Photoshop to After Effects

Final Paintings and Process GIFs

Exterior Establishing Shot

Exterior Low Angle Shot

Interior Establishing Shot

Tamara Colour Compositions

Exterior Establishing

Exterior Establishing

Exterior Establishing

Unfinished Exterior Low Angle

I'm going to work on coming up with details for the buildings. I'm struggling a little with the planning of the low angle shot; I'd like to show some of the taller buildings up in the back of the shot, to make sure it looks and feels like a city. I can see that my horizon line is in the wrong place, so I'll work up some more thumbnails trying different angles.

The hunt for inspiration and reference images continues. I've been exploring real and imagined cities and I've found looking at cities in animation, like Townsville, home of the Powerpuff Girls, is quite helpful in terms of layering and composition.

Cube Face and Gif Making

This is some of the work done in the last two Maya sessions.

Illustrator Net

Rendered Cube

Rendered Cube

Gif making practice in Photoshop

Thumbnails 89-104

Phyllis

89-90

Zirma

91-92

Tamara

(Abstracts)

93-96
(Made using abstracts)

Sophronia

97-100

 Thekla

101-104

Thumbnails 81-88

Moriana

81-84

Octavia

85-88

Thumbnails 67-80

Diomira

67-70

Isidora

71-76

 Leonia

77-80

Thumbnails 53-66

Ersilia and Fedora

53-60

Isaura

61-66

Research Page

Thumbnails 41-52

Zenobia

41-44

Argia

45-52

I much prefer the digital thumbnails and I find it easier to accurately visualise my thoughts when I'm working digitally.

I used a template from the Invisible Cities folder on myUCA for the digital thumbnails.

Digital Painting and Thumbnails 25-32

These digital paintings and drawings were done in Photoshop on 19th September.

~ 20-25 minutes

~ 40 minutes

I forgot to time myself for the colour study so that's a rough estimate, I'd like to keep track of how long things are taking me in future.

Here are some Invisible Cities thumbnails completed in class.

Baucis

25-28

Esmeralda

29-32

Using the lasso tool in painting wasn't something I'd considered before, I really like the effects it can give and will spend more time exploring it. I'm particularly pleased with thumbnail 32.