Sunday, November 25, 2012

PET HATE character design "Little Girl" early sketches

All of the initial sketches done to get some idea of where to go with the design for the little girl in Pet Hate. If I recall correctly, the director asked something that combined qualities from 7 and 8. (Three of these are based on real people, but you'll have to guess which.)

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Palette study: THE HOUR S02E01 Opening scene

I really like Jordie Bellaire's palette studies on her Tumblr, and suddenly had to do one of my own after watching The Hour the other day, a TV show that pays more attention to the art direction than the script.

In this post I'm concentrating on the opening scene of Episode 1, Series 2, which sticks to the following palette: 

     

Sunday, November 18, 2012

PET HATE character design "Tortoise"




This guy was not a main character, so I don't know why there was this much work done on him. Free fun fact: although he is clearly a tortoise (and when doing these I had in mind a tortoise I happen to know personally) my original files say "Turtle" in the corner.

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

PET HATE character design "Little Girl"


There were more early sketches like the ones on the upper left, I might post them another time. Again, these are all from over a year ago.


Saturday, November 10, 2012

PET HATE set design/lighting study

I did some work over a year ago on a CG short called Pet Hate, directed by Andy Clarke. Blog's been a bit neglected lately, so up it goes...


The director had very specific ideas about how the film would be litthe script mentions "a shaft of light" in the dimly lit shop that "shows up the dust"so this set design doubled as a lighting study.