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Sonic Attempts Things That Are Sort of Like Art. In a Way.
Sonic
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Hey gang. As some of you know I'm working on a film crew on the coast of NC at the moment. Photos commence in no particular order:
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cool.
What do you do on set?
Yea, what is this movie/show about?
Which has been used on roman coins and there was a festival around the winter solstice (December 25th) for the birthday of the Unconquered Sun.
looks like a film about some guys jogging in some dunes? I hope you didn't make a thread just for production photos if we aren't going to actually get to see the film online.
So the pictures are going to be made public with absolutely no reference to what show/movie they are of?
good job.
Haha, your NDA means precisely dick in the face of such intrusive investigative powers.
What the hell were we supposed to google? +Sonic +film crew +North Carolina?
I googled the whole Sol Invictus thing and came up with nothing.
SkellyB: You must tell us your secrets.
More photos:
EDIT: See below
Off day today... back at it tomorrow. Pictures shall follow.
or is it about to be evening/nighttime, and you're just setting up.
One of the actors is named SKY KING?
SKY. KING.
I'd like to shake his parents hands, and buy them a drink, for taking two semi normal names and combining them into epic.
Hmm, I can think of 2 possible reasons.
1) It's overcast this day, so it's a very soft light that they're getting. Also, it looks like they're bare-bulbing the 1000watt (atleast from what I can see it's a 1000 watt), so that would give them some more pronounced shadows.
OR
2) It looks like the light is pointing at the ground, and the camera is quite low as well. So I would venture a guess saying that the shot is close to the ground. They could have the light bouncing off the sand and acting like a natural bounce board to fill in the actors faces as they would probably be casting a shadow being low to the ground.
So now I'm back to my usual freelance web design/illustration gig and when I've got the free time and motivation I work on silly things like this. It was going to be my entry for the last contest ("how far we've come", or something like that) but obviously I'm a little late.
When I was little... like really little we got to make t-shirts in school one day and for reasons I can't remember I opted for... the Batbear:
My mom dug that shirt out and showed it to me a while back and without much hesitation this popped out:
And now I'm up to here:
Every time I color something I remember how much I lack in that department so crits, comments, advice... all welcome. Progress to follow.
Spice it up! It is drapery, after all - lot's of room to make interesting shapes.
- avoid the muddiness, shirt for example is going that way fast, maybe too many small strokes, or just too many strokes that look like strokes and not development of form
- push the global lighting and focus less on the local
From your past work I feel you know way more about this than I do, and this is probably just it being in the WIP state that I'm seeing things, but who knows, maybe it will help. ;D
So.
There's been something absolutely dominating my free time for the past two days. I'm sure some of you remember all the doodles and sketches of the little boy in his pajamas and cape with his monster sidekick. That was part of a comic project that never came to fruition because I could never quite figure out how I wanted to approach it, or how to deal with all the things I wanted to within' the context of just the little kid's world. Not to mention the "boy with vivid imagination and possibly imaginary sidekick" has been done before far better than I would ever be capable of. So it sat in the back of my mind stewing for the better part of 5 years. I would come back to it, doodle a little, but never come away with much more than the kid's character.
A few days ago I had a tiny revelation that finally let me crack it. I then proceeded to fill about 5 pages worth of notes and ideas and I started drawing. I've been adding more to the notebook everyday since. The story would be non-linear and jump around to different points in this person's life. That way I could still salvage the whimsical stories involving the little boy and his monster friend and base a lot of the rest on events from my own life as the boy grows older. It begins with the main character at age 25 visiting his original home town which he hasn't seen in 12 years. The home he grew up in is in disrepair, the woods he played in are bulldozed, but as he pokes around he finds little artifacts that spark a torrent of memories. Some of which contain a friend he has almost forgotten. One he, himself, isn't sure was ever real.
I call it The Life and Times of Miles King. Coming to an internets near you as I work on it in my spare time. Development and progress shall be posted here.
Like so:
I guess my only critique would be to have a very distinguishing feature carry over for the various Miles designs. With Kaylee you have freckles and what I can only assume is going to be red hair and green eyes, but the only feature I could catch is the eyebrows on Miles seem to stay the same.
I guess what I am saying is if it wasn't for the page layout with the title and ages, I wouldn't think they are the same person.
Can't wait to see it.
otherise cool (still a little too much Nathan Drake
Brokecracker: That's a good point, I'll see what I can do about resemblances.
WCK: I'm really not concerned about a Nathan Drake comparison. I highly doubt that's the first thing that will cross people's minds. Besides Drake's look is pretty cookie cutter when you get down to it. And Miles is supposed to look like a very average dude.
Breaking from this for just a moment, I did one of those progression charts ala Beavotron and Iruka:
Note: The is one tiny little NSFW image at the very bottom.
Its a pretty cool little exercise. I recommend it.