be sure to make it more neat.

Nail Art first attempt!

 

My first attempt at water marbling! I first saw this through my youtube recommendations and fell in love with it! So, the week after I went out and bought some new nail polish (all my other nail polish was stolen by a certain sibling..) I kept on messing up, this was the third nail I attempted on and I feel it came out pretty good. I hope to get better in the future

Winter - Speedpaint

While trying to relax from all the studying I've been doing lately, I decided to do a quick sketch. The sketch itself didn't take me long at all to do, which really surprised me (roughly 30 minutes including the outlining of it). After that I decided I wanted a mountain-like background and train tracks for it. That took me another roughly 30 minutes! Then I decided to record a speedpaint of coloring the sketch.

Speedpaint:

The speedpaint only took an hour, so in total I spent 2 hours on the entire piece! Which to me, is a big improvement compared to my 4 hour speedpaint last time! I personally really liked how it turned out, since it came out almost exactly how I wanted it to! Here's the final results from it all:

Girl: 

Girl + Background:

Lighting Practice

We have moved on from modeling and animating stuff to Lighting in my class! I have always admired people who are in charge of lighting in films, simply because I feel they are the true magic to making stuff look good. I was really excited to get started on how to light stuff in 3ds MAX. Anyways, we first learned the different lighting tools; sky light, omni light, and all that fancy stuff.

Our homework assignment was to light up this hallway model my teacher made. So here you go:

Camera 1:

Camera 2:

I personally feel I didn't do a great job lighting it, but I will try to do a better job during my next assignment.

SketchBook 3

Random minute sketches.

Static Blue Layout

I thought it was time I made a new layout for my youtube account. I just have one thing to say that took up the majority of my designing time, YOUTUBE SHOULD ALLOW EXTERNAL LINKS FOR BGS! It's ridiculous! You only get 260 bytes of something to upload! How is anyone suppose to put up a good quality BG? -_- Anyways..after tweaking around in photoshop I realized it freaking sucks when it comes to downsizing bytes of an image, then I took it over to Sai. Thankfully Sai had a lot of better options for this...Surprising, since you think the more expensive program would have more buttons.. Anyways I'm going to stop raging and just show the layout.
     

 

I had to crop it as well to help make the byte size smaller... I like the one above much better.

Hierarchy Test Animation

Basically, I walked into class and my teacher showed us a video of an animation then told us we have to make it. GO! We weren't allowed to ask our classmates for help or anything. The first half of the assignment was actually in a tutorial he did online, other than that we had to figure out how to add the rest (rotation and ball) on our own. At first, I went about a weird way of doing it and really complicated the process.. In the end, I realized it was a lot easier to connect the ball to the square then to rotate the square. (my first attempt involved rotating everything first then trying to connect them which made everything all weird..At some point I tried changing the pivot points of everything)

Anyways, I was happy I was able to do it.

Two-Faced Lovers - Speedpaint

I first decided to do this drawing after seeing this video. I completely fell in love with the song~ along with that I also thought the dance sequence and outfit were cute. Thus, I decided I wanted to do fan-art of Miku Hatsune (project diva version!) I have actually been a fan of vocaloid ever since Miku was born (back in 2007!).

Anyways, the speed paint itself took forever! The sketch came by really quickly, but the coloring time was the majority of the video. I did not do this entire video in one sitting, for that would be pure torture on my eyes. The recording process took place in two different segments; Outling + Coloring, and then the background. I like the ending result, however I wish I was able to draw a more realistic looking city in the background.

Speedpaint:


The meaning behind "Two Faced Lovers" (the song), is really interesting to me. A line from the song is "Love, Love, Love, Love, NOT" Miku is singing about false love and how people always think they are in love, but instead it is lust. Surprisingly, I feel 80% of people cannot tell the different between these two things. It is quite sad to see people getting hurt over mixing them up. However, nothing can really be done except for warn people of it.

Another random fact about the song is people seem to have interpreted it as a situation where a girl is only being used for her body, and point out how in the video miku is implying how she got an abortion, waking up in bed after stuff. Even though it conveys the same type of feelings as the first interpretation I have to disagree with the extreme situations people say she is singing about. However, if you are interested the PV that interprets this can be found here. I would like to point out the PV graphics were done really well! This is the type of style-ish I kind of want to aim for (more detailed though) in my upcoming PV.

My apologies for getting so off topic from my art stuff, but I feel this information had to be shared to go with the reasons why I wanted to draw this.


Final Miku drawing:

 

 

Final drawing + background: