Character Lookbook  

Character Lookbook  

In order to develop my world a bit further, I have created concept art of some of the environments. The very first one wasn’t super relevant to my concept but there are still aspects that link nicely, such as the wizard figure (a mage) and the mountains, which could be considered to be the ones bordering Tillursir, the elven kingdom, so I am including it.     Here are also the justifications that I did for this specific piece a while back:     Now, onto my more recent artwork. In the same way as for the posters, I once […]

See relevant posts: Double Exposure – After Effects and Age of Umbra – Poster    

As a part of my production for Age of Umbra, I have created two posters. I would have liked to have completed more, and do have many more ideas, but unfortunately, I don’t have available time left. One thing I will definitely be taking away from this project is to organise myself better and have better time management. I will also be referring to the research I have done on posters, which can be found here. I started with some thumbnail sketches to get some ideas and I like them all, but I went with the first one, as it […]

Following on from my storyboard and animatic for the title sequence, I created it fully in After Effects, complete with colour, sound and proper transitions. Here is the video:     As always, I began with making assets for each of the characters and the castle which is shown later on in the clip, making sure to think about layering and how I was going to animate the joints. Since this was my first time animating people in after effects, I was new to the process of making a movable character, but I thought about which parts of the limbs […]

In film and media, there is almost always a meaning behind everything – every decision made is thought over and directed towards the purpose of portraying something/relating to the piece of media in some way. In film, there are obvious things like costume design, using certain props or elements and of course scripting, but there are also meanings behind the more subtle things, like the lighting and camera music, and some cases the music (not always subtle), which add to the scene so well, if made to seem natural, can go unnoticed. That being said, there are two categories of […]

Following on from my post about double exposure and how to create it in Photoshop, I have now developed the skills I learned by using the effect to create an animated sequence. Firstly, here are some important things to know about creating the ‘ghost effect’ in After Effects: One of the most essential steps in the method involves Alpha channels, which control the opacity, and what parts of a digital image are transparent.     It is also important to understand what track mattes are, especially for me, as I would use the footage related to them most when creating […]

Double Exposure is a technique that combines two different images or exposures by layering them on top of each other. But firstly, what is exposure? It refers to how much light a camera sensor is ‘exposed’ to, hence the name. In film photography, this technique is popular and used often, by exposing the same portion of film twice, resulting in the second image being superimposed on the first. Double Exposure is also known as the ‘ghost effect’ because it often happened by accident. An important thing to note is that both elements (layers) are visible on top of each other. […]

This post is a continuation of the matte painting post, where the artwork below was first created. In this lesson, I have further developed the skills necessary to make a matte painting by adding animation. To recap – A Matte Painting is defined as: ​ “a painted representation of a landscape, set, or distant location that allows filmmakers to create the illusion of an environment that is not present at the filming location.” To enhance the matte painting I already created, I imported it into AE in order to add movement to certain aspects of the painting, and really make it feel alive. Firstly, I wanted to […]