Final versions of the fantasy animal and the tower.
I'm still not really happy bout the animal but since?
I had to finish it for my end presentation; so I made it in a rush. I'll probably change it again in my free time during summer.

I'm happy to anounce that my final schoolproject is finished. I am happy with the result of my pitchbook.

 The side characters are finished as well. The wooden versions of a rabbit and a horse that the protagonists will touch.
And their robotic version.
All done with textures.

We also had to make a set with our main characters on, this is what i came up with.
Sol is standing in the dark, night setting of the mechanical world while Luna in her robot form is standing in the organic world that Sol created and in wich she will  wake up.



I also had to change my Set with the tower because its perspective was wrong. With some help of a classmember I was able to change it so it made sense again.

I still have a lot of work but I'm working daily on my end work and I haven't given up on it yet. I'll be happy when it's over but I'll be proud of what I created.

  The character sheet and turnarounds for Luna.
She was even harder to design than the boy and took me quiet some time to figure out her hair. I made it a bit hard for myself with the haircuts.

 This is the  final version of Sol's character sheet. It still needs some text wich i'm going to add soon.

On the main sheet there is both his wooden for as his robot form.
We also choose for a new background, we kept the gears in the corners but we found the metallic background more fitting.

 The first turnaround sheet of Sol's wooden form. This was a lot of work, especially to figure out how the joints in his arms would work.

But the mechanical version was even harder to figure out. Though i'm pretty proud of the result.

 This is the front cover of my pitchbook. We finally agreed on a title: Rejuvenation. It speaks of the renewing of the world from mechanic to organic and visa versa, the constant change in the evolution. The short film will also be focused on the part where Sol changes everything into it's organic form.

The cover shows the duality of the story, the wooden boy and its mechanic counterpart.





The backcover shows the back of both sides of the head.
The beam of light is a signal for the light that seperates both worlds. The beam of sunlight and moonlight that makes the magic happen.

Since it's been a while after the last update a big one is comming up. My final test is for next week and I still have a lot of work to do but here's what I got for now.

 This is a a first color key. It is the moment Sol touches the wall of the mechanic castle and he starts changing it into a wooden castle. The magic is spreading from his hand over the castle wall.

This second color key is actually supposed to be one of the first scenes of the short movie. It is the moment the moonlight touches Sols face right before he wakes up in a mechanical world.

Pwoop, Luna got some plate and color now. Finished the texturing today. Took me a whole afternoon because my tablet was freaking out all the time.
Updated my driver in the end, and it looked like my pen wasn't that oversensitive anymore.
I personally Like the colors, I took the same copper color as I did for Sol for the hair.
However Sol's jacket got the same color as his hair so I gave Luna the same color for her breast and skirt as her hair will be, dark red.
I hope the wood version will be finished tomorrow.

  First thumbnail of a setting: the wooden tower catching the sunlight and reflecting it.

This is the second design of the tower, the one in the thumnail was a bit too wide.
-> This is what I came up with next. I made some kind of Aquaduct irigation system to lead the water out of the tubes away from the tower.
Also I made a system consting of ropes and cranes on top of the tower to turn the mirror.

Next I made the tower higher and smaller and gave some more detail to it, still in black-gray     <-



When I was happy with the shape I started to paint in short strokes.
I chose different colors of wood to paint it and try to work with a light and shadow side. So this is how the tower looked first without any setting around it.







Looking back to the tumb I started to sketch the setting roughly around the tower and this is what I came up with.

   In the end I am still facing one big problem. Somehow the size of my painting blew up till 15000x9000 in the original file, I have no idea how that happened though.
 I had to shrink it a lot to be able to post it here.
So I probably have to paint over it to get rid of the blurryness between the different elements.

But I am still pretty happy with the result.

New update from today. I finished the mechanical version of Luna (the lineart at least).

The hair was really tricky to do and I had quiet some trouble with finding a way to make her haircut look like her wooden version.
I came up with a bowed metal plate on her forehead and her tails are tubes comming out of 2 small pipes on her head.
Also since she wasn't wearing any jacket of some kind her parts are visible. The boots weren't easy either. I didn't want her to have the big steady feet Sol had, After all it still has to be a girl robot.
So now she's ready for plating.

Updated the painting of the tower as well. I had to put more green from the rocks on it, I refined the edges and gave the tower more greenish color.

Time for another update.

I finished the robotversion of Sol and after revision the color of the metal jacket changed and I brought up some highlights to give a more chrome feeling.

The finished version of Sol, the boy character for my final test.
The texturing took a while, but i'm pretty happy with the result.
The colors might still change a bit, but thats for later.
 I'm looking forward to making a mechanic version.

 

A while ago we had to build a maquette of a tower out of foamboard. This is my finished tower, the ball on top of it is supposed to become a crystal, reflecting all light.
Now we have a new assignment and we had to create an environment for the tower to stand in.
With a lot of picture cutting and pasting I created this grayscale concept.
This concept is going to be the basic for a painting we have to make of our tower.

After another revision my teacher changed the values and the colours a bit. The purple bugs where a bit to soft and needed more glow.
I like how the new color key is looking right now.

This is the first textured design for the robot rabbit.
The textures are all going to grayscale and get a uniform color.
But I already like this version as well. It makes me think of a rabbit someone put together out of scrap metal pieces.