The Clay House is supposed to be Bread

Whilst re reading the story of Hansel and Gretel by the Brothers Grimm, I realised the house is completely made of bread! How do you show that, how would u make something solid enough to be believable as a house, whilst still being made of soft edible bread. Well it was by chance when looking at 18th century German Cottages I found The Clay House in Leshten, Bulgaria. I've also discovered there is a virtual tour of the building. It is made of Flintstone/Clay well to me that does have a few of the qualities I imagine the Witch's Bread House would have, this below is the interior:

Excuse the TV, but it is that dusty brown and the shaped of the bench and house is nearly perfect as a reference to the house. Also it helps seeing the whole thing in 3d so here is the link to the Virtual Tour; http://www.rentbyownerbg.com/offer/1918/

Also found these as extra elements that I want to just keep till I make up a mood board:

Well this is officially the beginning of the research for this Visualisation project.

FINALLY

Well Hagatha is finally back in 3ds Max, taken weeks to figure out what was happening with the seams, anyway, after a lot of trial and plenty of error, this is officially the best outcome of all my hard work. There are elements of course I'd like to improve but for animation and progression purposes I am happy with this. It does do something weird when rendered though, but I think that is mainly to do with materials. I can sort that later. I no longer have the patience to faff around. I just want to move forward!

Facial Expressions

I've been watching these clips, trying to learn the range of facial expressions. I can't wait to kick Hagatha into action, well as soon as i get the modelling thing sorted. Really frustrating as she is not working the way I want her too, every time I model her and add a few more sub division layers to her in Mudbox, she goes weird when I export it. So annoying, but hopefully Andy can save whats left of my hair.



Anyway these little guys have definitely brightened up my day, some very funny quick sketcghes. Something I would really love to get into.

Painting

learning to paint properly in Photoshop, here is the first stage of my concept for the Graphi Novel/film I have in mind. Its called 'Pods'.

I DID I DID see a putty cat

Still practicing my drawing skills and photoshop. It's simple stuff like this that builds a portfoilio. Especially as I know exactly how I'm going to digitalise my sketchbooks properly for the real portfolio I'd hand to potential employers as a concept artist. If I keep doing stuff like this by the end of the summer I'll have quite a collection. Anyway this is me and emma as Cats, I took the the previouse images I drew and changed us into cats.