Saturday, 12 November 2011

Colours of 'The Shunned House'

Using the 'Colour Of' website suggested by Phil, I've began putting together some colour palettes for my images. Starting with 'The Shunned House', I began by jotting down words that I associated with the story as soon as they appeared in my head. I then entered these words into TheColourOf.com and saved the resulting images.


I then took the recurring hues of pink, purple, green, blue and orange and made swatches from them using ColourSchemeDesigner.com (another 'Phil-suggested' site), so that I could later incorporate them in my images.


The first three colour palettes are tetradic colour schemes, the fourth is triadic and the fifth is complimentary. 
The colours are very vibrant, which reflects my own personal preference and style of using bold colours in contrast with dark, black tonal work to develop somewhat of a visual harmony. This is a very 'comic book' approach, and is probably the most familiar to myself, but it may not be suitable for concept paintings.

This is where I need some help. Do I sacrifice personal style choices in order to create, what I feel may be a slightly more generic, less interesting image, or do I work in a more comfortable way, developing the image how I envision it in my head with my own stylistic preferences, but risk coming out with (in the words of 'Photoshop' Phil) a more 'childish' image?

Please, give me advice! I'm a little stuck here! Thank you!


Thursday, 10 November 2011

King Kong Film Review

King Kong (1933) Film Review

@Tom/Simon- Issues Opening Maya Files

hey simon, i'm having a bit of trouble opening maya files created at home on the computers at uni, as my copy of maya is the eduction version. i've tried selecting 'ignore version' when i open the files, but no luck. maya simply stops responding and i have to close it through task manager. is there anything i can do to help this?

thanks.

Tuesday, 8 November 2011

Metropolis Film Review

Metropolis (1927) Film Review

Monday, 7 November 2011

Maya: Digital Sets- Lintels (Part One)


Space- Online Greenlight Review

Space Online Green Light Review