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Archive for January, 2009

My First Background Environment Layout

train-desert-layout

You may already know that we have started designing backgrounds for animation since returning for our Spring Term. This is something completely new to me and I was quite excited to start. Unfortunately your first background (well,my first one anyway) doesn’t quite look how you expect it to after looking at all the amazing ones [...]

Spring Term: The Beginning

watch-demo-tutorial

The start of the Spring Term has been almost as I had hoped it would be. Something that I really hoped for on return was a bit more pace; I felt the first term was very slow and it was starting to drag in the last few weeks. This new term has been a bit [...]

What is the Uncanny Valley?

mori-uncanny-valley-graph

What is that Uncanny Valley people speak of? Quite often you may hear of it referred to in film and gaming magazines, regarding visuals. You may already understand that people try to avoid their work falling into the Uncanny Valley. I will summarize the phenomenon here for you.

Essentially the term Uncanny Valley, to quote Wikipedia, is:
“A [...]

What I have learnt from my Big Christmas Draw

model-quick-sketch-page

Over the last month I have tried to draw a posed model every day. I did not succeed and ended with 20 something sketches, half of which were fairly quick and rough.  Here are a few tips of what I have learnt from this experience and where this takes me now. At the bottom are [...]

Refocusing my Drawing Direction

speed-sketch-3-poses

Those of you who have been reading for the last month will know that I am trying to get a lot better at drawing. I set myself an overly ambitious task, which I can’t keep up with and it probably isn’t a beneficial approach anyway. Making sure you draw every day is not a realistic [...]

I’m Scared of Shading in my Drawings

model-drawing-hand-in-hair

It is true, I am scared of shading. Not like phobia bad, but enough to give me the bad habit of under-shading. When I finish drawing the outline of my work, the idea of basically scribbling all over it and applying varying pressures as you go sounds like a nightmare.

What makes it pretty embarrassing is [...]

Last time I saw it, I was shading it in, then… gone!

model-shading-practice

Shading is a technique I have very rarely ever used, so it was pretty scary putting a bit of pressure on my pencil and giving the image some depth. You may of seen in the previous post featuring model drawing and my epic task that I had given shading a go. It was a bit [...]

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