Paul Felix Notes...

Some great notes from the great Paul Felix.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

Thanks to John Nevarez.

Photograph...

Some work I did on a graphic novel.

Feeling bad...

...about not posting to this blog lately... Every day that goes by without posting I feel worse!







So here are some stills from the film. Sorry about the Sequence/Scene markers - was too lazy to take them out.

Two...

One failure and one not-so-much of a failure...

More Layout...

Hey all,

I know some of you are curious as to the progress of the film...

Well.. we've completed all the layouts and are working out the background paintings on the fly... As for animation, we're well into rough animation, and I believe we've roughed out a majority of the scenes.

Anyways, this is a first pass at one of the beegees. Needs quite a bit more work, but pretty much everything does!

Another...

It looks like it will be layouts for the next little while.

By the by, I'll be looking for help with the film production soon. I'm particularly looking for people for voice acting, music, background painting, cleanup, and cel coloring. If anyone wants to help, shoot me an email.

More Beegees...

They're new if you haven't seen them before.

The child's room

Just a crack at a layout for the film.

Probably too over-rendered.

A Layout...

Spent too long on it and made too many mistakes..

Haven't done a location design since first year.

A Layout...

Haven't done a serious layout in a long time..

Here's one I threw together...

Doing Some Exploring...

Yes, I am alive...

Finally put story for the film on the backburner while I get to focus a little more on design and layout.

Here's some stuff I threw together.

Lay-oot.

Apparently that's how it was pronounced at the Florida Disney Studios because there were so many canadians in the layout department.

Anyways...



Throwing some ideas around for the building designs in that little thing me and a buncha people are working on. I'd like to paint it up if I can find the time.

Some fun concept art...

Something I threw together for the Tooth Fairy Logbook. I don't know if this is going to even influence the styling of the film - it might just ned up being just another drawing I did.

Anyways, hope you enjoy!

A layout...

Busy work in Layout class.

A house, meant to look evil via composition and tone.

Could definetly be worked on some more - but I gotta get to the 'cute' version of the house. I'll update this one if I finish the other in a timely manner.

The development of a layout

I really liked layout class this year. Piotr Bielicki has been really inspiring and has really solidified in my head the fact that I want to be involved in either story or layout when I get out of this crazy thing I've gotten involved in (a.k.a Sheridan).

I just wanted to show the work I put in to finish a final layout. On this particular one I went through the thumbnail storyboard, 6 roughs, one clean line, and one marker rendering to arrive at my final layout.



The first one is literally just basic shapes and basic perspective, the idea is to point toward one central focus point in the image. I make notes to myself at this point and the drawing's all very rough - I try to keep loose as long as possible and not rush to the final image - which creates more mistakes.



The second image I start tying the detail down on the buildings, and fix the background to something more appropriate. I felt the clouds were a little 'too much' of a one directional thing and it basically hurt the eye.



The third image I started going with a curvilinear thing on the right and the left, with the foreground element on the right being its own seperate entity.



This image I start really nailing the lines the down, with the detail becoming more clear to me.



At this point I thought it was the final image when I started (hence the cleaner line on the rooftop of the building on the left) but I started making scale mistakes so I decided to keep loose and rough out the detail, only better this time.




This final rough is basically a loose version of the final. I moved the building on the right over so it would frame the character and keep him a tad more subtle. I also made the scale work a little better and made the detail a little clearer overall. Robin said she liked this better than the final clean line version.



Here's the clean lineart. I didn't do the text and the framed character, as this was just a trace off for the rendering. The assignment called for each element on it's own individual layer, so the character appears on that.



And the final marker rendering.

Yes, I realize I'm stupid. But I like layout.

Gonna go to sleep now, got the group film screenings to go to earlyish tomorrow!

Layout!

Me likes layout.

One more Bazo post...

The group films are due on Friday - so here's a quick preview of how the Bazo Station looks like at night.

Hope you're looking forward to the screening like I am!

Ships!

One of my ship layouts for Piotr's class.

30 minute speedpaint on it.

By the way, watch Curious George if you get the chance. It's really heartwarming.

Oh ya, and I updated my demo reel (again). It now has more life drawing, more layout, more character design, and more animation, as well as music. Check it out in the demo reel post below, or to the right.

Kthx.

Another Layout

Just a quick (like, less than 20 minutes quick) monchromatic tonal paint on a layout from earlier on in the year.

The markering was probably better, but I don't really remember....

Anyways, hope you like it.

One Layout

Here's a layout I did earlier on in the year.

I've been wanting to post my layouts (because layout and life drawing (and possibly storyboarding) are my two favorite classes) but Piotr never handed them back.... so I speedpainted this one in Photoshop just to give it some tone. Hope you like it.