Hello True Believers!


Another excitingly small update from my side of the planet.

First we have the Simplified Proton Pack concept for my demo reel. I took the liberty of adjusting it so that it would take a simpler form on the simpler ghostbusters. The section that is empty on the bottom left is where the tube goes to connect to the pack to the particle thrower.

Proton Pack, it's simple, it's protonic!

So now that I have that planned I can definitely try and push forward with the 3d modelling of the main bodies of the characters and get started on the concept of Egon and Ray. Ray will be a bit chubby of course and Egon skinny and nerdy. I have yet to determine how far I want to exaggerate his glasses but I'm sure I'll figure it out as I go along. First the outfits : D.


As promised the upload finally worked and here is the basic animatic for my demo reel. It's not much but they're just base scene layouts and angles.

I'm going to be trying for a definite pixar style with some definite focus on making the final product definitely something spectacular to behold with my main focus being on becoming a 'Generalist' or otherwise an animator/rigger for a game company. I'll figure that out as I go .

IN OTHER NEWS : 


FANEXPO IS COMING UP WOOOOO!


Going to get my picture with Stan Lee and hopefully Adam West/Burt Ward as well and have a good time and work my way into poorness lol. Otherwise there's not too much for me to buy so I'm just going to have a good time going through artist alley and checking out all the names and free stuff I can grab haha. SUNDAY IS THE BEST FOR DEALS!


Later Days Everybody!
David

Pre-Renders, Sketches and Pilgrims.

Hey Folks!

Monday update coming straight for your face. Starting things off with a Venkman Demo Reel sketch. I tried to stay away from the Dapper Dan style ( Though I love him MUCH ) and go for a caricature movie type feel with some pixar ear tossed in.

Venkmannnnnnn!!!!

Also I started doing some layout of the basic room I want the Ghostbusters to have their Proton Pack powered speech in. The room will be a stylized version of the ballroom where they meet up with Slimer so going for some decent background detail.

Edit - Made Room Bigger with more tables for FLAVA.

I also put together a quick sketch up of what shots to have in Flash and have exported it to give you a guys a quick taste of the camera angles and what Ghostbusters you'll see on screen during the speeches. I'll be altering this into a final state with more refined sketches for a side by side comparison when it's complete. I'll upload that on wednesday since it seems to be messing up right now.

In my Wednesday update I'd hope to have a production sketch of the Proton Pack and thrower that I'll be assigning to the Ghostbusters and hopefully an Egon chart. 

Click here to seethe scene I will be using for my demoreel !

-- MOVIE REVIEW UNLOCKED ! --

VS THE REVIEW.

I'm a big fan of the Scott Pilgrim books, there's something stupidly simple about the plot that I just adore and the comedic styling is just the type of sauce I love on my action. Some things were different for sure, but the fights and base story still stick it an an awesome story for me.

I'd give it a rating but I feel the movie is beyond a rating system ,it's simply a movie that everyone has their own opinion about. Go watch it and let me know what you think.

Demo Reel Update

Hey True Believers!

I was sorting through the material I've been doing for the Ghostbusters demo reeland came to a few conclusions about what exactly it is I want to do and how to spend my time in creating something more visually pleasing.

So instead of trying to overwhelm myself with doing so much 2d and 3d animation and actually taking HALF the advise that some of my colleagues have provided me I decided that I will do a 3d animated demo reel but create and model the Three Ghostbusters ( Sorry Winston, I love you but your not in this scene in the movie ) , scene and concept art. This all came to me as something I should focus on since I want to get into more of a 3d animation job.

The animatic for the upcoming demo reel. Don't cross the streams!

That should make enough work for me to last a few months and will definitely provide some solid demo reel that will last about 30 seconds of animation and 30 seconds of showing off the models and construct and for my 2d stuff I'll show off the charts and conceptuals.

I will still be keeping these examples just for fun and for forum use ( I troll gbfans.com too much for my own good ) but for now they'll merely be test examples of work I've done in Flash. Later on after I update my 3d demo reel I will then focus more on a 2d animation demoreel but I feel my skills are well enough that I can show a company I know how to use graphic symbols and Frame by Frame animation.

Here's the now finished Test Syncing I was doing for Ray, but then decided I need a line a little more complex to show better animation and more emotion. Exported in low quality just for a quick show.

At any rate now that I have a more driven path I will be updating with conceptuals of the ghostbusters and my Orthographs of Egon, Ray and Peter along with my take on the Proton Packs and Equipment ( Which won't change that much to be honest ) 

From now on Updates will be Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays so please stay tuned as this project comes together .

Later Days,

-David

P.S :

No...I NEED TO WORK...maybe one instance...

First Post - GB Demo Reel

Hey everyone and welcome to Blog Unlocked! My name is David and I'm a 2d/3d artist from Toronto and I started this blog because I'm beginning work on my all new 2d/3d demo reel based on the franchise of Ghostbusters.

The purpose of this was because my last demo reel was severely outdated and I figured doing both 2d and 3d assets using a franchise I love would keep me encouraged enough to work harder. ( Also because I was unable to capture video of my modifcation work like my penny arcade project because of a reformat issue I have having. -_- )

Anywho, The 2d part of the demo reel will mainly be consisting of animation and loops and the 3d part will be focusing on modelling, texturing and rigging of a low poly real time Ghostbusters character. They will be seperately uploaded to my youtube account as time goes on and each clip will be uploaded as well for critique.

One part of my demo reel will consist of a Ray Stantz speech and will then show a 2d side running cycled animation of a ghostbuster and some additional concept art. I'm hoping for 1 minute of 2d and 1 minute of 3d.

That's not to say I won't be drawing other things at the same time however. I always love doodling and modelling various things in the meanwhile so be sure to keep updated with some of my more random work !

I hope to keep this blog updated at least 2-3 times a week so stay tuned true believers!

-DU