More E4!

This past week I was concentrating on the final look of my character for my E4 ident and concept ideas for the backgrounds. I the went on to producing the final version of the script and I am hoping to begin animating next monday using illustrator to colour up my assets and After Effects to animate it.

Illustrator Fun!

Well today I have been experimenting with the pen tool in Illustrator. This was a life changing experience for me as I have avoided as much as I could! But now i know the wonders of this tool and I look forward to using it, especially when colouring up a character in Illustrator, which I am developing for some 3D work. I've just put a snap shot of this experimentation, using the a character concept from my E4 project.

I shall be posting the work for actual 3D character soon......ooooh!
And speaking of illustrators, I jut wanted to share some examples of work from an illustrator that i came across during my research for my E4 ident project that I am working on. I really love the use of colour in her work and the composition.

This Week....
Well my plan for this week ladies and gentlemen is to finalize my storyboards for my E4 ident, start creating the assets towards the middle of the week and to colour up my model sheet for my 3D character work.

E4 Ident!

I have just begun working on a new, live brief for E4, which I am very excited about. I have been asked t produce an ident lasting exactly ten seconds but it can be as weird as I want and any media. I am looking forward to exploring all the different ways I could approach this, it's really good to have soooo much freedom op produce something really fun for such a well known client.
I have began by looking at various kinds of idents and mini-stingers that were produced for E4 and other companies to get a better understanding of the quality of work out there and then I went onto generate some ideas for my concept. I have chosen three from these that I feel I want to take forward and experiment with visually, and have produced some rough character designs for them.

Concept 1- The Abducted Cow

Concept 2- The E4 Hopper/Rabbit

Concept 3- The Hungry Little Mouse

I am now busy creating conceptual pieces, including style frames to get a better idea of how these three concepts will look closer to the finished idea. I am ainimg to have all concept art work and storyboards complete by wednesday night and I shall post them for you to have a peek at, and see how the ideas are shaping up!

A Week Of Perspective

I have just finished a week of life drawing, which was a very interesting week!

I found it very beneficial and we did various exercises to undersand the form better, including the structure, the importance of light and shadow and measuring proportions, which was especially helpful to me.  I  enjoyed some of the more abstract pieces produced during the week, like when we were asked to draw out the model just with plotting out where the shadow and light was seen, using chalk and charcoal.