Beth Daigle

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Rembrandt Value/Form Study

This took me longer than I care to admit but I'm learning and that's what's important. Slowly but surely learning.

Thursday, July 19, 2012

So this was a painting exercise I gave myself mostly to see how well and how quickly I could match color and light from an image. I estimate I spent around an hour or so on this drawing. The challenge I gave myself was to not ever sample color from the original photo and simply see how well I could match with just my own eye, also I painted my version entirely on one layer to keep the challenge pure and not using any cheats.

After stepping back and exiting "the zone" I can easily see what I need to work on in terms of training my eye. The biggest things I noticed were:
-Overall I tend to shift hues way too much towards yellow
-I get muddy with my colors rather than keeping them simple and pure
-I soften the light too much and shy away from hard terminators
-I also seem too shy away from heavy saturation and also dark darks and bright whites

With these issues in mind I will work on another photo referenced one hour color study and see how much I can improve. Stay tuned guys!

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Poor clown :(

Thursday, July 12, 2012

WIP Match to Image Plate

Almost finished! I had critique today and will be implementing the final fixes over the weekend :)

Photo is on the right, CG render is on the left. Rendered in mental ray in linear color space.

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Project 4- Non-Standard Shading

I really wanted to get an interesting mix of 2D and 3D here so I incorporated image projections with cell shaders to get the aesthetic I was going for. Though cell shading is still very very new to me, the idea still interests me. As I experiment with it I would like to see the different directions I could take it in. At this point I'm beginning to consider non-standard shading for my senior film.

As far as this image goes, I feel happy with it overall but I will be testing a few things out to see if I can get better results. Mostly the procedural granite is what's bugging me. I'm going to try to replace it for the most part with grain images of my own. Also I want to try playing with saturation just a tad more. Honestly, this image could change quite a bit but I'll post anything new that happens. Stay tuned!

Also, here's some awesome style inspiration I've found.
Backwater Gospel
Mighty Antlers