Friday, June 1, 2012

Tangled Lighting Keys

Key for an aborted scene that was to done in production by our brilliant matte painter, Jang Lee as a  P-Map.
.......Which I think means a projection on primitive geometry...and stuff.
This is painted over a great development drawing by Kevin Nelson

   


                                   



















            Various lighting keys for Tangled.  All of these started off as paintings over a CG render at various stages of lighting. What you see here are paintings that we would do to inform our lighting artists what we needed more of  (staging, lighting direction, color.)   IN ALL CASES,  our lighters exceeded and made better images than what we initially conceived.  There's a lot going on underneath these touch ups. We have characters posed by the animators, tweaked by Glen Keane...then these would have rough lighting done by one of our sequence lighting leads--Alessandro Jacomini, Rich Lehman, Josh Staub, Chris Springfield, Bobby Miles, Ernie Petti, and Brian Leach....Dave Goetz, Mohit Kallianpur, and I would then under the direction of the lighting leads take a shot at the key...show the directors (Dave's would go well and mine would crash and burn) and we would re-show until the key had the mood the directors were going for. See? It's simple (har-har). This is just a few keys from my batch...but a lot of work from a lot of people is what you truly see.



Thursday, May 24, 2012

Friday, May 4, 2012

Richard Vander Wende

A strange and absolutely freakishly talented artist. The brilliant production designer from Disney's Aladdin, the game, Riven (sequel to Myst), ILM painter and designer, and Pixar and Blue Sky visual development.
Richard and Kathy Altieri were my original mentors and supervisors at Disney.

http://www.vanderwende.com/


Saturday, April 21, 2012

CM Cooper paintings

A completely prejudiced link to my lovely wife's website. The woman can paint. REALLY paint.
And she keeps getting better...all the time. Grrrrrrrr. (I love it)
Check it out!!!

 Currently, she's in the Scottsdale Salon of Fine Art show at Legacy Gallery, which just opened on the 20th of April.

http://www.scottsdalesalonoffineart.com/artists-and-artwork/after-the-party.html
http://www.scottsdalesalonoffineart.com/
http://cmcooperfineart.com/

Painting studies


"Amber." Limited palette. Indian yellow, lemon yellow, Quin Red, Burnt sienna, Ivory black


        "Kelly." Same limited palette as above


"Toni." Full palette. Interesting color, but I lost the drawing on the left side of the head. Too many sharp edges


                                         
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Quick studies of Julie.

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Drawing (for what its worth)



Somewhere between 10 to 20 minutes...


3 minute poses



10 minutes


2 minute poses (Karl Gnass' class at Disney)

20 minutes


















Charcoal studies (heavily influenced by my friends Mark Westermoe, and Karl Gnass).
Though I never studied with Fred Fixler, I was heavily influenced by his students and by watching
him from Brandes Art Institute where he chose me to be his first color painting teacher back in 1983 (later Fred left and formed California Art Institute). Heavy thanks to Mark Westermoe (whom I took too many classes from), Greg Pro, Morgan, Glen Orbik (who I still need to study with...), and Laurel Blechman...who's father suffered through Fred's really bad cheap side. The man was a character, that's for sure