Edin Durmisevic

ORC WARRIOR making of

2012-03-01T09:42:00.000-08:00

Long time has pass and I did not post anything. Well I was extremaly busy with working on my digital painting technices so I spent many hours working, working, working.... and yes working some more :)
Had some great time and learned many things :)

Here is one character design, exercise, I did with values. I thought it would be cool to present it in phases. It took me about 2 days.

Hope you like it, and I hope it could be helpful to someone out there :)

First here we have one drawing derived from numerous thumbnails I usually do when ever there is possibility. I draw thumbnails at coffee places, at my job, in front of TV, in park etc.

Here is a value that I decided to make as basic value. This is good to have cos in production it is helpful for masking, selection and other little bit technical stuff. O yes here I establish the value range that I will work with. It is extremely helpful cos you don't need to open the color dialogue box in Photoshop, you just pick the value from the canvas and when concentrated on working that is like huge thing. It makes digital painting more natural for me :).

Here I put basic values understanding what is the form like and from where does light come. I try to think about the rhythm of the shapes too cos that thing makes the drawing interesting and it makes your composition flow. Was I successful I don't know but its all about trying and playing around I guess :)

And here is the final drawing with shadow to make it grounded and heavy and with lots of small details defining the fact that he is not some nice guy :)

I hope you like it. I usually don't post things like this but internet helped me a lot in my learning so I decided to give something back :)

Next week I will post some of my thumbnails. I love to watch other artists thumbnails cos I believe everything about character design happens there.

OK see you around :)

2012-02-17T12:28:00.000-08:00

Some classical pencil drawings.

Peinting did for online challenge

2012-01-30T15:31:00.000-08:00

Final work

And some details

New concept

2012-01-21T12:29:00.001-08:00

Something I find in my long time ago folders :)

2011-12-21T16:36:00.000-08:00

Comic art pages I did while I was at Academy. :)

2011-12-17T16:40:00.000-08:00

Here is little bit of the process I go through when doing design. I guess showing different stages of the work is sometimes more beneficial to all of us. Artists usually don't like to show beginning phases of the work but I guess we all are learning here so it could be helpful

It is one design from my upcoming portfolio

Working a lot but learning even more :)

Getting inspired

2011-04-02T15:21:00.000-07:00

I haven't been posting anything last month cos I took time to go to trip to the center of European art. I went to Venice, Florence, Bologna and San Marino republic .
It was fantastic, Florence is unique city.
I got inspired so much and I felt so small at the same time. Here are some pictures that I took but they are just fraction of the feelings that went through me when I so all that art.
As my professor of art once sad " When watching at some classic art: paintings, sculptures, architecture always think how much knowledge is in side of every brick of a building, in every brush stroke, line, form. Think about the emotions and aspirations of an author... think about that... and get inspired, its OK, cos that, what are you seeing, made just a man with his two hands"

p.s. My professor of art was not Kong Fu Ce or some Chinese philosopher, but sometimes he sounded like one ;)

Great line of action and force

Interesting and clear gestures

This is the thumb of great Renaissance artist Michelangelo Buanarroti

I though this repetitious elements in Bologna are very interesting

Ahhhh Venice

This is the museum of torture in San Marino. Its the place where you can see creativity gone wrong. So many gadgets designed for one and only one purpose, to make pain. Inquisition is interesting subject to get informed about. Most terrific effect of inquisition was in 13th century so its called dark age. After that we have Renaissance that happened about 1400 - 1500 which showed how great is the spirit of a man. All this beautiful structures and art above happened in that important moment of the worlds art so enjoy ;)

This is my twin brother and me :) I am the one looking up... always looking up.

I hope that these small portion of photos can inspire you like the real thing did inspire me.

If any of you get chance to travel, what can I say... do it!

inspirational animation

2011-03-03T04:42:00.001-08:00

What can I say... great acting choices, very inspirational.
Enjoy like I do :)

simple exercise - 180 degree turn

2011-02-08T16:59:00.000-08:00

This is a shot on body mechanics, and main focus here are the weight shifts, balance, lead and follow,timing, clear silhouette. The turn is not as interesting as it could be, its a simple turn
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Next shot could be more on appeal, exaggeration, entertainment and other animation principles.
We shell see :)

Here are some different stages of one simple shot. I hope that this could be helpful and interesting stuff.

Blocking phase: I usually putt as much poses as I need to present clearly the action. Sometime you have more sometime less poses, it depends on type of movement. Its important in this phase to focus on golden poses and breakdowns and make them work, make them tell the story. This phase is about timing of the action too.

Linear pass presents transfer of the movement from stepped (blocking) to linear movement where we can see transition from pose to pose. In this phase I usually see if golden poses and breakdowns work or not.
They usually don't :) If they don't work I tweak them and I spend good amount of time on making these poses work. I learned that doing this is very important... well... very IMPORTANT.

Polishing phase.
Usually there are several polishing phases in shots. This shot is simple so I did just two polishing phases, here is one. In this phase I work on some important animation principles like spacing, arcs, easy in and out, silhouette etc.

And finally here we have final pass. Here I did face expressions, worked on spacing more and worked on subtle movements of hands and fingers. Did overlap of the hair.

Just one thing these are not rules on how to do animation.
This is my way of breaking down this shot.
There are more phases on animating the shot like the reference shooting, thumbnail drawing, lip sink, etc. and I think this depends on the complexity of the shot.

And here is the final render with basic texture and lighting done in 4 hours.

OK that's it for now
Best regards, enjoy and see you soon :)

11 second club december competition

2010-12-31T18:03:00.000-08:00

This is the work for the last month 11 second club competition. I decided to do small breakdown of the shot for the people that come to my blog and are interested in animation, hope this is helpful to someone :). These are not rules to say how animation shot is supposed to be done. This is my way of doing and enjoying animation :)
What can I say enjoy :)

These are thumbnails that I regularly do before animating. Drawing these thumbnails is great stuff, it is liberating for the creative juices and very helpful for staging, idea choices, design and lot of other things.
Very important step for me and its great fun :) no rules just take the pencil and go for it.

These are different steps for the background design. It has perspective, its interesting... I think :) but not distracting (this is very important cos animation is the main thing in the shot). Its digitally painted.

This is one 3D test that I sometimes do when I want fast test of timing for some objects. Its much more easy to make the rough low poly model and do fast test then to make complex drawings. This is done in 30 minutes.

And at the end we have final animation... well its not totally final. I did not have much time because of my job so I decided to live it at this stage. This could be helpful down the road, cos we can see the process and the stile of drawings used when building the action and performance of the characters.

Biggest mistake that I have done while doing this shot was decision to do animation and clean up process at the same time. Big mistake. I am self thought 2D animator so more mistakes are coming my way, I learn every day and small progressions are enough to keep me going forward.

Its important to enjoy the process of learning.

Animation tests

2010-10-07T11:17:00.000-07:00

Some animation tests I did after work. Rigs are provided from Animationmentor program that I have finished.
Enjoy and soon there is going to be more, cos this month is all about animation :)))))

This is new test that I did one or two days ago. I find this kind of tests very interesting and great way to learn possibility of animation as medium. enjoy :)

exercise: character walk done in 3 days.

Little bit of body mechanics. Basic stuff :)

ANIMATION SKETCHES AND EXERCISES

2010-09-10T06:03:00.000-07:00

COMIC ART

2010-09-09T10:28:00.000-07:00

LIFE DRAWING

2010-09-09T10:12:00.000-07:00