- Eduardo Schaal -

Kiss me

01Nov09

Another one from the vampire series. Just a woman profile, but I quite like her expression.
This time I came with a coloured digital ink instead of a full rendered piece.

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Sisters

14Oct09

The second from a series of vampire illustrations that I have been doing.

All digital, PS and Wacon Intuos 4.

I ` ve spent about 8 to 9 hours of work from the sketch to the finished painting and you can check the process on the “making of” digital magazine (clic on the cover).

Girls just want to have fun

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Catwoman illustration.
For the fun of rendering latex, cats, filthy stuff and girls
Pencils, black ink pens, watercolour on A4 paper and Painter X, Photoshop CS2 + CS3 with a Wacom Cintiq 12″ and Wacom Intuos 4 small for final digital rendering. The original file has 24 megapixels of resolution (6Kx4K). Click on the image to see it in detail and on the cover of the Making of to open it

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Art Rage

26Jun09

From 2005, some experimentations with the ArtRage software. . Really good for sketching and at that time I was very interested in explore unusual colour schemes for figures and very loose oil paint brush strokes and textures.

Click the image to see it in detail

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North Pole and Russian Beer in CG

05Jun09

I spent about 6 weeks working on this beer commercial generated in Computer Graphics at 422 South.

For this particular project I put my hands on concept art, look development, matte paintings, CG lighting, texturing and a little bit of particle work and 3D modeling.

Here , 2 illustrations that I did to conceptualize the look for underwater shots and the video has the full commercial.

Rogerio Alves and Craig Howarth were the CG supervisors and Martin Blunden was the lead 3D artist.

Photoshop for the artwork and textures. Maya for the 3d CG job.

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16:9

14May09

I am diving into colours now for the new batch of quick digital sketches.

PS CS3 and Wacom Cintiq 12″ as my tools of choice.

Thanks for the very kind comments, here and in the flickr

Hope you like the new ones.

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Step by Step and a Podcast

03May09

The number 10 of the amazing downloadable PDF Brazilian illustration magazine – Revista Ilustrar- published a step by step of one concept art that I did here at 422 for a client in Russia. Check it out the mag , even if you don`t speak Portuguese (at least to see the pictures). An English version is expected soon and there is no cost at all. 100% free.

The podcast Papo de Artista has a chat between me, Carol Vigna-Maru and Rod Reis about creative processes. In Portuguese. Click to listen.

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A Sketch a day

24Apr09

I have been doing or at least trying to do one sketch a day, no matter how busy I am at the studio. My only rule or constraint for now is to use a horizontal frame for them, so I`ll stick with it to see what I can do with a more cinematic format. You can see all togheter in this Flickr Set.

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Tags: girls, painting, sketch

Drain the Ocean

23Apr09

Drain the Ocean was a huge project that we did at 422 for National Geographic Channel to show the incredible landscape of the ocean floor. All drained underwater landscapes were created in Computer Graphics (CG).

I was the Art Director for the Visual Effects, being responsible for the concept arts, storyboards, the CG cameras, look development and some animations, Rogerio Alves was the VFX Director, taking care of the pipeline and on-set supervision and Chris Hunt was the Senior CG artist, developing the CG landscapes with Terragen 2 software.

The Terragen website has a PDF presentation for the technical aspects of the Draining the Ocean case.

Here, there is a link for the clip with a selection of shots and here, the official NatGeo hotsite for the show

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