Sketching on the street of Tokyo

Dinner at a small Japanese restaurant with Peter Meldgaard after a long day at the Tokyo Game Show. Painted in around 40 minutes

CGMA - Color and light

Week 4 of Color and Light class. We had to choose four refrence images to study and replicate (without colorpicking)

Photoshop script that prevent Photoshop jumping layers

Just wanted to share a neat little script I found for Photoshop. It prevents Photoshop from jumping layers when undoing and it has all ready saved me tons of frustrations of painting on the wrong layer. Thanks to Sinistergfx for saving me a lot of headaches:

The forum where I found it:

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1251347#post1251347

And the script:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3580711/StepBackwardSmart.jsx

Add the script to the Photoshop script folder and assign a hotkey to it.
Edit - Keyboard Shortcuts - Application Menus - File - Scripts

Trip to Estonia

Enara and I have just returned from a wonderfull trip to Roland and Minas wedding in Estonia. It has been such a nice trip, meeting new friends and hanging out with old ones, celebrating the lovely couple. Some drawings from the trip.

CGMA - Color and light

Next assignment from the Color and light class: diffrent materials studies.

CGMA - Color and light

I have started on my second class at cgma. This time it is color and light with Ryan Lang and Tyler Carter. First week's assignmet: three balls with neutral local colors, not warm or cold; that is, red, blue and yellow, in diffrent lighting situations: neutral key, warm key and cold key. A good point I got with this week's assignmet: the absens of one lightsource usually means the presence of another. In full daylight, the sun would be the key light and the sky light would be the secondary light source or the fill light. In natural lit outdoor enviroments, this would normally be the case, one major key and a fill light. In the absence of key and fill, is where ambient occlusion or contact shadows appear. In the contact point between the balls and the ground, light is being occluded since light loses its energy bouncing and doesn't have the strenght to reach in the crevasses. In an outdoor lit scene, the sun/key light would usually be warm and the shadows cold. A good rule of thumb is: warm light- cold shadows and cold light - warm shadows. 

 

I have tried to apply the principals learned, in my daily work on Light Apprentice chapter 2. 

More drawings from Prague

Prague

First day in Prague. Nice to be in a city with a condensed city center, with a million things to draw

CGMA week 3-8

Here is the rest of the drawings and paintings I made durring the CGMA workshop: Enviroment sketching for production. I learned a lot, but most important, it gave me some tools to keep on building my skills. Thanks to Armand for 8 inspirational weeks!

CGMA Extra drawings

A bit of extra drawings from the class

Drawings from Morimondo

Drawings from my trip to Morimondo for the annual medieval reenactment. Thanks to all the lovely people who made it a great experience.