Prop Experimenting

Dero Shroake

Here's a character sheet for Dero Shroake, Caldera's Brother. I made him young and a little morose. His parents died recently after all. Dero wears his dads sweater every day as a grief coping mechanism.

I'm trying to show how his sweater sleeve work with is hands

Finished Color Script

More Sham Designs

Ok. So the first thing I did was study some expression sheets that had that a good sense of volume. I painted them with value to force myself to think about volume and to get quicker by using a time limit for each bust. (You mentioned earlier that I am definitely not fast, and that has really stuck with me. I'm trying to force myself to produce more efficiently.) 

I also got a copy if blender and Maya, but it is going to take a long time to get good enough with those to model busts. So I bought some sculpy and made primitive busts.

Then, I've fixed some errors with my previous design and drew more 3/4 expressions.

More action poses

And Lastly, here are a few more sham designs that I was playing around with.

Sham and Capt. Naphi (First Try)

More Railsea Props

After our last talk, I made more props for the rail sea world with an effort to expand the shape language that I use.

Watertowers

Factories based on different power method throughout history, hydro powered, coal powered, and nuclear powered. 

I started to refine some of the silhouettes for last time and use material choice and shape to differentiate these train by function and origin.

Clunker- Transport train

Single body clockwork train

High Tech Salver Train

Military Ferro-Naval Train

Box Trolls Character Design Concepts

Here are some of the characters design concepts for Box trolls. I'll be using these to inform my character design when the time for that comes.

Box Trolls Environment Concepts

Here's some of the environment concept art for Box Trolls. Hopefully it'll help put some context around the design choices that I've been making thus far.

Establishing Shots and RailSea Style

Here is the Establishing shot that you sent

 My first task was to take your layout and make it fit into the railsea world. I decided to give myself a shape limitation, and only use trapazoids. I used this limitation, because I was concerned that my shape choice would seem non-committal and would lack cohesion. There are also some story driven reasons why I chose trapazoids in particular. This took a surprisingly long time to do. I'd like to chat a bit about how to speed this up, and to speed up in general.

I'm not pleased with any of these value studies. I think I'll do some more before moving to the next step.

I also felt at this point that my trains an buildings where under designed so, I took a break from this image and spent some time thinking about the shape language of the trains and buildings.