Hello Everybody,
I'm new to this forum and I would like to start talking with you by showing a part of my work.
Currently I'm doing character-setups and backgound paintings for a short movie with the working title "Witch of Waves".
All paintings were done with Corel Painter Essentials 4 (witch keeps a very good ballance between capabilties and price).
The character is working already with bones and switches. I will show it working in the near future.
So that's it for now. Any comments?
The Spaceman
This looks great, Spaceman. Very nice on the colors and the design of the background.
I would give those table legs depth, though. Right now they look completely flat (only showing front side) while most of everything has depth in the rest of the picture and the background is in perspective (so you'd expect the table to follow the same perspective). A cast shadow under the table would help too. Right now it looks like it's floating, it's not grounded by a shadow like the character is.
I'd also be carefull where to place the character. His dark hair is of the same tone as the darker areas in the background. It gets kinda swallowed up by the background where he is standing now (if you squint through your eyes then you'll no longer see his hair, you'll only see his face).
You might put his head in front of a lighter area or perhaps even use what they do normally in a movie : put a rimlight on his hair to get a seperation (rimlights are lights that are shining on the back of the actor's head, giving a rim of light around the hair). You could do this by taking a lighter color for the outline of the hair.
As for the glasses and bottle : I would definitely put highlights on them. They can be crude and I wouldn't make those highlights too bright (lest they attract too much attention from the viewer). Just something to give a rounded feel to them and to indicate that it is glass. They seem a bit too flat right now, for my tastes.
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