Monday 9 November 2009

Where I am at the moment


I have been preparing more of my essay on The Dark Knight. One of the things I will be looking at is how the design of the production has made the film more realistic from the comics or other batman films.


Ive only started this weeks batch of Maya tutorials and still need to do eight more parts for the house.


I've never seen Alien before and I enjoyed it. I thought it looked very up to date except for the scene when the baby alien run away. It was jumpy rather than scary. This was created by long scenes of not much happening with a sudden appearance of the alien, hidden in the shadows.

See the latest drawings and painting below in the previous post.

3 comments:

  1. Hi Ethan,

    glad to see your still sketching ideas etc. That an interesting point of view from the pit although at this angle the pendulum is losing its iconic shape, I think if yoiu stay with this angle you are ghoing to need to find a way to emphasise the nature and intent of the metal as it swings back and forth.

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  2. Hello! Yes, I've had another look at the Pit images, and I agree with Simon... how about if your angle of view was more over to the right (where the big rat is)? Then you wouldn't be directly under the pendulum and you might be able to see more of its shape...

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  3. Interim Online Review - Unit 2 : Space 10/11/09

    Hi Ethan,

    You began this unit very confidently and your relationship to your blog is beginning to feel more immediate and self-directed; all of this is good, but, predictably, I'm going to urge you to keep building on this improvement. I encourage you to take a look at Ruben's blog for a clear 'yardstick' by which to measure your own workflow and engagement; yes, Ruben had excellent drawing skills, but it's his approach to showing his creative approach that I'd like you to focus on; the way he organises his pipeline of tasks - from book research and film adaptations, to the text, to preliminary sketches, to thumbnails, to the development of more resolved digital paintings; he archives every stepping stone - alongside his responses to the various movies and other observations. Think of your blog as a 'project document' - yours is still missing some information - some stages presumed, but not shown.

    Regarding your critical responses to the movies etc., you appear to be growing in confidence here too and I'm personally pleased that you've responded positively to the cultural programme; that said, one of the things I want you to build into your workflow is a more comparative approach to discussing the films; I want you to always accompany your reviews with some supporting reviews from other sources; this ability to find and use evidence to support your views is absolutely central to the construction of successful written assignments. I'm going to follow this post with a second, more general comment about the essay, included with which is a list of websites providing an exhaustive number of reviews - use them.

    Regarding the scenes themselves, Simon and Jackie are 'bang on' about the composition of the Pit and the Pendulum image; the pendulum is like the 'catchphrase' of Poe's story - the most recognisable, iconic element - and you should use it to your advantage; I'd also suggest that, currently, the audience of rats lend a more cartoony element to the tone of the image, which may - or may not - be welcome.

    In terms of balance, I find the first painting a bit disproportionate, with the wall on the right; if you were to create more of a vignette effect - with the view channeled through a view (the image balanced out by the limbs of a tree or another part of the building), then a greater sense of depth might be achieved; it might also feel a bit more voyeuristic, thus lending more menace and intent to the scene. I'd like to return your attention to that early painting you did of the crypt - it was very successful because it conveyed depth and a real sense of spatiality - something that is currently missing from your more recent images.

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