Alan's 1095 days journey to excellence: The Logbook

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Concept Art of The Legend of the Knights of Cardboard part 20: Weapons Part 7 - legendary swords:

I had very little time to work on this today, just enough to do another quick image research as references for that one aquatic sword's designs...

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Concept Art of The Legend of the Knights of Cardboard part 21: Weapons Part 8 - legendary swords:

I'm curious to see how it'll look once built with cardboard 😄📦💧🤺

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Concept Art of The Legend of the Knights of Cardboard part 22: Weapons Part 9 - legendary swords: early development of the mineral inspired sword.

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[Art digging session]

Environment concept design master class: I've had heard of Feng Zhu some time ago and today I took the time to take a look at his YouTube channel. I watched his last two videos on the "Form follows function" design method. It was incredibly educational and very inspiring!

[cedricgo]

Feng Zhu's youtube channel is a really great ressource. I learned a lot from him and his videos are always very interesting. I think you definitely won't regret checking him out

[Alan_Nkenge]

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Concept Art of The Legend of the Knights of Cardboard part 23: Weapons Part 10 - legendary swords: designing a mineral inspired sword.

I might make a 3/4 view and a side view in the next session…

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Concept Art of The Legend of the Knights of Cardboard part 24: Weapons Part 11 - legendary swords: designing a mineral inspired sword - done

Next one: vegetal inspired sword

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Concept Art of The Legend of the Knights of Cardboard part 24: Weapons Part 11 - legendary swords: designing a vegetal inspired sword - additional photo references research

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Concept Art of The Legend of the Knights of Cardboard part 26: Weapons Part 13 - legendary swords: early development of the vegetal-inspired sword.

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Concept Art of The Legend of the Knights of Cardboard part 27: Weapons Part 14 - legendary swords: designing a vegetal inspired sword

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Concept Art of The Legend of the Knights of Cardboard part 28: Weapons Part 15 - legendary swords: designing a vegetal inspired sword - done

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It's the return of photo studies!

I'm experimenting a different approach this time: no construction lines. ... work in progress...

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ArtDigging animated session

Program of the day:
1 - Goblins - I watched their latest YouTube videos and some of their most popular, including my favorite one: https://youtu.be/y6ZmMjMdrqs

2 - Howard Wimshurst's tips on how to animate a fight scene https://youtu.be/2FsSp7R2zT0

[Alan_Nkenge]

Feng Zhu's youtube channel is a really great ressource. I learned a lot from him and his videos are always very interesting. I think you definitely won't regret checking him out

Yeah I was impressed of how much I learned from him in a few hours!

[Alan_Nkenge]

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Portrait study - part 2

[cedricgo]

Thanks for sharing those two videos! I really liked them. Are you planning to work on animations at some point?

[Alan_Nkenge]

Glad you like them. Well both concept art and animation get me interested. Actually I work as a motion designer since a couple of years, but I'm aiming to get into the entertainment industry at some point.

Here's an animated short that I made almost 10 years ago just for fun (never finished it though)

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I'm supposed to be done with these swords already but it was too frustrating to not have them colored. Plus I didn't have enough time to finish that one portrait study today.

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Portrait study - end

Process video coming soon on IG @alanmnk