Room Assignment + Yoshi Study Thing

So we were assigned to do a children's bedroom, I've been busy rendering my design, here's what I have so far, still a WIP.

Here's the initial sketch for that:

 

And here's an influence map of painting styles. I was really thinking a lot about bastion while working on this.

Also earlier this week I did a study in my sketchbook where I took Yoshi and studied the proportions and how they related back to realism, examining how the features were stretched. I scanned them in and slapped on some color.

Assignment(s): Period costumes + Lighthouse Layouts

I was assigned to create an outfit for a character in the past, present, and future themed on a specific culture. My subject was India. I tried some line-less value sculpting for this.

I mostly concentrated on the extremely colorful shawls worn traditionally in India. And tried to explore how someone today might casually wear one in a modern business setting. As for the future outfit I tried to adapt the same concept to be more uniform and sleek, with a bright yet more controlled color scheme.

Additionally, I was assigned to do value studies for environments involving a lighthouse, here's those!

Assignment: Character Expressions

We were assigned to draw the same character in multiple expressions. Here's my sheet of expressions featuring my character, the inventor Verrall Tarantella.

Maya and Megaman

Was working on my character for Maya, the models not entirely done but I wanted to test my rig by rendering out an animated turn-around. Ill probably come back and re-do it once I finish the model off.

Here's some shots showing the poly distribution. The above animation was using poly smoothing.

And this is the character design I was working off, complete with turn around.

In other news I did an illustration of a character for one of my friends mega-man fan-game. It's of their custom robot-master, Nebula Man.

The projects called Mega Man Time Tangent.

Nebula Man even has a pretty sweet theme song. The video features an old design however.

Assignment: Rat Zodiac

Assignment: Create a character duo based on a Zodiac animal, using silhouettes for design. Write them into a story.

Cheng is a humble street urchin living at the bottom rung of feudal china's strict social ladder. Even so, he's always been content with his status. Not to be mistaken however, Cheng's no fool. He learned early on that the easiest way to make it through the day unscathed was to stay polite and professional, and to keep from ruffling the feathers of his overseers. 

Things change when Cheng winds up saving a feisty rat spirit in a twist of fate. In return, the spirit cooks up a conniving plan to move Cheng up the social ladder and get him a little recognition and power. Cheng ends up forced into a lot of character compromising situations, and admits he's happy as he is.

Only problem is, the spirit won't take no for an answer.

Also here's my silhouettes and reference material: