It's been a while...

So haven't updated this blog for a while which was due to few things depression of not finding my dream job still and becoming slightly obsessed with competitive Warhammer list creation and going to tournaments. But now that I'am back Sainsbury's doing a job I don't particular enjoy doing and becoming more active at watching for job listings on LinkedIn, has motivated me to get creating portfolio pieces again.

I have been creating 2D pieces in Photoshop and 3D assets in 3DsMax, here and their before this post. But now want get more organized and plan what content I want to create.

So I have decided it would be a good idea to revisit past briefs from university that I didn't enjoy the outcome of because it was rushed or just down right not up to a standard I would be happy with showing.

So to start this off I decided today to revisit a piece that was actually one better pieces, I did for my 2D briefs at Uni. But have decided to make it more crisp and clear, I have used the original sketch so it is still the original design and pose.

2012 Orginal

2014 Redux

Happier with it now has some more small details and the colour is more vibrant and eye catching, the original idea was it to have a more of a British race car colour. But this yellow looks more interesting. Also the shadow on the original one was bothering me, but was unable to find the original .PSD file to simply just fix that. Still not happy with the shadow but its better than it was before. I also want in future maybe tomorrow, add in a background. Just a simple scrapyard boxing ring sort of thing.

Original moodboard

Original process... oh Freddie

Okay so some of the other briefs I want to revisit are:

War: My original piece was a horribly attempt at a steam punk pin up. Should have gone with what everyone in the class thought I was going do, and do a Warhammer scene. Already have an idea in my head of a Howling Griffons' contemptor dreadnought striding over the top of a trench assault cannon blazing.  Note to self want to use a process like this and this again.

"Creature": I can't really remember the name for this brief, but I do remember it was for assessment of skills or something like that. Was given some keywords like Juicy, Pink, Beaked and has to be an Insect... well something like that. If I'm able to find the original will want to do a vast improvement on it.

Alien Landscape: I do need a environment piece really so this will be idea, the original piece much like war was awful and also only part finished at that I think. Recently saw on Reddit someone conceptualizing a scene from MineCraft and was really well done.
http://griffsnuff.deviantart.com/art/Minecraft-repainted-439905342
Haven't been on MineCraft in ages now and with the new Massa environment type would be good chance to find some interesting. Get to have some fun scouting for an interesting location and have some interesting reference to work from, that's sounds like double win to me. Really is great since MineCraft is randomly generated and can generate some really obscure landscapes sometimes.