In The Meantime...

Tomasi Akimeta

hey guys,

while we're in waiting mode, I just wanted to post up what I've been working on as of late. What are you guys currently working on?

Connor Magill

thats awesome bro...love how dynamic it looks. I am currently working on a background for one of my character designs, I'll post it up once I get a bit more into it

Jorge Hernandez

@Tomasi this film noir look is really cool, man! I'm currently working on a series of Batman's rogue gallery concepts. I'll be posting something soon.

William LaVasseur

That's awesome, I like the perspective and camera angle really cool!

Mathias Sunardi

Wait, is that Die Hard?

Tomasi Akimeta

yeah, I saw it here @ work during lunch and was like OOOH SNAP love that movie, so I threw down a quick sketch

Tomasi Akimeta

I was hoping someone would recognize it from the "Nakatomi" I threw on the side haha

Mathias Sunardi

That's how I recognized it actually - the "Nakatomi" plaza haha! Well done, Tomasi!

Tomasi Akimeta

Actually, that'd be kind of a cool challenge for us... sketch out our favorite scenes in an action movie that we love, and see if others can guess it. Also, the scene should be from a recognizable angle, but changed just a little bit somehow, like an additional portion of the scene has been added or whatever.

Thoughts?

Mathias Sunardi

That's a cool idea.

Jorge Hernandez

Let's do it. How about a deadline for next friday people?

Tomasi Akimeta

Oooh, sure! Next Friday, an action scene from a fave movie, it could be from The Sandlot to Amores Perros to Dumb and Dumber to Pulp Fiction... the goal is to sketch a familiar scene that you love from your fave movie, from a familiar angle, but with a little touch of your own flavor to it, it can be as subtle or as overt as you want.

OUR GOAL is to guess which movie it came from!

Due date: Next Friday.

GO GO GO!!

Connor Magill

Yeah defo down for that... good idea peeps...

Even though it a sketch... bonus points will go to anyone who can use some of the techniques taught in the course!!

Tomasi Akimeta

YES! Most definitely that! Dan LuVisi techniques are a plus!

Jorge Hernandez

Ok people! Let's do it !

Tomasi Akimeta

wait, THIS COMING Friday, or next week Friday? I vote this COMING Friday so we could see how fast we can whip out some brilliance!

Mathias Sunardi

Lol, I know I don't have the time to make it for THIS friday ...

Tomasi Akimeta

mkay, Next Friday it is!

Jorge Hernandez

Same here, Tomasi. This coming Friday sounds impossible to me lol.

Connor Magill

OK this has nothing to do with the wee challenge we have set ourselves... but this what I been working on today... started off from a sketch i did about 5 yrs ago... coloured it this where I am up to... Alot to do, going to add a pretty spooky background, both characters need a lot of work and I am gonna add roller skates to the chick ( but gonna keep them a bit looser and not as polished as the piece i did for the course) let me know what use think..

Tomasi Akimeta

It's pretty good so far, is it just a Halloween themed piece?

Mathias Sunardi

Does anyone know if it's ok to post our final stuff on deviantart?

Tomasi Akimeta

I did, so did Mony. In fact, we both referenced Dan, LMS, SWSCA and what our finals were about.

Here's Mony's post

http://blue-sheep.deviantart.com/art/Bob-401535768

Here's mine

http://studiotoa.deviantart.com/art/The-Antipaladin-An-LMS-Character-Study-401758572

Mathias Sunardi

Ah, cool. Thanks!

I wonder how much longer we have to wait for the verdicts...?

Tomasi Akimeta

I think it might be up to the teacher of the course. I looked at the other workshop forum posts and the Final Critiques for the Creature Maquette Sculpting course just got their critiques earlier this week with August 9th being their due date. With the Creature Maquette Painting course, August 16th was their due date, but they have yet to receive any critiques from it (at least that's what I assumed since the most recent post was made on September 16th asking when their final critique would be given).

I wonder if it's a combination of instructor critique/ SWSCA certificate awarding procedures? Maybe Chris can let us know?

Mathias Sunardi

Ah, ok. Thanks for that info. I didn't expect it to take that long, and was wondering if anything's wrong. But if that's how long it is normally, then it is what it is

Tomasi Akimeta

So the group and I just had a huge FB pow-wow, and Mony managed to find out that we're literally just waiting for Dan to sign the certificates before the critiques get sent out. So, hopefully a day turn-around and we're good for grading! w00t!

Annita Cunha

Woot! I just got mine!

Tomasi Akimeta

Right on, grats!

Tomasi Akimeta

I just got mine, too. w00t!