Hello World,
Here is a break down of my e-sting entry for the e4 e-sting competition. I thought some people might be interested in the processes i go through to create something like this. Sharing is caring!
Anyway this wont be a heavy read so more pictures, yay!
So everything pretty much starts out as a single sketch and it is perhaps the most important step, something quite rough that creates the basic direction you are going to go for. In my case i wanted to create something that was set in the future with spaceships, robots, nearby planets and all that good stuff.
I wanted to give an expressionless face on the cyborg to add an extra layer of mystery to it so she (the cyborg is female) could be thinking of anything. I kept wanting to achieve a Mona Lisa effect.
So once the sketch has been established, it was time to make a concept shot based of off the sketch i did. I used Adobe Flash CS6.
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| I started with a rough sketch of the scene in Flash CS6 |
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| The cyborg was the next step. |
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| I didn't like the look of the original spaceship sketch i made, so i re-designed it with a more angular approach. Straight lines, sharp edges and an overall bold look was the goal here. |
Finally the backgrounds were created in TVPaint Pro 10 and everything was put together to this:
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| Close planets/moons were added to emphasise the sci-fi feel of the shot. |
After some feedback i made slight changes to the cyborg to give her more feminine features:
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| Left: Early design. Centre and right: Refined hair, eyes and overall body shape. Other small changes included the arm patch taken out and soles add to the feet. |
Now it was time to animate anything that needed animating. Once again, all animation was done with Flash using mostly hand drawn techniques combined with Flash symbols.
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| Everything is broken down into layers. |
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| Details of the inbetweening process. |
Other details were designed such as the animated smoke from the back of the spaceship, dust clouds and a small radar terminal.
Now that everything had been designed and animated it was time to import everything into Adobe After Effects to composite everything together and add any other effects.
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| Here is a breakdown of the After Effects process. |
After this is done all thats left is to export! Here is the final outcome:
Hope you enjoyed this mini break down!
