My Mickey Mouse Degree

I cleaned up and coloured that Raz pic today, but I’m not too pleased with it. I still need a lot more practice with digital painting, but hell, you may as well see it.

RazCol.jpg

I dunno, I prefer the original sketch by a mile. This is a bit naff. Plus I somehow forgot his backpack and didn’t correct the horrible eye mistake. Ah well, live and learn and other cliches.

In other news I finished BioShock today. It was blimmin’ amazing. I felt the ending was a bit abrupt though, didn’t really give me chance to muse over the climax as I tend to do when I’ve just been told a good story, so it kinda deflated the whole thing. Still, never before has a game told a story so well without any cutscenes whatsoever (ignoring the beginning and end), Half-Life 2 has been officially dethroned. Though only just, mostly because of G-Man’s voice. That is one fine voice he has, and I don’t even swing that way.

I also did a bunch of drawings today, but I can’t really be damned to photograph them now so I’ll post ‘em up tomorrow, just for you. Have a pleasant evening.

Man, I’ve been playing BioShock a lot recently, mostly because it has the best story ever, in the world, and I want to kiss it.

If you have an Xbox 360, or a fancy PC, you really should check it out, it continues to amaze me every time I fire it up and consequently wet myself with fear and joy simultaneously.

But enough about BioShock for now, I’ve finally attempted to get my head around Burne Hogarth’s Dynamic Anatomy (a book, not his actual anatomy, which may or may not have been dynamic). I’m kind of starting to grasp it, but I’m not reading all the words because they scare me. Actual muscles names may indeed be useful, but they’re a bit daunting for me, so I just draw the pictures and read the distances between each body part. Ah well.
Anyways, here’s the best of today’s produce (there were many others that sucked royally) -

Ears and Necks

Eyes and Nose 2

Eyes and Nose 1

Ugly Looking Blokes

And one more from BioShock, just for kicks. I forgot the canister things on his back, but I’ll add them on when I clean it up.

Big Daddy

Speaking of cleaning up, I’ll hopefully have chance to stick that Raz picture up from yesterday with inks and colours at some point this week, I quite liked that one. And possibly the Clown picture too.

Well, that’s me done for now.

Well, I finally got that banner done. It’s a bit crude but making things look good in Photoshop isn’t one of my strong points.

Figured I may as well show some of my recent drawings while I’m here.

Some Psychonauts fan art! -

Raz

A Clown! -

Clown

A doodle (with some perspective issues) from a project I’m working on! -

Windmill Boy

And some pose sketches! -

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I can’t really be bothered to write too much now, I’m horribly addicted to BioShock on the Xbox 360 at the moment, so with that, I shall leave thee be, mateys.

Okay then, let’s get started with this thing.

Hey, I’m Matt, and I’m an animation student.

That intro may sound like a heartfelt admission at an Alcoholic’s Anonymous meeting, but I like it.

I also like animation, thankfully. I like the painstaking tedium, the mind numbing frustration, the wondrous feeling of joy when all those marks on the paper finally come to life.

Currently, or rather, in a month or so, I’ll be undertaking the third and final year of my course in Computer Animation at the University of Teesside here in the UK.

For the two years I’ve been studying animation I’ve learnt a lot, as I started knowing absolutely nothing.

I just thought animation was about drawing loads of pictures, when I got to uni and found that it was about drawing loads of pictures, acting, animation principles and all the rest I didn’t know where to begin. Hell, I still don’t half the time, but I kind of grasp what it’s about now. I wouldn’t say I can animate well, but I think I could get there.

I enjoy all the usual stuff aside from animation – playing videogames, watching movies, reading, playing guitar/piano etc. etc.

So I guess that’s basically me, hope you stick around to look at my blog.

Oh, and here’s a link to the last animation I did (couple of weeks ago).

Hey all, I’ll be updating this thing with a banner etc. over the next day or so, plus a post introducing me and my mindblowingly exciting life that you won’t be able to stop yourself reading about (perhaps).

Until then you’ll have to attempt to enjoy reading this particular post repeatedly, or go do something else for a while. Up to you, my friend.

Cheers for stopping by.