Lantern

Started to build the scene in 3D, so far I've done the lantern. Took me a while of looking through tutorials and them being too complex or not what I wanted. In the end, I did it how I thought it would have worked and, it did work!

Under the Sea!

Just a little something I made in Zbrush to play around with 2.5D. I followed a tutorial but the result came out quite different, intentionally and un-itensionally, the version of Z brush I have must be very different to the one in the tutorial weren't in my version and the macros to view how to do some of things did not load in at all so I just followed the book when I needed to. I also took it over to Photoshop afterwards as there was some strange bright yellow squares that appeared afer I rendered.

Finally finished a concept painting and it took forever. Some parts worked out better than others. Hopefully it won't be too hard to make in 3D. I don't like the fog on the concept but maybe that's because I can no longer see all the nice small details.

Getting on with colour concept...

I changed my layout since the outline and started doing basic colours and shading. When finished, I want it to be quite dark and blue,pink and purple with most of the light coming from the glowing plants and the distance. I have tried to add detail to the bushes but it is very hard to draw many leaves and make them look good. I have also started on doing plan views for my assets.

Layout Ideas

I do have more work than this but it's not so great. I really want to do a fairy tale forest. It's really hard to figure out a layout and balancing it out while also making it not over cluttered. I think to progress now from this I should probably think about assets and then try the composition with the assets. I have a layout and storyboard book that I have flicked though so hopefully I can at least get some sort of perspective going on. If possible I would like to do 2 shots now since I don't think I have the time to make a game level or the time to do a storyboard-like narrative. of several shots.

Rainbow

Done in 3Ds Max. I followed a tutorial but I am new to Max and I couldn't find all the settings that the tut since the screenshots were in German was on about and theres some stuff I had to guess. The lighting options seem much nicer In Max though although navigation seems more fiddly.

Character Designs

I did many designs and awful sketches but I finally came up with an al-right idea, the Lincoln Imp wearing Minerva armour. I tried to make him look cute, not sure if it completely worked. Here's just some of the drawings I've done.