A quick little concept toon VR Environement before bed ~ long day, but I had to create something fun to get my creative juices flowing ~ I modeled this in VR, using Oculus Medium with Oculus rift ~ its really fun to model in virtual reality, I did this quick set in about 35 minutes.
Drawing and Coloring – Children’s book illustration. A concept design I created for a new kids story for the Nkoza and Nankya app. It’s been a busy week with film direction work, balancing this with creating content for this dream. Never give up on your dreams, friends, with faith, hard work and dedication, doors will open. I am a witness to that process. God continues to show himself faithful on this journey of taking this vision from dream to action.
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My favorite GPU rendering engine is hands down Octane, now in its 4th, 2018 and 2019 versions. It’s made it so much easier for me to light and render the scenes in the episodes of Nkoza and Nankya, and for a number of my cinematics and short films. I render using Octane in both Maya and 3DS Max.
There was a time when I rendered primarily with Mental Ray, but once the industry shifted to GPU and realtime rendering, I pivoted to using GPU rendering as well. The demand to turn around 3D renders pretty quick has also driven my quest to find the fastest way I can realize my scenes both as concepts and final renders. Some of the challenges have been rendering things such as smoke, volumetric lighting, dust, and fluids, but all those issues have been addressed in the most recent builds of Octane.
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Concept Robot Drawing, Daily sketch ~ I love Robotics and wildlife, I drew this while sitting with my family sharing stories and taking a break from animations. I am doing this as an exercise to continually put ideas to paper and to use it as an opportunity to practice mechanical anatomy.
Video showing my drawing workflow – Children’s Book Illustration ~ African Forbidden Fruit – concept design, drawing and painting.
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Drawing Steps
Video showing my drawing workflow – Robo Wildlife Ranger series – concept design, drawing and painting – protecting the endangered wildlife, tracking, sniffing for poachers
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The Human Element – Poacher and trap blight – I created this Gorilla concept painting while pondering what a blight we the human race have been to planet earth. Can you imagine what the earth would look like without our irresponsibility, greed and carelessness.. we need to conserve the wildlife for future generations…. at the rate we are going, I see a future where even animals will be wearing prosthetic limbs.. it’s really sad to see photos of wildlife trying to cope with missing limbs due to Poacher traps…
Step 3 ~ Coloring
Step 2 ~ Inking
Step One ~ loose sketch
Wakayima in his Old Age, ancient Ugandan folk tale, oral tradition – I was imagining an older version of wakayima, a throw back to our very own “Once upon a time….” ~ I grew up listening to the folk tale of Wakayima and Wango, I keep replaying those stories in my mind and image what the characters would look like in their old age.
The shape of the character was inspired by a photo of a ripe banana I took one morning while having breakfast with my 2 kids. Below are the drawing and painting stages.
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Concept Creature Design ~ Drawing and Digital paint, Children’s book Illustration concept
Below are the drawing and painting steps
A concept creature I designed, as an illustration for a children’s book study. Digital painting
Below are the painting steps
