Hey guys! I was told yesterday that I hadn’t updated my blog in too long by one of the guys I’m working with on a game, and he was entirely right!
I have been working my ass off on three different gigs lately so there hasn’t been much time for anything but working and sleeping. I really wanted to share something though, and I got the green light from Cosmic Apple to show one of the character designs I’ve done for a movie they’re producing in collaboration with Rowbot Street. Doing concept art for movies is great! I’ve had a lot of fun working with Dan Rowbottom who is writing and directing the thing. It is currently in pre-production, and it’s already started to pop op on various movie sites around the net, which is awesome! Cosmic Apple is also doing a podcast series during the production. The second one is out now and I’m in it stumbling over words and trying to be coherent about what a concept artist does on a film.. haha.. have a look at it here: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcz5ly_raven-waiting-podcast-episode-2_shortfilms.
Anyways.. here is the character/creature design I was allowed to show:
Thank you for letting me put it on here, Dan!
It’s gonna be awesome to see the guys I’ve designed walk around on screen!
And the title promised a photoshop tip as well; I was thinking about composing pictures and placing focal points. So I wanted to make a way to get the rule of thirds as a guide when I’m doing the composition sketches and such.
Some of you guys might have already found this one out, but I wanted to share nonetheless.
So here it is; the rule of thirds tool type thingamajig:
Step 1:
Step 2:
And you’re done! You can turn off and on the guides by pressing CTRL+’
The beauty of this thing is the guides will readjust regardless of your canvas size or pixel count :)
Hope some of you found it useful!
Thanks for stopping by!