SPACEY animation concept sketchbook

[cout<mecha]

Hello, I'm an animator/graphic artist. I hope you enjoy visiting here and will follow this thread. Always need lots of help and ideas with projects.

Otherwise...

Finally got the guts back into my entrails to post this one horned four eyed flying purple people eater...

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This is a 3D jukebox concept from 2D
Trying to get that MANGA feel!

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more?:sungod:

[cout<mecha]

This is a piece I call Defold at Dubrim. I will post it in the crit sect. Hopefully I will move it to the finally finished.

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[cout<mecha]

Sequential workflow.

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Backgrounds in Bryce. The free DL terrain creation program
by DAZ formerly Metacreations...

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[cout<mecha]

We all have a little robot in us!

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[cout<mecha]

I've scanned this a buncha times but I can't seem to match the two scans. Any help would be appreciative. :oneye:


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[Lotet]

god that last one is totaly awezome! may i aks, can i save that one as a pattern and use it in my drawings, pleeease???
(send me a massage with an answer if u can or post an answer in my SB)

[cout<mecha]

I've only been a member for a few days so I think for now just keep everything in one place. I would much rather we collaborate on something than to hack the old stuff.

And some more:

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Cover for a screenplay AI wrote called "Orpheus" (http://www.wholebitmedia.com/orpheus.pdf)

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[cout<mecha]

More fun in cyberterritory:

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Fun in my electric playplace. No sketch on this just Photoshop...


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[cout<mecha]

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Hmmmmmmmmm?!

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[cout<mecha]

Sketch for the peice-Aponeurosis.

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[cout<mecha]

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[cout<mecha]

Could not find the original so here is the scan of the sketch. Hope to get some 3D scapes soon. I don't think my computer can handle it. Anyone wanna buy me a new computer?

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[Lotet]

deam, love the detail u put in these!

[cout<mecha]

This is a cover for a music video storyboard proposal for a remake of the song Smooth Operator by SADE. Sadly it was never made, but you can view the the animated storyboard pdf here (http://www.wholebitmedia.com/operator.pdf).

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[Chris Noeth]

Thank you for stopping by my sketchbook and your comment!

I have looked at your stuff and I really like the details you put into your works.
Keep it up!

Best wishes,

Chris

[cout<mecha]

Hey Chris thanks for dropping by. I always appreciate when people apprecate what I've done. Of course I'm new to CA so I hope you will subscribe to my sketches. I'm always open to collaborating on projects as well. Cool! Thanks!

[cout<mecha]

Concepting an alien atmosphere with different physical laws under attack by alien forces.

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[cout<mecha]

I think the coolest transformer of all of them was Mirage. Although I don't know if he is in the movie he found my sketchbook so I finally broke down a transformation sequence concept. It's kind of a revamp but I kept the style a bit old skool 80s cartoon style. Maybe this is old skool 90s style...


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[cout<mecha]

Revamp of the Cartoon Network host. They've redone this character plenty of times but does anyone know his name?

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[cout<mecha]

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[cout<mecha]

these are some keyframes I looked up on the lightbox. I'm open to suggestestions on how to improve these animations or generate techniques that will help the tweening go smoother. I'm working in the CS3 suit so don't hold back if you have any ideas on generating animations in these programs if you can share them.

Meanwhile enjoy.

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Each of these is four keys on the same peice of animation punch paper as i have only a few sheets left...

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[cout<mecha]

Nothing new today just old stuff...any comments welcome as they have not been fully criticized.

Just having a little fun with some modern jock/gamer stereotypes...

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CHARACTERS DU SHEETS... That is French!

[cout<mecha]

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Workin hard drinkin' milk.

[cout<mecha]

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[cout<mecha]

i love looking at car concepts, if you have not seen Kakapoopie's, what is your prob. This one I did this weekend, but it's best to keep quiet in the presence of Kakapoopie if that's possible!

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[yinteck]

I like this one http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showpost.php?p=1670924&postcount=10 the best. Her torso is a bit big. Keep posting !

[cout<mecha]

I dun NO do you think the one in the painting looks better? She looks so cyber! huh?

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[cout<mecha]

Always like to own scope Beasley or Ryman. This was done on my own standards.
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[cout<mecha]

Mixed a`few photos this weekend...

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[cout<mecha]

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[cout<mecha]

More 2D outlandishness from my camera phone....

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1megepixels!

[cout<mecha]

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More Graphic Design more design...desig...des...sigh...duh

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[cout<mecha]

I;m thinking of finishing this one...

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[cout<mecha]

I wear the skins...

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SNAP INTO-A SLIM[C
OLOR="Red"]JIM!!![/COLOR]


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[cout<mecha]

It is you...

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sow you...

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[Lotet]

ur pencil stuff is really great, i dont think ure ready for colors yet, the pencil stuff is way better looking, try working more with values too, shadows midtones, highlights and such.

anyways, keep it up.

[cout<mecha]

Not easy right now for me with the detailwork. I'm working on a challenge over at CGSociety. Thanks for dropping by again and veiwing my pics. Yes i will try to put some more work into the WIPS above. Just hovering between the concept of having a digital sketchbook and an easel where I can return and get some perspective...

Uplift Challenge Beginnings-WANNA HELP!?!?!

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Compositing of 2D and 3D!!!

[kakapoopie]

man youve got some crazy shit in here..everything has some kind of 80s flavor to it (dont mean that in a bad way)

i agree with lotet you're forms are not reading well in color yet but keep going, and the experimentation you have here is great

[cout<mecha]

D'astation de etre nes...

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[yinteck]

Keep it up. If i were u, i will study some anatomy or study tech ? Well as long you do some study. It will boost u up.
Keep posting !

[cout<mecha]

I tried some anatomy a few weeks ago just so I could remember what I was talking about, but with all the stuff I'm working with these days it's slipping. Here is more animatic shots from uplift (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?p=5048328#post5048328)
These are layouts from AE

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[cout<mecha]

Alien Rock Stars for Uplift CG Society Challenge!!! (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=236&t=614025)

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[cout<mecha]

TRANSISTOR RODEO (http://markyoshimotonemcoff.com/transistorrodeo/) podcast by MYN
CHAPTER 1

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"KA-BAM, KA-BAM. The earth shook in Los Angeles, which anyone reasonably familiar with this little corner of the planet would tell you was no strange happenstance. Except today it was different. Today it was safe to say this was no tectonic shift, no natural event. In fact, this man-made disaster, in terms of mind-blowing experiences, was a complete doozy. But chances were most of those people who would even consider the possibility of how incredibly mind-blowing it was to experience were the very same ones running for their very lives at that very moment from a mechanical and very runaway Tyrannasaurus Rex.

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ÜÜÜ That is if they were downtown, with the forty foot tall extremely lifelike robot smashing it's way through the streets of Chinatown--it's large feet smashing downward on abandoned cars strewn across the street while it's tiny pneumatically-powered arms crushed the metal streetlamps in it's path as if they were nothing more than the lines of red paper lanterns strung across the main thoroughfare.
ÜÜÜ If they were on the Westside, by the beach and the Santa Monica pier there was a good chance they were running from one of the many robotic cowboys riding atop robotic horses seemingly rounding up frightened human pedestrians as if they were errant cattle to be driven down to the ocean.
ÜÜÜ And a couple dozen miles away, in the San Fernando Valley, a stampede of robotic elephants, rhinos, moose and lions had brought nearly all traffic to a grinding halt. This was of course due to the incredible number of cars that had been abandoned in the middle of the street by drivers frightened out of their wits by the mechanical beasts running wild through some of the most congested intersections in the city.

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ÜÜÜ Yet these folks were not alone for citizens from Long Beach to Silverlake had taken to huddling inside of their homes and offices in fear of the uncontrollable robot rampage running rampant outside. And though many a frantic reporter uttered the same phrase time and time again while helicopter news footage of the mechanical dinosaur smashing its way down the street played on countless television sets around the world, it was safe to say that yes, the city of Los Angeles had come to a complete standstill.
ÜÜÜ To all think that just a few days ago the whole city, nay the whole world, had been swept up in the mania and ferver that only mega-events such as the Superbowl or World Cup can create. A spectacular extravaganza that was to be the debut of the traveling show known far and wide as Transistor Rodeo.

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ÜÜÜ And as he sprinted though the gyser of water jetting upward through he pavement where a fire hydrant had once been, Dean pushed the dark wet hair from his eyes and ran faster and harder than he ever had in his thirteen years of life. Each time the T-Rex took one giant step it covered the same ground he could in ten and as his lanky legs grew even more tired, he could tell the massive robotic dinosaur was gaining ground on him by how much more the ground rumbled under him now than just a few seconds ago.
ÜÜÜ Somewhere he hoped his father was having better luck and it was strangely at that very moment that a single thought rocketed through Dean's synapses like a lightning strike.
ÜÜÜ It was right then he tried to tell himself it hadn't always been like this."

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my imagery

[cout<mecha]

Need a bunch of cars...

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[cout<mecha]

Go on get outta heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeereeeee!

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Asylum HEad.

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[cout<mecha]

Graphic Design for client...

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[cout<mecha]

Casts and characters for the CLUD 9 Uplifting the Universe Challenge. Still working with the LOGO.


CASTS

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ETS

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Phone Home HeHe!

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[razael242]

very nice and original

best regards
raz

[cout<mecha]

The Uplift challenge contest is pretty close to being over, it will end the first week in June. Heeer is some city renders that I forgot to post after I got done with all the cars. Also I've worked on the room in CG which I will post soon. I also did a buncha cloud studies with particles and the whole she-bang. Wish I could do a hundred of em but it's expensive render! (sigh) You can see a rough animation at this link.
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Cloud 9 (http://www.wholebitmedia.com/landy2_6.mov)

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Cloud studies in Lightwave 9 with hypervoxels and volumetrics!!!

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[cout<mecha]

Oh watta do now...

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[Onimetal]

Hi there!
first of all, thank you for look at my sketchbook, i'm very glad for your tips and analysis, all people here are helping me a lot to improve my work, and i'm very excited to start apply these in my studies.
I must confess that i barely entered in the concept art world,(and the digital work too) and a lot of things i'm doing is based on works and professionals that i'm seeing, but all this to learn. I know that the "same as always" aren't the best things, but i'm working in something "new" in parallel. And as some people said to me, i'll try to match my traditional skills with my digital skills.
So, thank you again, that was a very good tip and i'm honored to receive it!
And about your portfolio, did you have some Macross references? I see a lot of things that remembered me that (and that's AMAZING!), i like very well the way you put your vision on the works, something it's bit confuse to understand, but i think that's intentional.
So, congratulations!

[kelly x]

#10 rocks and I like the mild maiden! Thanks for that

[kelly x]

sorry I did not see page two -- everything flying is looking great... keep this up--maybe they can fly in milk -- hee hee

[cout<mecha]

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[kelly x]

Hey thanks for looking! I just looked at the animation you did cool stuff, looks smooth. I like #10 and think you should have her move too...

[cout<mecha]

Hey Kelly X, what is meant by #10. I'm guessing you are meaning my 10th post or Aponeurosis. Well, yes I would enjoy to animate it. What do you suppose she should be doing in the action sequence?

[cout<mecha]

Aside from just being lax, I'm waiting on these contest results for the Uplift Challenge. Of course, if you haven't seen the video slash promo slash trailer slash...GO SEE IT YA! :ore:

Otherwise I'm working on 3D design from a recent scribble. It sort of reminds me of someone I know. Of course, the person will probably never know that they became an invinceble mech droid from the deep. But you never know!

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Here's something...

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Sumpin sumthin!

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Must...form....next...peice....eeeeaaaaaaahhhhhuuu ugggggmmmhhhhhfffffhhhhppp..

So LAZEY! :hugsmile:

[Lateman]

hey broth,

thanks for always have a word to my sketchbook :)

your style is awsome i swear, looks strange but it got so mutch charackter at all. i like your mech-designs very mutch. maybe you can post some traditionel drawings and anathomie ... yes i know this sucks, but its sooo important :)

keep rockin dude

cheers lateman

[cout<mecha]

Hey Lateman, nice`to see your face. OK, i'll post a few studies that I've done for my animation.

It's best that you come up with a method that works best for you in the long run. The stuff I'll post may be older and I'm thinking my methods may be different now as I have different visual needs.

Honestly haven't been doing a lot of studies as a lot of the people on this site are doing. I'm focusing on other technical things that don't neccesarily involve drawing but you can check out my beginnings in attempting to animate while keeping my anatomy going just from imagination on one of my characters...

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MORE LATER...THANKS FOR STOPPING BYE! :mittenbop:

[cout<mecha]

As per your request I'll be posting some sketches and studies; for animation of course! :)

I don't know how far I'll go with this as I have a lot of sketchbooks. Some good some bad. I dunno, you don't usually post old bad sketches unless you are looking for critiques to make them better. I usually just move on, unless I'm trying to get a character right...

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See you next time!

[yinteck]

Hey, how are you? Thanks for always dropping by at my SB. You have improve alot. One problem for me is that sometimes there is no consistencies.
Because some of your work is at a very good standard but some is not. Maybe you did not spend as much time at all of them.

Great work, keep posting. Wanna see more !

[cout<mecha]

Good of you to drop by! If you have something you would like to see I can throw that up as Lateman has done. I posting some older organic type sketchbook pages. Been low on memory for a long time so no big projects. I'll try to keep the quality the best I can! :)

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[cout<mecha]

Doing some submission stuff for Heavy Metal. Working on a concept character design based on a poster pre-release. The character is traditional while the laser is 3D. Broke my dongle tho, so that's why the image is checkered a bit.

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[cout<mecha]

I made these sketches from a funny movie called Dolemite vs the Shaolin a while ago. I used 3 minute time increments, mostly because the DVD would only pause for about that long. This was before animation school, and I was trying to train my eye to see different poses and draw them quickly while maintaining the flow and feel of the motion. Just watch these Tiger moves...he he.:mittenbop:

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WOO-HA!

[cout<mecha]

Stayed up late last night past bedtime experimenting with Freehand for animation and watching old 1930's gangster films. It's really great but has some major glitches. These are some keyframes from an animation I'm working on. Trial edition ends in 2 days...:ilaekae:

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[yinteck]

This is what i want to see. I like the shaolin studies and also the robotic hand, very detail and very good quality there. The bird is also good. A lot of quality in this updates.
Thanks for the stopping by. I'll definitely ask for your help if i have any problems in animation

[cout<mecha]

These are some old dragon keys I have published on my website. I figured it was about time I moved them over to my sketchbook...
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MY PRECIOUS!!!

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[Mischeviouslittleelf]

Wow you work really hard man! Keep it up and keep challenging yourself as much as you can:)=

-E

[cout<mecha]

Seems that you can't animate groups of blends in Illustrator. On top of that, there is only one page in the vastness of the infinite zoombafu which is Illustrator. LISTEN ALLE YALL!!!:wtf:

Freehand will do this but has some blend proximity issues. If anyone from Adobe is listening, GET A CLUE!:ilaekae:

AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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ADOBE SAYS OPEN WIDE 2D ANIMATORS!

[yinteck]

Nice update ! The dragon is great. But i dont buy the color of the last head drawing, for me i think it is to striking.
Did u get my email ?

[Lateman]

hey cout, your stuff is crazy! ich like your figures sooo mutch. i realy can loarn a lot from it. have you anytime thought about to use photoshop for your digital drawings? it realy would increase the quality of your work! keep workin hard man, best wishes from me

lateman

[cout<mecha]

Pix-Hey thanks Pix, hope you will be stopping by often as I admire your work!
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Yin-yes I got you message, too bad I guess. The last drawing was made in Illustrator as I was trying out blending.
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Lateman-aside from the Metal character sheet I have been posting older stuff as you had requested earlier. I will post even more figure drawing soon!
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[cout<mecha]

More vectors of character Myria Sterling from Robotech Saga... :punkgirl:
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Really going to post some figure studies soon... :rocker:

[cout<mecha]

I've tranlates a bunch of anime drawing from popular series into figure drawing. As you would expect some work better than others, and some are completely unfounded in reality. I'll put those up LAST. It's kind of useless to post a lot of disney figure drawing of say Cinderella, as they are continously moving and don't have a nomenclature of poses like anime does. You may recognize a few of the figures from your favorite series! :yayca:

ANIME FIGURE DRAWINGS:MALE

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NOW FOR THE ANIME EXCLUSIVE FIGURE METHODS...

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I HOPE THIS POST IS HELPFUL TO THOSE SEEKING TO MAKE QUICK FIGURE DRAWINGS FOR ANIMATION. ALSO TO HELP RECOGNIZE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WORKING IN AN ANIME STYLE AND WORKING WITH NORMAL DRAWING ANIMATION. :yum:

I will post the female poses later this week!!!

[Ex Nihilo]

A little more variation in your lines couldn't hurt. I notice that many of your pencil drawings (mostly the mechs) have the same line-thickness all around. That flattens the image out, plus the design tends to get lost.

I enjoy your animations. Keep posting.

[cout<mecha]

Thanks Ex, I think your right about that, I'm more of a sketcher painter
than an inker. That's why I have problems sometimes. I will hopefully
be able to work in some vector programs to correct this problem.

Again something from my homesite to break up the space in here after
so many figure drawings. Some beasties!!!

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'RYU'

/m\

[cout<mecha]

For the second installment of the figure drawings series of course will be the female side of things. Personally I think the anime females are more expressive than the males and have a lot of action! With translating them into figure drawings you really have to use your imagination sometimes as a lot of very important curves are sometimes obscured or distorted. You may notice that there are different maturity levels within even in kids shows which makes anime attractive to all ages of animation fans. The same rules apply in terms of figures that didn't meet with the standards of traditional anatomy.

ANIME FIGURE DRAWINGS:FEMALE

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ONCE AGAIN I HOPE THESE ARE USEFUL TO ANYONE IN THE ANIMATION FIELD WHO IS MESMERIZED BY THE NOMENCLATURE OF THE ANIME MEDIUM OR NEEDS A QUICK GUIDE FOR DRAWING FEMALE FIGURES FOR ANIMATION. I HOPE YOU WILL ADD AND IMPROVE UPON THESE DRAW, IF YOU DO PLEASE LET ME SEE1!!!:geekg:

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Ganbatte!:girl:

[kelly x]

Hey a mad flurry of stuff and hard work!! the studies are getting good and good for you doing them!! the action is your best work - when someone is in action, you are really inspiring me to do more studies!! The submission for heavy metal needs some work, the middle figure looks goos the one on the left looks very thick in the neck area. just slim her neck down a bit. I like the gun! and keep going on these radical diverse studies!! Wow what progress here!!

[zulu]

woooo, lots of poses, really good work, more more!, cheers mate! :D

[kelly x]

dude where are you?? I wrote Aug 30th and where's my update!! LOL!!

[cout<mecha]

Thanks Zulu, really app reciate your face here as you are a cool persona and make really neat drawings as well, trying different things all the time trying to expand your range; :)

Well Kelly, what can I say...been tied up a lot lately, more recently than lately with issues beyond my control. So hastily but whole heartedly I've posted this update. I'm trying to animate some more with vectors. These dragons are my latest victims in this regard. I'm not a big dragon person, they always seem to sneak into my sketches when I'm wanting to do a mecha droid destructor cyber being. Or one of my one horned for eyed flying purple people eaters.

Oh well!:perv: Enjoy!

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Will have some more characters laterz!

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[kelly x]

awesome droid man next and I happen to like dragons quite a bit!! and thanks for doing this within 3-5 minutes!!!

[cout<mecha]

I'm not sure what that last message alludes to :) ? But still working it out tonight with some light humor. Finishing up an illustration I made of some WB style cats getting all dressed up-The title should be called The Outkatz!

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I tawt I taw...

[yinteck]

Haha nice one. The poses is good , alot of dynamic poses.
One thought on the dragon, i really like the pencil one, but i think some part is to busy. Maybe is the size, post a larger one. Wanna see more detail on it.

[cout<mecha]

OUTKATZ-back after these messages!

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[cout<mecha]

We Now Return to the Outkatz!!!

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While the Cats Away...
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[yinteck]

Nice update, cute character. One question why you make your character flat with color ?

[cout<mecha]

Hey yin, flat color is what cartoons do! :)
More OUTKATZ!

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:ilaekae: Tune in next time...

[Onir]

Hey cout>mecha, crazy sketchbook you've got here :) Your animation studies look great, you've mapped out alot of really nice key poses. Really great to see someone doing things in a WB style as well... if I had any suggestions it would that you should try some more curvilinear gestures and such. Your quick sketches are great and you've got nice form to them, but as you know a lot of time in animation the gesture of an individual pose can matter much more than the anatomy of that pose. I would like to see some more line variation as well, but I saw you mentioned earlier on that you are hoping to work on that within a more vectorized program. Keep working at it either way though man, lookin good!

[kelly x]

Mecca!! Cool update cartoons weeee!! so great, so zany! So Happy life is with Cartoons!!!!! Thanks! K

[cout<mecha]

Not sure what you mean by line variation. Perhaps I've yet to learn that Onir.

Kelly, always good seeing you here, sorry to digress but those sketches had been sitting there awhile and I figured it was time to do justice.

Bout to hit the sack. Gnite.

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[cout<mecha]

Ike is the hurricane that has been approaching our part of the world for more than two days now said to have an unusually large eye. I am pretty far inland nonetheless, I hope they don't turn out our lights as I am working!

I've been animating little drawing from my sketchbook and put together this gif to plead with Ike to "save us!"

Ike was also the fearful husband of Tina Turner!:heart: So I guess they decided to come up with a name that would strike fear...:muscle:

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It's gettin windy out there!!! :devil:

[Nightblue]

cout, are you in the general Texas area too? It's pretty safe where I am, just lots of wind and rain.

The new animation looks quite good. Having done a few orthos for model sheets, I can only imagine what a pain in the rear animating a guy turning must be. Your cartoon looks good, but the forms are getting lost in the crazy colorful background. Have you tried cell-shading? It might give your cartoon characters some extra depth :)

Keep up the good work!

[yinteck]

Nice one !. like the turning part of the girl
Others, agreed with Nightblue

[cout<mecha]

working on a little animation after the storm. Of course lights went out for day or so. This all from one sketch with some CG background stuff composited.

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NB-thanks for droppin in. I find your diligence refreshing. Of course I hear things are nicer up north. Concerning cel shading, well that is an extra layer of depth. This head turn was one of the easier ones. The girl was more difficult with all the hair involved.

Yin-thanks again I never get tired of hearing good things from you and I hope I can inspire or help you with animation in some way.


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This is the effect I wanted as per the original sketch...:donk:
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Oh well gotta keep rockin!:rocker:

[cout<mecha]

I've "analyzed" :donk: a lot of fashion poses and materials of the female form in the past and figured I would post these studies. I try to capture the nomenclature of fashion so that I don't repeat myself and give me a good reference for animation and the like without being to artey fartey about it. Have not done the male and would appreciate if some wom would collect a series of poses found to be exiting in nature without having the scream.:harbl: Otherwise I will have to do it myself!:$

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Thanks again for attending these proceedings. We will see you again next time! :tihi:

[kelly x]

take a bow!! this SB is totally rockin!! can't wait to see this animated! also your figure sketches are looking good. Did you take my Mistress? I can't find her anywhere... lol, too!

[cout<mecha]

Hey K.Not quite sure what you were looking for in terms of animation. I hope I have not been mean to you in my posts. Did I take your Mistress of Loss...Perhaps...! :confident I was just mentioning that it might be nice to get some feedback on the types male features you find attractive when you look at imagery. I know you paint a lot of females but I do need that. :hugsmile:


Many moons on this one. Working on the animation technical stuff. Been thinking lately that it would be cool to have an animation challenge around here. I guess that would be an AOW!

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This is as good as it gets with gif around here. I don't think the limits more than about 1 mb. I will upload a better version later and include the link in a post. Anyway this is a real rush job!

[Mischeviouslittleelf]

some good improvement here man. Keep it up and keep studying!

-E

[cout<mecha]

Hello again, I'm working on a 3D short called "Freeze" inspired by a sketch I made sometime ago,(about 2 yr). It's going to be sort of comedy as that works best with 3D, and really short. I figured it was time I SOLD OUT TO THE MAN! LOL! Anyway, should be cute cuddly fuzzy furry ect. :uzi: :uzi2:

I've modelled the body of the first character and am trying to finish the rest now. If anyone's interested I'll be putting together a few videos on how to make 3D from your sketches, although right now I'm without a mike. haha!

Also the dragon link is at the end of this post. Enjoy. Thanks for your kind words Pix, will be over to your thread for some inspiration! :eyecandy:

"FREEZE"

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Dragonloop QT Link! (http://www.wholebitmedia.com/movies/dragmoon.mov)

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[cout<mecha]

Freexe Render w/Radiosity + Ray Trace

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Push all the the render buttons on this one
and the render time was about 6 minutes.
That's pretty nice for my system. None of this
stuff has textures, and think that might be
to much. Not really a texture guy, but I
wanted to try it a bit on this. Who knows...

Freexe Render w/Cel Shading

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Just cel shading and outlines on this one.
Trying to get a feel for how this looks since
I will be incorperating some traditional
animation into it. I think the contrast
would be nice. Now I have to start animation.

:medusachow: I could stand a few comments as to your opinions concerning cel shade vs ray trace, or just general tweaks in the picture that I probably won't fix! :ore:

[cout<mecha]

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Trying a few excercises to beef up my drawing skills a bit before an interview.
I wanted to try a few different things to see just what the benefits of each
of these practices is/was when I was learning drawing.
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Contour-This is probably one of the first things I learned when in school.
A continuous line contour drawing where your pencil does not leave the page
until you are finished. This creates discipline and patience in a medium where
the mind easily wanders onto other subjucts. : ) As your pencil wanders
across the page its not easy to make critical visual judgements with one
eye on the page, one eye on the drawing, and one eye on the visual! Also
did a little silouette to go with that...
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Gesture-Forces you to think about gravity, movement, and placement in
a subconcious manner. It helps if you begin a figure with just one line
indicating the overarching average or positioning of the figure. With a little
experience drawing heads or faces its easy to measure the figural lines
against the average and give the drawing a bit of personality. This is also
a basic animation principal.
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visual is free of shadows, it may require many passes to understand the
expressions on on faces and where and when an object begins and ends.
You might be accurate but in real life it is difficult to read faces and see
things as they are moving.
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Luminance/Negative Space-Really had a tough time with luminance. It more
patience then contour as you are forced to look at chunks of material in a
way that you would not normally see it. It helps to understand light sources
and the way they fall on various objects. I created a this with the idea that
the light was saturated to avoid making value judgements as most people
tend to do in their works here. Everyone is different. : ) Light seems to
only have meaning when their is movement, in this case, the movement of
your eye from one thing to the next.

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Sorry no drawing 2D/3D vids yet, will have to do them over, and find a mike as will.

[kelly x]

cool dude, free hand?? I see you on now...

[yinteck]

Nice update, the animation of the dragon is great. Like the last exercises of yours. keep posting!

[kelly x]

I challenge you to animate #10 and #5 = thats easy!!! I really like these two where did you come up with these??!!

[algenpfleger]

Coooool stuff in here mate! Those exercises seem quite effective =_0 Your animations rock too! Show us more!

[Nettle_Mountain]

hmmmm, some of this stuff is so esoteric for me...
but im interested, more stuff! people are hungry

[cout<mecha]

Heyas.

Well Kellx that is the thing, these gotta get support before they can be realized and done justice. The ideas are from my imagination and patience! :batgirl: Perhaps you will give me some ideas about what should happen in these animations you want so that I can fully supply you.:yum:If you challenge me does that mean you will create an animation for this challenge! :)

Yin, thanks for giving some feedback on the dragonmation. There's plenty to be fixed there but it needs context. I had planned on getting more excersize though.:lifedrawing: Hope this stuff is of use to you as well.

Algenplfedger-nice to see you here and sure appreciate the complements. I'd love to see more animations/animators here as that is what we are here for at Concept in some form or another.

Haha! I appreciate you dropping by Nettle and I'm sure there will be some surprises for you as well. I'm starving!:\

Working on a Sword swing animation to further test the possibilities.
It's made from a picture of a weightlifting guy and I've made 5 keys
for it thusly. It's sort of going to be like an animated Franzetta painting.

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I'd kinda like some suggest as to what the guy may wear and
the kind of sord he would use, animation crits ect. ect. TIA!:carnifex:

[cout<mecha]

CROSS NAKED-PAPER MAKIN'-MONEY HOARDIN'-GREEN STEALIN'-PIGGY BANK BUSTIN'-NICKEL GRABBIN' GREED!!!

:yayca: This was my first self head model in 99'. Hope you like it!:yayca:

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:rocker: Gotta try finishing my sword swingin'!:rocker:

[cout<mecha]

speedies
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Working with LW again to create some speed comp/paintings since used
photoshop to do some experimenting with filters as well. Figured out its better
to use an adjustment layer than to mess up your work :)perhaps.

Here goes nothing!!!

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[cout<mecha]

some memories from better times...

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[cout<mecha]

SURVIVOR SERIES

I'm a survivor haha! This one is working on its connections right now. Want them to work in a fairly realistic manner, or at least look cool. Yep!
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[Lateman]

im totaly hocked on youre strange style with these intensive inverted colors ... its just awesome! your unique. 5 stars for that

pls keep posting ... lateman

[cout<mecha]

Thanks for stopping by lateman. you are really burning up the pages over there :) . Not sure what I've done to get color on these as far as a method of say 'inversion' although that's the way I like to work. Get a lot of contrast. Just to show here's one straight outta the Lightwave modeler, an unrendered screenshot.


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Adjustment layers are our friends!

As of late, i've been creating the junctions inside the head and on the neck of this S.U.R.V.I-3R. Have not rigged them but maybe you could tell me if it's been worth the effort to make them realistic....

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Long way from finished as you can see...:yum:

[yinteck]

This is what im talking. Great modelling. Wanna see more

[cout<mecha]

:rocker: Record Beats from Rice Radio...93 :rocker:

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[cout<mecha]

I've done some sketching from magazines and wanted to post some of the inked ones for reference. Hopefully we can see them OK! :lifedrawing:

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[Danuh]

Thanks for the comment on my sketchbook :> I refuse to let my ridiculous goal in life to die *dramatic music*

I really like your human figure poses, both male and female. So many~! @u@
And yes, magazines are friggin wonderful places for references *has an entire binder filled with magazine cutouts*

[cout<mecha]

Thanks for stoping by Danuh. I look forward to seeing more of your artwork. I know you have not been to animation school yet so if you have any questions ask away. I'm glad you've decided to stick with your dreams but don't knock 3D, it has it's uses. :batgirl:

Recently they made an anime Dragonlance film. i wish it had looked a bit more like the Tod Lockwood illustrations. Anyway just finishing up my sword swinging study from the bodybuilder photo. Gonna do some more with it but here is a rough draft.:anime:

Dragonsword Rough Draft

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Some 3D:helmet, sword and BG
2D in the body movement...
Needs a bit more post!
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[cout<mecha]

tryng to get more of these inker stinkers in here for reference...:yayca:

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[Danuh]

What kind of animation would you call what you do? It's like.. 2.5D xD It's really interesting to watch.

[Lateman]

wow,awesome updates and realy lovely facestudies. i like this only-outline-style. this is a very good idea. probably i will try this kind of studing too. got a lot of magazines at home. later i will post a giant update maybe you are interrested in watching my new stuff later. with best wishes: lateman

[cout<mecha]

Hay Danuh, if feel so stupid calling you Dan-uh! Like a having a sore throat or something. Nevertheless, I'm glad you've returned. I think recently I saw the term 'tradigital' thrown out there on the Toon Boom site where I have recently downloaded a free trial of the Animate software. I will test it and let you know how it works out. I believe you must really like 2D stuff to get into what I am doing, although the quality is rising with each new experiment. Thanks again, I've got my :oneye: on you! :yum:

Lateman, always a pleasure, I've been over to your SB recently and am really enjoying your work with the skeletal warrior series, lets hope nothing happens to him:xpld: ...heh heh! :yayca: By all means work on your lines and don't just pick some random faces like I did, pick stuff you like.


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So here I am again trying to animate one or another drawing and I picked this sketch I did back in 2001. It was made during my internship at a multimedia company, when I wasn't scanning in pieces of carpet for textures.

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i promise there will be more action into these as soon as figure out what and how I want my animation to look like. I've got a lot of ideas but a full fledged story is quite an event to recon with.

KLANGTESTthis is a swiff that lets you test the compatibility of lifeforms and their music.

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Also doing a bit of Flash with this background...till all are one...

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[HunterKiller_]

Good job with the face studies, man. They're looking good. Don't stop.

In reply to your comment in my SB, I attend an animation school, lol, and am just about to graduate (finally thank god).
I'll probably be back posting in my SB pretty soon, lol.

[ihatemexies]

i like it but the face studies look kinda outliney and dead

i know theyre studies but try to inject some life into them. other than that, good work

[Mischeviouslittleelf]

Great to see you doing some face studies and such, and that guy-on-a-cliff animation is great:D

-E

[kelly x]

MECCA!!!! COUT!!!!! This animation is the Bommbie Bomb!!! good small gesture face studies also BUT! the animation, is so cool.

[Mokuu]

Start punching through with caricatures, exagerrate theses people's attitudes, and i mean, the animator's way, not the caricaturist on the street's way. Not everyone has a big head with big teeths XD

[cout<mecha]

HK-good to see you round, that last post made me think you were going on haitus. I need to get some more faces going and take it further. Thanks for droppin in!

IHM-This was a time when I want to draw many different faces so I had to get the lead out and crank up the productivity. As you can see some of them I did not even bother to ink out...

Pix, Pixo, Pixar, I hear you, I promise the guy on the cliff is not me, just getting some excersize with the layout skills. I'll be looking at some more interesting backgrounds from you soon eh! :)

Kell, keep those compliments comin'. I'll keep riding this animation train! Hope I can get you to try gettin' some action fo' yosef sometime!

Mokuu, no can't say I'm into the exageration thing although I know it is useful. I think I would do anime if I was going to get abstract since it seems to hold some promise. Oh well. Do I do...

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Doing a little 2D walking with a pic of a 3D model I found on the web. I kinda liked the suit design a little so I used to create this walk cycle using vectors. There are still some issues with the whole arrange-bring to back to front thing but always just sharpening the pencil..er uh vector. But seriously there are some real stuttering issues with the programs. No sketch on this purely digital since I did not have no concept this one out. By the way you can find some interesting products over at DAZ.com (http://www.daz3d.com/) for figure drawing and such...

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[yinteck]

Great one cout<mecha

[zhonked]

You've got some pretty crazy stuff going man! I love some of the pencils you've got and the mashups are producing some interesting images. Those cast images you've got for the contest look great! It reminds me a lot of the old Heavy Metal animation. You don't see scifi animation like that anymore :( The last animation you did is interesting, but I wonder how anyone can walk crossing their feet each time? I think it works as an exaggerated sultry walk in animation but the rest of the figure doesn't have as exaggerated movements. I'd love to see some full animation by you sometime! Waiting for more!

[kelly x]

i love the craze crew!!!!! so cool, where ya been??? K

[cout<mecha]

Thanks Yin for stopping in always a good sign.
Zhonked, a first time seeing you here and was quite pleased with the criticism and comments. I really feel you know where I'm coming from and where I am going with these ideas. I suppose the legs cross because of the original image inspiration. I working towards some series stuff but I like to keep my options open just in case...
Kelly seems like the Craze Crew has been on hold due to my recent 3D modelling. Glad to see you like them! :rocker:

So this what I've been working on in terms of work for the last 1.5 weeks. It's based on a sketch more than a year old which began appreciating dust. I decided to stop this one before textures and let the things gestare a bit.

I built them in Lightwave and they will eventually transform into fighters. I've been watching G-dam on Sci Fi Net and trying to get better transformations as well as plane designs. I think these will work. No plane pix yet, got to put bones on em or whatever it is in Maya. Hopes you like!
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[cout<mecha]

Some stuff I did over break including some special recursion renders with I technique I learned during a dedicated live webinar. Also wanted to see what it might be like to try a flower. Gave this one a few extra touches with bump based transparency map and ray traces. Olso working on a few logo ideas for the main site. It has a neat little under construction message mojo going right now wow! Hopes you like. Been working mostly with actionscripting in Flash these dayz. :yayca:

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[kelly x]

cool, I wish I could do this light wave, I love 3D... your studies are getting so good and your edges are impressive == major improvements Mecca!! I want to make some of my figure's move... what is the best program for human movement?

[yinteck]

I definitely like those robot. More pls !!

[cout<mecha]

Not much going cept the site stuff I'm posting this old sketch of the Ray character from the Cloud 9...Will respond when less distracted. :yayca:

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[Felipe]

nice animations, it's really cool, good luck in your work! Thank you by relpy in my sb :)

[kelly x]

hi mecca!!! kx

[cout<mecha]

Working on something for a friend's birthday today.:hugsmile: Think she likes it...:anime:

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[cout<mecha]

Kelly we've got to get you animating! :yum: Finished an animation last week from a drawing based on the award winning audiobook podcast"Number One with a Bullet"by Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff. I hope they will use it for something.

Here is the Animation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9g0sO624kk)

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the audiobook can be downloaded here: Number One with a Bullet (http://www.podiobooks.com/title/number-one-with-a-bullet)

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[cout<mecha]

Been fooling around with the the mecha giving them a little test drive here and there. Thought I'd share. Also, here is some cover type art from Number One with a Bullet animation. There will be more animation next month, but you can still check out that audiobook spot link above this post!!! :mod:

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Thanks for stopping in! :drinkup:

[cout<mecha]

Among other things I've been working on some character designs for a series. Oh and those other things are mostly the animation for a competition next month. :) I'm ahead of schedule but trying not to let that stop me. Not much to say, lots to do 3D and 2D wise. Hoping to wrap things up before summer hits. Been really swampy around my area, but still getting some excersize in here and there. Thanks for being a friend...:sungod:

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[cout<mecha]

These are test shots from around 2 this morning for the CG section of the animation this month. Still need to figure out the music big time. I hate the thought of doing it myself, or worse, using some record. These are doctored in PS so I don't know if AE is going to let me get away with these filters. Yikes@!
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Look up in the sky, it's a BIRD, it's a PLANE, it's.....SWINE FLU!!!!

[HunterKiller_]

Hey dude

Those character designs are pretty funky.
Mech models are cool. Look forward to seeing them animated.

[HunterKiller_]

Hey dude

Those character designs are pretty funky.
Mech models are cool. Look forward to seeing them animated.

[cout<mecha]

Thanks HK. It's getting late in the month and I'm still pumping up the backgrounds. Hopefully will be done with the animation next week. Well see.

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[cout<mecha]

Finishing up the last of the backgrounds for this animation as it inches nearer to completion. Have a looksee. Satispell. Red or White? :yum:

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Thanks for looking. How was your meal. Was the hossenfeffer to your liking?
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[kelly x]

These are looking so great Cout!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!So very good!!!!!!!!! Great even!!!!!!!!!!!

[cout<mecha]

Finally finished this animation project called CAFE-4. The animation will be entered in Playboy's animation contest at the end of this month. This took a little over a month to animate and I have had good comments so far from people I love and respect. Hehe, specially since they like it...Check out the link below this promotional image. There's a bit of a story behind this. Also below. I'd love to hear your comments...enjoy!



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Movie Stills...I'd like to thank the academy...of starfleet.:yayca:

[cout<mecha]

A little afterglow post to the CAFE-4 cartoon. Looking forward to this next one! Still brainstorming tho'. For now enjoy the artwork!

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[Lateman]

your work is real art to me! this overcontrasted colors und multicolored textures are just an other view to our world, where everything is confusing and blinding and so abuzzed of imformations. you are keeping up this style since your first post and exactly that makes your work so unique! i love it!

cheers lateman

[cout<mecha]

Working on a few more figures before this next major project. Well here they are....!

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More later...

[cout<mecha]

More Illustrated hypothetical humor as a study of the impossible made possible. I want more meat in my Saturday Morning cartoon shows. I been gettin' da runaround for to long...anyway these should spice things up...whoa!


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Next time on the exciting adventures of...?!!!

[razael242]

Your stuff really rocks my friend


best regards

raz

[cout<mecha]

Wanted to pollute the web a bit more with my drivel so these are a few sketchings from my writing notebook that are bound for the heap. A few Robotech musings from Southern Cross and Next Generation.

The southern cross is a revamp of the characters. See if you can guess who's who! Also some skeches of Lancer/Yellow Dancer Moespeda transformation cross-dress transition type thing.
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Got some TRON musings and stuff I'm thinkin over.
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Hoping to have a decently pleasant weekend to you. :yum:

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[Wheeljack18]

Hey man,

Thanks for dropping by my thread! You got a real 80's feel going on with your " web polluting drivel". In the last page I'm picking up Tron meets Ralph Bakshi meets FlashDance. What a combo!

[cout<mecha]

Actually got the itch to composite some of the Survivors into some footage I made in Chicago during my spare time at SAIC. Really I was making one of those voyage/voyeuristic films hoping to call it Virtual Reality since that's as real as it gets, but what happened was I got a lot of shaking camerage footage walking around shipping the camera like some sort of airplane...

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Happy Father's Day! :donk:

[cout<mecha]

Been working on some animation but got sidetracked by a little voice saying, "WIP up a Crann, please, the Crann." And so, the infamous, not so famed Crann series Inorganic from the painfully belated Robotech Sentinels. I have an Odeon and a Hellcat modelled as well, leaving only the Scrimm to create. Only, I thought there was one in the animation that was extra. Can't wait to rig this one, I've already made the toungue whip around a little! Oh yeah! Boo-riiing! Enjoys...:)

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[JailHouseRock2]

Great work of late man!

Love seeing the 3D stuff, what programe are you using?
Dig the sketches too!

Keep it up mate,
matt

[FactorZero]

I'm diggin this 80s psychedelic future tech style you got going on. Keep posting.

[Nettle_Mountain]

I don't lie that i understand what is happening here but im digging the style very much, looking to see final product!

[Lateman]

vote guys!!! this guy is genius! i love it! MORE! plssssss

your fan l8

[cout<mecha]

Hey JH-good to see you here, I will look for more drawing from you. As far as programs are concerned I use a lot of Lightwave and Illustrator, with some After Effects thrown in.

FZ-NM Glad you are liking the stylz! As it goes anything cartoony sort of harkens back to the 80's which I love. Currently working on a box of Captain Crunch. No crunch berries this time tho.

LM Comments from you are always welcome. I feel you are coming up with your art, keep pushing yourself. :)

Still working on some animated stuff, and have a few offbeat renders to show. I was tweaking the sketch filter in LW and found some pretty cool looks for this scene with mushrooms.
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[Shard]

nice stuff dude!! I remember lightwave was the program that introduced me into 3d and ultimately into art..i learnt loads from it, keep going!

[cout<mecha]

This one's been lying around for a while so dicided to give it some color quickly. This is a man with a snake served up with two hostess type babes just doin their thang. Actually hosting is fast becoming one of the more respected occupations in Tokyo. Number 12 in the top 40 jobs amonst school girls. :yum: Hmmm. Uh huh. well. Still hopelessly twirling towards finishing this an animation by summer's end.:yayca:

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[Sketch]

Interesting look on this project. Looking forward to seeing it finished! The bgs you posted have a very original look!
The club I was referring to is this forum. I was pretty vacant for awhile and now no one checks my sketchbook, but it's also because I haven't been checking out everyone elses work. Find it ends up taking too much time. As far as other places to post work I'm really enjoying flickr... http://www.flickr.com/photos/worktheangle/
There's a lot of other artists that are into what I'm into on there. But CA is where I started posting work so I try and show up once in awhile : P

[HunterKiller_]

Hey duder

Project stuff is looking good. I think it's great that you're being really liberal with your style and expressing your own vision. Props for that.

That 'Crann' model looks nice, although I have no idea what it is. Haven't watch Robotech since the early 90's!

Keep up the good stuff.

[cout<mecha]

Sketch- thanks for the info, I like this community pretty well right now and Flickr seems vacant. I finished the animation that uses those backgrounds. Perhaps I need a special animation button so people can click it when I'm done. It's called Cafe 4...

HK-Hey, what's been going on, gettin some good stuff over there even some robots. Surprised you don't watch the old eps since that's where it all started! Just ordered season one of the transformers for about 15 smackers along with Macross Zero. About my style, in the words of Daffy Duck-"I wish you'd explain it to me sometime mister!!!" ;)

I'm being lazy in terms of new imagery lately. Really still working on that old animation project as of the summer(it's taking all summer) and a new project I hope to enter into the FOX holiday contest. I'm hoping it will be ready in time but I'm doubting it will. Basically I think these will carry on into September. And of course Playboy had announced the winners of the animation contest and announced that there will be a second round of winners, which means I will re-submit my entry on DVD instead of last minute upload at 4AM before the deadline the next day. Really had to get some music in there that I had the rights to use...
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So that's what happened besides spending about 3 weeks on about 15 seconds of animation(probably still not done with that) So here I go again!
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Made up my mind! :yayca:

[batcustard]

too much detail on those keys.
Action one:No anticipation on the first set of keys with that guy spinning.
Action two:No idea what she is doing.
Action three: PUNCHY ARM:When anticipating for the punch let the fist hang back longer, right now you are easing the anticipation in...which is ok, but probably not neccisary. Ease the anticipation out.
GRABBY ARM: Should push the other guy outwards first. The violent party will want to pull his victim in for the impact and so would be anticipating for that pull with a big push probably midway between his starting position and fully anticipating with the Punchy arm. Also when the Victim is hit, on the frame of impact, pull his head back. There is no need to show the fist and his face touching eachother, they probably shouldn't even occupy the same space. It will make it look like the dude is getting hit harder.
Action four: Don't draw a neck inside a necklace. Draw the neck then when it looks good put on some furnishings. You have to save dessert till last.

So get your action working, then when you are sick and tired of being an animator you, gritting your teeth because its too late to turn back, draw the furnishings. IE: Oxygen tank, crazy boots. Otherwise you won't want to finish the action out.

[batcustard]

whoops I missed five pages of work haha

[cout<mecha]

Yeah custard I was barely motivated on those but try to keep the drawings clean for keys. Be sure and check out the rest of what's here for ideas...

Oh and had some spare energy and have been wanting to put this images together for a long time. Also a bit of an inside joke since she seems to be a bit camouflage with the background. Perhaps an alter -ego of sorts...Haha! Back to work!!!

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[cout<mecha]

Thought I would post a little teaser for the animation I have been working all summer since it is taking such a long time. I'm a lot more and different types of compositing of 3D and 2D in this so there are a lot of materials to work with. This is a test composite shot from the beginning of the film. I would show more but want it to be a surprise when finished...whew!

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UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN... :heart:

[cout<mecha]

Working and gradually finishing the last of these Invid Inorganics from the Robotech Series that never was. This one is called a Scrim. Actually that's kind of funny cause' in Louisiana they called shrimp(which they eat a lot) 'scrimps'. Or so I've heard. Well this one's done except the rigging and a few decals and corrections. I have all four of the main inorganics from the series now; although I will have to make repairs to one which I modeled during my ambitious times! :) Enjoy scrimps on the barbie!


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[cout<mecha]

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[Onir]

Hey cout<mecha, great work recently! Coulda sworn I posted in here not too long ago, though doesn't look like I actually did... sorry about that :x Yes though, I really like these character designs (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=746509&d=1249757328), great variety and uniqueness to each of em. The guy all the way to the left is a little floaty compared to the rest, but I imagine that's just because his toes are pointed a bit more down than the others. Best of luck with the FOX animation contest, seeing the super saturated colors and the mix of 2D and 3D would be a breath of fresh air for em ;) hehe These models look really nice as well, nice complexity to each of em. Modeling is definitely not a strong area for me so I can't offer much in the way of criticism, but they are lookin good to me! hehe

Keep workin hard and best of luck on your animation!

[cout<mecha]

Hey Onir, it's good to see you here and in the Motion Graphics forums. I've been obsorbed with 3D lately as I am still trying to finish my short. Took a break to play with this one I modeled and rigged a while back. Still working and thanks for the well wishes, picked up the Muybridge on humans so I'm really excited about the next project! :yayca:

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[Lateman]

very cool new stuff man! crazy! ... one question buddy ... hav you ever consum LSD?^^ dont get me wrong, you stuff is too cool but this is the way i imagine how the things look like when your on this bad drugs ;D

keep it uo mate!

much probs, l8man

[jatherip]

lateman is right :P some really funny colors, great work though, keep posting!

[cout<mecha]

-Finally finished the short for the second installment of Cybertales called
"FREEZE"!

-A scientist who's friends have all become avatars discovers how to travel to a new dimension!!

-And don't forget some sounds from Peter Gabriel, The Thompson Twins and Cibo Matto.

See below for details!

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Press/click the pic above to go to YouTube and view the short. What follows are a few personal production highlights....

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This is a suit I designed in order for our scientists trip to s new dimension.

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Deciding on colors can be rough. Much thanks to colourlovers.com (http://www.colourlovers.com/)

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Start the MACHINE!!!

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[cout<mecha]

I had to come up with some crazy characters to exist in this new dimension so I was think of what I said back on page 4 when I was thinking about this short. I really was able to get some cute characters going and make the behave the way they should...

Start out with a few polite sketches, wanted them to be devils, but when is the last time you saw a cute CG devil? :mod:

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Had an interesting time with the rigs but did not refine too much. After all ART is about solving problems! ;)

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So anyway I eventually got everthing working good with these 5 characters as you will see...

CAPTAIN SKETCH-Sort of a hybrid hero type if you know what I mean...:muscle:

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LAGER-Sort of a high pitched slightly affeminite dragon/donkey/zebra hybrid.:cheerleader:

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WEBSTER-He is sort of you're basic standart character with 'bug' eyes. He just likes to walk...:overhere:

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GRAHAM-he/she is the cutest of them all. A feist woodland type that is only slightly psycho!:eyecandy:

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NIVEK-Has a weight problem but doesn't know it. There is not enough green blood and air getting through his head! Ooops! He is nice tho! :pump:

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There you have them!!!!:angel:

[cout<mecha]

Each of the characters appears on screen in this, here is that shot. Also a tree that was omitted from the final...

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Had to create some animated electric shocks so here are some of those chararters in action.

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Spent some time ruminating on a perfect landscape for the ending including a city I peiced together from various seaside cities.

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Here are some of the test renders for the final scene to get the blocking on the words just tight! :)

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Here are a few extra landscapes from the warp tunnel and of course our titlepiece to end it all! Thanks for watching, listening, I'd love to get some reactions to this one! See you later.

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MISSION ACCOMPLICED!
Till next time.

[cout<mecha]

Late, Jath-Sorry Guys if I dind answer you in de lass pose mon. Juss wanted to getrue wid de updet fo ed animashun mon. Nuttin' bot it. Not tryin ta run dem up! :)

Also workin' on a little stuff for the next ep of Cybertales 3. and a little animation that was too late for the FOX competition. :( Want to run this through the character designer and see what I can come up with far as a story...

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[Morgado]

Heya!

I just wanted to ask you this: dont quit the drugs! :D

You do some interesting work, although a bit out of my league of understanding, and therefore I can't make any crits.

The animation was hilarious!

Keep these up :)

[Virg]

hey man. thanks for dropping a comment on my sb, your recent stuff seems to all fit in the same project, are you in a 3d program of some kind ?? anyway good luck with your stuff, love the pyschedelic colors in your landscape.

[cout<mecha]

Heard about portait day a little late but since I already posted a digital3D version on page 4 I guess I'll post up something for an upcoming animation. A but abstract I think!

ROBEAST!!!

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:batgirl: Happy belated H-ween!

[HunterKiller_]

All the mech models are rockin'

Cybertales 2 is very interesting, however I think that the actual animation of the characters could be improved.

Keep up the good work!

[Bendragon]

Hey man! I agree with HunterKiller, these are nice stuff you are doing and if you want to take it further and beyond I would highly recommend drawing more traditional studies to strengthen those foundations. Everybody needs it and the sooner we all get lots of practice in them the better our work will turn out. So try get some of those going alongside what you are doing.
Personal opinion but the number of highly saturated colours are burning my eyes :P Perhaps tone it down, you could try it out and see if you like the results. Crazy ideas dude!

[Morgado]

Bendragon has a point regarding the studies. I kind of like the saturated colors though, fits your style!

The self-portrait became exactly what I expected from you. Very nice! :)

[PeNcIl ReBeLlIoN]

Hey CM, Finally stopping by now that I have a moment. Some very trippy stuff on here! You're certainly pushing the boundaries of the norm I must say. Keep posting aye, You've improved quite noticeably from when you started, it really shows hey :D

[AKIRA Wrong]

robots! nice Mirage transforming!)))

[FightingSeraph]

I like your mechanical stuff, but from what I have seen in the color choices; most of them are hard on the eyes. You might want to get help with that, along with the image quality. (I know you're trying to keep the filesize small, but the quality could be a bit better.) As for your figures, you might want to check out some books on anatomy when you get the chance.

[Nettle_Mountain]

Colors added also, sometimes they are too hard because there are not much complimentary colors like brown/underasturated colours with hard neon colours.Well experimenting will tell what works for you and what not, keep on doing the original approach othevice

[cout<mecha]

Nothing much this time. Just thought I'd post. Been working on an animation for a client so nothing to see here of course. Hope you enjoy my musings on the side.

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[AustenFM]

Hey space man, thanks for dropping by so often lately! I've been around here more than a few times but I'm surprised I've never dropped a comment. I really dig what your doing with your designs and color pallete, i can't think of any word other than "Garish" but I mean it in the best possible way, It has a great vintage/retro feel to it, same with your designs. Your mech work, as well as other stuff reminds me of work in "M.D. Geist". Have you ever read it or seen it before? Good stuff.


Awesome wacky animation as well, can't wait to see what you're working up now.

Keep it up, and keep us a bit more updated on your art, will ya?!

[cout<mecha]

Austin-thanks for stopping by, couldn't find that MD Geist character anywhere. Maybe you can post a link. By the way how are things going in your new place? Went to Comicpalooza last week at George R. I hope to get better as I go along here, anything constructive you can say about how things can improve would be great. Otherwise I'll just take it as a compliment! :)

Sorry I haven't been responding to everyone's post, but for a while I lost the ability to make different color text for some reason. I still can't post video!!! Below is a slideshow of drawings done with different types of distorted perspectives. This is important to understand when it’s neccessary to create animation(or drawing) that cannot be done using traditional CG techniques including camera lens distortions. Hope you like! :)

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[charlesicay]

Nice stuff!

This is really interesting. Love the detail. Keep up the good work.

[zhonked]

It's been awhile man! Psychedelic designs! I enjoy the fact that you're pushing boundaries and daring to be different. The recent perspective figures are really cool, very easy to visualize them in a dramatic setting. Hope to see more soon!

[Morgado]

Great figures cout, very dynamic!

So when are we gonna see more work produced when you're high?! :D

[cout<mecha]

Charlesicay-Thanks Charles so much for you kind words, It really makes my day!:rocker: By the way is that Charles as in IK, hehe!

zhonked-Hey zhonked, always good to see you here and thanks for allowing me to be a bit psychadelic wicha! Ha! Still working out the logics of the animation of this tho, any help would be great, so whaddid you mean by dramatic setting?

Morgado-In terms of doing more updating doing the best I can with the client confidentiality bit, In terms of being high, well I that all kinna depends on the next time I can score some man! You got any!? Just high on lofe I suppose,:devil: Bwahagagaha!

Anyways, here's some character designs I did for an animation at this link called You Took My Girl (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne0Apu6duVA). The animation had to be timed out to the music of these characters...

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[zhonked]

By dramatic setting I meant like comics or big budget action movies. The extreme perspective on those figures lends itself well to really impactful shots. I'd love to give a critique if you want it, but what are you focusing on right now?

[cout<mecha]

Finished up the character design for Cybertales 3 and doing some of the animation now. Sorry for no updates. Not too much to report.

Zonked-Thanks for the shouts and keep challenging yourself! :)

OTTO, MAH, and TIC...


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[iven]

It's nice to see this figure drawings, I will post more of these too. Do you draw
nude models sometimes, I am sure it would enhance your knowledge about the
Human body.

[HunterKiller_]

Hey dude
Good work on the figure/mannequin drawings, need moar!
The better and faster you can draw figures, the better your animation will become.

Peace

[cout<mecha]

Getting tired of using my imagination so I'm studying the things that really matter! Tigers. Here's some I did from a YouTube show after reading Jack Hamm's awesome book. I love cats now! What's better than CATS!!? Nothing!

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[cout<mecha]

These are some cheetah's drawn up from my study of the cat family...they are so cute!
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[cout<mecha]

More from the cat family although male lions after closer looks seem more mythical than catlike.

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[cout<mecha]

Drew up the female Lionessessess and posting them. :sungod:

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[cout<mecha]

Bear neccessities...WHAT!!! You drew a bear???!!!!

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CRAZY HORSE say you MUOY LOCO!
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[cout<mecha]

LOL-ITA----just for laughs...

This concept I came up with for a character on a whim based on Halle Berry and was drawn with no reference shots, ect.

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[HunterKiller_]

Animal sketches are looking good dude, should keep doing them.
I would recommend spending more time on each single animal so that you can develop a good understanding of the form.

[Morgado]

Heya cout!

Been missing alot I see. The animal sketches are coming really cool. Just try to use a more sharpened pencil. Some of them look a bit blurry on the lines :)

[cout<mecha]

Thanks Morgado and HK. Doing more of these as we speak, this time in pen and digital ink. I'm trying to keep the techniques simple. I'll get into detail later. Right now I'm using a mechanical pencil so maybe the scanning process is causing some slippage. Good hunting!

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Thank you! :lounge:

[N E X T]

The animal sketches are looking really great! ( the wolves ! :) )

[iven]

awsome Kittys,...........where is the improved button ?!?!

[cout<mecha]

NEXT-Thanks alot I appreciate your comments infinitely, and yes, I can wait to re-render those wolves and really get them right in my mind! Whoayes! Slerp!:yum:

iven-it's gonna be another long night I guess, seems I have to render the whole darned world before you think anything of my skills so here goes and thanks!:hugsmile:

Various tasmanian devils(extinct 1933) as well as hyenas and jackals! Yipes!
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Koala and Panda!
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[cout<mecha]

Camels camels, who's got the camels!!!?
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The first texture maps!!!
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True MEN don't!
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cayotes.
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Sheeps in Wolf's Clothing...

[cout<mecha]

More work in the Bush! Heh heh! :rocker:

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[cout<mecha]

Dogs doggone it!

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[cout<mecha]

Working on a painting in Photoshop which I have not done in a while! I could really use some suggestions on how to spruce it up a bit. Any help would be VERY appreiated...:hugsmile:

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[raminafshari]

nice animal drawings , specially wolfs are grate , your last drawing is strange . keep on the good work .

[cout<mecha]

A while back I was looking for work online and found some guys who wanted to do a fighter game. Well that didn't pan out but nevertheless I did a model of an F-18 in the process. I created it using a schematic and textured the 3D model using the 2D image you see at the bottom. Enjoy! :steph:

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[cout<mecha]

Some people from the dog family and horses getting all animated in this update. Coolio!?

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:mod: That's ALL Folks!

[cout<mecha]

Working on different types of cities for representation in animation. Looking into some shortcuts with rendering and figured on using just lights with no geometry. Didn't know if this would work but I got a really nice render of a building and then got a bit carried away with the features in Lightwave!

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[cout<mecha]

Most of these animals will get eaten or worn, kinda gives you a new appreciation for these critters. :)

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DEER LLAMA ---not like the song though :)

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[cout<mecha]

NEW-PAINTING- "OBFUSCATE"

Obfuscate is a program which I downloaded on the advice of a group of hackers because I was afraid someone was accessing my machine while in a public place such as a coffee shop. It was implied that there are lurkers who prey on people who using free WIFI in such places, however the program didn't work...

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[heidamonster]

Wow cout<mecha, you got some psychedelic stuff in here! Have you studied any color theory? I think you might find it useful; it could provide you with a way of using those brilliant color schemes to greater effect. Also, great work with the animation stuff! I've only dabbled in animation when I took a class on Flash, but no traditional animation. Keep posting!

[heidamonster]

nice animal work too! I find I need to work on those myself.

[cout<mecha]

Thanks for the compliments HeidaMonster, I certainly will keep posting for great critiques like those! Wonder what you would suggest specifically in terms of color theory? On the subject of psychadelics, I'm a big fan of Tim Leary and spoke to him via web connection with a group of people before he passed. Anyway, got some more stuff for ya! Keep practicing and get some animation training whenever and wherever you find it! :yayca:

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[AustenFM]

Hey Mr.Mecha, keeping it busy with all of these animal drawings, really nice stuff, they look really well constructed and very proportional. The last batch of them you uploaded are extra nice. I need to do more like that myself. Crazy fun colors as always. Also really dig your "OBFUSCATE" painting, though those squiggle men lost a lot of definition and mass in the final painting. if you could help bring out those intersecting loops in their body with added highlights and low lights i think they wouldn't look so flat. Also, haha, i like what you did with the f-18, that mapping is simplicity itself, and it ended up looking really nice for how simple it was.

Always fun to come in here, looking at your work send my brain down avenues it usually doesn't venture into, good stuff!

By the way, sometime i'd like to see some more line definition from you in your pencil stages, more often than not your ideas and execution are really well done, but the loose pencils make it look unfinished. I'd like to see some tighter pencils and more solid line practice from you.

Anyway, Keep it up!

[cout<mecha]

Really just doing underdrawing these days with an ink on top. It's unusual for me to ink and I like the way it holds up under the scanner. Concerning the pencils, really the author of this book "drawing animals" by Jack Hamm suggests that I just do light suggestive shapes and then create the drawing in the medium.

To be sure, I'm done with the precision nothingness the penciling brings to the digital process. It always means I have to go cleaning everything up and closing loops that are faded. Y'know I'm not sold on realistic human anatomy so I guess you will probably see the exact opposite from me in terms of defining humans.

The stuff you do(Austin and others) really amazes me because it's not so realistic and yet there is still that sense of striving for anatomy. That abstraction is what I need from art, and also animation. But with animation its a serious matters about the rules and knowing how to literally bend them!

Glad you like OBFUSCATE. Hoping it lives up to its name. Thinking about closing those loops but the glowing gives the figures an hyperreal aspect that I thing pops or not. Might be done with it. Also you forced me to look back at those animals and noticing there's not to much fronts on the bovies and the hooves had gotten better but still look a bit stilty. Gotta nail them hores shoes right! Anyway here comes some Dojinshii style!! Thanks for the eyes! :angel:

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[Pretty_Angel]

Great sketchbook. Love to see those tons of studies you've already done. Keep it up!

[cout<mecha]

I appreciate you stopping by PA and hope you will keep coming back!

Did a few more cartoon studies for the Dojinshii. I keep trying to top the one before the last one and see how that goes. Anyway two new ones!

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I'd be interested to know what you think of these plane studies I did in Lightwave 9.6. I have some ideas on how I want to use them but I'd be interested in some opinions...

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[raminafshari]

your animal drawings is so cool , i hope you take that more seriously and draw it with background and more details .

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Yeah Rami I am still looking into the animal thing and will be for a while. I notice a lot of people dreaming up animal and I can see the nuance from real animals anatomy but I can see that the structure is incorrect. I'm to avoid making those types of errors so that I can have more fun when I'm in the planning stages. Nevertheless, I've been working on some 3D animals including the wolf in this post for an animation piece.
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Also posting a textureless render of the model of the Mikoyan Russian fighter and another pic to test my anatomy skills! Enjoy!

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[cout<mecha]

Thought I'd post my updates regarding my stint into the world of Dojinshii.:oneye:

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Hopes you like! :ilaekae::yayca:

[batcustard]

Magic of dojinshi is looking pretty good. Your color theory seems to be getting less arbitrary and more deliberate. Keep it up dude!

[cout<mecha]

Thanks for stopping by again Batcustard. You are doing some really killer work over there. I appreciate your opinions, compliments, rants, whatever! :asskisser: Just wanted to post some more animal studies! I hope you like them and are inspired. More soon!

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[cout<mecha]

Thought I'd take a break from the Dojinshii stuff and post something different based on the phenomenon of freerunning. -love this sport! It has so much potential, maybe even could be introduced to the Olympics. That might liven things up a bit. Imagine springy suits for jumping not swimming!

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[cout<mecha]

Been about down under the weather the last week, sont ask me why but still managed a few new ideas out here. So here goes. Hopes you enjoy. Questions conmments go in the big grey box below. Still working on the wolves a bit!

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[cout<mecha]

Did more work on the rig for the superstar andro character. It's moving pretty good, just need to TWEAK! Churned out another illus in this urban type style. Also more animals. Starting to do the primates NOW!

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[cout<mecha]

OK so still doing the observations on the side and improving my animal skills. I finally figured out how to get my pad to be pressure sensing when I install it. I know DUMB RIGHT!?? So now I'm able to fool around with animation much easier in the P to the S! Also included some old sketchbook scans from the industrial music time circa 91. Here goes...

Patas Monkeys: coolest monkeys around...

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The Protected Langur Monkeys of Vietnam!!!

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OLD SKETCHBOOK REAVEALED!

Made a bit of an animation of this first one when I was in animation school involving an examination table some ghostly doctors and one pissed off cadaver with a gun. The other one shall forever be static...sigh. cAn you tell I did these with an old school scratchy type ink pen?

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LATERZ PEEPS! :batgirl:

[FightingSeraph]

Though your animal studies are good, but as I said before, your color choices are hell on the eyes. Lay off those neon colors for a while and try some more realistic ones similar to many of those animal studies. On the other hand, those black and white sketches remind me of H. R. Giger and what he did for Alien.

[Nettle_Mountain]

i really liked those oldschool inkpen monster having some kind of "exchange of grooving" on desolate planet surface, golden man.

Crazy overkill for colours, all i can say do more, the secret of dojinshi (did i write that right) made me laugh, aLSO colourz on the secret of dojinshi image are clearly in better direction (one with girl and tree backround)

truut truut space monster signing out of duty, sir