Dave PI

Was just messing around

Portfolio Front Cover

Created using Illustrator

Star Wars WIP 2

Different Design idea

Star Wars WIP

Star Wars Poster Rough Idea

I was a little bored, Decided to open up Illustrator and mess around... I'll probably work on this later on.

Trailer Fun

Trailer from David Landau on Vimeo.

This was made a while ago, when we were in the process of animating our final film, i decided to put all the scenes we had animated at the time together.

Older Work

Sherlock Holmes Test

I was just trying out some new techniques in After Effects, very rough test

Wonder Years 2010

SHOWREEL 2010

Showreel 2010 from David Landau on Vimeo.

Lip Sync Update #4

Lip Sync Update

Lip Sync Update from David Landau on Vimeo.

updated lip sync test

Stage

Very rought idea for a stage. For a personal project im working on.

Lip Sync 1st Attempt

My first Attempt at Lip Syncing

Life Drawing

city fisheye

Final Character

Finalised character. I took the drawings i did and made em a little more realistic.

Video

City Test

City Test from David Landau on Vimeo.

A Brief experiment in 3D max, using surfaces as lights, did this a while ago but never really uploaded it anywhere

Concepts

Random Work i did a while ago

Title Designs

I wanted to redesign my blog logo

Character Concept

Took me all day to draw these, some of the earlier drafts were not great... Using Richard Harris (from Count of Monte Cristo) as a guide/reference, i came up with some faces. Im happy with them, they came out better than i thought but not exactly as i had hoped. Anyway I havnt updated my blog in a while, so now i have. Im not 100% sure why i drew a guy with a plunger on his head... it just felt right... oh and the man has ver small spectacles on, that cover his pupils, his emotions would be conveyed through his eyebrows and mouth movements...

Life Drawing Tests

Life Drawing Practice

Hells Living Quaters

Something I was working on, still not finished. The Living Quaters of Hell. Just the District where the Workers live though... Not the General Population Quaters.

Designs

Just some designs I have been working on for a Self project, It is Inside a Vending Machine.. its got Tardis Properties, (where the inside is bigger than the out). Main Difference is just lighting really, and a bucket. But im still working on this. Its not yet finished, I think its lacking something in the foreground.. maybe a shelf with toilet roll on.

Life Drawing Session 5

Life Drawing Session 4

4th Life Drawing Session, Again, it took me ages to warm up. I really need to loosen up quicker. Not concentrate too much, and just draw what I see.

Museum

I am going to try and go to some museums and just draw, just to loosen up a bit.

I ended up going to the Natural History Museum.. lots of skeletons. Unfortunatley not enough seating to just sit down and draw. Only managed to get a couple of drawings done. Too many loud annoying school kids.

Life Drawing Session 3

Well I went to Life Drawing Again, Took me a long time to get into it again. I really need to loosen up earlier. Next time I go I think i will try and do some drawing earlier on in the day so im not so rigid when I start. I dont see too much of an improvement so far, but Rome Wasnt Built in a Day...

I animated this leaf a few weeks ago. Initially this was for a City introduction which I had started to animated. The idea was, that the leaf would fall gracefully down through the city and then get blown away by a car... Cliche' I know. There are a few line errors, but it was initially a test, Like most of my work, I had a thought of animating a leaf, then I tried it, (cheaply) drawing a few images.. eventually I realised I would have to plan it out... So what turned out to be a quick animation on a whim, ended uo being 60+ drawings..

The Journey..

Well, I know the Quest: To have in just under 5 months time a Showreel worthy of getting me into a Masters Course...

The Journey has already started, by going to Life Drawing twice a week, however that is only the start. A Means to an end. To improve ones drawing ability, in order to have a style and skill that will have my showreel being up to scratch.

In order to not fall into a bad habbit, I am going to have to come up with a plausable working timetable that will enable me to complete my Quest. This will include storyboarding, animatics, creative idea sessions as well as life drawing. I am going to approach this very much like a computer game. I have certain attributes, I am going to have to train em up in order to get the best results. I have my Quest, I know Journey, now it's just a question of which path I take to get to the end. (Simply put).

This was only my second time that I had been to Life Drawing. To be truthful, I didn't feel as comfortable drawing this week as i did last. It Took me a long time to get into my drawings. However the journey to Artistic Grace continues..