great example of the use of colour as a storytelling tool:

http://louromano.blogspot.com/2009/06/up-color-script.html

Art Challenge # 3

Thanks to everyone who have contributed over the last few weeks! Guess what time it is? Time for a new art challenge!

~Art Challenge #3~
Produce a Character Concept, in any form, from the description below. This is for a side project being concocted - the game is a side scrolling shooter, like Blackthorne made by Blizzard back in the day.

The Demolitionist:

Stature/Look/Build:

• Big (built, strong)
• Alpha male type character (think Marcus Fenix from Gears of War/Marine from Star Craft II, Wolverine)
• Bald, Beard
• Carries a Shotgun
• Tall 6 ft +
  

Dress/Demeanour:

• Worn singlet
• Worn black leather jacket, open (think Mad Max)
• Tough look/serious composure
• Anti-hero, every man for himself attitude

Options:

• Scar on the face
• Tattoo on the face
  

Background:

• He’s been enslaved unjustly and he wants revenge, big time. He’s “found” himself a shotgun and a leather jacket and wants to get out of the prison that he’s been put into (a la Death Race 2000).

That's it - do with this as you will. This 'challenge' isn't a competition! It's a personal challenge, an opportunity for practice and to have a laugh. Your post can be as simple or finished as you like.

The Little Merman

*My late submission for Art Challenge #1 - Take a classic story or novel and add a twist. I'm jumping on the reversed-sex role bandwagon. Took me a while to post it... and it's not in colour! D:*

Story
The story starts exactly like The Little Mermaid; a young merman with a beautiful voice has a fascination for human artifacts. One fateful night he saves a human, Prince Eric, from a sunk ship; from then on he dreams of being with the humans. His father (the king) finds the human artifacts and shows his disgust by destroying everything his son loves. This sketch is after that moment when the little merman holds the broken face of the Prince's statue.

If the little merman peruses the Prince, will he find love? Will the sea witch use the little merman's stolen voice to command all of the Prince's attention? How would the prince treat the little merman, if he is the exact same Prince from the original Little Mermaid? He may be in for a lot of hurt, would it be worth jeopardizing his life in the sea?

*PS: Feel free to colour this, if you want to try

i call him scribblor, now in 3d!

started off just mucking around doing proper edgeloops on odd shapes, then thought i would put him through the mudbox, the coloured version is the low poly mesh with normals spat out of mud box.

17 Mind-Blowing Digital Painting Tutorials Of Beautiful Girls

Heres a link i found on lines and colours.
http://www.smashingapps.com/2009/01/08/17-mind-blowing-digital-painting-tutorials-of-beautiful-girls.html

Blog Roll - Adding links to great art sites.

http://www.linesandcolors.com/

I'm going to add links from this page to other blogs that showcase great art. The link above (also found on the right now) is a great source of inspiration looking many different styles.

Please send me any you find ... I'd like to post them up!

MR T

Art Challenge submission. Enjoy!

Torus Rocks

Hey gang, I'm sadly leaving Torus this week... tear... off to pursue some movie dreams.
I'm going to miss a lot of things about Torus... least of all the staff :P

Torus is a great place and that's because of the people there.

Keep on Rock'n Torus Bot.

Aidan

MudBox Test

A MB2009 test bust. It's been a worthwhile trial while I sat around feeling sorry for myself, full of snot-bugs. I didn't use any reference for this, but the result kind of reminds me of a cross between Dirty Harry and Herr Starr from Preacher. Notes about MB2009:

• It doesn't have a renderer, thankfully it's got pretty good on-screen display functions so screen caps are okay and will have to do. I tried a render in Maya and couldn't be bothered waiting - this bust alone was 2051728 poly! Despite this it ran very well, no lag.
  
• You can't duplicate meshes. Had to export one eye and re-import it just to duplicate!
• No great posing tools - it's expected that you'll be using Maya again of course, but I can see that it's not going to compete well against Zbrush without it.
• Exporting normal and occlusion maps seems simple enough - not tested though.
• Tools are limited, again compared to Zbrush, but do the job.
• Layout in MB is a billion times easier to understand then Zbrush - I got started straight away, instead of staring at the screen like a gump when I first looked at the Z.
  
• Sculpting eyes is murder.

Haruka

On my recent trip to Japan I met a girl who asked me to paint her portrait. I finally got around to painting it last weekend.

Lion

My attempt at Challenge No.2. The top image was created by Tess, my niece.
I had planned to do a background but really couldn't get anything to work with the colours. If anyone knows of any good books or online resources that teach basic colour theory let me know - this challenge reminded me just how much I don't know about colour palettes and the like.

Cry Me A River

Top image supplied by my girls' cousin, who rightfully noted that they cry a lot (image entitled "Sadie & Sabine Crying, By Campbell, Sept. 2008").

In Memory of Aiden

*sob*

i call him scribblor

here is the scribble and the picture, all pretty quick, fun stuff.