Results

Uni results are in!

Bachelor Of Arts in Computer Games Art (Single Honours)
With First Class Honours

It was what i expected ( i drove myself insane working my butt off, if id got anything less id be crying right about now ) so its all cool.

Some updates on what ive been up to these past couple of weeks below- mainly some environment studies. I have some in the works which need finishing off too, i should get them done today. I’m starting a group level project soon with a designer and modeller which we’re going to be implementing in unreal, so those big ol gaps in my portfolio should be filled nicely once things get moving.

‘Ecco the dolphin’ vehicle concepts for a ’sega’ themed kart/racing game-

Sploosh

Finally got round to giving the old squid concepts a lick of paint. I wish i had the time to do this back before i made the final model, these look so much cooler than the real thing ended up looking.

Portfolio expansion

I’m still mixing things up at the moment, the portfolio page has been split into a far more sensible creatures/humans/environments rather than digital/traditonal, and some concepts i keep forgetting about were added. I have a bunch more stuff i need to put up which i actually have in my hard copy portfolio but not here yet. Been relaxing the past few weeks and its go time now, getting this all nice and sorted.

I have a bunch of  human/environment/vehicle stuff which i’ve had on backlog since finishing uni, so stay tuned for more of that.

Small selection of what i’ve been doing during relaxo time since uni cut out-

Was thinking of applying for a ‘city artist’ opening at Ubisoft last week, even spent a day modelling an old victorian building for texturing, but i was advised strongly against it. I might still texture up the building though, some lovely hand painted textures are always a win.

Spring Clean

Uni is over so its time to clean up the gallery and sort out some of the pages!

‘Personal Work’ is now ‘Portfolio’. In there you’ll find a range of different images and styles, from illustration to conceptual sketches.

‘Lulz’ is the home of the more fun, slightly off-beat doodles as well as a small collection of photos. Decent (or just hilariously bad) older work will also end up here.

‘Projects’ is an area showing collections of 3D, texturing and conceptual work, completed over a period of months.  At the moment its full of uni work, but as time goes on it will gather some more personal project work.

Finally, I have a small collection of 3D animation and effects work over at youtube - http://www.youtube.com/AngelosLH

If you like my work, feel free to drop a comment or two. If you REALLY like it and would like a personal commission, have a particularity awesome project you’d like me to be part of or want to hire me , then drop me an email - morganlegerbil @ hotmail . com

I’m on a bit of a break at the moment while I recover from my final year of uni. Things will be gearing back up again soon though, so stay tuned.

100 Creatures, 100 days

Attempting it, seeing how it goes, ill probably have to miss a few when i move back or whatever. No colour yet, im not sure wether to pick the best when im done and give them colour or do it as i go along, cant do it atm because i draw while rendering.

Textbook Manouvre

Logo for GID, Textbook Manouvre is a fictional RTS game set on the pages of a variety of different school-related books, including detention slips and teen diaries.

Major spelling error in the name which i didnt notice at the time. too late to change it now.

Real Horrorshow

New macro conversion lens + fly = fun

The composition & lighting on this initially came about by fluke. My arms were shaking like crazy (in macro terms anyways) when i tried to get close to the fly, and nothing was in focus because by the time i hit the shutter i’d moved a tiny bit and it all came out in blurs. This was kinda frustrating, so i thought perhaps a movie of the fly would work. Course, the fly didnt bother to move. But in messing about, the lighting changed and for a moment the fly was illuminated against the dark background.

Instant win.

bzz

I had a couple of little visitors in my kitchen today. Unfortunately, its a pretty dark kitchen even with the lights on so the only way i could really get anything good from them was to use the flash. It surprises me how cool insects are with a camera, they really dont care, even when the flash goes off. This was a couple of cm away from the lens, and was about as close as i could get before the shadow of the camera interfered with the flash.

I’m not about to say its a good photo- the flash really bleached it out, i had to do some messing about with RAW to tone down the extreme white from the flash and bring up the detail, which does make it lose a little…vibrancy.

Its nowhere near as interesting as the last bug i found, the kitchen desktop is kinda dull and the fly really blends in- but im still pretty happy with how much i’m learning with the lumix :). One day i’ll move onto a proper camera…and larger animals…perhaps.

Project Zodiac

It is done.

A Lovers Lament

CHRISTIIEEEEEEEE ;_;

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It is times like this when i think to myself ‘ i should have got a DSLR with a decent macro lens’. Then i remember i am not made of money, and DSLRs dont come shipped with an 18X zoom.

When i’m all employed i think im going to have to invest in a macro adapter. Or a better camera. hurr.