The Ford Transit Van...Thank God It's Over.

Monday saw the end of a very stressful project... the Ford Transit Van.
Due to two weeks of intensive workshops my van didn't come out as good as I would have hoped but if I get time I plan to re-do it.

So for this project the brief was - 

“You will be required to make a Ford Transit Van, this has been chosen as there are plenty of Ford Transits around in order for you to get good photo reference. A van is a good starting point for your first vehicle on the course as it’s shape is box like and a lot easier to start with.”

For the van the technical limitations were - 

· The model must use fewer than 5000 triangles (also called polygons or faces. N.B. if you work in quads remember each quad is two triangles).

· Three texture pages will be required, one 1024x1024 32 bit tga for the main body and semi transparent door windows and front windscreen. One 512x512 for all the interior and one 128x128 texture for the lights. The wheel texture can be on the main body texture page

I kept to the project brief and the technical limitations. And here is my final presentation of the van. 

Then and now..

This post is a short presentation of some old work and my development since starting Game Art Design at university.

The first photo set is my work from A Level Fine Art. 

As oil paintings I can't compare them with any paintings from university work as we have not yet started painting. However we have been using colour which is relevent as I feel that I have learnt how to correctly use colours together to create an interesting composition. 

These studies have helped me understand colours that compliment and colours that contrast and how to use them correctly. This is something that I didn't use in the first two paintings which are from my earlier work. 

My earlier work in charcoal which I've shown here isn't very good in my opinion and could be refined a lot more. When comparing it to my charcoal work now I feel as if I have improved a lot as I can control the media a lot more effectively and create accurate drawings with it. 

This is just a small update on my artistic development since starting university. I will upload more to show more of my improvements throughout the year.