[Jimmyjimjim]

Stuff from the last few terms at Art Center. I'm full Entertainment Design now, so I'm doing a lot more painting than I'd gotten a chance to do previous terms. I've been on break the last week so I finally had time to compile a bunch of stuff. I'll try to update more frequently from now on.

imaginatomy
In imaginatomy we designed an original creature and made a skeletal maquette. I wanted to do something you might actually find in a museum. Mine was a cross between a Stegosaurus, Iguana, and Brontosaurus called Steguanasaurus Armatus.


Color Theory Project
The theme of the final project was "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp". Instead of going super fanciful, I tried to go for a distinct Mesopotamian feel for eveything.

Scene 1: Aladdin searches for the lamp.


Scene 2: Aladdin spies on the princess in her bath.


Enviros: Aladdin's Ziggurat palace, night & day.



Character Designs: Young Aladdin, Adult Aladdin, The Magician, The Sultan.


Sketching For Illustration
A painting class (despite the name). We worked from life on themed still-lifes and model sessions. I had never really painted before. The teacher, Bob Kato absolutely rocks. I feel about 200% more compitent with a brush.

Mid-term painting: The theme was "an accident waiting to happen". I don't know if it's readable small, but the computer has a blue screen and there is a precariously perched bottle of water above the monitor. Whoever is working gets mad, pounds the desk.....


Final Painting: A random crime. Hopefully self-explanatory.


Originality in Design
Taught by Nick Pugh. This was easily the best class this term. It's all about developing our own design language and process. For the ships and enviros, I was "free-form" modelling with Alias Studio and rendered over the output.

The idea behind my work was what would happen if one dimensional objects were forced to exists in three-dimentional space, and if three dimensional objects were forced to exists in one dimentional space. Essentially they would meet in the middle and (maybe) look like this.

Characters: What a the same character might look like in different dimensions


Environments:



Vehicles:



Physical model constructed as part of final:


Intro to Entertainment
A great class last term taught by Eric Robison. The idea was to create our own idea for a movie and design environments/vehicles/characters/etc.

Movie Poster:


Vehicles:



Enviros:



Visual Communication 3
VisComm 3 was all about material indication with traditional media and photoshop. These are all photoshop renders.


Product Design 2
The project for Product 2 was soft-goods storage systems. My idea was a storage system for watersports enthusiasts. The idea began complex, butr got distilled down into a backpack that you could store wet stuff in and keep the ability to dry. I had a video pesentation on this that an Emmy and Promax award winning editor friend did.




Visual Communication 4
A sketching class. Here are a few excerpts from my book-

[lysander]

i love the vehicle renders

i wish i could some how go to art center, its a shame I'm in england.
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[Naeem]

amazing stuff.
you switched from an ID major to entertainment design major, then?
anyhow, i love every single painting/work. they're all beautifully done.
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[Jimmyjimjim]

Thanks!

Annis- Yeah, I'm Entertainment Design now. I'm still considered ID, though because I have to continue with alot of the Product stuff. Still getting a BS instead of a BFA, though so I'm cool with that.

[Lunatique]

Really cool stuff! It's no wonder that Art Center students are among some of the best in the entertainment industry--they are very well trained by the school.

[Naeem]

you updated again. the imaginatomy stuff is completely awesome. and the last two pages of sketches are grea ttoo. did you use prismacolor markers for the sketches that are colored in, especially the green lizard on the first page?
keep it up. post some more if you can . by the way, are you graduating soon?

p.s. i see. i applied as illustration with a completely new portfolio from the one i showed you a while back. i think a big improvement from the last. anyhow, if i get accepted, it's illustration, and then entertainment design in illustration from there. you're doin great man. keep it up.
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