ziv creative

lollypop

2011-12-25T00:59:00.001-08:00

sally

2011-12-25T00:52:00.000-08:00

Limur Animated

2011-12-15T13:37:00.000-08:00

Butterfly Test in After Effects

2011-12-05T02:07:00.000-08:00

Vector Mutt Saturday morning

2011-09-09T23:15:00.000-07:00

This is a vector version of Mutt. I've drawn this on the lap top to and from my trip to Uni on Saturday for a tutoring session in CSS code. Lately, I'm starting to enjoy web code and I understand class selectors, descendent selector, how to code a whole web page from scratch. "Look Ma, no WYSIWYG!" Tonight we learned about Ajax, so I am prepared to start experimenting with it this weekend. Very exciting indeed. Its hard to manage both left and right brain learning at the same time. Illustration and Code. Not impossible though.

Mutt colour test

2011-08-29T01:03:00.000-07:00

I've been learning digital painting with Bobby Chui from www.schoolism.com

Sketches of the new Mutt

2011-08-29T00:57:00.001-07:00

Muttaburrasaurus colour test

2011-08-29T00:42:00.000-07:00

Dancing Dinosaur

2011-08-04T22:25:00.000-07:00

Character Drafts

2011-07-29T19:36:00.000-07:00

Anthropomorphism is giving human characteristics to objects or animals.

This is also recognised in children's writing as, 'Personification.'

Did you know that Beatrix Potter wrote and illustrated her first children's

book featuring anthropomorphic characters in 1902.

Baby Muttaburrasaurus children's book series

2011-07-24T02:28:00.000-07:00

Donna Dyson, the funny, beautiful, energetic and charismatic educator and children's book author has been busy and inspired in writing the Muttaburrasaurus children's book series for the Museum I work at. I'm so grateful to have met Donna. She really brings the sunshine with her wherever she goes and she reminds me that life should be full of fun, learning and inspiration. I'm also grateful to have been asked to illustrate the children's book series after nearly 25 years in the creative industries as a graphic designer, it has been a long wait to land a job like this. So I really want to make Donna proud and breathe life into the Muttaburrasaurus character.

This is a very rough test using Painter 11 with some painting techniques and mediums, charcoal, pastel, ink, etc. I need to work out a very fast digital method of applying colour and tone to these drawings. When studying with Gregory Rogers, an amazing Australian children's picture book illustrator, I learned that it is customary for illustrators to sketch the entire book out in pencil first. No colour is applied whatsoever until the publisher has approved the drafts and they are final and signed off. Then the colouring process begins. This makes complete sense knowing how time consuming each part of the process is. One can't be going back and forth in an ad hoc manner, changing and re-rendering scenes. So I am not too concerned about the final effect at the moment, I still need to get into the skin of the character and understand how he moves, feels, expresses himself and I need to be able to easily visualise him from any angle, position, with any props and inside an environment that I construct from my imagination. Its not a simple task, but the beauty of end result is bound to be endlessly rewarding from a creative perspective. And I am really looking forward to doing a wonderful job on these. Regardless of the limitations of time frames and the fact that Uni starts back next week and I will be learning HTML and CSS and Flash animation at the same time. Life can't get any more exciting than this. In fact, how does it get better than this!?

Mt Tamborine, view west over mountain range

2011-07-14T18:36:00.001-07:00

Grevillea, Honeygem

2011-07-14T18:33:00.000-07:00

Detail of a native flower.

2011-07-14T18:30:00.001-07:00

Morning views from the Eagle Heights Hotel

2011-07-14T18:23:00.000-07:00

Flower bud photographed at Mt Tamborine

2011-07-14T18:18:00.000-07:00

Budds

2011-07-14T03:39:00.000-07:00

Grevillea 'Honeygem

2011-07-14T03:26:00.001-07:00

Grevillea 'Honeygem

2011-07-14T03:21:00.000-07:00

Macro photography at the Eagle Heights Hotel gardens

2011-07-14T03:17:00.001-07:00

Macro photography Eagle Heights Hotel gardens

2011-07-14T03:07:00.000-07:00

Eagle Heights sunrise

2011-07-13T19:43:00.000-07:00

Macro photography

2011-07-12T18:09:00.000-07:00

Kosta Visuals catalogue design

2011-07-10T22:37:00.001-07:00

Main Beach

2011-07-03T15:58:00.000-07:00

Main Beach

2011-07-03T15:57:00.001-07:00

Broadwater

2011-07-03T15:55:00.000-07:00

Broadwater

2011-07-03T15:53:00.000-07:00

Tallebudgera Estuary Panorama

2011-07-03T06:21:00.000-07:00

D Bar First Wave

2011-07-03T06:19:00.003-07:00

Photo of Currumbin inlet

2011-07-03T06:10:00.001-07:00

Coolangatta beach from Kirra Point lookout

2011-07-03T06:07:00.001-07:00

Small boat at the Currumbin Estuary

2011-07-03T05:58:00.000-07:00

Photo of Elephant Rock at Currumbin Estuary

2011-07-03T05:54:00.001-07:00

Photo of Currumbin Estuary

2011-07-03T05:52:00.001-07:00

Photo of Tallebudgera Inlet

2011-07-03T05:50:00.000-07:00

Funny Lemur

2011-06-28T04:57:00.001-07:00

Displacement Map animated in After Effects

2011-06-28T04:50:00.000-07:00

Seagull

2011-06-28T01:47:00.000-07:00

Fingal Panorama

2011-06-28T01:40:00.000-07:00

Fingal Panorama

2011-06-28T01:37:00.001-07:00

Labrador Broadwater

2011-06-28T01:31:00.000-07:00

Cook Island

2011-06-28T01:26:00.000-07:00

Cook Island

2011-06-28T01:24:00.001-07:00

Cook Island

2011-06-28T01:20:00.000-07:00

Mala taking Photos at Fingal Head

2011-06-28T01:17:00.000-07:00

Mala at Fingal Head

2011-06-28T01:02:00.000-07:00

Panorama Broadwater 26 June 2011

2011-06-25T17:06:00.000-07:00

Type over face with displacement map Photoshop

2011-06-23T01:23:00.000-07:00

Lemur Mosaic

2011-06-22T01:48:00.001-07:00

Daguerreotype Image from Photoshop

2011-06-18T01:14:00.000-07:00

Mosaic created in Photoshop 03

2011-06-18T01:01:00.000-07:00

a few characters

2011-04-29T18:19:00.000-07:00

Panoramic image in Photoshop 01

2011-04-10T02:02:00.000-07:00

Panorama in Photoshop

2011-04-09T22:12:00.000-07:00

Pixel Surgery

2011-04-09T18:00:00.000-07:00

Giovanna Home promotional video edit

2011-03-30T03:37:00.000-07:00

FIRESIGN

2011-03-16T00:45:00.000-07:00

After Effects

2011-03-01T15:14:00.000-08:00

Final Animation

2011-02-14T00:07:00.001-08:00

Animation in After Effects

2011-02-13T15:02:00.000-08:00

Animating graphic elements from Illustrator

2011-02-08T00:22:00.000-08:00

Ball bounce in After Effects with stretch and squash

2011-01-29T05:35:00.000-08:00

Learning to Whip Pan in After Effects

2011-01-29T04:53:00.000-08:00

Texturing and lighting in Photoshop

2011-01-20T22:20:00.000-08:00

3D tests in Photoshop

2011-01-20T22:07:00.000-08:00

Photoshop 3D plane from greyscale file

2011-01-19T22:16:00.000-08:00

3D Rendering in Photoshop CS5

2011-01-19T22:14:00.000-08:00

Texturing in Photoshop CS5

2011-01-18T23:55:00.000-08:00

Monster head turn

2011-01-18T18:56:00.000-08:00

Mudbox Snail project in progress

2011-01-18T18:07:00.000-08:00

Texturing in Photoshop CS5

2011-01-16T05:28:00.001-08:00

3D editing in Photoshop

2011-01-16T03:02:00.000-08:00

Rotoscoping in After Effects

2011-01-16T02:51:00.000-08:00

Mudbox project - snail

2011-01-07T00:07:00.001-08:00

Dinosaur dreaming

2011-01-06T14:43:00.001-08:00

Mud Box self learning

2011-01-06T14:40:00.001-08:00

Mud Box - self learning

2011-01-05T15:45:00.001-08:00

Mud Box - self learning

2011-01-05T15:06:00.001-08:00

Scooter rendered in Mental Ray

2011-01-02T04:59:00.000-08:00

Animation improved Maya, dog on scooter

2011-01-02T03:34:00.000-08:00

Animation test of Dog riding Scooter with music

2011-01-02T01:52:00.000-08:00

Animating Dog along motion path

2011-01-02T00:06:00.001-08:00

Editing polygon's vertices and faces to position Dog on scooter

2011-01-01T23:50:00.000-08:00

Rigging Non Linear Deformers

2011-01-01T18:31:00.000-08:00

I moved the pivot point on the modifier once the bend was assigned so the curve starts from the correct position.

Using Blend Shapes to animate eye blink in Maya

2011-01-01T18:04:00.001-08:00

Maya UV Texture Editor

2011-01-01T16:39:00.001-08:00

Maya Textures

2011-01-01T06:02:00.000-08:00

Maya Material Editor Ramp Shader

2011-01-01T06:00:00.000-08:00

Using Materials in Maya

2010-12-28T20:13:00.000-08:00

Lofting isoparms in Maya

2010-12-28T03:17:00.000-08:00

Filleting edges in Maya

2010-12-28T03:12:00.000-08:00

Editing Nurbs in Maya

2010-12-28T03:02:00.000-08:00

Using Sculpt Geomertry tools in Maya

2010-12-28T02:58:00.000-08:00

Modelling a Scooter in Maya

2010-12-27T18:54:00.001-08:00

Using Lattice Deformer to modify facial features

2010-12-26T23:46:00.000-08:00

3D Modelling in Maya

2010-12-26T18:19:00.000-08:00

Butterfly Effect

2010-10-09T07:05:00.001-07:00

dinosaur in painter

2010-09-30T15:44:00.001-07:00

Wanderer Butterfly in dots

2010-09-30T01:47:00.001-07:00