contrast - intermediate

 

My panel 5 study thumbnail drawing of a simple explosion.
right click video to loop

Test animation piece using MSL for a bigger impact; I've found if I have more frames during the stutter, there's more of a readible visually impact. I had to export this as a video as there's too much colour variance to read as a gif.

bitey: week 15 - contrast beginner task

smokey explosion

flash

bitey: week 15 - contrast references

 

This is a Magic the Gathering card artwork that has a fantastic example of contrast to exhibit the main action. I've noticed a lot of MTG cards have this appeal prominent in their artwork. As they have such a small frame for the artwork on the individual cards, they are required to have a strong sense of composition and silhouette for the audience to promptly recognise the visual narrative.

 

These images are captures from the Marvel Avengers films, which I recalled have a multitude of CGI FX including both enhanced explosions as you would see similar to in our real world, as well as fantasy explosions and effects. A lot of these effects use the MSL (medium, small, large) technique as I've been reading about during this weeks Bitey lesson. I have found a few examples of these and have included them in this post.

I noticed there are a variance of other staggered styles that emphasise the type of explosion or effect. An example of this is in the magical abilities characters use, where their 'spell' flickers when being cast. This seems to add an authenticity to the spell they are casting that mimics real world flashes.

reflection references

 

bitey: week 14 - reflections

 

first reflection exercise

guided exercise

 reflected shapes freehand

cloudy smoke continued

 

bitey: week 13 - cloudy smoke

Quick exercise from this weeks lessons on cloudy smoke.

A more fleshed out dungeon torch imported from Photoshop to complete one of the briefs.