Ciprian Costas

Monday, 3 February 2014

Character Animation

The first time i had a chance to try out Adobe Flash, it wasn't really disappointing. Even though my work may not look as good as i planned, i learned something new, and it's not as different from the traditional way of animating as i planned.

I had the chance to reinterpret the drawing of a young girl from St Gwladys School, named Chloe Thomas. I wasn't given clues what her drawing was suppose to represent. But my reinterpretation of it was one of a super hero. Below you shall see my final reinterpretation, my animated piece and the process of how i reached the final stage of this hero.

I had to try different silhouettes at first until i decided to stay with the middle one. At first i thought Chloe's character had a mustache, but then i removed it as i reinterpreted as a smile.

This is a small animatic done in flash, before i started animating the character properly.

Saturday, 1 February 2014

Backgrounds

I've learned some new things about Adobe Photoshop with this assignment - and about its uncomfortable and awkward brother that is Adobe Illustrator. The results are not pleasant to look at, but I've learned new things. The most important one is: i shouldn't waste time with Illustrator again.

These backgrounds were provided to us by our tutor in order to exercise Photoshop coloring on them. It sounds like googoogaga baby job to color between the lines, but doing it digitally is different.

Adding shadows, using layers, selections, and lit parts on the background, i seem to have failed with the nigh time version of this background as the reflecting light on the trees and plants is one of a daytime.

Below you shall see one of my many shames that i would refuse showing to anyone, but i must for academic purposes. This abomination created in Adobe Illustrator looks like it was actually made in Paint (which it isn't). Illustrator has a more collage way of working unlike Photoshop, a method i found uncomfortable.

I'd rather take pride in other primitive, conceptual sketches I've done before starting to use Illustrator.

Sunday, 19 January 2014

Storyboards

Late post, but this was my first second year project, exercising with storyboards. If you checked the video above, then you will see below my storyboard interpretation of it.

The following storyboard is an interpretation after a script from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Wednesday, 27 November 2013

Looking back - Portfolio for Scandinavia and The World

My 2nd year animated short. Done with the help of Dan Harvey and Robin Gerndt.
Moth from Ciprian Costas on Vimeo.

These two short animations i've worked on with Julia Young, Bethan Davies, Yaw Asamoah & Ryan Walsh - they were used as stings for the Glammies Showcase 2013.
Peace Pipe from Julia Young on Vimeo.

Smoke Signals from Julia Young on Vimeo.

This was my first character animation project, made traditionally on paper.

This was my second character animation project, however, done in Adobe Flash. The idea was to get a drawing from a middle school student and animate it for her.

The rest of the works in this post are non animated. The Pure and The Tainted is a storyboard inspired by the song with the same title by Blue Stahli.

The Pure and the Tainted - sb. by existtraiesc on deviantART

March trinket is a storyboard inspired by a traditional eastern european legend.

March trinket - storyboard by existtraiesc on deviantART

Anca is a character inspired by one of my friends. I took the liberty of creating a cartoon version of her and these are the design process.

Anca - development2 by existtraiesc on deviantART

Anca - development by existtraiesc on deviantART

Anca - character expressions by existtraiesc on deviantART

Anca - character design by existtraiesc on deviantART

Anca - Special poses by existtraiesc on deviantART

Anca - close up by existtraiesc on deviantART

The rest are life drawings and portraits done back in my architecture years and my first year of animation.

Scared by existtraiesc on deviantART

Bleeding blind by existtraiesc on deviantART

Doodles by existtraiesc on deviantART

Portraits 3 by existtraiesc on deviantART

Portraits 2 by existtraiesc on deviantART

Portrait and Charicature by existtraiesc on deviantART

Colored Poses by existtraiesc on deviantART

Nude 1.4 by existtraiesc on deviantART

Human shapes by existtraiesc on deviantART