Drawn/painted using MyPaint and a Wacom Tablet.
a collection of sketches, animation, illustration, sculpture and other artworks created by me... Matt
Showing posts with label character design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label character design. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Felt Girl Cutout
This is a project that I have just begun. The idea was to turn one of my sketches into a textured collage. I plan to animate the face using a paper cutout technique.
Animation coming soon...
Face, Hair and Body are made from felt.
Eyes, Eyebrows, Nose and Mouths were cut from coloured card.
Dress is made from an aluminium easter-egg wrapper.
Set of replacement mouths and eyes that will be used to animate her face.
Animation coming soon...
Thursday, April 14, 2011
"Cat" Character Design
Here are some sketches for a character I am working on. I am not sure exactly what I will use him for yet -- they are really just ideas at this stage. But I do think it would be fun to create a short animation with him. Most likely I will create something in 2D, cell or paper-cutout style... but I am also considering the possibility of doing something in 3D.
The purpose of this excercise was really to 'flesh-out' some ideas for what my cat character would like when expressing different emotions. Here is what I came up with:
(click on image to see a larger view)
I sketched these at college using a standard brush (photoshop) set to 4px and flow set to about 20%. This meant I could keep loose and sketch a whole bunch of transparent lines that built up as I went over them again and again -- a little like working with led pencil on paper.
First I sketched a rough head shape and nose that I was happy with. I then duplicated this and used it as an underlay to sketch over the top of. I started by adding eyes, eyebrows and mouths to the blank heads one by one. As I progressed I started adding accesories and playing around with the scale and position of facial features. They got kind of interesting towards the end.
I found it was a great way to flesh out some ideas without commiting to a final design or direction. Oh, and a lot of fun too!
The purpose of this excercise was really to 'flesh-out' some ideas for what my cat character would like when expressing different emotions. Here is what I came up with:
(click on image to see a larger view)
I sketched these at college using a standard brush (photoshop) set to 4px and flow set to about 20%. This meant I could keep loose and sketch a whole bunch of transparent lines that built up as I went over them again and again -- a little like working with led pencil on paper.
First I sketched a rough head shape and nose that I was happy with. I then duplicated this and used it as an underlay to sketch over the top of. I started by adding eyes, eyebrows and mouths to the blank heads one by one. As I progressed I started adding accesories and playing around with the scale and position of facial features. They got kind of interesting towards the end.
I found it was a great way to flesh out some ideas without commiting to a final design or direction. Oh, and a lot of fun too!
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