Lou's New Colors
These are the colors I decided on for Lou. From the color tests in my last post I received a lot of positive responses to the tan brindle color. I chose a blue sash to subtly represent Lou's racing dilemma, and the warm tan brindle to represent his otherwise happy and caring nature.
Lou's Color Palette
This is Lou's color palette graphed appropriately. The 14 segments of the circle represent the 14 hues in the 14 hue color chart. Each color is placed according to hue number around the circle, and I tried to arrange them on the lines to correspond with the value of each color.
Lou, Max, and Riptide
I created this piece in an attempt to show the contrast in personalities between these three characters. Lou's colors were swatched directly from his color palette.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Designer - Color Test and Backstory
Seattle Slew a.k.a. Lou
Lou is one of the world's top contending race dogs. While he is a racing dog, and racing dogs are normally cared for differently than house pets, his owner is still very compassionate and this reflects on Lou's behavior. He is a very kind, good-natured dog. His best friend is also racing dog (Maximum Overdrive a.k.a. Max) raised by the same owner as Lou. While Lou is extremely successful at the track, he suffers from an inner conflict that causes him to hate racing for competition. The only real joy he receives from running is off the track, where he feels no pressure to be the best. His driving force is a dog named Riptide, who constantly berates Lou and Max out of jealousy, and is Lou's biggest competitor.
I have a good idea for a story pertaining to these characters, that includes more cast members including Lou's love interest, Mindy (who Lou meets while playing at the dog park with his trainer), but it's not very well fleshed out at yet. I'd like to finish the story with Lou, Max and Riptide attending the Waterloo Cup Meet (the Kentucky derby of greyhound racing). As Lou rounds the last turn before the finish line, he notices that Max is close behind him, Riptide following closely on Max's heels. Lou believes that Max can win, and decides to swallow his pride as he slows up, letting his best friend pass him to win the race. Lou happily retires shortly after the race, and is adopted by Mindy's owner. Riptide also retires shortly after but not so willingly, he is adopted by a small family with a particularly annoying little girl (think Elmyra from tiny toons). Max goes on to win many more races, and Lou's new owner even brings him to the track from time to time to visit his former owner and friend.
A few of the many ideas I've been tossing around and scrawling in notebooks the last few days. Would love some constructive criticism on the story particularly, and also would like to know which color tests catch your eye. :)
Lou is one of the world's top contending race dogs. While he is a racing dog, and racing dogs are normally cared for differently than house pets, his owner is still very compassionate and this reflects on Lou's behavior. He is a very kind, good-natured dog. His best friend is also racing dog (Maximum Overdrive a.k.a. Max) raised by the same owner as Lou. While Lou is extremely successful at the track, he suffers from an inner conflict that causes him to hate racing for competition. The only real joy he receives from running is off the track, where he feels no pressure to be the best. His driving force is a dog named Riptide, who constantly berates Lou and Max out of jealousy, and is Lou's biggest competitor.
I have a good idea for a story pertaining to these characters, that includes more cast members including Lou's love interest, Mindy (who Lou meets while playing at the dog park with his trainer), but it's not very well fleshed out at yet. I'd like to finish the story with Lou, Max and Riptide attending the Waterloo Cup Meet (the Kentucky derby of greyhound racing). As Lou rounds the last turn before the finish line, he notices that Max is close behind him, Riptide following closely on Max's heels. Lou believes that Max can win, and decides to swallow his pride as he slows up, letting his best friend pass him to win the race. Lou happily retires shortly after the race, and is adopted by Mindy's owner. Riptide also retires shortly after but not so willingly, he is adopted by a small family with a particularly annoying little girl (think Elmyra from tiny toons). Max goes on to win many more races, and Lou's new owner even brings him to the track from time to time to visit his former owner and friend.
A few of the many ideas I've been tossing around and scrawling in notebooks the last few days. Would love some constructive criticism on the story particularly, and also would like to know which color tests catch your eye. :)
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
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!
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!
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
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 :)
German Shepard
Pembroke Welsh Corgi
Greyhound
Feedback is always appreciated :)
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Monday, December 8, 2008
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
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
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