Southern Hemisphere

[AhChu]

Heya guys, my name is Jayson, I just started to get back into illustration after seeing the works of Chris Gossett "Redstar" and Clayton Crain work "Ghost Rider_Road to damnation" series. And from there have discovered a giant list of other amazing artists that inspire me to see where this adventure will lead
Hope you enjoy and stop bye and say hi :)

This was my first post on CA for Creature of the week

[kingkostas]

Hello :D.You have to build it more.These black lines that are not rendered must be rendered some way.Place the shadow colors on them or something else. :D
Keep up showing!!!

See ya

[AhChu]

for the following week, I took the crits on board that I was given to push my next concept along further. For this one a sound bite was supplied and we had to come up with the creature...was awesome fun

[Collin Smiley]

They are both realy good but the first needs somthing, like less hard lines and more shading! good work keep it up

[AhChu]

KingKostas_Cheers matey....been working on try to texture stuff..slowly coming along :0

Collin6099_I really want to go back back and redo some of my older work, like a version 2.0, might make some time to try do some of them..would be really interesting to see how it would turn out now

Here is another one, I think this was when I decided to have a go at painting people...the first stumbles into the weekly CHOW's

2nd painting was for a re-imagine of alice in wonderland meeting the caterpillar

[AhChu]

Thumbs for a weekly chow i missed out on coz of work :( it was babba the witch or something along those line :P

[AhChu]

Sith lord entry for chow

[AhChu]

Okay here is the last of the current stuff, including my team chow entries

[AhChu]

Quick sketch from photo, needing to do some more studies

[DeeStar]

the second image is definitely my favorite. really strong perspective. The alice in wonderland image also stands out for me. The caterpillar is great, but alice looks like she could do with a bit more work.

[AhChu]

Here is another study, actually starting to enjoy them now..wasn't a big fan a while ago..but its good just to put on some chilled music and just sketch away. This was down listening to The Cinematic Orchestra. time for the pub :)

[LostFayth]

I'm glad I found your sketchbook! Looking good! :D

[AhChu]

Self Portrait :)

thought I would take a break from drawing this weekend, so I decided to have a go at zbrush, and I must say it is quite quick to pick up.....I only have been using basic the brushes and trying to learn about rendering and composites. really cool about how it uses alpha channels so custom brush work is great. this week back onto the newborn comp.

[AhChu]

Well here is my next life drawing pic..it is from a photo off the internet..gotta go find some life drawing classes. But spending more time on rendering this time round so here is the first stage at the mo :)

[AhChu]

Think I might leave this one for a few weeks before touching it again, and see it goes from there..sort of getting bored with it now

[AhChu]

This is the final for my New Born entry, was based around an experiment gone wrong, like trying to make a black hole and the shit is just started to hit the fan

[AhChu]

My entries for the 2nd Team Chow comp

Good / Bad Human Ranger

[AhChu]

This was an older version of my newborn entry, the main guy was removed after a few crtis people were saying that he wasn't really necessary and was abit to obvious, it was a hard thing do do turfing him away, especially the time it took me to make him llok decent, but oh well.

[LostFayth]

Update! :D

[AhChu]

Well time to kick this off again and dust off the cobwebs for the new year, planning on regular updates for now on. Heading back to basics, not including this post, but my idea is to get back on to value studies aswell as anatomy.....anyway is my run at the The Celt for the weekly chow....I wanted to more painted look but the more Iworked on it the more cartoony it went...hmmm...still alright I supose :p

[AhChu]

Updates coming soon

[AhChu]

Here is a Zbrush bust, been working through a character creation tutorial. There is a series of them that I am planning on working through, based on a low poly model

[AhChu]

Some quick head building sketches

[AhChu]

Robin Hood for a chow entry, but didn't finish it in time. Trying some some new techniques like the blur tool for blending..found out that I suck at painting bows :)

[AhChu]

Self portrait cover sketch for my portfolio, trying out some cross hatching styles.

[AhChu]

Going back and cleaning up this illustration, this is the wip at the mo

[AhChu]

This is a small collection of just some quick practice studies, the good old value cube, which I still need to work on, and a study of the Friday the 13th poster..with a few added textures

[AhChu]

Here is a concept for a challenge over at 3dtotal that sounded awesome, the topic is movie mashup so I'm planning to do HEAT & GHOST IN THE SHELL, this was concept based on one of the scenes in the movie, but I don't think it works that we as a still image, so planning on changing the angle to make it more dynamic..fingers crossed

[AhChu]

Thumbs for CHOW 201 Andromeda entry. I like the pose of Andromeda on the bottom and the over powering presence of the sea monster on the top, so I might mash those together to see how well they fit. Forgive my bung anatomy on the top version of Andromeda :P

[AhChu]

hhhmmm I think maybe she should be more on the struggling side

[kidult]

Good too see you knocking out those studies and nice going on the chow so far! You could tweak her upper half a bit further back to help sell the idea she is trying to get as far back as possible. Remember to think about your character and how they are reacting to the moment. She's trying to get as far away as the chain will let her and you find in moments of feat you pull your head / shoulders back (maybe an instinct to protect the brain and heart / lungs?)

keep up the good work1

[AhChu]

Yay Pg2 thanks KIDULT :) here is some sketches working on pushing the pose a bit more..think I have to change her hips some more

[kidult]

The far right one looks to be heading in the right direction! Her hips seem fine to me, maybe check her chest out its pushing a bit far up, i like the neck / head of the middle one.

[AhChu]

I guess half the battle will be trying to not to lose the shape once I start decorating her...thanks for the comments to KIDULT, helping me push the anatomy :)

[AhChu]

New update for Chow entry...just tweaks now which is all good, maybe play around with some more contrast :P

[AhChu]

Final, thanks for the help on pushing the pose KIDULT. I learn't a lot from doing this..especially about zooming in to early.....Time to move on to some studies now.

[AhChu]

Been a while, I've just quit my job and have gone back to study full time. Studying 3d animation at Media Design School in NZ. Just about to finish week 3 learning After Effects. Topics cover so far have been Maya intro, Photoshop intro ( making Matte Paintings ) and After Effects for compositing shots together :)

Here are some thumbs Ive been working on for our latest matte project

[AhChu]

I ran out of time for the hand in for the assignment, but going to carry on with it anyways to get the rest of the details I wanted in

[JailHouseRock2]

Duuuude, you've improved so much! Digis are looking awesome, rendering and colours have come along way!

Keep it up!
matt

[AhChu]

Here is a speed paint for the weekly NZCGI comp. Time limit was 2hrs and I can't believe how quick it goes. Theme was Post Apoc :)

[AhChu]

It is concept art week at school, we were supplied a basic storyline where we could tweak. From there we could pick a character to design, Im tempting fate and trying two at the mo, hopefully I can keep them going for our presentation on monday :)

[AhChu]

Playing with dinosaurs

[AhChu]

Here are some of my final designs for our concept art project at school.
I wanted to stay away from the classic Armour and weapons so I was toying with the idea of organic equipment. It was more fitting for the storyline and made the character seem a lot cooler. I still plan on doing a finished render but it might be a while now as we have moved onto modeling..was a wicked project

I used references for the pose sheet as I was running out of time.

[AhChu]

Just some reference shots of one of my airsoft guns. A ICS GALIL

[AhChu]

First round of weapon concepts that I did for the nzcgi comp, based on Nikola Telsa Teleforce weapon. Just started my revisions and will post up shortly. the weapon has to be mounted onto a animal.

[AhChu]

Some more updates on some concepts, I really like both of these, the top one is my fav but the silhouette isn't that strong so might do another round of tweaks to try and iron out the kinks. At the moment it looks like it sits into the Rhino but it is supposed to be around it, so will have to look into that as well, but finally feeling like it is getting some where

[AhChu]

First Pass, for basic shapes, hopefully I will get time to put in a few more details before starting the over painting

[Pixelwalker]

Hey looks quite good!

These shapes of creatures and figures are looking great :)
Try to study also anatomy.

Keep it up

[Seraph Fawkes]

Posts 42 and 43 are the best what you've got right now. Really nice rendering. However a lot of anatomy practice needed (damn, if I'd had dollar for every time I've said or heard that phrase). Keep drawing, do some reference paintings, and you'll be ok. And some stars for you. Wish you luck.

[AhChu]

Well with a lot more playing around in maya building the different types of weapons Ive gone back to one of the older designs. Here are some updated renders, the model with remain previs at the mo since I'm gonna have a go of over painting, and there is only 4 more days left. I'm trying to have 3 really good painted up shots...but we will see what happens :0

Silwynar : Thanks, yeah I really want to spend a few days a week studying animal anatomy, will have to squeeze that into my to do list after this comp :)

Seraph Fawkes : Awesome....oh oh oh Ive just been collecting some reference images to do reference paintings of and I cant wait to start

[Seraph Fawkes]

That rhino model looks quite accurate. Want to see this work finished. I've tried to love 3d-modelling, but it was a tough love. And I forgot to say, that I also like crab-oyster-squid thing attacking ship.

[kidult]

looking good!

[AhChu]

Here is a colour work in progress of one of the shots...still got to do detailing and still playing around with the type of colour palette

[AhChu]

colour test on before I go to far on painting for the other image I am doing

[AhChu]

Finals...20min til deadline :) Based on Nikola Tesla's Death Ray device

[AhChu]

These are from Life drawing 2010 class. Good and bad ones.

[AhChu]

thought I would have a go of painting a tiger as a little study, here is what i've got so far. Painted from ref

[Malakuko]

good work my man. :) keep up the hard work :asspat:

[Seraph Fawkes]

Human anatomy still requires a lot of practice, but the rhino piece in post 54-55 is very cool, and I like the color choice. Keep studying anatomy and practicing. Wish you luck and a Happy New Year!

[AhChu]

Longtime no post, still have a few more pics to post that I should of ages ago, but anyways..here are some 1hr speed paints done today. The 2nd and third are from photos I found on a generic google search

[AhChu]

I went to the White Clouds World two day workshop earlier this year on concept design which was run by Paul Tobin and Warren Mahy from WETA, amazing weekend to say the least. We were given a brief of re-designing either characters, creatures, environments for JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS, we could choose what time frame it was to be set in. So i went for Post Apoc and re-deisgning the harpies.

Got some great tips on rendering out images from the guys. Bottom right was a quick demo done by Paul Tobin

[AhChu]

We finished off our mudbox module last week, and here was the sculpt. We had to do a caricature of someone. Was concepted during the sculpting stage. I still have a few things I want to fix on it but overall I was pretty pleased.

We went through basemesh - retopology - transfer - sculpt details - texture - export maps. Then was brought back into Maya, for lighting, shaders and rendering.

[AhChu]

This was for the weekly speed paint over at NZCGI. The topic was FOG. 1hr 30min.