Jon Stewart

Line Art Video

2012-01-22T07:34:00.000-08:00

Line Work Final & Video coming soon

2012-01-21T15:04:00.000-08:00

Here's the girl I've been working on's line art. I also recorded the whole process for someone; I'll be uploading it tomorrow and posting it here in case anyone else would like to see. It took an Hour sitting to ink and I've condensed it to a 25 minute odd video by speeding it all up.

Hope you like.

Uhh, another one..

2012-01-18T14:19:00.000-08:00

Update

2012-01-18T07:57:00.000-08:00

2012-01-15T15:27:00.001-08:00

update

2012-01-12T07:19:00.001-08:00

Underwater Girl Update

2012-01-09T11:10:00.000-08:00

Uhhh... Busy Christmas and New Years, but here we are; I'm back on it now! I hope everyone had a great festive period!

(the previous update on this lady : )

Hello

2011-12-16T16:29:00.000-08:00

Hi guys, I've been made aware of my lack of blog presence recently. As a massive advocate of the whole blogging system with regard to the arts, and more importantly; for the CG Arts course, that obviously can not continue! That said, i'd like to share with you, if I may, a couple of piece of works in progress. I will admit to being slightly nervous to post these up, they aren't near completion yet and if recent history is anything to go by; they may never be complete. However, in a desperate attempt to not only try and reseat myself in the 'CG arts circle', i'd like to try and use this outlet as a means to motivate myself to actually finish some new pieces of work.

Before I post those up, I'd like to first bring your attention to an Animation that I recently worked on with the talented Pol Winandy. This Animation was a collaboration project between UCA & University of Kent entitled 'Spectacular Science' and I was responsible for the design, modelling and texturing of all of the 'characters' in the film. It's taken me a while to get around to posting this, so please forgive me if you've already seen it.

Secondly, I'd like to direct your attention to my Youtube page, over at :

Jon Stewart Youtube

You will find that I have recently updated the page to use the latest youtube template and organised my best work into easy to find Playlists at the bottom. Please, subscribe to me and I shall do the same in kind.

On to the current work!

Below is a block in of a street scene that I am quite anxious to produce. The idea of this scene is to produce a video game res environment and bring it into the Unreal engine for some real time renders. The scene is to be a Scifi, cyber punk, futuristic London Scene and I imagine it to be very rainy, bleak, wet and gritty.

Here is the beginnings of one of the buildings. The plan is to produce them in high res before baking them down into low res modular assets. By making them modularly I'll be able to reuse them to produce buildings quickly.

On top of this I have been concepting for a Digital paint. My main inspiration here is underwater life [you can't see it so much yet] and things like Balet. I want her to feel very graceful yet deadly. Below are a few shots of the progress.

Lastly, thanks for reading guys and I hope that my presence on this blogosphere will remain strong from this point on.

Millbank Tower Projection Deadmau5 & Nokia

2011-11-28T17:37:00.001-08:00

I just got back from London after having seen the Nokia Lumia phone release projection on the Millbank Tower. It was incredibly well done, to see animations being projected onto such a big building, and with my favourite producer playing live at the same time, it was amazing. Check out the main part here :

To see this live was incredible. The video doesn't even do justice to the sheer scale of this production. Incredible stuff. I was very disappointed with Deadmau5 only being on for 15 minutes though. I loved the beginning and end with the building talking to the crowd. Intense stuff, it reminds me a lot of Portal. I wish it could have been GLaDoS sending us down to Aperture science xD

Samsung Galaxy S2 video quality - Amazing

2011-09-26T15:31:00.000-07:00

How amazing are phones getting? This is the Samsung Galaxy S2's video quality. Super impressed with it to be honest. Very cinematic shots from it.

Anyway, thought I might share some of the images taken with it. These are stills taken from video recordings too. So if you're looking for ways to grab some nice reference images/videos on the move, and a cool smart phone; grab one of these. Oh yeah, one more image:

Here's something fun

2011-09-25T14:40:00.000-07:00

Shows how trans-formative uni can be. If I can do it - You can do it.

2011-07-21T08:56:00.001-07:00

Hat Forward

2011-07-21T06:45:00.001-07:00

Baseball cap

2011-07-20T15:35:00.001-07:00

Mechanic silhouette

2011-07-20T09:29:00.001-07:00

Website

2011-07-02T05:49:00.001-07:00

http://www.jonstewartcg.co.uk/

Game of Throne's... Throne

2011-06-21T15:10:00.000-07:00

I got to see and sit in a Game of Throne's Throne today over at the Sky Studios. Was very cool!! Such a fan of that TV show, so it was awesome to see the Throne up close.

Jon's character design challenge

2011-05-31T12:13:00.000-07:00

Alright guys, I've decided that over Summer I'd like to complete a character. I was talking to a few people who felt that they might like to try to do so too. So I've devised a character design brief; that anyone's welcome to take part in! This is solely for practice and learning, with the intention of having a nicely polished character at the end for each of our reels.

It's going to be done via a Forum that I've made, all you have to do is sign up, make a thread with your name on it, read the brief and get creating!

Click here to be taken to the forum!

Here's a direct link to the brief, give it a read and see if you feel up to giving it a go! There's no pressure, no judging, no competition here; just learning and helping each other grow. Feel free to join in and have fun!

Practising my line work

2011-05-29T09:55:00.000-07:00

This is a piece I made a week or so ago. Look out for a post soon entitled ' Practising my painting skills '. I also need to really think about colour theory a lot for this one in order to enhance the lines as opposed to ruin them.

Plants (R&D into plant production)

2011-04-25T13:26:00.000-07:00

There's a blossom tree near where I live. It leans over the path, and has been dropping its blossom into the wind, as I walked past it today I realised how beautiful it was. So I returned later, camera in hand and snapped some images. I feel inspired to make an environment based around this tree, plus, I have unfinished business with blossom trees!

So here it is, time to make an environment. It's going to be oriental, a blossom tree with vivid red blossom dropping all over the place, a river, a bridge, etc. I'm going to make it with the intent of bringing it into the Unreal game engine, and have real time recordings of it. When all is said and done I hope to have a really wonderful scene with the sound of water and the dropping of blossom. Hopefully I can capture that wave of excitement that came over me today upon seeing it.

Today I did some tests with leaves and texturing them. Here's an example. The textures are photosourced by me.

I'm not going to jump into production with this piece, it is where I seem to fall short the most. Diving into producing something that isn't fully planned out, thus leaving me to leave it incomplete. So I'll work out how I'm going to make everything, do some blockouts and experiments in Unreal Development Kit, and produce some concept pieces.

I also have alterior motives with this, I think my reel isn't up to scratch. What little characters that are there just aren't up to level for the industry, besides; i'm hardly sure the film industry even appeals to me in the first place. I hardly get any replies from any job I apply for, and any replies I do get suggest I should work on my reel a little more. To be fair, it is a little too 'generalist'. So, environment jobs in games are a lot more widely available, from now on I need to follow my gut feeling, and follow my heart and dreams. I want to work in video games. Whilst Characters are still my main passion, and ultimately where I would like to be, I think I'd rather take the path that offers a lot more oppurtunity for now. So whether i have to tend bars or something whilst I develop a portfolio to help me achieve this, I will do it.

This doesn't mean you won't see Camero and her Male and Eagle side kicks complete, I will be pushing progression on these as well. I most certainly want to see them complete in the future. I won't let them fall into the same fate as every other half finished piece before them.

Life is too short to do what you hate.

Gun Holster model

2011-04-09T11:23:00.000-07:00

Work in Progress on the holsters and belts. Colours aren't the intended final pallete, just destroying the annoying grey.

Forgot to mention in my previous post, I've added to the two characters; a third character. Though this one isn't human. They have a pet bird of prey (undecided as to what bird yet). That is why in the previous concept she has a glove on her right hand, and the band that is hanging from her waist has a whistle on the end and ties around the birds foot. In this post apocalyptic world, they use their bird to help hunt for food.

Concept art

2011-04-08T13:15:00.000-07:00

Really excited about this piece of work, still got bits and bobs to work on, but i've worked on it a lot of the day so it's time for a break. Enjoy.

Proportions locked

2011-04-02T04:46:00.000-07:00

Think I've locked in the basic proportions now, bar from sculpting in Mudbox. Now I can start fitting my accessories too her without having to worry about changing proportions.

Character update

2011-03-30T09:16:00.000-07:00

It's been a while. Time to put an update out. In the recent weeks I had been finishing bits and pieces off for my reel pack, and I took a trip to London to give some out. Not a lot came of it really, I discovered some studios don't like the drop in and give a reel approach. They prefer you to apply online, so they can hand pick who sends them reels and who doesn't. Hey-ho, it was worth a punt.

Received an email from Double Negative stating they would get back to me if they had anything suitable for my skills and experience. Who knows, hopefully I will hear something back. That studio looks really amazing, would love the oppurtunity to work there. Even if it's just cleaning the floors.

Here is a little update on my character whom I've picked up again now. I've pushed her to a more stylised feel, I hope you like it.

Demoreel Pack

2011-03-14T05:40:00.000-07:00

Oh, I forgot to post this image:

Going to take a trip to London with this batch of reels. I'll go to some studios in person, hopefully it will work in my favour!

04

2011-03-11T11:37:00.000-08:00

Man, I am so proud of the progress I am making on the head model now. Hair's all placeholder of course. I really love the nose and mouth on this model, really came out nice. The hard work and constant sculpting paid off. I find myself getting a lot more efficient in Mudbox, i've only used it seriously for a week.

The ears and neck are weird, they need work. I'm on it soon. Her head is a little too small currently. This is already fixed on the latest model. You can see some proportion issues below that I am going to work on and the new head size:

Some weird maya help popup came up :D

03

2011-03-09T13:52:00.000-08:00

Didn't get time to do much today, but what I did get done came out pretty good.

Update02

2011-03-08T16:24:00.000-08:00

I learnt a lesson today; a lesson I learnt over and over at Uni. Yet I still keep repeating it. That is to keep saving! I sent my head model over to mudbox to push some polys, got carried away and a few hours later had a pretty solid head model. Was happy with it. Boom, blue screen. All lost. Spent a lot of today trying to get back to where it was. Not succeeded. Not happy. So lesson learnt.

Here's some progress, as you can see, the head model sucks balls. Really frustrated by it, I think I'm tired because I can't even manage to sculpt the eye sockets properly. Suddenly thinking in three dimensions and understanding the planes of the face just seems impossible. Think I'm going to distance myself from the head model for a bit, at least I've been trying too do that by working on something else. But I can always see it out of the corner of my eye, and it's bugging me.

Bust

2011-03-08T06:10:00.000-08:00

Eugh, this head model is killing me. I'm jumping over this fine line currently of male and female. Every change I make to one area screws up another area. Really frustrating.

Well, blue screened after making this post. Lost the current mudbox sculpt. Meaning the above progress has now been lost. Fml.

Update

2011-03-07T08:39:00.000-08:00

Alright, after spending god knows how many hours troubleshooting some Normals issues and fixing my poxy model, I'm finally able to start making progress again. it's been a frustrating afternoon. Thanks to Simon Watts for opening my scene and exporting the model for me! It really helped.

ignore this post

2011-03-07T06:04:00.000-08:00

Ignore this post - im using it to host images in order to seek technical support else where. Cheers.

Blockout and Head

2011-03-04T11:04:00.001-08:00

Got the head to a decent level, so now I can continue with the blockout.

Mudbox Projection Texturing = Amazing.

2011-03-04T07:08:00.000-08:00

Just to say, I love the projection texturing in Mudbox. Certainly going to help me when I come to actually texture this for real. Always hated texturing via Photoshop and having to jump back to model packages every 5 minutes. Real time feedback is always welcome.