The Wind Rises

My entry for the “The Wind Rises”, a promotional contest for Hayao Miyazaki's latest/last movie over on DeviantArt. 

I misread the time frame and thought that the piece had to be done by last night rather than tonight so turns out I needn’t have gone as fast as I did….

But for an impromptu piece done in like 8 hours it’s not too shabby. I’ll shit a brick if I somehow manage to score one of the winning spots though.

This was a fun piece to make, though, because it was a lot different in terms of subject matter and also it’s different stylistically than what I usually do too... I'm not used to working nearly so loose as this, and had to keep resisting the urge to zoom really far in and noodle away at everything!!! :'D 

Anyway I hope everyone likes it~

Environment Redesign: The Old Man and the Sea

So, this is an Environmental Redesign for Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea". It's related to the character redesign project I posted about a month ago.

As the name entails, we had to come up with a new place for these characters to live in. For my part, I chose a world inspired by the Russian/Mongolian Steppes. The characters are nomadic sky fishermen, hence the docks in the middle of the fields. The dock that the Manolin character is currently sitting on is further away and more decrepit than the one that's hinted at closer to camp. It is assumed that this is the dock that Santiago will depart from when he goes on his journey for the biggest catch.

I think that our deadlines for the class got pushed back, so now we might not have the time to do the monster design, or the boat design, but these are things that I would like to do in my free time when I get the time :D I think the boat design, while being something that I'm the most unfamiliar with, would also be the best opportunity for me to show what this world IS in terms of its technological level: One that combines the sci-fi and the fantasy, one of magic and science.

I still have some issues with it, but I think that this is my best digital work thus far.