Figure Drawing

So every Wed. night at Digital Domain, we have a live figure drawing session that is open to the artists here. Its been a while since I have actively drawn in a setting like that, so i decided to take advantage of an opportunity like that. here are some of the drawings that I produced from last nights session. it is so nice to draw again, and not so nice to feel how rusty I am after all my training. I guess thats how it goes when you forget to exercise your skills: they go rusty on ya! Thanks for taking a peek. Ciao!

Link To XING Wiki

I am back from the Philippines and am spending a lot of time as Head of Lighting on BYU's current film "XING". You are welcome to take a look at the lighting that has been done for our film. CLICK HERE for that page.

As always, I welcome your comments.

All of the renders you see below are shots that I have lit and are passed off. Don't get too alarmed that one of the characters is white. What you see here is not the final composite. The final composite will have ghosty FX on the white character. Hopefully that final look will be able to show soon. So stay tuned!

XING Lighitng

Online Portfolio

I have created an online portfolio that will make it easier for viewing and quicker critique. Just click on the title "Online Portfolio". Feel free to take a look. I would appreciate any comments and critique.

New Reel

Demo Reel from Alan Bradshaw on Vimeo.

Most recent reel

Color is not just value

So I was watching a video about color today. In it I was taught that color should not just be thought about in terms of value only. But colors are defined in real life by their temperature. Further, for example, as colors loose value, they actually gain in saturation. And the opposite is true: as a color gains in value, it looses in saturation. Its a fun concept. So, I tried it out in a very quick and dirty painting. I stayed mostly within the red to yellow palette. But I tried to apply this new knowledge about color. It has really opened my mind to a greater understanding of the relationship that color & light share together. Enjoy this one!

Value Study

Ty Carter inspired me to try some value studies. Here is the first one.

X-ing Color Scripts

So, originally, we had decided to include 5 color changes in our senior film. The purpose of that was to coordinate the mood of the story with lighting. But, it turns out, after Pixar's visit this week, we have changed things. We have eliminated the scripts down to three light rigs. And since I will be the one that is putting the light rigs together, this works out for the better anyways. So, on to the reason for this post: With the new changes, Brian Kohrman (our Art Lead), Worth Dayley and I sat down for about an hour and revised the color scripts to match the new suggested lighting scheme of 3 rigs instead of 5. What I am showing here are the revised color scripts. I will show of the 3 that I did that represent the 3 light rigs, and I will also show up Worth's script that he did that is also useful in trasnsitions for reference to light and color in our film.

The ones that I did are the first, third and last image you see here. The beginning and the end of the film will follow after the first color script you see. There might be some tweaking of values and saturation at the beginning of the film. But those changes will not be evident in the light rig itself. We plan to do those tweaks in post. The second image you see is the one that Worth did. We needed to make sure to have a solid reference for how colors and light will look like when the sun goes behind the cloud. This is an important story element that needs to parallel very closely in the lighting schemes. Enjoy!