Recently bought Eytan Zana's graphic composition video, really good stuff. Trying out his workflow, trying to improve my lighting and composition. edit: added another
Hey ya'll! Here're some characters for a personal project. My aim is to do color-key-illustrations once I'm done with the character-designs, need to practice storytelling, composition and lighting yo. Cheers!
Welcome Lyo :) I like the pallette and atmosphere you're going for. There are a few things that bother me though. - lack of focal point: You have a few points of interest in your scene, but they are distributed unevenly across the image. Either remove those you don't need or emphasize the one you want to focus on. This…
@Madiza, really liking the feel and composition, nice! @Daemoria, great style, how long do they take? They seem to have great amounts of detail. Here's another speedie paint, probably gunna do a series. Less good than the one before but ehh, testing stuff out.
spasmart: Cool! Like the mood and action. osed: Swedish mech division? Legs look badass and the mech rendering feels tight. Consider tightening up some edges in the background, right now some of it gets a bit hard to read. More composition thumbnails, starting to get a hang of the process now.
Lovely progression there, Sharvo! Your lighting and rendering is pretty good! I would focus more on the composition though. Right now my eye is led off the frame because of the path, the subject, which is the river I assume, is dead center, the mountain is clipped which is kind of annoying. Use the rule of thirds and…
Madzia - great work, beautiful brush strokes and mood. Will do try to tighten things up, thanks for taking the time for feedback! I did some of the tweaks you mentionned and will try to make the lighting more consitent : http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=144161 ErikNilsson - loving that creature! spasmart -…