shannAn gia: 2010

Monday, November 8, 2010

Felines ... first with Painter, second with Acrylic!

some pastel drawings i dug up from studying days...

Character Designs for Cartrack Commercial (Maputo)

wip

final

details of the golden egg using gold leaf...

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

1st mad attempt at modelling in 3d! '04

Thursday, March 18, 2010

"White Lion" Visual effects

Realsitic crocodile for the feature film "White Lion" (released 2010)
I was the animator for these shots.

A competition held by a local computer graphic society (formally www.solidpda.co.za ~ now www.animationsa.org) It was a 2d challenge & the theme was 'Winds of change' My matte painting took home first prize~ an Intuos 3 wacom tablet!!! (yay!)

I was asked to write a synopsis for this piece for a mag so I will cheat with a CTRL C, CTRL V - "Africa is on an epic journey, releasing herself from her tumultuous past & transcending into her illuminated, yet uncertain future. I didn't consciously intend the multivalent allegory to this piece as I believe one should 'play' with a concept first & then on completion try to understand the act of creativity/ analyse the result but when one links the biblical reference to the 7 cattle perhaps the deeper meaning was a part of the artists' subconscious intentions. (Matthew 18:21-22 refers to how much one should forgive- "...70 times 7") It gives Africa a way forward -forgiveness."

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Welding

This piece was actually a row of baby cribs ... as if in a incubator with the uv light above. It had 9 cribs in a row... with clay sculptures of a mattress, a pillow & a blanket in each. From one bed to the next the bed slowly came disorganized until the last bed had nothing but a crying baby. This piece was meant to express the vulnerability of the Down's Baby at birth.

This piece was done under the same theme ~ test tubes surrounded a uv light in the centre... the entire central 'cylinder' could be removed from the outside cylinder.