Unit 10: Minor Project - Phil... I mean Bernard Expression Sheets

Hello Everyone,

Here is a sample extract from my latest contribution (30/12/13) direct from Polydoodle Pictures Studio Blog. The image below shows a sample of my Bernard Expression sheets, these samples are D, E & F - (3 of a selected 12). This is actually the villain of our story and will be the last of our 4 final 3D character models.

 

EXTRACT

"I kept most of Bernard's expressions to the darker tones but I did break free from it which gave me time to explore some of his other facial activities. "Annoyed" and "Angry" were directly what Chrissie and Sammy saw so I indulged my "Thinking" expression. I actually think this one goes across all of the characters. After you do the basic emotions its hard to knock down more, I wanted to fulfil the 12 expression quota. Of course Alan and many like you will probably call me crazy and this is unnecessary but I liked to do it... If anything it made the others more explorative."

Read the full article here >>

Unit 10: Minor Project - Young Barnabas Expression Sheets

Hello Everyone,

Here is a sample extract from my latest contribution (24/12/13) direct from Polydoodle Pictures Studio Blog. The video below shows my creative process for 2D expression sheets. The video concludes with a time lapse construction of the expressions for "Young Barnabas". The completed sheets are on the Polydoodle Blog.


EXTRACT

"The expressions above are where I started, I actually took a little time to align all of these models to be somewhat related to each other. Following Benjamin and Barnabas's expressions I didn't like how incorrect some of them are. It also bugged me how some of them didn't look necessarily like the same character. I corrected this for Young Barnabas but I probably should have spent more of this time on the main 2 characters expressions. Alas I cant use much more time on this 2D work, I have more models to make and we are graded on the CG aspect not pre-production."

Read the full article here >>