Whale Concept to 3D Model

Here are examples of developing a character  from my 3rd film "Cold War". I started off with a few whale shapes. The team then decided on a favourite and I then took that design further working with my director Dave Leahy to come up with a final design. Nicky Weston (nickywestondesign@gmail.com) then modelled my designs in 3Ds Max. We were all very happy with the finished character.... although the finished whale's head kinda reminds me of H.R Geiger's Alien. 

Whale Shapes

Whale Dimensions and features

Final Whale Render

Whale Model By Nicky Weston

Modelled By Nicky Weston

 

Character Sketches For New Film

Already started pre-production on my final year film titled "Shoot". Just sketched out a few ideas for the assassin/hitman character and did a quick bit of rendering

Sketch...

Todays the first day in a long time that i haven't been under pressure of college assignments so ironically i stayed up sketching. Decided to colour one in photoshop....enjoy.

Day at the Zoo...

So theres currently a hold up with me uploading artwork from "Cold War". I am currently constructing an online portfolio (Http://sammykhalidart.daportfolio.com is you wanna check it out ;)....) so im in the middle of cutting and pasting everything so that it looks somewhat mor professional :/ So as a consoltation, i shal leave you with a couple of photos i took today at the zoo. I was really lucky, the sumatran tigers posed for me for ages!Some tiger related artwork to come soon.................

Painting Studies

I am currently sorting out the artwork from my latest film 'Cold War' which was completed last Friday. There was five of us working on it and it turned out really well considering we only had 4 weeks to make it. Its taking way longer to sort out the concept art for the film so I thought I'd post a couple of recent painting studies. Both were painted in Photoshop using photo reference. These were just warm up paintings before starting on my own work although i did spend about an hour or so on each.

New Film: "Cold War"

Just started pre-production on my third student film titled "Cold War". So far I've been just working away on character and environment concepts.This sort of stuff i love to do. Need to start production mid next week so pressure is slowly building:(... anyways, here are a few character concepts. More to come soon :)

Penguin 1

Penguin 2

Mid Term!

Finally got my second film finished :D Barely slept last week so I've been taking it easy this week and working on my painting doing studies and what not. I do have some artwork from my film "Pithos" with Dylan Maxwell I've been meaning to upload. Just some colour tests and backgrounds:) 

Colour Tests

Backgrounds 1

Backgrounds 2

I'm busy making a start on my 3rd student film titled "Cold War" at the moment so ill try my best to upload as much as i can...... can't make any promises tho.