29.10.15  h19:00
Kaffebar Quentin, Vienna

Halloween Sketch Session: Pink-haired witch.

https://www.facebook.com/events/489750031198406/

After few rapid poses, we had a looong one (for doing the shadows and the paintings). As soon as I learn a bit of painting I'll bring some colors, for now... let just imagine she's a sort of clumsy witch, a wee bored ;)

Thanks Regina for your patience!!!

Week 2: Material Painting

This week is about texture!

We have to choose 3 different kind of materials:

- semi-transparent
- hard
- soft/organic

Obviously I've chosen the pizza for the organic one!
I like trees... ('cos I love the fantasy literature) and a red stone/gem. 
I was looking for broken glasses, but on the web is almost impossible to find a nice image and I think that breaking two glasses on purpose would be a bit too much ;)

The teacher made us work on the sphere to force us thinking about shape, and how the textures  wrap around it.

CGMA link: http://cgmasteracademy.com

Hi! 
Here's my teacher's feedbacks:

FEEDBACK 2:
- The foreground must be darker and with less contrast
- ok the strong and limited range of values, but now I can add some more values (to show   
  the shapes of the cars, the internal of the buildings and to render the people)
- add details to reinforce the focal point
- don't forget the importance of some shadows: some of them are useful to direct the 
  eyes on the focal point
- when the style is so graphic: use a soft brush on the frame corners to enhance the focal  
  point

FEEDBACK 1:
- strong composition!
- even if in the film the foreground is bright, it's not important: so do it darker and blur.
- lighter a bit the column on the right: 
          1) it's on the same level as the cat
          2) helps framing (it's a framing element)
          3) helps the eyes moving up and around ->keeps the eyes engaged to the scene

FEEDBACK 3:
-attention: we work on compressed images -> lots of light informations get lost, so we need to use brightness/contrast on the reference image (checking the lost values) 

THANKS A MILLION!!!

Digital Painting

These are my first exercises for Digital Painting (CGMA online course) with Jeremy Fenske (lectures by David Merrit).

http://cgmasteracademy.com

We had to choose one frame from 3 different movies.
A strong one! So the longest part was to find the right frame:
- story
- strong focal point
- foreground/midground/background
- frame within the frame
- lines of the objects pointing to the focal point (also the glance of the other people)
- clear image (not with people running, too blurry…)

I'll let you know how is gone after my teacher's feedbacks!

This is my teacher's link:
http://jairworks.blogspot.co.at

Maybe if I turn up the music volume, I'll not hear the scream inside my head

The best morning ever -The River Foyle-