Yona's Little Adventures...

[YONA]

Thank you so much guys!

Moni: thank you! what about your 2D work! it's benne a while that you didn't post a skecth done in paintstop no? héhéhé any way happy new year for you too!
Fernando Kuhlmann : thank you Fernando, and don't worry i'll have to finish the kid in 3D too... because we've changed our mind AGAIN! so the boy wil be in 3D too!
Al.tintop : thank you man!
Etcher : thank you my friend. I've to work on a commercial till mid february but as soon it's done i'll finish Emrold just for you my friend!!
Maxinkuk: thank you! as soon as i can talk a bit more of the story (which i secret for now ) i will!
Gentleman: for my new illustration, i've decided to redo him from the beginning in order have the cleaner base to work with... and now i'm calm !!!
azcher1986 : thank you
Captain sensible : in fact Crystal palace was one of my reference
Santis : thank you and happy new year for you too!

Now that we have worked a bit more on the project, we have changed our mind AGAIN! The kid, his name is PITO, will be in 3D too...
So i have to finish him in order to use him in all my illustrations (except the 1st one)
I've decided to redo him in order to have the cleanest base to work with.
I'll go back to my low poly to make a model that i'll be able to use, including UVs and textures ( in order to thank you Gentleman!! ), for all my illustrations
Here is my next pre-production illustration for our project. You can see the boy, PITO and the robot, EMROLD in the center of the image.

Here is how i work :
1/ a quick sketch in photoshop which let me resize the frame till i'm happy. In this picture, for example, i was much more closer of the 2 main characters at the beginning of my skecth and i have decided to resize the picture in order to add bigger robots...
2/ i add a medium gray layer on which one i paint my main lights with 4 types of greys maximum (and no black for now)
3/ when i'm close from what i want, I choose the main color of the illustration to create the ambience.
4/ I start the painting. I use photoshop as i f i was painting with acrylic (from darker colors till lighter colors)
5/ Once all the illustration is done in a monochromatic mode, i add several layers in order to think of the best way to add colors.
6/ I add my 3D characters sculpted in Zbrush, painted thanks to polypainting, Zapplink, Photoshop (a bit of bodypaint) and lighten in XSI.
7/ I refine all the lighting work by using levels, brush and dodge tool in photoshop
8/ I do some final color adjustements if needed
9/ Done!

This was the process of my last illustration, i've always worked like that in Photoshop. By following these steps, i'm sure to respect all the aspects of my work, lighting, color, etc...
In my new illustration i've just started the step 4, you can see that the foreground is more painted than the rest.
I'll try to post all the next steps.

Hope this method will help some of you guys EVEN IF IT'S NOT COMPLETLY A 3D WORK ...

but it's always interesting to mix technics no?
a bit of painting with our friend ZB?
isn't it fun hummm? no? ok...

[Disco Stu]

[Etcher]

Hey Céd, busy times, as usual, I see! Already lookin' forward to mid februar and Emrold . Great little sketch, thanks for the workflow explanation. Quote:"but it's always interesting to mix technics no?
a bit of painting with our friend ZB?
isn't it fun hummm? no? ok..." I agree, we must keep an open mind... continue thinking outside the box . See ya!

[Moni-Poroni]

Hey that`s a great new image! And another very cool perspective.
Thanks for sharing the tips.
It`s been a while that I`ve posted a PaintStop sketch? The final Humpatiki illustration was completely done in PaintStop, but you`re right.. it`s been a while. During the last weeks I had not much time.. neither for 3D, nor fo 2D. Unfortunately.
I was working on another (completely 2D) PaintStop image but I didn`t like the perspective after a while. I have to start from scratch.
First I have to finish the 3D models , though.
I don`t like unfinished things. And I have toooooo many unfinished things at the moment. Ahhhhhhh! And too many new ideas. I need to work harder..and faster to get everthing done.
I`m looking forward to seeing Emrold.

[Al.Tintop]

great new illustration and pito in 3D..that sounds great.
and i can't wait for emrold anylonger hope you will find some time to finish him soon.

[YONA]

Hi guys! and thank you for your support!

I'm not so far away of adding my 2 Zcharacters in the picture.
I'm still working on the details and i have 2 more days of work on the painting part.
Then, i'll add some colors and work on the rendering of my characters.
For now, here's a breakdown of all the steps since the beginning of my picture.

Can't wait to add my 3D characters in it.

[adampof]

jaime bcp wonderfullll

[Fernando Kuhlmann]

Hey Yona
Really great work, looks awesome,
Can't whait to see those fantastic 3D characters in it
Cheers
Fernando

[PawWS]

Very impressive characters, so inspiring!

Congratulations!

[YONA]

Hi guys! long time no see!
I was very busy on the preproduction part of several projects. SO still no 3D for now.
But all the pictures i post are parts of 2D/3D projects for whom i'll use Zbrush for all the characters.
The more time i spend on the preproduction, the more i'm comfortable with ZB when it's time to sculpt!

Here are the last sketches for the LITTLE H project...still so many things to do..

the robots room:


The key room (still in progress, i have to add the characters, details and soooo many stuff):


I'm waiting for the EMROLD and PITO's print from DESMODA. I'll post photos as soon as i can!!!

And an other project i'm working on. The characters will be sculpted in ZB, all the BGs will be 2D

[Disco Stu]

great work

[froyd]

absolutely wonderful!

[O/MI]

whohooo sooo cool L o v e !

[YONA]

Thank you so much guys!
I know that posting 2D stuffs here is quite surprising and probably boring for a lot of people. But for me the pre production step is sometimes more important than sculpting. I hope my sculpts will please you.

I can't wait working on ZB again tooooo!

[Luki]

Damn! I love your stuff, those pictures are really cool. I would like to see short animation from you, i'm sure it would be awesome.