Steampunk. myths and legends

Here's my entry for the Steampunk competition at cgtalk.com



Here's the story behind it:

This image tells the steampunk version of the battle between two creatures from Greek mythology. Pegasus, the flying horse with wings. And Chimera, a monster equipped with the head of a lion, goat and a dragon. According to the legends Chimera was defeated by Pegasus, but I wanted this image to show a more dramatic moment where Pegasus who is usually assumed with flying and grace is now pushed down the image with all it's weight, while Chimera is the superior one placed higher above in the middle of the attack.

as a little side story I wanted to include the "sad/fun" situation on the poor steam punk Edderchoppers "spiders". Machines manufactured with a constant "smile" where their main task consists of pulling carried. Smiley faces were made on them to make them appear as friendly and to make people happy, even though the majority complained that they were rather creepy looking instead. Numerous of Edderchoppers are getting destroyed during the battle. They are all terrified and overwhelm by agony. But from the look on their face, they seem to be doing just fine! =)



To see my process, thumbnails and other ideas before I ended up with the finished image, click here

test 2008

Here's this weeks exercise. Fun to use some of the stretchy features on "max man" for a change.

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Quick sketches






Here's some 10-20 min sketches I did at a daily sketch thread from a norwegian forum called storedyret.com. Usually each thread has their it's own headline.

(the blue cat in one of the drawings were not made by me.
It was copied and pasted from a brilliant norwegian artist named Olve Askim )

Mmmmm...



This week we had a try at dialogue.

Click here to watch or right click "save as" (quicktime.mov 2.9 MB)

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facial animation and render



The first half of this school week was facial animation. The other half was rendering lessons.

Watch the animation here:

Click to watch or right click "save as" (quicktime)

(the animation could need some more polishing though)


Tommy Lee Jones

Rigging week over

The rigging week is (finaly!) over so here's what I 've managed to finish out of it so far.4 min video were I move through some of the rig controllers below:

CLICK HERE TO WATCH VIDEO (quicktime 13 MB)


ready for rigging




The first school week of modeling is over and it should be more or less ready for the rigging wich is starting tomorrow = o
Didn't end up looking exactly like the painting and lost some appeal because of that.But atleast I learned alot from it^^

The Fist!


We're going to model a 3D character soon, so here is the final character design me and a classmate came up with.

Audrey Hepburn

from the caricature drawing jam activity at drawingbord.org

"Dexter Morgan"

Here comes everybody's favourite serial killer:

Some people have asked me how I do theese painted caricatures, so here is a more detailed WorkInProgress "tutorial" thingy:

 


Caricature

Here's a caricarture of my sister and her boyfriend


Generic walkcycle

Here's a generic walkcycle we're working on. It's not really complete yet and there was some trouble mirroring the animation over to the other arm so I got just rid of it for now=P



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Under The Surface



Title for this weekly drawing activity : "Under The Surface"

Bloody Hogan keys



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Monster Attack

The weekly Class Drawing Activity.
Title for this week "Monster Attack"


WIP

Flour sack animation

Here's a couple of quick exercises with the flour sack from last week:
(many of theese are supposed to run in loop so it might work better to download it)

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Some basic 3D animation

Here's some of the basic 1 day animation exercises we did the first week.



watch or download the moviefile here:
http://www.comlock.net/kau/ball-in-room.mov



watch or download the moviefile here:
http://www.comlock.net/kau/luxo-take1.mov


watch or download the moviefile here:
http://www.comlock.net/kau/lArthur-ballmusic2.mov

Basic modeling




Here's a basic modeling exercise we had the first day.
The task was to make a room


Epic Battle





Weekly class drawing activity.  The title for this week "Epic Battle" 
(Sketchbook Pro and Photoshop)

!Caricature outburst








 

A bunch of caricatures I've done for the past half year.
Most of these are just random people posting pictures of themselves in forums so they can get their faces drawn by different artists

Drawings from earlier this year







 

Bernard. Animation

Well, here's the last traditional animation you'll see from me in a looong time^_^
Next week this will be reviewed (this was our exam) and then it's summer vacation. After that the semester will be focused on 3D.

animation from this week:

FINISHED.Click to watch or right click "save as"'




I think it feels too fast in many places. Not enough room for settles and "thinking time" for the character. I originaly wanted the "tippy toe" walking to be more slow and "carefull" But it was to long to fit inside the 120 frame limit we were given.
Oh well, the timing could have been alot better but atleast it moves in a cool way =P ^_^



Here's an earlier version:

EARLY STAGE.Click to watch or right click "save as"'