Hyenas and Raspberries

Some extra drawings done before working

This Cintiq is absolutely amazing

The scary Black Pete

Characters based on micro organisms like water bears.

Werehyenas

Mistfit or Mistpit, dunno lol

Cute Rasperuga

Red Eagle

Sneaky Snake Skull Scavenger

Fortune teller 

New website

Three more weeks and it is over, I can't wait, I swear I can't wait for it to be over so that I can finally work on Elsewhere full time!

I will update the blog with more content from the movie, but I won't be be able to put any finla piece for a while since I am planning on sending it to some festivals.

Oh! Check out my new website: http://ghigol8l.wix.com/giacomoghigo

meanwhile
here's some picture I did in the free time

Old Salomone

Warrior's Rest

Witch of the Wild

A walk in the dark

Now we are close to the end, just two months more or less and we meet the deadline. I can't lie, I am quite scared, despite we are way ahead in schedule, I feel like I am not ready to move forward...everything has been scheduled for 9 months, what will happen afterwards? All the people I met here will go away and university will be pretty much over. It is exciting in a way but on the other, it is terrifying.

All I can do is work hard, the hardest and as usual hope for the best and prepare for the worst.

I have been quite busy in the last weeks, doing loads of clean ups. We are pretty much done at this point, so I will move to shadows and coloring. I bloody hate cleaning up at this point!

here's an example. Animation by Luke O'Sullivan. 

have done some designs for Falling in Love, here are some

and for Alphabet Patch

for the game I am working on, I started the 3d model of the highwayman, Aaron Donlon fixed all the mistakes I did.

and in my freetime I have been doodling a lot

my brother

me

shady university

and last but not least, I have been doing fishes on my sketchbook all week, so it seems appropriate to do a big drawing like back in the days with all the animals i designed

Design new website

ARGH

I got so many things to worry about and now in addition I need to make a website for me. I do not have much experience in these kind of things, I hope I will manage in time: I am ahead of course work but I am super far behind in website, cv and I also need to make a twitter account!

ARGH

I wish all i had to do was drawing and directing :'(
One day Jack, one day


i have been doing more clean ups and drawings in the meanwhile, I'll post here some of em

Animation by James White and Sophie Rippington, clean up by me

Some design for the game I am working on

and two random ones

Over the break

New years eve is over, I am done eating an insane amount of food, ready to go back working on my animation. I haven't being able to accomplish much home, mostly because I was too busy write that cursed dissertation. Took a long time but I managed to get it done today.

Well anyway, I still managed to get some backgrounds done for Falling in Love and I am dealing with some color issues: I want the character to blend in but to stand out at the same time...it is an oxymoron but I know what I am doing, ahahah! Or at least I think i do. All my crew member are working on it as well, so hopefully someone will take us out this sticky situation.

My color test, Salomone blends a little too much

In the free time I have been doing some more drawing on Photoshop, I am trying to do different things and different poses. As usual I keep having issues with colors, Don't know if it is the saturation, the shading or the color themselves.

                                           

I managed to scan some of my latest drawing, since I am done with my old sketchbook, I'll practice by coloring them in my free time.

Here are some examples

                                         

                                          

Gourdon Yamsee

"If comedy, in all its changing shapes, has one overriding preoccupation, it is ...that we resemble beasts more closely than we resemble gods, and we make great fools of ourselves the moment we forget it"
Howard Jacobson

Ugh I spent the whole week fixing the animatic and I put it together with my editor Sophie Rippington. I really hope I can get done with the animatic so that we can focus on making the movie look pretty and interesting. We are starting animating soon, so I better pick up the pace and get stuff done.
Louis Cook from Aardman came to give us feedback last week and I got to say I was pretty confident after the first time he saw out animatic, considering he had a laugh and all the tutors seem impressed of it.

Oh boy I was wrong

The day after, on the individual tutorials, Mr Cook destroyed the movie bit by bit. He wasn't mean, actually he was very helpful. but the feeling of having to re do every single suicide gag to make it more interesting...ugh...it just killed me! ahahaha!

Worked a lot on the second half of the week, since I had an awful fever at the beginning, but luckily Leo fed me and covered me in blankets until I was good as new!

I am not very worried about the animation at this point, what really scares me are very quick spiders and the bloody dissertation

Well wish me luck

also

Boo, happy all saints day and halloween

Stargazer

I came up with a small fairytale while thinking about Carl Seagan talking about how we are all made of star stuff, I called it the Stargazer

At the origin of time there was a giant, called Stargazer: he was humongous and gentle, but he was lonely. One day while staring at the void of the universe he wondered if there was somebody over there, on those shiny dots who felt lonely as well. The Stargazer then stood up and started whirling his hand and all the stars around him gathered together. The cluster was almost as big as him but it was cold and lifeless: the Stargazer wondered what went missing, why he was still feeling lonely. He then grabbed the cluster close to his chest and he hugged it so hard that the two became one.
In the cluster of stars there was now movement, heat and life: Stargazer was no longer lonely, he was happy, able to witness all those beings loving an living their lives.

From that day onwards. whenever you feel lonely, look up in the sky: Stargazers are never lonely


I wrote this while i was very tired lol

Fairy yourself

Pixies are spirits of the nature who protect forests and like to pull pranks on everybody
Fairies do not like to be pranked

I imagined pixies being made of wood and grass, jumping around and being very annoying, while the fairies are spirits who shape themselves as stuffed animals and protect children until they grow up.

Keep the canvas the same

Well I tried fiddling with my canvas size and I definitely made it too big. This simple pic came out 1 gigabyte and a half. SICK

I drew this vampire chick in my free time. Drawing assets of a glass man for 4 hours can be ... umh

boring?

Smokey beast in the abyss

I was getting pretty bored of doing just stuff for University so I took 1 hour off and I drew this
and boy I like it!
In terms of design there is not much going on, but I really wanted to do something dynamic! I had to do few things but well done. I'll try doing more concepts like this one, with few colors but with a strong contrast.

Looking forward to do more :)

I used various color layers in overlay at the end to change the atmosphere a little bit.

Blueish

Normal

Orange

Bald BLADE

So Leo suggested me that I should take some drawing I did on my sketchbook and render them on photoshop.
I though that it was MADNESS and i struggled a lot. Yet after leaving half the drawing resting for a couple of months i finished it in half an hour and had a lot of fun!

Here is the process

Sketchbook: I wanted to try to make an heroine less sexualised than usual.

Photoshop render: It s hard to make something you already did without any guidelines. You know, after you brush for a while the drawing at the base is completely gone, soo...yea

Portrait: I have no clue why I wanted to do this

Palette challenge 1

I haven't had much time for myself lately, I have been quite tired and demotivated, especially when it came to drawing stuff of mine.
End of the story
NO JUST KIDDING
the other day I imposed myself to start a palette challenge: I found 50 different combinations of 5 colors and with all of them I'll do a small drawing. It's fun and I feel like it helps a lot in improving my painting skills. Here are some of them!

Goo Dragon

Pink mage

Samurai kitsune

Poppy parrot

Purple bust