Website!

I have a website now! Woohoo! I'll probably re-blog all this content over there.

christopherstclair.me

still (very much) under construction. Stay tuned!

Digital Painting Stuffs

Some pieces I've done for my digital painting and lettering applications for comics class. These first ones were coloring only, the linework was provided.











These are original art pieces, everything by me.





Fun fun!

Test Render!

Here's a really quick (two hour finish for 18 frames, ink and color) test of the 'finished look' with the upper right style from the charts below. It works fairly well, actually. Obviously it'll be cleaner and more careful in the final version, and I'm pretty confident with handing out my finished linework to minions for coloring since it's easy flatting. So I have proven I can do it. Now to go from 18 frames to... hold on. Let me calculate this.

2160. There are about 2160 frames in my film. So I just have to do this a little higher quality another 120 times.

EASY AS PIE. See? Simple. No sweat.

It took me 2 hours to do the inking and coloring. So it'll be about 240 hours of work all told, not counting the actual rough animation (which I can do very quickly, probably an additional 100-150 hours). So this whole shebang (minus layouts and shading) will take 365 hours of my life. That's only 15 days. So if I don't sleep, eat, or shower I could finish my entire senior film in half a month.

I LOVE MATH.

Brainmush!

Yep. That's what 18 frames of linework looks like.

BRING IT OOOOOON!



Aaaaand colored.

Layouts and Mischief

Look, layouts! I did a big 3D model of my space so I could camera scout and not get messed up perspective and whatnot. I can post the model if y'all would like, but it's definitely a giant party of spotlights to get the shadows right.

I'll be painting on top of these layouts for the final product.

Production stuff

So I need to pin down exactly what I'll be looking at for the next five months, give or take. I decided to take it to my class for a vote so I can get multiple opinions. Here's my sheet of four possible style choices (I personally like lower left and upper right, what I've labeled "Disney" and "Superfine" respectively).




And here's some shading options. It's honestly not more than a few seconds to move from the simple cel shading to the blurred shading, plus the hilites. I can always omit the hilites if I run out of time. Or toss it to some sophomores to work on. The "disney" style actually looks pretty good with the finished shading, even though I was originally more psyched about "superfine". Disney takes longer because the linework is colored.



Thoughts?

Lol, TP

Wow. Digital painting failures abound.

only because I love you is this being shown.

Senior Project GO!

Woohoo! Dusting off the ol' blog again. Senior project time, development and whatnot. Also, Digital Coloring applications for Comics. Expect work... hopefully I'll remember this exists, haha.

In other news, I have a website... certainly not dedicated to my art, but it exists. Webs.com is amazing and I fully intend on using it for my art site when I hop to it. I'll link when I have an art site. In the meantime, if you're a GSD sort of person and want to see how awesome my dog is, check out marburygsd.com. :)

Chris

Poses

Woot, drawing for sequential.

Elephant complete

bonus! now with ears! LEVEL UP

More Models

Sorry I haven't been updating! More models. Model dump.

So here's an elephant without its ears:




"lola"... literally a 2 hour model and texture job:




Torso. Not my fav, but eh:




Buddy pair- donkey and goat:




Various views of said buddy pair:



there's more, but I still need to model my stapler so I'll get on that for now. Enjoy.

Kind of Creepy, ain't it?

It gets creepier if you add eyes...



He's like a chia-pet. Watch him grow! He's actually got a really cool mesh. I'll post the wireframe when he's done. Can you guess the face he's based on?



This is actually kind of fun... documenting my constructive process is weird. I realize that I do things a very odd way.


Ugh. I'm done for the night.

Body parts and goats

Unfinished goat:

Oh look. Body parts.

Modeling fun!

Fall 2010 GO!

So my summer was artistically uneventful, largely because I was at a farm in NC and had no resources to speak of. Nonetheless, I sat down yesterday with a Cintiq at Monty and with terrified hands sat down to see how rusty I'd gotten over the summer.

Surprisingly, I actually got better in the absence of practice. Who knew?

Updates: dumpster done!

Dumpster is modeled and textured, doing the previz on the back alley as we speak. It's actually a simple set; I'm using lots of wonky building lines to really throw the perspective like I drew it in my storyboard/animatic.

Fun!

Updated Renders

Updated renders... working from Monty computers is so much more efficient than working from home only because they have a much better version of photoshop than I do, plus a Cintiq to draw on.

Luckily, that will all change in two days!! Glee!

Updates!

Sculptures

Concept: complete!

OK, so I pulled my very first 100% 24 hour day at Monty and put together (IMO) a fantastic flatbook!

Cue a trip to Kinko's at some ungodly hour and I have an excellent piece I'm proud of. :) here is a sampling of some of my pages: