exercise in texturing

Ahoy, I've been doing my first assignment in learning texturing and here's a quick render from working a bit on the cherries.

So far it's been pretty fun.

Mike

downtown

heya. here's something that's been keeping me busy this past week amongst learning as much as I can in maya. A quick concept for a city for a story I've been writing is all it is.

SkyNavy aeroship

Desert Hoppers

I've been having quite a few things on my mind these days, and my imagination has been bearing some pleasant epiphanies.
I've taken some old photos of the Canadian Ram from the web, and i've superimposed my own impressions for the browncoat hopper. The engines are now under the sponson, and the landing struts are actually encasing the lower half of the engines. the actual gear is somewhere in between the engine and the main hull, and would extend when the engines are deployed in flight configuration away from the hull.

Desert Hoppers

After consulting with Mike for some ideas and his impressions, I've made the following refinements and added a figure and some colour. It's not final, but it's looking good in its own right I think.. made the cockpit bigger. added a few more decals.


I was walking about today and for some reason I started thinking about Firefly, and how Alan Tudyk had imagined perhaps Wash was a Browncoat transport pilot that got shot down and became a POW at the outset of the war. I have also been reading up on this link about famous canadian military vehicles over the past century, as well as tales of the Chinese soldiers during the dynasty and cold-war eras.
And that's all I'm going to say about what I have got in mind..

modified typhoon concept. need a new name for it though.

'elo boy-o

so I just did this in a couple of hours and it is bounced from Brian's concept take. Inspired by Brian's point about making the character more pronounced, I explored with the notion of tilting his hat upwards to reveal his eyes and then everything came to what it is now.
Evidently, key themes that were at play in my mind were wide-eye, open-worldly, explorative, adventurous, as well as wiry and firey of particular interest. The Indiana Jones tune was resonating with me in my mind whilst I was sketching him out. Which later then evolved into the whistling tune of A Bridge To Far - A tune of boyish wanting for daring adventure and tenacious danger. An innocently happy and rousing tune that is at the same time counterpointed with woe and sorrow which is the inevitable price of adventure.

At present, I haven't decided which colour to go for his jacket. It really depends on what the Jacket particularly is, which I think could be a plot-mystery of future importance. I conject that the Jacket itself is significantly valued by the character. Perhaps it's his (lost) dad's. What sort of jacket it should be? I don't know.. You can see that the colour strongly influences what it will be, so officially it is still ambiguous, but nevertheless here's a colour comparison chart.

Finally, note the subtle touches in his eyes and how his hands clasps the long sleeves. I'm interested to hear what you have to say on those! He's also wearing both a white undershirt and a 'wife-beater' but I am not sure which one the character should go with. Or maybe both?

auf wiedersehen.