I spent a lot of time researching movement and motion on a bicycle.
I kept the design style simple and angular to create bold dramatic spaces with a strong use of colour. I wanted a grey mournful tone with this vivid splash of green in the high vis jacket that would slowly fade to a grey and white ending.
This is the article that originally inspired my animation. The image was so striking and powerful that it immediately started creating images and narratives in my mind.
Below is my final colour storyboard created from both my original storyboard sketches and shots from my animatic. As you can see some things are exactly as I intended and some parts were dropped. There was an idea for the use of the seasons changing to show the long passage of time which I decided not to use and opted for something still keeping the cyclist around and having him pick up and drop some flowers.
The last image of this post shows a mood board of some of the images, posters, and pictures that helped shape my project.
This is my final year project from university. I recently found someone who offered to create some originally audio music for the animation. Together we have put together a completely original piece of work that I can finally call finished.
The animation is inspired by an article about ghost bikes. All across the world people now create these unique memorials to remember those who have died whilst cycling. A completely white bike is placed at the area they died as both a memorial and a warning to motorists to remember to watch out for cyclists on the road.
I cycle on busy roads everyday and the article really spoke to me and inspired me to create a narrative based around those visuals of a white bike.
Here I have been following some tutorials on making some brushes for hair and skin. Thought I would give them a try and draw my sister's portrait. Reasonably pleased for a first digital portrait painting. Lots of room for improvement.
This was done as a wedding gift for a close friend. I have grown up with two German Shepherd dogs and I think they are gorgeous. This was a pleasure to draw as he is a stunning dog.
I found the image to be very washed out and lacking in contrast. I didn't have any pens that would work on such heavy pencil marks so I decided to experiment and used black ink and a really old ink pen. It turned out to be a great mix adding strong lines and deep blacks. Definitely something I will reuse in the future. I was also really lucky with the frame. The image proportions were rather wide and I was expecting to have to trim a lot off but I actually found a really wide frame for it which only required minimal trimming.
Really pleased with the final outcome. It has inspired me to dig out some old pictures of my dogs and create some portraits of them.
Well I have run out of time to do any more. I'm quite happy with my first major attempt at using my graphics tablet. I'm not sure I fulfilled the brief, he feels too much Santa and not enough Kung Fu. The pose could be more extreme and dramatic. I had fun with this, and at times I couldn't stop working on it. Looking forward to doing some more digital drawing.
I spent a lot of time researching movement and motion on a bicycle.
This is the article that originally inspired my animation. The image was so striking and powerful that it immediately started creating images and narratives in my mind.
Here I have been following some tutorials on making some brushes for hair and skin. Thought I would give them a try and draw my sister's portrait. Reasonably pleased for a first digital portrait painting. Lots of room for improvement.
Well I have run out of time to do any more. I'm quite happy with my first major attempt at using my graphics tablet. I'm not sure I fulfilled the brief, he feels too much Santa and not enough Kung Fu. The pose could be more extreme and dramatic. I had fun with this, and at times I couldn't stop working on it. Looking forward to doing some more digital drawing.
