Production Artist: RALPH EGGLESTON

Production Artist

Secret Lairs Project: Crit Presentation

Presentation

Final Render - Martian King

Character Bible

The Martian King-

My character is a small, timid person but to increase his status in power he likes big things and feeling high.

I wanted the world he lived in to reflect not only him but how his lair would be, so I took the elements of MARTIAN and KING which lead me to different ideas:

The Martian King flag design I made represents his status as well as the arrow points up, meaning high and rising, much like what he wants.

MARTIAN - MARS - SAND - REPTILES - EGGS - SHELL - BONES - DEAD - ALIEN - GIANT - LIVING INSIDE A DEAD REPTILE - GIANT TORTOISE SHELL.

This shows how I got the idea leading to my lair and how it affects my character, by having his lair inside a giant animal, i wanted it to show power and almost an errety-ness as he's living inside something that is dead.

Thumbnails

Here are all my thumbnails for my secret lair

Secret Lair Project: Maya

Here is all of the work into my scene so far, comment would be much appreciated :)

This is the lair of the Martian King. Inside is lair sits his orrery (Hero Prop) His lair is inside a giant dead tortoise, I wanted to go with this idea because I wanted to have a un-likely world, so giant animals fitted that, as well as being a world of sand and dust, I decided to go with a desert animal.

Here is the build up of the lair.

This one was my first render of all lights and objects, I didn't like the camera angle and the space seemed too small, so I extended it and made the walls look more "boney" I also added some, small, but additional lights.

This is the most up to date unfinished image of my lair, please give comment, will be much appreciated :)

@Phil: Hero prop

I've made it more decorative, is this better? :)

@PHIL-- Secret Lairs: Hero Prop

Secret Lairs: Online Green Light Review 2

Presentation OGR2

Secret Lair: Maya shots

After we had our lesson with Jordan, he advised making a space out in Maya and painting over it. I created what I wanted my scene to start looking like. Here are some shots of the scene from different angles, please could I have feedback on which shot looks most interesting, thanks.

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Artist research

After my OGR and talk with Phil, I started taking a different look at my Martian King.

To start I wanted to do some research on a more military/large scaled lair.

For my inspiration and artist research I looked at a few different things. Looking at large areas, detail, items, machinery (?) and all the in between.

I started with Pakin Liptawat. A concept artist that does a variety of 3D, line art, textured and coloured pieces.

Here is his blog to see more

This next one. Jim Martin, has such a more detailed, photo realistic style

Here is the blog to see more

I also look at the game The Division for it's floor map hologram

Lastly I look at the making of Pacific Rim. This is for possible armor suits my Martians wear (Hero prop maybe?)

Animations!

Here are the aniamtions that I have not uploaded yet that we done in Megs classes.

The face morph:

morpm face0410 from Lisa Huntley on Vimeo.

The stop motion:

murphey from Lisa Huntley on Vimeo.

Maya tutorials

Here are my Maya tutorial screen shots so far.

Cups

Pencil and Eraser

Film Review: Le Belle et la Bete

La Belle et la Bête: Written in 1946 by Jean Cocteau. This French Black and White movie is an enjoyment to watch. Being the first in the creations of “The Beauty and the Beast” it’s clear symbolism of romance and that beauty is only skin deep shows throughout the film “ Jean Cocteau'sBeauty and the Beast (1946) bluntly celebrates a love that privileges interior beauty over external repulsiveness. Embodied by the titular Beast, physical ugliness here is only skin-and-mottled-fur deep.” 

[fig 1, the front cover of La Belle at la Bete

In the beginning of the film we see Beauty waiting on her sisters while her father awaits shipment of goods to save their home. This idea of two evil sisters is connected to the story of Cinderella by Walt Disney (1950) 

The idea of the sisters feeling higher than Belle, (and in Cinderella). The father ventures out to obtain the goods from his ships to find they haven’t returned. It is late at night but he decides to travel home anyway, the night is foggy and dangerous so the father finds safety within the castle, the beasts castle. He picks a rose for Beauty which upsets the beast and he demands that he be killed. The father begs for forgiveness and the Beast demands a replacement for his death, his daughter. Beauty takes the place but is treated like a princess by the Beast, being asked every day to wed him till the point when the curse is lifted and she accepts. The story line is pretty magical and very love orientated.

[fig 2, Belle is asked to wed the beast]

This story influenced Walt Disney’s recreation; 'Beauty & the Beast'(1991). Many points in the theatrical version you see influencing the fairytale film by Disney, such as the mirror, the rose and the ornaments being alive. “In this film, Cocteau uses the mirror to allow the characters to see things happening in other places. In his other works such as Orpheus, Blood of the Poet, Les Parents Terrible, and Les Enfants Terribles he uses a mirror as a mode of transporting from the real to the surrealistic worlds. Cocteau used the mirror for introspective exploration".

 [fig 3, bell is running through the castle]

Bibliography:
(1)  http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9B03EFD71E3EEE3BBC4C51DFB467838C659EDE&partner=Rotten%2520Tomatoes

(2)  http://people.wcsu.edu/mccarneyh/fva/c/La_Belle_et_la_Bete_780.html

Images:
[1] http://www.leninimports.com/jean_cocteau_la_belle_et_la_bete_gallery.html

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty_and_the_Beast_%281946_film%29

[3] http://lisathatcher.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/la-belle-et-la-bete-jean-cocteau-re-imagines-fairytales-film-review/