In this post you'll find images of all the props and gadgets used in Peripheral along with the textures used for their materials. I really did have to make a lot of stuff for this darn film.






Right so, that's everything uploaded for the time being. There is more I could upload but for the time being this'll do.

Cheers

Kev Ryan

Next I have two more tall images, the first detailing the progression and changes to the main character of my film, Max, as he adds more and more electronic gadgets to himself, before transferring his mind to a completely new robot body.

The progression of the main character Max throughout the film

And now for the many MANY textures I used to make Max, the pieces he attaches to himself and his robotic form.




More to come

Cheers
Kev Ryan

So as of today I'm officially finished college and have recently finished my film for the end of year. With any luck now it'll be screened at the end of year show on Wednesday the 25th. To sum up ADA was a fantastic course filled with very talented, very nice and very funny people who I'm happy to have had in my life for the last two years. I wish them all the best of luck and hope that we do stay in touch.

Nevertheless, this is the first in a few posts detailing the work that went into my short film, Peripheral. I'm really proud with the final film despite having to trim some of the ending off it. It's the third short film I've worked on I learned a heap of stuff making it. I can't post it online for a while but I can post the making of without incident.

So first of all I have two very tall images that show a comparison between the storyboards or slides for my film's animatic and the corresponding final shots.

Plenty of things were worked out quite early and remained in the final product
In hindsight I probably spent too long on these storyboards but I feel they turned out well and definitly gave people an impression of how I wanted the film to turn out.
Although I feel they were much better then and clearer then the original thumbnail sketches. Which you can see below. These were scanned back before the updated boards as you can see from the note om the final page.
Before these boards were realised I had made a very simple trimmed down version of my film which was presented for the original film pitch. Before the idea was fleshed out and fully realised. Have a look below.

More to follow.

Cheers
Kev Ryan

Safer Silliness

So during the summer I was over in Dundee taking part in Dare to be Digital. In their "white space" computer area in the Abertay Dundee University, they have this really nice graph on the wall depicting a timeline of the video game industry. Some artistic clever folk, using posted notes, stuck an entire Mario level on the wall under this time line which gave me the idea to add something of my own. So I drew an A3 picture of Safer Sephiroth, the last boss from Final Fantasy VII and stuck it up a few days before I left.
Cut to January, over 5 months later. One of the guys from Dare who is still in the college tags me in 2 photos on Facebook that he took with his mobile showing that the picture has yet to be taken down. Needless to say, it made my day seeing these two pictures so here they are.

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Now, back to the film. I reckon I could get a few posts out of the amount of props I've modeled for this thing.

Cheers
Kev Ryan

MMXI

Ah, it is finally the new year. I've given up making very definitive clear resolutions as it's my belief that good things tend to happen when you're working away. So with that in mind, going to simply wish that I get more done this year as 21 posts meant for a fairly successful 2010. Also, another wish would be to Stumble Upon some of my own work, although that would mean using that toolbar again. Which wouldn't be the best of ideas in my final year of college.

Either way, 2 quick drawings to put up. Just some practice caricatures

Dara O'Briain - Hugh Dennis & Frankie Boyle

UPDATE: 9th January Didn't feel a need to make another blog post for this but I've drawn 3 more caricatures.

More comedians in the form of Andy Parsons, Russell Howard and Ross Noble.

Cheers and Happy New Year.
Kev Ryan

Merry...St Stephen's Day.

Curses, I was to actually post something up on Christmas Day (It's now 1 am as I'm typing this) but I was just so wrecked from the amount of food my Mam cooks. Ryan family Christmas dinners are just so much more then what I generally need to eat in my day to day life. Factor in a bit of alcohol and Christmas movies on telly and you're looking at a paralyzed Kev Ryan.
Nevertheless, I figured I'd post something up, so here's a render of Max*, the main character from the short film I'm currently working on for my graduate year. Naturally, so much is liable to change but sure I just thought I'd put up a quick render.


Also, I was looking through my photobucket account, and found a slide from the pitch for this short film that has what could be my first and final logo for the title text.


Either way, hope you had as Merry a Christmas as I did and are looking forward to 2011 as I am.

Cheers
Kev Ryan

*Yep, his name is so unimportant I just took the name of the program I'm using to make the film. Handy like!

CUBE

So my brother plays in a band called CUBE with two other awesome people. So I decided to draw a picture for them. Sometimes the execution for a possible caricature of somebody will come into my head and I'll just have to do it, regardless if they have asked or not. This is one of those situations.

Check them out and if you're in Dublin, go see them live!
Facebook
Myspace, with songs

Cheers
Kev Ryan

Bit of a Tidy up.

Just a quick update. I'm working away on a new short film for college which naturally has put everything else on hold. Aside form this, while I was looking other Blogger pages I noticed they had nice little navigation bars at the top. So I endeavored to put one up, thinking it was a really awkward process. Although it was only due to my own stupidity that I didn't realise it's actually a fairly easy feature to implement that was right in my face that I just had not bothered to explore. So in future I'm hoping to add a gallery page with all of my stuff up there in the navbar, so a would be viewer of this blog wont have to go through heaps of posts and my own ramblings.

Either way, hopefully I'll get updating this in the meantime with something, if not, then it just means I'm working.

Cheers

Kev

I Heart Sculpting

"Sculptris wants you to make 3D models. Download it and have a go! I'm sure you will enjoy."

So I was shown a program called Sculptris, which if you don't know, is a free sculpting application that this genius programmer called Tomas Pettersson (or DrPetter, as he's known online) created in his free time. He's now working for Pixologic, the makers of Zbrush, to either make the program better or just assimilate all the nice features it has into Zbrush. Nevertheless, I reccommend having a go of it, it's free and allows you to get the basics of 3D sculpting down. I've been having a go myself and have made the following. Hope you like them.
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Cheers
Kev Ryan

Ben Has a Hitlist.

So bitta backstory, another caricature picture. I had a few friends over one night for a few beers when one of the lads, Ben, started looking through my old sketchbook. So I got some fairly nice and supportive reviews of my work when he asks if I would ever draw a picture of himself. At this point I let him know that I actually had an image in mind, which I thought would have looked hilarious, that I was planning on drawing when I had some free time. To which he essentially replied "no, don't make me look stupid or something, just draw me normally". So I did, the only thing is he recently started playing guitar with these guys so I took the opportunity to draw a new picture of the band while keeping Ben's previous brief in mind-ish.


I'm really happy with how this picture turned out. Although I'm getting a bit concerned at the amount of 2D stuff I have up here. To that end I'm thinking that the college year, and working on this film should force me to get some nice 3D stuff up. Along with that I've started messing with Sculptris today and I'm thinking of doing some sort of daily sculpting with that as well.
I'll see how that goes.

Cheers
Kev Ryan