Skeletor

Here's a little video I made for the "Reel Thing", a student art competition at the Art Institute of Colorado. Hope you enjoy!

Skeletor WIP's

So here's my WIPs for Skeletor. Hopefully this will help some beginning digital painters as they can see the process I use for digital painting in Photoshop.

Skeletor-With Eyes

I wasn't sure which one I liked better, though I lean towards no eyes, so I thought I'd post both.

Skeletor- No Eyes

So I've had the urge lately to reminisce on my childhood and since He-man was such a big part of that part of my life I thought it would be fun to do something from that era, hence the totally evil Skeletor.

I thought it would be fun to do something in a film aspect ratio and I've been trying to work on more dynamic lighting as well. Hopefully the colors show up decent as it's hard to know how other people's monitors are calibrated. I also thought it would be fun to make it look like a movie poster as well, a fun little touch :)

I really wanted it to be like Skeletor was in deep contemplation, perhaps after just being defeated yet again by He-man.

One thing that I've recently thought is funny about Skeletor is that he's really an eternal optimist, always believing that he's one battle away from reaching his life goals (something positive that we can learn from him LOL)!

This took around 10 hours to complete from start to finish in Photoshop CS4, hope you enjoy!