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Lighting Keys part 3

Here's the last of it.

 

 

This next set was the last set of lighting keys I would do for Astroboy. I'm not sure if they were used. 

This  key was done by Kristen Lester. I would use it as guide for color and lighting direction. 

Well, that's the last of it. I spent exactly one year on Astroboy and experienced a lot of ups and downs.  More importantly I learned tons about art and myself and made some great friends in the process.

Hope you enjoyed it.   

Lighting Keys part 2

Here's another bunch. There are only one or two keys from various sequences because I was probably splitting the sequence with Kristen or Nicolas Weis.

 

This one was originally done by Kristen for the Blue Core shot. I was able to take her version and do the Red Core shot.

 

This is a color key that was done by everybody at some point.

   

Next week part three and my last Astroboy posting.

Somthing different

Here's a couple of paintings from a few months back.

This first one was done from a photo that I had taken from out front of my house.

This next one was done at a Bill Perkins workshop. I went back into it recently and touched up a few things.

  

Lighting Keys part 1

This is the beginning of my time doing lighting keys. Up to then, I never did lighting keys or knew how they were used. Sam asked me if I was interested and I said yes, I'd be happy too. He said we'll see about that, it's going to be rough. It was. Not only did I not know how to do them, but I had to learn very fast and to do them the way Sam wanted them. It was a very stressful beginning and I was never sure of myself but I had great guidance from Kristen Lester who became a good friend during this time. I learned a lot doing these and probably could have learned a lot more.

I'm going to show them in the order in which I did them. I feel that it would be good to show the progress that was made. 

This was the first sequence I did with a lot of help from Sam.

 

These were done kind of solo.  

 

 

More next week.

Paint Schemes and Look Paks

One job that I was given was to design the paint scheme for the Spirit of Freedom ship. It was designed by Sam Michlap and built by Mark Lefitz. I didn't realize at the time how this ship was going to be seen on screen. So, the first time I saw it was on a trailer for the film and I was pretty happy with the design that was picked.

Here are my first designs.

 
Once a design was picked, I did turn arounds.

 

Below are a bunch of look packets that were done for various locations in the movie. These were some of last things I would do before my time ended on Astroboy