Meeting Minutes 2010-02-01

First Meeting Minutes for this year. Actually drawn a couple of weeks ago but did not find the time to scan...
but here you go....

Daily Sketch

So far it is going great. I do alot of painting latly. I try to get my hand a little more loose and that's why I did a speed painting today... Not so accorate as the others... but I need to get a better flow with the pen and sometimes I think I am way to frightning to draw something wrong or do a wrong line... and it turns out that it is a good feeling just to doodle around...
Still a long way to go...

Old Rocker

2D Painting black and white of an old rocker... some tests about testing shadows and light not quite hit the nail... need also work more und detailing...

Comments always welcome...

MyPaint - Sketchbook painting tool

I am still on the research to improve my painting and sketching skills. Beside wondering through the web for inspiration and tutorials. I am also in the middle of finding the approperiate tool to sketch/paint. I know it comes all down to actual paint but I want at least a tool which supports me, is easy to use, not overloaded with features and has a great response to the pen. Right now I am using my wacom intuos 3.

Searching for the tool found 3 tools most artists speak about

• Sketchbookpro
• Artrage
• Corel Painter

But it seems that there is a new star which seams pretty impressive to me. I found an open source tool which is called MyPaint. At the time writing this post the current stable version is 0.71. But everybody is waiting for the version 0.8 which should be out already...

Detailed information and downloads can be found here:
http://mypaint.intilinux.com/

David Revoy (http://www.davidrevoy.com/) a great artist. He seems to be involved as a conept artist in the blender open movie project "Durian" http://durian.blender.org/ . 

He developed a bunch of very useful brushes and shares his color pallettes, too.
http://www.davidrevoy.com/?article27/free-palettes-to-download-for-gimp-mypaint-and-photoshop

he also shares an amazing video walkthrough tutorial here:
http://www.davidrevoy.com/?article24/video-time-lapse-lezard

So since it is all about painting if I want to improve my skills ...
back to the board =)...

D.

(If I find time I will test the tools from the bullet points above... but for now I will stick with MyPaint)...

Please feel free to comment what tools you use and your thoughts...

Pick of the day: Travisty's Beard

While posting about daily post it of the pixar guys... I stumbled over a blog where the guy's from dreamworks (maker of madacascar 1/2) post there works while beeing creative outside their projects =)...

 enjoy


http://travistysbeard.blogspot.com/

Happy new year doodle

First sketch for this year ... I know I am kind of late =)

Wishing everybody all the best for 2010!!!

Pick of the day: Daily Post It

This is a great Website of some of the pixar artists who post there daily doodles painted on Post-It!

They have a blog and post also on twitter...

http://www.thedailypostit.com/

follow them on twitter @TheDailyPostit

worth checking it =)....

New Years resolution 2010

I realized that I have neglected this blog for a while now! I have also realized that my time for drawing and working on 3D stuff went down dramatically =(..

Last post was in January 2008 that is a very long time ... Since we have December 2009 and it is time again for the new years resulution again...

I decided to hopefully spent more time on painting, working on 3D stuff and also blog about it!

By the way I am on twitter, too...

follow me @dinesfx

Metting Minutes --- Happy new year

Happy New Year... everyone long time no post but here is another drawing.

Meeting Minutes 04

Here is another meeting minutes... again with roler pen... This one is to study poses... ahhh I have to study a whole lot more though... but anyway here is the pic

Meeting Minutes 03

This one is actually a part one and part two. So I started of and did not find the time to finish it. After getting some mo minutes I could, what I would call, complete it...

this reminds me to get rid of that checkboard paper =)... again roller pen... you know the one.

Meeting Minutes 02

here is another meeting minutes doodle.

I think there is a song called "the best things in life are free". Well, I had a roler pen as some sort of merchindising gift... it was great I loved this pen... It was fun to write and doodle with it... but you know. The love didn't last long... so whatever... around christmas there will be some gifts anyway =)

Meeting minutes 01

Long time no post... but hey seems like I end this year like I tried to start it... With some drawings =).

This one was created during a meeting session and it was done with roller pen. I thought I share it. Hope I find the time to draw more (I think I wrote this more than ones... but anyway) here is the doodle...

update moon

I have reworked the shape of the moon ... here is an update!

Moon

Hey! it has been a time since I posted stuff. But I started a project to do a print poster for a charity association which is specialized to save our local open air bath. You can check out the association webpage (http://www.naps-ev.de/).

Anyway they are planing an event to make it possible to swim at night with an illuminated open air bath. Live Musik, Fun.... etc.

So I thought I modle a moon with his little lamp and a floating tire... ready to swim at night =)...

Maybe I post the whole poster in another post (whow one sentence three times post)...

Ok hier is my moon comments and crits are welcome... I have also a thread running on (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=92&t=523077)

ok enough words ... here it is:

Indoor scene camera settings ???? how?

I try to figure out how to set up the camera for an indoor scene.

That is why I posted this Thread on cgtalk.com ...

For this scenario I have a LW scene with three cameras shooting a 4,5mx3mx2,5m room.

Camera24: 640x480 Focal Length 24mm

Camera35: 640x480 Focal Length 35mm

Camer600x300: 600x300 Focal Length 35 mm

I set up the scene this way:

to shoot from the front...

and from the left...

Here are the results... nothing fancy with surfacing and lightning because this should only be a camera perspective test...

Camera 24: front+left

Camera35: front+left

Camera600300: front + left

unfurtunatly this is not realy what I have expected or in better words what I would like to see in the end...

Because when I think about having a guy walking in there... with this camera view I have not overview over the scene... and it doesn't realy feel as I would be a part of it... =(...

WALL · E (next Pixar movie)

Next Pixar Project (Film) is going to be called WALL · E and it is the next one after Ratatouille. This was anounced in disney' Letter To Shareholders . I am excited to see first trailers/teaser... But WALL · E is expected to be in the movies in June 2006 =)

04 / 2007

Unfurtunatly I haven't had much time to draw. I know this is against my thoughts for 2007. But nevertheless I keep on trying =). I have delete some pictures because I thought they were crap. I posted this to my journal (because I thought it is not so much crappy than the ones I have deleted) to hopefully see my progress some day. Well, hey the mountain is high and steep... here is another one called it ORANGE...

03 / 2007

some short colorization test...

02 / 2007

Hey another speedy... I called this one greenish =)... a little color experiment... still long way to go. For the diary: my outlines are bad... need to get rid of them.