Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Extremely Stuffed Bird

An Intro to 3D Animation class project. The goal was a short narrative or commercial, achieving motion with motion paths and deformers only.


Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Modern Classic Roadster

A quick sketch in Photoshop, combining classic roadster proportions with modern lines.


Friday, October 21, 2011

Saturday, October 8, 2011

Zoo Trip (08-28-11)

Animal sketches from a class trip (2D Animation Principles) to Zoo Atlanta.


SAM (Secret Agent Man)



Character model (no texture or rig) for my Intermediate 3D Modeling class final.

Friday, October 7, 2011

Guilin



A painting done in Corel Painter X, based on this impressive image featured on Bing:


The reference image (location: Guilin, China)

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Heads

A series of heads for Background & Character Design class; alternating rows of male & female.




Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Character Development: Final Selections & Detailing

Final stages of the character development work from my Background & Character Design class.




Friday, September 2, 2011

Prime Rock



A quick one-layer painting done in Photoshop.

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Character Development Partner Work

Character & Background Design class work; we were paired up and asked to design character silhouettes together.


The silhouettes.


Subsequently-developed character.

Character Development Work in Progress

Work from Background & Character Design class; building up on instructor selections from prior silhouettes.



Thursday, August 25, 2011

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Perspective Reproduction From Reference Image




Another assignment for my Background & Character Design class; it is a reproduction of an image.

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Cosmic Islets



A casual sketch in Photoshop that I liked & decided to develop.

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Waving Flag Pencil Test



Waving flag pencil test from my 2D Animation Principles class.

Bouncing Ball Pencil Test



Bouncing ball pencil test from my 2D Animation Principles class.

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Environment Sketches Assignment - Final

Final sketch-up for a Character & Background Design class assignment.


Final sketch.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Environment Study Assignment - Work In Progress

Work in progress for a Character & Background Design class assignment.





Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Environment Sketches Assignment - Preliminary

Character & Background Design class assignment; 1- & 2-point perspective sketches, indoor and outdoor.


1- & 2-Point Indoor.

1- & 2-Point Outdoor.

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

1,2 & 3-Point Perspective Exercise

Perspective exercise for my Background & Character Design class.


1-Point Freehand

Monday, July 18, 2011

Alcohol Wash Technique Fruit Sketches

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A project for my Background & Character Design class. Prismacolor color pencil (black) on Bienfang Graphics 360 paper, washed with alcohol on cotton pads.

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Tinkerboy



This piece is from my Image Manipulation class taken Winter Quarter 2011. The assignment goal was a sketch-ink-scan-color process. The inspiration for this was an eager young gearhead testing one of his contraptions (the scooter has a slight steampunk influence).

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

And Here We Go!

Finally caught the blogging bug! But for useful purposes, though; I will be putting up my artwork and process, and linking with my website: http://www.dotunogunsakin.com/.

I hope the info I offer will be of use to someone out there, as those of others have been to me.