Here were my fist design fo rthe screening. I spent a large amount of time making these. they were not used for the final invitations for the Griffith screening.

production montage

invitation design

Here is the final invitation design that I completed for the end of year screening. Several months ago here was an email sent out to every film and animation student to submit designs for the screening. I was the only person to submit anything. I should not have been surprised. At the screening meeting obviously my designs were not what they were looking for, so they extended the submission date for another further two weeks. Still no one submitted anything so I ended up in a 'design committee' with 5 other film students to design the invitation. I set up a meeting to get things going with the film student. We discussed several ideas and this is what we came up with. The whole design was to say creativity fun and feel fresh in a way. Film and animation is a very creative medium so I think it was very appropriate. While finalizing the the design I got feed back that there was not any emphasis on film aspect in the design and it was too graphic design and 'animation' orientated. So to fix that I put a blue film strip in the background. I spent over 20 working hours and more over a period of a few weeks. That was just in designing it using Illustrator and photoshop.

untextured renders of robot

The ROBOT FINAL TEXTURE.

Colour research for the overall feel of the film. I went to the website http://www.colourlovers.com. its great community totally devoted to colour!

more building design for the outpost area. I studeied various buildings designs and created these design with desert materials that would have been used to make these buildings.

a building design before and after it has been destroyed. the oupost will be populated with various weatherd buildings. I added the robot in for size comparison.

using photoshop I painted over an Occlusion render of the terrain. this was to help find the visual style that we were looking for.

cONCEPT ART FOR THE LARGE STEAMPUNK ROBOT.

design for the water carrying flying ship called a skywagon.

I render of the steampunk bike I built in Maya 2008. Its not textured yet.

http://www.sillof.com/

A fantastic transformation of the Star Wars characters turned STEAMPUNK!

work in progress:Robot designs

I have done a lot of research on bikes and in bike books. I first started with the Silhouette to get interesting shapes. I then did a more detail study on the mechanical structure of the motor bike. Here is some image that I have worked on over the past week.

I just looked at this book called ‘Liftoff’. Its all about concept art of fantastical vehicles and flying machines. It’s a stunning book from Designstudiospress. Check out the other books at this link http://www.designstudiopress.com/

I found this image on istockphoto.com. I like the top the guys wearing. This could be a good design to base the main character on.

Here are some early character silhouettes. I have focused on the costume here. I kept all designs pretty close to the bodies. Trying various pieces that might be appropriate for desert wear. Another criterion was no flowing cloth. The reason for this is the difficulties of controlling animated cloth and also the incredibly long render time.

This site is a must for anyone who is interested in getting inot the creative industry

Good place to go for enviroment concept ideas.

Note to self that this site might come in handy in the final stages of production.

Visual Research:01

Visual Research:
I found this on the web(link below). I really like this image because of the differing colours on the ground and the sky is just an incredible blue.















http://www.travelblog.org/Photos/1032480.html

An Animation test for Rendevzous. check it our here.http://www.youtube.com/user/leomanleoman

GAME INTRO: RENDEZVOUS

GAME TYPE: MMO

STYLE: STEAMPUNK

TARGET AUDIENCE: TEENAGERS AND YOUNG ADULTS

METHODOLOGY: 3D, MOTION CAPTURE, VFX

DURATION: 60SEC

Back Story:

In an age of steam the sun had almost completely scorched the surface of the world. Water was now a precious commodity. Survivors lived in factions only staying near Distribution Centers for water which were controlled by wealthy merchants. With their wealth they became greedy and soon started fighting over water rights. These situations quickly became out of hand and Merchants started fighting Merchants and escalated the already desperate situation. This became know as the War of Water. One particular ruthless Merchant became dominant and controlled most of the world’s water supplies. An answer was needed fast. A few brave people from all walks of life have taken the calling. Only through uniting together can they defeat the tyranny and rebuild theirs homelands

INTRO SEQUENCE:

A HERO IN LONG CLOAK AND A GLEAMING SWORD COMES ACROSS A RECENTLY DESTROYED SETTLEMENT. A LARGE MECHANICAL ROBOT MATERIALIZES OUT OF THE RUINS AND ATTACKS THE HERO. A QUICK BUT FURIOUS FIGHT TAKES PLACE. A DROP SHIP DESCENDS FROM THE HEAVENS TO PICK UP THE VICTORIOUS HERO.END

Concept Synopsis and Treatment:
Two Rickshaw drivers race to get to a beautiful woman.

Genre: Comedy/Action

Target audience: EVERYONE

Approach: CGI animation with 2D elements

Style: Tekkonkinkreet

Length: 2 – 3 mins.

Technical issues:
Texturing
Character rigs.
Lighting.
Rendering time.