Mounds Concept Art

Here are my original concept pieces that I did a few months ago. I was going to have the mounds be CG but traced over like those Running Legs I made a while back. but have a lot of flat flash elements. Like the flowers and growth on the mounds themselves would be short loops of flash animation that i could track to points on the surface of the mounds in after effects.
Right now thou this project in on pause while I do a o lot of painting work and then make a stop motion film, Realistically I would be surprised if i went back to this idea. But i do like practicing preproduction type things.

Mounds - Thumbnails

These are some thumb nails for the intro to a project i have had in my head for a while now. It is called "Mounds" and it is a couple that are two mounds of dirt. Mountains perhaps. The thumbnails aren't in the correct order the first row is actually supposed to be the last row. I was thinking of doing very short stories with the characters. I have already written about 4 of these stories..plus this introduction that sort of chronicles the terra-forming of a planet. In essence would this be the birth of the mounds.

Juffage

T-bone

To Showcase a Part on Fire

Pans and Pots

Cellphone

Psych Truck Thing

Roof Moss

Trucks

Fire Dog

This a drew pretty quickly. The difference between this piece and orange lolly pop is that I used a photo for reference of a face in lollypop but this was all from my head. That is why it lacks a certain depth or realism. lolly pop was all clone stamped found textures and large strokes while this was done drawing lines using a wacom tablet. i feel i could have done a lot more with it if i took the time but it was more of just an experiment. The major goal was seeing if i could make a drawn looking image. I feel that it is comparable to what i could have achieved using colored pencils or paint besides the fact i was able to put my shadows and highlights on separate layers and have more control over going back to change them.
I think i could make some really nice freehand illustrations like this once i hone my traditional freehand drawing skill.
Medium: Photoshop
Time: around 2 hours

Gym

I don't work out. I have never been to a gym.
I love mechanical things especially hinges and pulleys.
While ith a building my portfolio wide range of styles and samples I decided to make a home gym machine. My original idea was to make a very large complex home gym that looked ridiculous. As I began my project and started collecting reference pictures from the internet the image in my head of an exaggerated gym kept being surpassed by actual home gyms that were enormous and covered in dozens of arms and pulleys and seats. Two evenings into this project I got a little bored with the idea of adding on to the gym and also thought it might serve better as a portfolio piece if it looked as though it could be an actual gym.
This is a little nicer than some of my rendering work lighting wise.
I could have taken more time with the shaders/materials everything is just a slight variation of shiny gray.
Medium : Maya
Time : 2 evenings

Orange Lolly Pop

Masked Skull

Glowing Heart

Here is a Glowing heart with tons of aftereffects on it, So many so you can not see a majority of the work that went into it. SO for your enjoyment here are the texture adn ambient maps, they both tiled.
To tile means they repeat in any direction, like a tessellation .


Ambient

Texture