CGAA Speed Paint Challenge - 'The Megaliths of the Mistletoe Queen'

Ancient British landscape, wooden causeway leading to megaliths.

CGAA Speed Paint Challenge - 'The Ice Castle of the Yeti-King'*

The Yeti's were a technologically advanced race, their palaces overlooked the Himalayan passes at great altitude. An insular race they realised that Earth was to be the domain of man and departed for the stars around 2000 BC.

CGAA Speed Paint Challenge - 'The Dance of the Sugar Plum Scary'

About 30 minutes or so, ogre/ troll ballet dancer, full of grace and elegance.

CGAA Speed Paint Challenge - "Walking in a Winter Wonderland"

My interpretation of a winter wonderland, lots of snow ragged peaks and a howling gale going for more John Martin sublime rather than seasonal cheer.

CGAA Speed Paint Challenge - What Happened Next When The CGAA Intern Pulled The Wrong Lever In Santa's State-of-the-Art Toy Factory...'

Christmas preparations have left only a little time for this one so a little half hearted I guess. Anyway CGAA intern accidentally leans on the delete all button..... Doh!

CGAA Speed Paint Challenge - When Good Toys Turn Bad...' Another idea so it is part 2

20 mins

CGAA Speed Paint Challenge - When Good Toys Turn Bad...'

Tchaikovsky meets Wagner in Coppola remake.

Spent about 30 mins on this one, had to stop myself from finessing it.

CGAA Speed Paint Challenge #3 'The Gingerbread Palace in the City of Sweets'

About 15 mins on this, probably missed the boat but hey ho

Elrond's Waterfalls

Using the brush I created a few days back I thought I would go back with a set idea in mind, I wanted to create an alternative take on Rivendell, often it is depicted as a over elaborate tree house, where as I perceive it as a shimmering tower situated in a verdant realm that has been lovingly crafted by the generations of elves living there. Think Capability Brown on steroids.

Abendsen's Castle

Quickie, whipped up this to demonstrate custom brushes to a colleague. Cookie for the reference?

Alfa Romeo

Current WIP: Modern Cavalry

This is my current WIP, basic colours and forms blocked in and just starting the first pass.The background really is a rough block out, I might swap it out for something a bit more ......... rural.

Flatpack Exhibition

I have the pleasure in taking part in the Flatpack exhibition that will be touring the 5 campuses of the University for the Creative Arts.

Flatpack Exhibition Blog

The ‘FLATPACK’ exhibition is a celebration of technicians and their work.
We tend to think of a distinction between manual and mental labour, a binary played out and socially reinforced from school onwards: The doer and the thinker. This division exists across the world of work – workers/managers – and is even played out at a university level, where as a student we find ourselves confronted with two levels of tutor, the academic and the technician. These categories assert themselves as real distinctions in status and pay, but also reinforce this artificial binary between thinkers and doers.
However this is a questionable state of affairs in a university for creative arts. An Art practice is precisely the type of self-determined activity which actively resists these categories; it is by necessity labour of both hand and head, never merely mechanical, and rarely conceptual without some sort of physical execution. Both the Academic and the Technician are thinker and doer, both are artist and teacher.

What you see here is a selection of work from UCA Technical staff from Kent campuses. It is what it is. Each work shown ‘flat-packs’ into a shoebox for transport between sites. Some works demonstrate a ‘mastery of craft’, which you might expect from technical labour, others adopt a more conceptual approach. Some works are finished articles, others are works-in-progress.

We hope you enjoy the show,

Kent Technical Team

Update on Human Male WIP

Mudbox human model Wip_ contd from SIMON HOLLAND on Vimeo.

Mudbox Male Figure WIP

turntable test 2 from SIMON HOLLAND on Vimeo.

Tug Project

It has been such a long time since I actually worked on a self initiated project in Maya so I thought I would start work on an illustrative piece. I already had a few ideas in my mind so I spent a couple of hours using Maya as a sandbox tool, playing with some basic cubes  I have come up with the basis of an Illustrative piece. I wouldn't say it was designed per se as I imagine that it subliminally draws on a lot of current designs. The wheels are a from a bit of practising that I did a while ago and they might actually find a use, although they still require UV'ing. Hopefully I should get some regular updates done on this.


Wish me lucky

Drones

Another update, inspired by Feng Zhu although my linework isn't quite up to his standard ( like a Mini Metro isn't quite a Rolls Royce) but practice, practice, practice.

Environments

Some quick environmental concepts that I have had the opportunity to work on  over the past couple of days.

Faster Pussycat

Some more shots from Lydden Hill, This time we have some drifters (not drifting) and a retro rally car (Ford RS200 Group B rally car).

RS200

Those Magnificent Men on their Flying Machines

I fancied getting some action shots the other day, conveniently Lydden Hill race track had a British Rallycross event on, so I packed up my stuff, The actual rallycross itself was a bit too dusty to get decent shots but they did have a great sideshow of freestyle motocross in the intervals so I went down picked what I considered to be a good place to shoot from. As a photographer I had to get the shots in a two secondish window, it took a little bit practice to actually get the riders mid-jump rather than as they were about to line up for the landing.

To be able to shoot against a clear blue sky on an August bank holiday in  the UK is a pretty rare pleasure.

Thanks for looking,

Simon

Edge Animation

Final version of this little project.

Edge Animation Edit

.....and Yet More Flowery Shenanigans