Slightly Changing Styles

  I was bogged down a bit providing artwork for different client projects. Really happy about that but it did not allow much time to update what's going on with Pandora. In the last few months I decided to play around with mixing two styles of digital comic illustrating. I am semi happy with the previous pages but I felt the characters and environments were not getting much detail work. The images turned out good and I was able to pump them out rapidly but not much in the detailing department. Also I'm a fan of the 90's comic era where the artist (I was a fan of) really did some new things with detailing and stylizing.

  So, I decided to create the 11th page of the first book of Pandora with a hybrid of the traditional pencil technique and digital painting over the pencils. The penciling also serves as a good tonal study for comic like shading (extreme contrast). So far so good. I feel I can work on this technique a bit more and build the some efficiency with my time.

Pencil:

Digital Coloring

2012 Outlaw Hue Demo Reel

  Just wanted to make sure I get a reel up before the close of the year. A lot of my focus is going to Pandora project now. So, before I get totally focused on this project I needed to put up a reel. Primarily this reel deals with 3D character art but I did put in some environments and 2D work.

3D Interior Design Update

  Testing lighting effects that are also have a low time cost to render. The hardest seems to be "faking" caustic   effect for transparent liquids. I find to use this in animation it is best to create maps close to the effect to cut down on time:

Character updates

Scene 1 is completed with the storyboard/graphic novel. You can view it here:
Pandora Chapter1

 At first I was going to use a more stylized looking character. Like this one I created:

 Presently I am looking to make the characters more realistic. Here is an update version of the above character:

 The project is changing where a more realistic style will definitely add to the storyline.

More Work for Pandora

 This is a quick update on the Pandora project. As things are coming together I am able to take  the 2D graphic novel/story boards and change them into the final 3D models. I will keep this blog going to update the progress: