[Faungarne]

took about 10 min to draw, i gave it the title "sick and scared".

[thushioli]

Well, here's the first part of the animation... The first about 1/3... Pretty bad I know [rofl].

I'm thinking about cutting out the first 4-5 frames where it goes from sitting to running. They don't really seem to mesh well, and may not have enough frames.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nGQIST11bY

[ggandibazz]

Alright, I "finished" my animation project.

Here's what I ended up with: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up262htArnU

I only used 2 pen & ink drawings, scanned them, and manipulated the 2 drawings into all the frames I needed. Some of the I drew/painted a little bit with my wacom.

I think I probably had around ~80-100 unique frames, then repeated a few segments of those in some areas.

There are some things I'd like to improve like overall fluidity, adding more frames, adding a surface for the wolf to run on passing by rocks and such eventually coming to a cliff where he jumps.

[oemcheapdownload]

Alright, I "finished" my animation project.

Here's what I ended up with: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up262htArnU

I only used 2 pen & ink drawings, scanned them, and manipulated the 2 drawings into all the frames I needed. Some of the I drew/painted a little bit with my wacom.

I think I probably had around ~80-100 unique frames, then repeated a few segments of those in some areas.

There are some things I'd like to improve like overall fluidity, adding more frames, adding a surface for the wolf to run on passing by rocks and such eventually coming to a cliff where he jumps.

Nice but his rear legs are a bit off..like he has spasmattacks

[fuslkdhfma]

Nice but his rear legs are a bit off..like he has spasmattacks

Heh, yeah. I thought it looked more like he has a bad leg and he's limping, but oh well. If I really wanted to put more time into it I could clean it up and actually watch a video of a wolf running instead of doing it out of my head.

[KojlinMakolvin]

Mostly "playing around" some tonight... Got the trial edition of CS5 to try out the new painting engine. It has a lot of really cool features, which I have the very smallest idea how to use, but they're still interesting to play with.

I had a specific painting in mind I want to do, so I tried to start it, and block in colors. After blocking in some colors,I just went where things led me and ended up with that. Pretty far from my original idea, but "interesting" in its own right. I'm not sure if I'll still try to get my original idea complete for my project next week or move to another painting instead.

I'm a noob to both digital painting and photoshop, so still heavily in the learning stage.

[doolarsva]

Well, I think I'm insane... [rofl]

[gusecrync]

I really liked this pic alot better before you altered it with the eye and weird tubes

[WeightWatchyshow]

I really liked this pic alot better before you altered it with the eye and weird tubes

Well, it was a lot more expressionistic I guess, which isn't really what I was going for, trying for more surrealistic type imagery like this, but mine's not quite realistic and textured enough yet, and lighting might be too dramatic to get subtle details out of:
http://www.chetzar.com/images/2007/Obsolete_ChetZar.jpg

On it's own, the last part of mine's probably a bit overdone so I scaled it back to this:

[durootrium]

I like the one with tube coming out of the back of him/her, adds allot to it, you should try making more stuff to it I think it would add allot to it. The one without the extra's looks a bit bland, I think with the tubes it gives the guy a good picture of what the guy/girl is feeling.

Kind of what I like to do:

[farmarrl]

I like the one with tube coming out of the back of him/her, adds allot to it, you should try making more stuff to it I think it would add allot to it. The one without the extra's looks a bit bland, I think with the tubes it gives the guy a good picture of what the guy/girl is feeling.

Kind of what I like to do:

Nice! What's that done in? Digital, or just scanned pen ink? Do you just do that kind of stuff for fun, or go to school for it or anything?

[Darnisg]

It's pen ink and then scanned, pretty bad quality though, over 8 years old so these don't look to good really.

[kesFockplek]

It's pen ink and then scanned, pretty bad quality though, over 8 years old so these don't look to good really.

Did you go to school for art at all, or just something you do in your free time? I think I might need to work in pen & ink more... I've done it very little, but I really like it, and the clean results, and it seems like it'd really be ideal for making a base image to work with for digital painting.

I've strayed away from pen & ink in the past because you can't really erase, but I've been working a lot with white conte on black paper and it has the same problem, so I think I'd be able to handle it better.

It's hard to make a base image digitally for a painting to me since you don't really have a tactile feel for the medium like you do otherwise, can't shift the paper around, etc.

[SarSerceSaice]

Never really learned anything at school regarding art and only went to primary school properly (secondary school didn't go to well) In primary school though I won 2 competitions for art (both where paint though) won a bmx and a trip on a steam train the other time, but after then just drew in my free time as a hobby/passion, but last few years not really done anything (other commitments getting in way)

I think you may be interested in some of my friends art, more like what you do I think. It's more crazy stuff, it seems you started to get into this kind of route just a little.

[dalnecymync]

Never really learned anything at school regarding art and only went to primary school properly (secondary school didn't go to well) In primary school though I won 2 competitions for art (both where paint though) won a bmx and a trip on a steam train the other time, but after then just drew in my free time as a hobby/passion, but last few years not really done anything (other commitments getting in way)

I think you may be interested in some of my friends art, more like what you do I think. It's more crazy stuff, it seems you started to get into this kind of route just a little.

Cool stuff, I definitely like it... I do like a pretty wide variety of things though, whether on the darker crazier side, or more clean/sterile, futuristic/sci-fi type stuff, extreme lighting/contrast, photorealistic, etc. I'd like to get to be effective at a lot of different styles.

[Bxbhtjnr]

Current work in progress... Really taking my time with this one... Still have tons to finish... Just have values on the back, chest, and right leg blocked in right now... I'll still need to go back and make some value adjustments, etc on the horns, and other areas, add some more details, etc...Obviously spent the most time on the face so far.

Even after the bull's done, I have to do a background...
Here it is:http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/9926/bullwipweb.jpg


Stylistically, I wanted to take a lot from this image:
http://th09.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/...on-d30pmt1.jpg

*EDIT* - A little more progress... http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/2047/bullwip2.jpg

[padlabtard]

A couple updates, main form done now:
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/2...ormdoneweb.jpg


Background/color test:
http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/7...bgtest2web.jpg



Background definitely not final... Perspective's a little off... Used a map I'm working on with the UDK, and a radial blur with some gradients... I might just try to paint a background from the ground up so it matches better, but background/scenery/room painting isn't something I've done much of at all.

[amehoubFomo]

Ok, so I think I had a bit of a breakthrough today/tonight with digital painting in general... I made some decent progress on the bull painting, starting the background from scratch... Not done, but here it is so far:
http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/2...wipprogweb.jpg

Still need to add a couple more torches, fix some of the lighting/shadows/highlights, and add some ground details (I was some dust and debris flying up from the leg that's pawing back)... Also, I'll probably add a column of some sort on the right side, and maybe some light rays coming from the torch behind his horn.

....So, being bored working on some computer science homework, I took a little break and did all these:
http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/6417/xrayg.jpg
http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/3185/speedpaint.jpg
http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/417/4bwd.jpg
http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/8...ntedhousea.jpg

Black and white images took ~5-10 minutes each, the color haunted house was ~40 minutes. I feel these are the best images I've produced in their respective timeframes when it comes to digital painting... Knowing how to use custom brushes, brush settings, dodge, and burn makes a world of difference.

The haunted house deal was an image I had in my head to do after the bull project was done as another full length painting... I'm not sure if I'll do that or not now, since I feel like I accomplished what I wanted it to be with that speed painting.

[Unoloknovagog]

*might* be finished with the bull... I might go back and fix a few things like the perspective on the right wall, torch shadows, and highlights on the floor by the wall to have more texture, but kinda sick of working on it too...

http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/2...eveledabit.jpg

I'm really enjoying just taking ~30-60 minutes playing around with brushes seeing what I can come up with.

Did this last night in 30 mins procrastinating from studying:
http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/1817/72copyk.jpg

[9wQlZkIj]

Wow that bull pic looks great