Big things are in the Crypto Pipeline...

Crypto teaser; 'Toxic_Ai_Blockchain_fragment_#1'

The first experiment in a series of Crypto Art pieces that will explore art, block-chain and the concept of Scarcity versus Abundance. 

'Baba Yaga's Mobile Chicken Leg Disco' - Year of VR Art task - Fairy Tales

'Can you feel the beat?'

'Traffic Island of Dr Moreau' - Year of VR Art task - Animals

' Building A113' - Year of VR Art weekly task - City Life

'Everyone stayed away from buildng A113 without really knowing why...until the day it got up and walked away. It wasn't bad, it was just a bit over animated!'

'Gone Fishin' !' - Year of VR Art weekly task - Underwater Adventures

'Bullseye' - Year of VR Art weekly task - Galactic Safari

'Alchemists' Europa Gang members. Photobashed character design

Name: 'Gaap & 'Bune'

 Name: 'Xaphan'

'Burn Town' Europa Gang members. Photobashed character design

'Burn Town' Europa Gang members. Photobashed character design

Name: '

Name: 'Macha'

Name: 'Nezha'

'Runner' Europa Gang members. Photobashed character design

Nmae: 'Vapula'

Name: 'Ser'

'Executioner' Europa Gang members. Photobashed character design

Name: 'Sitri'

Name: 'Ghaki'

'Phantom' Europa Gang members. Photobashed character design

Name: 'Allu'

'Plague Doctor' Europa Gang members. Photobashed character design

Name: 'Tlaloc'

Name: 'The Twins - Yama & Yami'

'New Town' Europa Gang members. Photobashed character design

Name: 'Xiuhtecultli'

Name: ' Xipe Totec'

'Old Town' Europa Gang members. Photobashed character design.

Name: 'Baal'

Name: 'Kalika'

Name: 'Djall'

'Kabuto' Europa Gang members. Photobashed character design.

'Name: Cao Lo'

Name: 'Mangala'

Name: 'O Tokata'

Europa Gangs rough assembly; first look at a new project.

Having done the creature collage project with students several times I was looking for a long term; just-for-the-fun-of-it, collage project of my own to dip into now and again.

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These are test pieces for a new stream of work based on the idea of designing sci-fi street gangs and placing them in real life surroundings. The origins of this go back to an idea I had in 2018 for squads of four soldiers, each with a different talent / theme. Then I saw the illustrations of Gerald Leung:

 [https://www.outregallery.com/collections/brackmetal] 

...about the same time as the release of Apex Legends and another viewing of Walter Hill's The Warriors. So I started to think of gangs and I started to think in threes and I started to think of themes. Caaaan you dig it?

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GxSwUcm_XE&feature=youtu.be

Gerald Leung: Brackmetal

Walter Hill's Warriors

Apex Legends; EA & Respawn Ent.

As I was about to take Animation students to Prague for a week exploring and drawing; I made some quick character assets to drop onto images of the graffiti that I knew was in Prague. As the first characters all had guns it seemed a bit less visually aggressive (and cliched) to have spray cans and cameras as their weapon of choice. 

More gangs are in the pipeline utilizing the cultures of skateboarding, tattooing, basketball, hustling, biking and surfing.

So these are the beginnings of the work; rough composites following on from the tests in Prague, with bits missing, fuzzy edges, etc.

Plague Doctor gang member on top of Fuchs 2; a venue on a bridge over the Vltava River. Looks disused but isn't.

Kabuto gang member, tram lines near Charles Bridge / River Vltara.

Old Town gang member with experimental aerosol cannon, Tesnov, Prague.

Old Town gang member; graffiti wall (not much graffiti in Old Town itself).

New Town gang member, Underpass near Vltara River.

Kabuto gang member, outside derelict canal building near Barton Road swing bridge, Manchester.

Sketching in Praha (Prague) 2019

A couple of sketches done while in Prague with Staffs Uni Animation & Games Animation students. Been a while...

Sketching the view from the Male Namesti fountain 1560

The Old Town Hall from across Old Town Square.

Week of character performance posing / keyframing workshops

Sometime the things you try in teaching turn out to be way more fun for everyone than you had hoped. I have just had a great week of character performance / posing / keyframing workshops with the 25fps@staffs students.

Started off with using the Mathilda rig from Leon Li-Aun Sooi and Xiong Lin for a twenty-five expression challenge based on the well loved on-line exercise...

Just a small selection of the exercise results

...and followed this with a recreation of classic paintings using a multitude of posed rigs.

Very rewarding to see how everyone fully engaged with the tasks and the strength of the resulting work. Plus they really enjoyed it. Cant ask for more than that. Well done everyone!

Poses from classic fine art

#LEARNUARY 3; Observational Life Drawing tips that you may not expect.

#LEARNUARY part 3