Niziekilth WIP

Working on a piece for a friend of mine. Here's some progress images.

Ready for the finishing details and softening.

Mudbox Pony!

So I've been working on my 3D skills, starting now with Mudbox. Like everything, I started with something incredibly familiar to me (if a bit advanced in design) a horse!

So here below are some screenshots:

Character Design Shtuffs

Still the same dragon story, some character design work.

Dragon designs... the top right is the 'good' dragon design. The ? are playing with the 'bad' dragon.

'Hero' designs with chosen silhouettes pulled from

Villain designs. Hope to get some weapon designs done soon too as well as dragon tack.

Rough Boards

Here are the rough beat boards for the story those silhouettes are for.

Thumbnail Dump!

So starting new classes with new projects. Here are some of the many thumbnails done for the main projects, a short animation scene.

Final Concepts - Beorn's Cottage

Here are the final three for my project. I may end up fleshing this out more on my own later. Now that I'm much more comfortable working digitally I can actually start to churn out some really quick sketches. Sketching architectural things digitally is so much easier with being able to undo, hehe. But largely that's due to working with my new tablet (or my work's tablet). The right equipment makes a huge difference, like anything really.

Beorn's Cottage Concepts Continued

Still working on an interior and details. May do more details to the elevations too in a bit. We'll see. Needs more carving and details.

Details!

It was looking rather plain so I added some carving. The reference images I have for the movie's version (which are all of 5 and of mostly interior and a couple not very good exteriors) showed a lot of heavy animal carving which i would have ascribed to anyhow. So I tried to follow that somewhat and come up with my own creative push. Some color concepts will flesh this out. I think I'm going to stay away from the interior and just focus on having a great exterior concept portfolio for this final. The interior is probably another week or two's worth of work just for basic concepts since the images I have are fragments of one room and I'd have to go into a full layout of rooms, crowd flow and all that fun stuff as well as concepts. 

BTW, the bee hives? Those are what some very rustic beehives look like (that or woven baskets) and they actually are on the building made for the movie from what I can tell. I thought it was a fun detail. When I looked up my own I had fun perusing all the different ways they used to harvest honey. Very instructive.

Also... I wish this would update the date or at least have a log of when I do an update. Guess I should just make another post instead of adding on to one, huh? Oh well. These were added Wednesday... the first three were tuesday. Something similar for the last post too. Bleh.