Jail House Jazz: backgrounds

Ive been working on these backgrounds over the last few days, using the textures I made a while back based on Klimts paintings. The backgrounds are of the night sky above the rooftops, the inside of the house looking out the window and the trumpet case prison on a shelf.

Deck of cards: 16th centuary cards

2 new packs of cards arrived in the post last week, i ordered them for inspiration for my Cards project.

They are printed by rose and pentagram designs and they are replicas of a 16th century french deck of cards which is a very similar design to cards we still use today except without the numbers and a !6th Century German pack of satirical playing cards, which is a 48 card deck (is has no ACE cards) and each cards is a detailed picture card.

The cards are lovely, here are some scans

Rise and shine: Animation tests in Celaciton

Yesterday I had the oppotunity to go to a workshop in using Celaction, the Workshop was brilliant, and the software is great, I really enjoyed using it, its simple to get to grips with and easy to get started on. By the end of the day I had completed 2 walk cycles with my cut out dog character, they are not perfect but with a little more practise i think we are going to have a very professionally looking animation for this group project.

Life Drawing: 18th January

I had a life drawing session today which a enjoyed, i produced a few pieces i was happy with. I looked at movement in the body and also experimented with different medias; inks and coloured pencils.

Deck of Cards: black rock collective

I bought this awesome pack of cards, as inspiration for my Deck of cards project, online a few days ago and they arrived to day.

They are made by the Black Rock Collective

"the black rock collective, or BRC, is a group of internationally local artist, illustrators and designers who come together to share ideas and feed of each other's talents."

Each card in the pack is individually designed by a different artist so the pack is made up of 54 different pieces of artwork. The pack is really beautiful and has inspired me to do some more work on this project!

Jail House Jazz: Character Spreads

These are the 2 page spreads for the character designs to go into my bible.

Jail House Jazz: Consept storyboard

I've been working the last couple of days on the concept story board for my Production Bible for the Jail House Jazz animation for the Pre-production Brief.
Ive been painting each board and i've scanned them in to work on in photoshop, the last image here is some character designs for the human versions of the instruments.