Saturday 29 April 2017

Finishing Uni



Pushed this a long as far as I could in time for printing for our graduate exhibition, but may revisit in the future. Would like to push the background more, was left quite sketchy - I will experiment with some photo shapes for wreckage structures along the horizon.

Things to consider for next piece - high key value structure, cooler green/blue palette, avoid repetitive 3/4 view figure/close in shot.

Compiled a progress sheet for anyone interested.


Saturday 15 April 2017

Hunter Storyboard

New storyboard project I've been working on, colour keyframe to follow. Wanted to approach a simple sequence focusing on building suspense, cutting between two subjects. 








Quick exploration of design, just keeping it simple. Legs needed a redesign.


Friday 31 March 2017

WIPS


Now that I have a website for finished work (www.willgist.com), I'll be using this site in the future for sharing more of my workflow and thoughts when tackling new personal projects. 

I'm working on another storyboard project at the moment which I will post wips for soon, in the meanwhile heres some design notes for some older stuff still in the works... 

Need to start pushing specular highlights (compass in hand should pull slightly more focus, greatest contrast is centered currently around the goggles which is stunting flow) and differentiating materials - is presenting an interesting challenge with the lighting. (Note: materials such as the tire shoulder pad will read better when contrasted against metallic/fabric textures - define value structure)

I should pay closer attention to cooler temperatures in the shadows. Revise lighting on the background figures to break shapes - at the moment the scene reads largely as one flat silhouette.


Looking back, I seemed to overwork the initial concept to a weaker image for the painting below. This was however a good exercise for practicing more of how I want to approach developing narrative illustration. I went on to try to apply this process more concisely to the above piece.


As well as trying to vary and experiment more with my palette in future, I should also asses how I am dealing with value contrast and attempt some higher, lighter keyed images.

Friday 6 January 2017

Winter

Cinematic Concept

Work in progress key frames - 



Preliminary storyboard and some key roughs







Character designs







Tuesday 25 October 2016

Cinematic Colour Script


Experiment with dynamic composition. Composing sketches in sequence for some cinematic colour scripts. Super fun! 


Some Stockholm sketches from Summer.