Constantinos Mavromichalis

Wednesday, 28 April 2010

Doritos add tank lighting vid.

From shaded view to fully lit fish-tank... goes through all different lights in the scene.

Doritos add cave texturing vid.

From shaded to textured and lit.

Thursday, 1 April 2010

Final aquarium for the Doritos add

This is the final look of the aquarium. I am very happy with how it ended up looking. Everything fit together. I had some problems lighting up the set, but finally got it to work. Many debates were made about the colour and lighting of the back wall, but finally came to the conclusion that a darker wall would work the best to get the viewers focus on the tank.

Tiki-heads for the Doritos add

Here's a closeup of the tiki-heads that daisy designed and i modelled. Mainly i'm happy about the material.

Wednesday, 17 March 2010

a rocky cave for the Dorritos add

This is the rendered image of the rocky cave that I designed. The textures might still be modifies, because to me it looks too basic. I think it needs to be modified to look more worn out. but for a start i am quite happy with how it came out looking.

Concept art for the Doritos add

This is a concept art picture of a rocky cave that we will put in an aquarium for the Dorritos add we are making. Initially we were supposed to make a short film about a cannibal fish, but then saw an add for a Dorritos competition and decided to ditch the film and make a commercial instead.

Sunday, 28 February 2010

Early background-concept for the new short animation.

We have begun working on a new short animation with "the foot apart"-production, which consists of most of the same people as the previous film. In this concept done with photoshop, I wanted to test out the colours in the room where the film takes place. My main focus was on making it a messy, but cosy bungalow, so lots of dark wood and random scattered objects around the room. Because it was mainly a colour test, i didn't bother designing all the random stuff that will eventually be seen in the room. The light from the window was very important to me as well. The wooden shudders block the light slightly and in the final film i'm very keen on having an over exposed light from behind the shutters. It is still early days and this is the first concept i made for the new film.

one of my so far favorites

http://louromano.blogspot.com/2008/10/more-incredibles.html

this guy is amazing.. love the style and his use of lighting is fascinating!!! ...a really inspiring artist. Worked on several pixar films including "The Incredibles" and "Up".

Wednesday, 9 December 2009

"Blobs day out": thin marker, ink and water colours

These are just some doodles that I have done on my free time.. most of them pure procrastination. And I named each one just for a laugh.

..worst names ever..

These rendered shots are from the 90 second short animation called "Facing the Tub". It's a uni project that started on September and is due in the beginning of January. So far we are on schedule. Right now we are animating and have about 2 weeks time left for that. We've rendered a few scenes and i'm very happy with the look of it. One of the things I am in charge of is designing, modelling, texturing and lighting the set. We wanted the film to have a nice "cubic" look so designing each element for the bathroom was good fun. It was great researching actual bathrooms and then making my own "cubic" designs. I have learned so much during this project and want to thank Dane Winn for helping and guiding me. Hopefully it all comes well together in the end. Can't wait to see my first complete CGI animation!!!

Concept art for the set in the short animation "Facing the Tub". I went for the cubic look and the group agreed that it worked nicely and we should definately use it when modelling the set in Maya. See rendered images for actual screen shots of the bathroom.