Chris Harper

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Chris Harper — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 20:20:20 +0000

So yeah, first day, with some help of the internet made me a little tool which turns everything into toy style bricks.

Then today, I started to smash some stuff up, also done some particle tests, but they are less impressive, hopefully will have something of those up by later tonight when they are a little more something

I’m gonna wreck it!

Chris Harper — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:17:04 +0000

Totally worth a see – I mean it can go overboard in some areas with tying everything up to be all happy – but the nostalgia of games and plain fun of the film carries it past the more annoying “character has to sacrifice himself for the greater good” bits.

Also the word Pixlexia has definitely entered my dictionary now

Animation, yo.

Chris Harper — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:42:00 +0000

Been a while since I’ve posted. Think its high time I got this blog started again.

Let us begin with some serious flinging of the poo.

Have a nice day

Assignments…

Chris Harper — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:55:30 +0000

Hey everyone who reads this! I’ve been attempting to sort out all my assignments, not long till the deadlines now! But i thought i’d share some of what I’m up to with you all, ill prob post the playblast of my maya bouncing ball project sometime soon, but for now, ill just post the rough panel sketches of the beginning middle and end of my animation. We were instructed to do them in a comic like format to attempt to give an idea of narrative flow and timing. Hope you all enjoy (working on the final full colour ones as I type)…

EDIT: Just thought, these images have no background info. Sorry people! Other than being for a Pre-Production brief these images are from the opening, roughly middle, and end sequences of my animation. Can’t really say what its about yet… not sure about copyright etc.

Someone cool.

Chris Harper — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 22:31:27 +0000

Just a very quick post.

Found someone on my travels who has a very interesting fantasy style, worth a checking out if you ask me…

Keith Thompson

International Self Portrait Day

Chris Harper — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 20:00:50 +0000

Hey, was going to post some early concept work for my short animation, however thats going to take a bit more work than I thought before its ready. However, as its International Self Portrait day (well unofficial…) Decided to do another one, in acrylic this time. Hope you like =)

Sorry for the bad quality of the image, had to take a photo… no A3 scanner =(

Round 2…

Chris Harper — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 20:21:48 +0000

I only have a small self portrait image to upload today, just an exercise for life drawing… Hope you like!

National Self Portrait day on Nov 1st as well (conceptart.org), think I might try another one for then =)

Busy, busy, busy….

Chris Harper — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:08:21 +0000

Well I have been phenomenally busy over the last few weeks with project work, who knew Uni was this hard…? We have started looking at basic creative techniques, pretty simple to be honest, the mindmap… however I must say, when I used it properly has helped me come up with more ideas than I would normally, seems to work better than I remember it at school, however I have done more of my own research into other ideas/methods… such as Edward de Bonos “Six Hats” lateral thinking exercise, which seems quite powerful, I was wondering if anyone had any other techniques or methods they use to create or find a new idea?

Apologies for the bad scanning in the larger image files – I have been scanning in A3 pages with an A4 scanner and having to recompose the image, getting better each time though so should have better scans with good colour consistency soon!

EDIT: I also just realised that the first image is missing my compound word from the top corner, have no reuploaded with the word there!

EDIT: Feedback on my work has said that I should add colour and experiment more with colour in the mindmaps to come up with colour palettes for the work.

Back from the dead…!

Chris Harper — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 13:26:01 +0000

Been away for what seems ages now! Sorry to all who come buy and take a look at how I am getting along… I have just moved close to my Uni and have just finished sorting all my junk out… I should have some new material up very soon. Including evolutions of many scribbles into full pieces of work!

Considering starting some video tutorials of my work soon, try and give me something to aim for… so you may well see some test videos, please tell me what you think!

Fruits of the Weekend

Chris Harper — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 20:19:49 +0000

As promised here is a sample of some of what I have been working on over the last few days. I have been trying to improve line and form and actually understand how it works to be able to apply it to my life studies and works from imagination.

So far I feel I can find and block out the masses of the human body and work out other simple masses of the body also (such as the hands)

And as regards to line, a dark thick line can be used to denote shadow or a darker area (without shading) – line thickness also tends to make an area more “heavy set” and as such would not be found in abudance on softer more feminine form.

Lighter lines work conversely, giving finer or lighter areas. It is rare to see light thick lines as this tends to confuse the eye due its expectations.

Breaking lines can allow the drawing to “breath” – suggesting a line and or learning where the actually isn’t a line but a soft change of plane. Also breaks can be a good way to suggest a highlighted area.

I would like to note the above is what I “feel” I have learnt, if there is anything I have missed or things that you feel I may have gotten wrong I would love to hear your comments.

After my initial studies, I read about a method of studyin Bridgman which makes you think about the forms more by adding a third stage (blocking out the basic form, drawing the lines/planes, tonal representation) normall Bridgman only does “light” tonal representation. Also just I understand simply copying Bridgman will not bring as much understanding as I would like.

Anyway… enough rambling… here they are.

Oh and the link to that Bridgman method (some good drawings there too!)

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