Modelling.

I recently recieved a delivery of some firm gray Super Sculpy so I thought I would share a couple of the models I created with it. First of all is a model based on a drawing of a head from a previous post. This particular model probably took 8 hours+ to finish and I still need to whack it in the oven to harden it up so that I can try and abrade it to a smooth finish.

 This model of a woman's head took approximately an hour an was loosely based off another drawing shown in the last post. This was kinda just a sketch model where I could try out a slightly different technique for modelling hair, although I didn't really get to go too in depth into modelling it.

 

New Pencils.

I just got my new Prismacolour Ebony Graphite pencils and boy are they good! I've been looking to invest in some Prismacolour pencils for a while now, namely because I heard that Glen Keane uses them but didn't get around to it until I saw that Nicola Sammarco had rated them a 9/10 for drawing on his blog. I've gotta say, he wasn't wrong, these are the nicest sketching pencils I've ever used! Even better than my previous favorite pencil the Mars Lumograph 7B. The Pencil moves extremely smoothly across paper, especially so on animation paper and can range from a very delicate light tone to near black. Not only is it great for line work but I find that it is also extremely effective at filling in large areas of tone. Highly recommended!

Here are just a selection of some of the drawings I got out of these fine new pencils!

 

 

Storyboarding Practice.

I have recently been drawing a small thumbnail of every frame in how to train your dragon in order to gain a little bit more knowledge on the ins and outs of storyboarding. I'm currently 30 mins, 477 shots and over 650 thumbnails in mainly focusing on looking at composition as well as the position of the camera, different lens types, lengths of shots etc.

I stole the idea from Emma Coats who is by her own definition a, 'freelance director of films, boarder of story, and sometime public speaker' as well as a previous Dreamworks & PIXAR storyboard artist. I would highly recommend the exercise to anyone interested in storyboarding as you learn a ton (I know I have), just make sure you pick a film you really love because you're gunna be spending a lot of time freeze framing!

I'll post another update when I get to the 60 minute mark.