Scientist!

Here's another character for our Animation Studio project. The lead scientist cause every cheesy sc-fi movie needs one. This one happens to be based on our professor for the class. Michael Swannigan, that man has probably storyboarded your entire childhood. Currently, we're wondering what voice to give him. I'm flopping back and forth between something silly, or serious. It could mean the difference between him failing or passing us haha.

Generalissimo

Well production for my group's project for our Animation Studio class is moving along pretty well now. Anyways I've ended up Art Directing, and unifying designs for characters since we have so many people working on artwork at the moment. So on the left is the idea for the general, that one of our members did up. The line art and far right are my finalized designs for the character. We thought it would be fun to make him short, and always walking around with his arms like that. "Cause he's macho" or something to that effect.

Just when you thought it was safe...

...to go back into the skies, ROCKET SHARK! Anyways started off this quarter with my Animation Studio class, and it looks like my group is moving forward with that silly sharks with balloons idea me and a friend did up last quarter. The plot makes sense... for a comedy at least. Anyways there's isn't too much to say about this. It's a shark tied to a nuclear missile, why the shark is needed at all is a mystery. As a nice added touch I put that shark/tiger face P51 Mustangs always had painted on the front end of the planes. I also seem to have misspelled launch.... how unfortunate.

Alien!

Was reading through some forum posts on a design for an alien species. So I did this up as a potential candidate from their descriptions. At least for a humanoid type of alien. No referencing the original aliens, just wanted to see what I would make on my own. A fun fact about the design was that there was a desire to appeal to asian audiences. So I based the silhouette on samurai armor, and from a distance it looks samurai-ish I suppose haha. Mocked this all up somewhere between 20 or 30 minutes

zSkull

Just a quick sketch in zBrush. Wanted to see how quick I could churn out a skull. I think it took me 20 to 30 minutes. Why must zBrush be so fun, and endlessly entertaining. Not so much to say about this though, I mean it's a skull and it looks angry. /shrug

Deep Blue Sky

Okay time for something silly. These all started with my friend asking me for a critique on a drawing he was doing. Some random guy on the internet asked him to redo one of his characters. It was a shark that flew around in a storm cloud that it generated by itself in the air. So, I gave him my opinion talking about giving it air sacs, etc all to make it somehow plausible. Then I gave my smartass critique which involved tying the shark to a hot air balloon, and letting it float off.

Cue a nearly 15 minute long session of us laughing, coming up with more ridiculous stuff. The end result was us drawing our own air shark designs. He drew, while I used Photoshop. The end result is what you see above. Totally ridiculous concept, but a total blast to do.

My personal favorite is rocket shark.

Greyscale Marine

Again, playing with my new Space Marine design. Been getting out of practice with Photoshop. Have to get back in to gear again. Not to happy with the overall image, but I think I pushed in the right direction.