CG Tropes: Tilt Shifting

Learning the technique to make things such as buildings and environments look miniature.

Here's a couple of images I've tried the effect on;

Before (Above) and After (Right)

Life Drawing 02-04-14

Life Drawing 12-03-14

Life Drawing 26-02-14

Life Drawing 22-01-14

Orthographic Drawings for Lair

Life Drawing 5

2 minute pose x 7

1 minute pose x 9 

25 minute sitting down pose

Maya: Secret Lair Experiments

A quick play around on Maya, adding textures / colours to my idea for my lair. I quite like how it's coming along, just wandering if the colours are too playful for an 'Atomic Master Criminal' ?
Any suggestions / opinions ?

Thumbnails to Maya Development

I painted these thumbnails in Jordan's Photoshop class, I'm happy and confident in keeping a vibrant colour palette for this project and my secret lair but I struggled to get a good sense of scale in my concepts - they all felt quite close-up. So Jordan suggested that I go into Maya and create some basic shapes in a scene for my lair and just to play around with scale and the camera angle as this will then help me create more exciting thumbnails with interesting shots. This is what I've created so far...

 They are mainly inspired by thumbnails 2 and 3;

Life Drawing 3

First time drawing a male model, I found it okay, but I'll admit I much preferred the female.
We started with three poses on one page, five minutes each, and I tried to get information down to show the shadows. Next was a continuous line drawing which wasn't so bad, I also included some of the objects in the background around him. (roughly 20 mins). Third was a sitting down pose (roughly 25 mins) using what we wanted so I started off in pencil then went over in charcoal. Last we drew Alan in five poses for just one minute each, I wasn't really that happy with the overall outcome of this one in comparison to the quick poses of Jane but there's always time to improve ! (:

Perspective Thumbnails

Some quick thumnail sketches to test different perspectives / angles for my last scene. 

@Phil - Final Three Ideas in Colour

So, these are my three ideas for my final paintings, I've decided to take them all from one book (The Red Room) as I feel it has the best atmosphere and potential. If you could let me know what you think of them as a set that would be great :) 

More Experimentation

This was a quick painting I made yesterday in Jordan's Photoshop class. I started off with a line drawing of a sort of corridor scene (1) and then started to put in some colour to the walls and floor in a new layer (2). Thumbnails 3 and 4 were where Jordan spoke to me and told me not to worry too much about being too precious/precise at this stage of just experimenting. So here you can see where he demonstrated to me how to just block out areas of colour really quickly and play around with what perspective angle is right before I start putting in too much detail as he was saying that my perspective angle seemed a bit off. He recommended that I produce a set of thumbnails that are the same scene but just to test out different angles and perspectives so I can see what works as a composition.

@Phil - More Thumbnail Development

The Red Room - Digital Painting
Again, just trying to develop a thumbnail idea, had a go with using two point perspective this time and would just like to know your thoughts on it :)

@Phil - Thumbnail Development

Hi Phil, just wondering if this sort of idea (for The Red Room) is too generic / boring ?