Design for Media - Progress

I spent the week trying to narrow down my style. I've decided I want to model my greyhound character as a racing dog, and for my Advanced Time-Based Projects class I plan to model a race track environment for him.

I found lots of great references of racing dogs and even a chart of common greyhound colors and markings.

Here are my sketches from this week

Sketches 1
Sketches 2
Variations on styles

Sketches 3
Anatomy and run cycle study

Constructive criticism welcome and appreciated!

Explorer Progress

Dogs

Papillon

Australian Shepherd

Afghan Hound

Boston Terrier

Bull Terrier

Chihuahua

Design for Media - Explorer

The first few dog breed studies I worked on in preparation for a finished character model or models. I probably spent more time on them than I should have, but I was having fun trying different character styles. I need to work on varying my style more and getting through sketches quicker. I used references from many places including google, several books and photos of my brother's greyhound. Thinking I should go to the dog park or an animal shelter to study and draw dogs from life.

German Shepard


Pembroke Welsh Corgi


Greyhound

Feedback is always appreciated :)

Inspiration

Mika- Lollipop (Music Video)

Wall-E Trailer

Monkey, Journey to the West

Princess Mononoke Trailer

MGMT - Electric Feel (Music Video)

IPod Nano 2nd Gen. Color Trails Commercial

Design For Media Final

For our design for media final, we were asked to, in a stylistic approach or compositional strategy, creatively interpret/portray/exemplify our assigned musical term. My musical term was Baroque. Baroque music describes an era and a set of styles of European classical music which were in widespread use between approximately 1600 and 1750. The word "baroque" means, literally "misshapen pearl." Baroque music expanded the size, range and complexity of instrumental performance, and also established opera as a musical genre. For my project, I chose a segment from an Opus written by Antonio Vivaldi. The piece is preformed with only strings, however baroque music normally tends to cover a wider variant of instruments. For my composition, I chose a simple black silhouetted theme for my instruments and scanned a piece of tea stained parchment to simulate old sheet music. The segment at the beginning features a line from the sheet music itself. If you'd like to learn a little more about Baroque Music, you can check out some of my resources here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Vivaldi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque_music
http://www.baroquemusic.org/bardefn.html
http://baroque-music.com/frames/frames.shtml

Design For Media Final - Progress UPDATED

About 3/4 of the way done with the actual animation. Should be finishing up and fine tuning within the next couple of days. :)

Updated 12/01/08

Problem 4 - Final

Panels one through eight of Problem 4. Character/Object Dominance: Sequence & Theme - Designing a Visual Storyline.

The goal of this series was to create a series of sequentially or thematically related compositions that clearly demonstrate the dominance of the following characteristics. I chose to illustrate themes including life, evolution, and the passage of time in this piece, using animation as a means to convey these ideas. I used mostly organic shapes, soft colors, and soft music to further illustrate these themes.

In order, the eight panels represent: rhythmic, natural, dynamic,symmetrical, geometric, animate, asymmetrical, and inanimate.