Tribute to Tobi

This is a Mural tribute piece I made for 1 of the realest brothers I’ll ever know, unfortunately he was taken from us way too early by some cowards & at a time when he was just trying to better himself. Here’s to hoping that your resting easy bro.

RIP Trubz, Brother, Son & Friend.

He is loved & missed, #BLM #SouthLondon #DoBetter

African Beast Warrior Statue

Sketch

Mask

Statue

Composition

For this exercise I had to experiment with composition which makes use of positioning, colour and value in order to manipulate the eyes of the viewer so that they concentrate on the important parts of the image in an order that can create the mood and give it a pleasing look.

Example

Here is an example of the rule of thirds method which helps give a sort layout to position elements of the picture as shown above.

Original

For this exercise I used the rule of thirds method to speed-paint an expanded version of the image above in 20 minutes and create the image below.

Re-composition

Here is the finished product of speed painting using the rule of thirds, I re-arranged elements of the image and added more pieces to the background elements.

I believe the finished product is all-right but it could have been way better, given more time, I would have put more details in the aspects such as the stairs and overpass on the left. Initially I wanted to make a cowboy figure in the position where the cactus is but upon contemplation I knew I wouldn't have enough time.

Anthropomorphic Sketches

For this assignment I had to create an anthropomorphic character which is basically a combination of an animal & humanoid. This particular exercise asked for an anthropomorphic character of the amphibian variety.

Phyllomedusa Bicolor

For this exercise I selected a particular strain of Phyllomedusa bicolor which is a tree frog indigenous to the Amazon basin. The one I selected was the frog shown above. This particular frog has hallucinogenic properties. This gave me the idea for a frog who is "trippin" getting high on his own supply.

Trippy Toad

This is the initial sketch that I made using the graphics tablet.

This is the image after I have added some colour, I also wanted to show that the frog was under the influence so I put a psychedelic swirl in the eye of the frog and gave it a purple background. 

Personally I feel I could have done a lot better on this picture, I could of added more detail and made the mood of the whole image meld together better. I think I could of made better use of the shadows and the lighting especially around the t shirt. The parts of the piece that I like are how the eye came out as well as the underbelly of the frog which I wanted to look like the reference image.

Officer Porkies

This is an idea that I had for this assignment and decided to do it as a side project.

Skull Dome

This is the model that I created for my battle arena, it is a Terra formed skull and the idea behind it was that it would open up to challengers. The top half of the skull will levitate using dark magic.

Update

Blocks

During my free time I decided to try my hand at creating some tower blocks because I like the brutal dystopian vibe that they give off e.g. the setting for the film "Attack the Block".

Initially i wanted to use them for my game walk-through but my ideas changed so Ill save them for later.

Here are some of the pieces that I created

Weapon Idea

For this project I had to come up with an idea for a bladed weapon and the first thing that came to my mind was a berserker sword with a 9mm pistol as it's hilt.

This is a quick sketch that I made trying to put my ideas on paper. I think I got excited and added too much details to the gun section which makes it look like a toy, also the width of the gun in the sketch makes it look unbalanced and unrealistic, these are areas that I will fix when I'm actually making it in Maya.

This is the finished product rendered in maya. although i am pleased with the way that certain segments came out such as the arrows on the blade, I feel it could have used more detail on the actual shaft of the pistol to make it look more realistic instead of blocky. It could also have done with a proper metal texture for the blade instead of a simple silver blinn.