OGR
1) 3 Concept Paintings:
➢ Concept 01
➢ Concept 02
➢ Concept 03
➢ Concept 01
➢ Concept 03
3) Thumbnails
5) Influence Maps:
➢ Concept 01
➢ Concept 02
➢ Concept 03
6) Creative Partnership
7) Supportive Research:
➢ Creative
➢ Written
8) Film Reviews:
➢ Das Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
➢ Metropolis (1927)
➢ Metropolis (1927)
➢ King Kong (1933)
➢ Alien (1979)
➢ Legend (1985)
➢ Edward Scissorhands (1990)
➢ Avatar (2009)
9) Life-drawing:
➢ Week 02
➢ Week 03
➢ Week 04
➢ Week 05
➢ 1 Point
➢ 2 Point
➢ 3 Point
11) Submission Disc Artwork
12) Photoshop:
➢ Week 02
➢ Week 03
➢ Week 04
13) Maya:
➢ Week 01
➢ Week 02
➢ Week 03
➢ Week 04
OGR 08/11/2011
ReplyDeleteHey Nat,
Lots to admire - but some worries too. Let's get the worries over with: your written work is dwindling again; no reviews (old or new), no essay introduction. If you let history repeat itself, Nat, you're a fool! If you need to plug back in to some support, I suggest you do so quickly. I can only judge the situation from the 'lack' of content at this halfway stage - you maybe up-to-speed, but I am seeking reassurance. Get your essay intro on here asap.
Meanwhile, lots to enjoy in terms of creative development; love all the Scribd docs for the three excerpts in which you absolutely get to grips with the texts and their potential. What follows is simply a list of thumbnails that feel strong at first glance.
1-21 (15)
43-63 (46, 48)
64-84 (72, 80)
85-105 (85, 88, 93).
While I really like the 'crumpled paper' method - indeed, all the other ways you're developing to understand your spaces, I want to sound a note of caution. With you, there is sometimes a danger that you crush the life out of your own images - they can feel over-worked and over-egged; for example, last year, the Hall of Bright Carvings caused a 'wow' - but ultimately it wasn't 'concept art' because of the emphasis you placed on the optical illusion - which was actually about you demonstrating your proficiency as a digital painter (which no one doubts). Don't lose sight of the actual practical (commercial) purpose of these three paintings; they are for new cg adaptations of your source novels. The idea you've got simmering about the House on the Borderlands being a story-about-a-story, hence the 'crumpled paper' mountains and book-inspired architecture is fascinating, but don't over-do the reference or get caught up in a gimmick. I want you to look again at 'concept art' as produced commercially - that looseness and impressionism that leaves room enough for the viewer to think and feel and interpret. Your previous hybrid project remained unfinished because you obsessed about layers, about perfecting components - not the whole. I want three completed scenes from you, Nat, come crit time, so anything you're currently doing that is locking you into a more tunnel-visioned relationship to one image - or one idea about one image - I want you to take stock and think always about the bigger picture. Try and relax your style, Nat - think like a painter. Let go.
In regard to the Masque of the Red Death - don't get caught up with the figurative stuff - most of your thumbnails relating to that story feel a bit 'domestic' in terms of their scale - think theatrically and open up those spaces more.