Animatic

So heres the download.
Mr Daniel from Amnesia is going through a corridor in the castle. He's gone quite far to get here but hasnt seen anything threatening yet. Hes concerned about the creaks and groans of the castle. He then hears a Roar of some sort and in his panic he loses his trusty lamp to fight the darkness. Now without the lamp he is slowly going to go insane and to stop this he needs light. So he goes off to find either his lamp or some light.
At the moment ive only done the first scene but im working on it at the moment.

Amnesia

Right then. I bought Amnesia a couple of weeks ago. I got recommended it by a number of people. And i have to say its by far the best buy i have done for a game in a while. And yes is bloody scary. Dead space dos'nt come close when in terms off scarying the shit out of me. The core mechanics of the game work very well. If you have played there developers last game Penumbra then you will see some close similarities. However you can not use a weapon!. In theory i can see a couple off pissed of nubs. But it actually works very well combiened with the psyhics engine.
The thing is i didnt come across 1 enemy over the past few days i started to play.
Until the other night i did and OMG did i scream.

ANYWAYS... enough of actually talking about the game.



For the expressional brief this week i chose being scared as my theme. Thanks Amnesia..you bitch..
And so i did a few sketches and quick backgrounds for the anamatic

MR WALK

Ok i really did not take this seriously, i will revist this soon.
I did have fun though and i guess thats what counts.. right?

Personal Work

I havnt spoken about my little side projects in a while...
Well the C&C graphic novel/animation is still in the back of my mind and it becomes fustrating since time is what i need. However i have done some sketches and concept pieces which i will share with you. Im setting the story during the closing years of the second tiberium war (which is tiberium sun) and during this time gdi is slowly taking out each of the remaining strong holds through out east Europe/ Asia. So the way ive planned story to happen is during this time i will have 2 main characters. 1 for NOD and one for GDI. The reason for this is im really pissed off in american gun for glory films were everyone is the bad guy. Theres 2 sides to each story and i love to hear them both thank you. For example the film Stalingrad - a good example of the germans on the eastern front during the WW2. And we have Saving private Ryan, were the germans are shown to be complete evil and the americans to being our shinying knights. Not saying its a bad film, i just prefer a little understanding before the action. So back to the concept. Both storys will be located close to each other so that certain events during the animations will effect the other character. At the moment i have done some planning for a beach scene were NOD's primary naval base in northan Egypt is under assualt from the sea. Kind of like D Day but that would be stupid. The GDI character is in one of the transports which is assaulting the beach head and the NOD character is a couple miles inland underground.
Thats the rough rough rough idea of the background. I know its paper thin and lame but in time im sure ill get a little more creative :P
By the way heres a quick clip for inspiration form the actual Tiberium Sun game.
It quite funny because how the soliders are firing like a mile towards the enemy whilst other men basically walk onto the beach x)



And yeah i did play C&C 4, it was shit.

Life Drawing

Life drawing is tommorow so i thought i might aswell upload these to see if i improve at all. I'm really enjoying it at the moment, seems to be the only place were i feel like im getting better. Well atleast i hope so D:

Experimental Ideas

Well I want to do something unique. Ant that the problem these days. I keep going back to when i got my laser pen confiscated at the airport and i think a laser animation would be a great way to show movement and a certain flow to fit the music.
I found this animation recently and it's got me interested furthermore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5sHuKphp4E

It wont let me put it on blogger for some reason :/ so heres the link

Nice..

Awesome stuff. Plus the music is amazing.

Prisma Markers

I bought a pack of magic markers back when i was in college and i used to love them. Unfortunatly they run out easily and i never got another pack. Plus there like 40 quid for a pack of 8 :/. Well now since ebay is awesome i bought around 50 Prisma Markers. I did a little play around with them just to see how they differ with magic markers. To be honest not much but it was a bargain never the less. I will proberly be using these for storyboards and character development.

Weight Lifting

Well Its done. I could rabble on and say how hard and what was good about it but to be honest im just going to try and try again in my time to get it right. At the moment im ok with it but i don't feel happy about it. I'll have another crack at it maybe on paper later this month

New year New Curve

Well here I am, settled in and ready to go. Ive had goals over the summer to do some animations, however since work took over most of my time i was unable to do any finished pieces. I did do alot of drawing however and kept my mind motavated through out the holidays. I plan to keep up the projects i had in mind in and out between the projects that will be set out before me.