Character Rotation study

Rotation can be a pain to work on but after you finish with it, the feeling is simply wonderful, because the art is done and it looks good and now you know how your character look like from different angles in circulation! Here are some of my character rotation study from my character design class at CSUN, instructed by artist Charles Zembillas.

Head Rotation - Monk

Body Rotation - Waitress

Body Rotation - Mr. Cranky Bun

3D Rotation - Old manager

3D Rotation - Wicked Witch

Introducing: Mr. Pickle!

A little Flash exercise on character design and simple animation.

Prehistoric Ninja and his Pet Nin-Dino!

This was for a little conceptual art contest at ASLN (Animation Students League of Northridge) called "Ninja Pet". I had no idea what to draw honestly until the day right before the deadline, I then came up with an unusual idea of "the root of ninjas". Instead of coming from the ancient time of Japan, I kinda twisted it to be the prehistoric era (from Japan, from anywhere in Asia), when human was still a caveman, and a non-scientific fact, dinosaurs still existed (oh yeah yeah did it remind you of Flinstones? What a classic right? But no, this is completely different). Since I thought it would be too obvious to have dogs, cats, mice, birds etc. as pets and I wanted to create something really different, entertaining, funny and somewhat strange (in a good way of course). So yes here comes our Ninja Caveman and his Ninjasaurus which I would like to call her (yes a she! It's a female t-rex!) NIN-DINO!!!

I had a lot of fun working on this piece. And I believe this is so far my best digital piece ever! I really enjoyed coloring the bushes and I think they came out very nice! Although this did not win but I am very proud of it and I'm happy with the concept. Ninjas are known for their smooth, silent and secret movements and they are the masters of hiding and disguising! This would explain the hiding in the bushes! And uh oh it looks like the ninja caveman and his pet Nin-Dino do not hide successfully. Nin-Dino is too big! (And what is with the pink panties-like mask?)

I think this would make a very good animated short or even series :)

Joy of digital painting!

What a blast! I finally got my very own (bamboo) wacom tablet and it works just fine! I've been learning and practicing more to improve my digital painting and airbrushing skill and I think I am actually oing somewhere! I found out that the only way for me to work well on a digital painting is to do it traditionally, meaning even though I draw on a computer, I gotta make it feel like I am drawing on paper! Then the drawing/painting would look as good as a traditional masterpiece! Joy!

So here are some doodles and sketches I did~ I even randomly drew and painted a girl using Corel Painter (Oh how I love the brush sets there!).

Eye

Red Girl

Painting Process

Finished

If you compare this drawing of the girl with the Stephanie one I posted a while ago, you would see an improvement on the rendering right? I really hope so!

Character Designs - Model Theory, Poses and Concept

I have learned a lot from my character design class at CSUN. It was very fun doodling and coming up with different ideas of poses, facial expressions etc. to finally build a whole unique personality of one character. Here are a few of my works:

Action Attitudes - Mr. Cranky Bun

"Delicious Love" Concept - "My little lover"

Model Theory - Waitress from "Delicious Love"

Shading fun

Photoshop CS5

WIP

 

Version 1

Version 2

Character Designs

Here are some of my character design drawings from my Character Design class porfolio at CSUN. I really enjoy that class and it is a lot fun. My drawing style originally was influenced a lot by the Japanese comic style, but during the time taking this class, I've managed to get away from that style and create my very own style as well as different other styles used in cartoons and comic. Hope you enjoy the drawings and feedbacks are welcomed!

First drawing - Experiment

Head design of a cranky old woman

Character Head Designs - set 1

Character Head Designs - set 2

"Delicious Love" character designs

Character Body Designs (animals, objects)

Character Body Designs (fantasy, fairy tales)

Maya - Fruits Bowl (fixed)

The lighting and composition was not good at all, not to mention some of the objects were not smooth enough in the picture. I then got to edit it again and again and after changing the color of the room, the table and the chairs as well as the light (color) based on the time of the day, the fruits bowl look a lot better! Here is how it looks after re-editing.

Close-up

Stephanie

I was only practicing shading and coloring on photoshop. I drew my friend Stephanie.
At first I only wanted to work on the values and contrast with black and white. Then I figured I had so much fun and the drawing turned out nice to me so I just went ahead and colored it.
This is the first time I actually color and shade a drawing properly on computer. I never knew how to before so the drawing may not be really great but at least I did learn something and for now I am quite happy with the result. I know I can and will do a much better job! Yes! :)

Beginning Animation - The basic (Fall 2010)

 

1st Animation - a bouncing ball!

 

2nd Animation - Fun ball!!! And yes it was fun! :)

 

3rd Animation - The Jump! A goofy jump~ :)

4th Animation - The most fun of all the classic animations! DOUBLE TAKE!I had so much excitement working on this one~ if only there was some music...
 

5th Animation - 1st time working on flash! Now that is THE FORCE! 

 

6th Animation - The last assignment from my beginning animation class! WALK! Okay this one is not good... Not good at all since my intention was to make a sexy catwalk, however due to the short time to make it before final, it was a rush and I did not do it thoroughly. I will surely do better!

The class was super fun~ Animation = Life and Love :D