Concepts and hatching

And here I take a break from mind-numbingly painting crosshatching onto trees by posting my slightly elderly concept arts. (Click to open a large version) We're going to try and emulate the style, but obviously we have to make some compromises for 3D or we'll end up 2D animating on planes. x)



















And for the sake of completeness, here's a snippet of the hatching. I cobbled together about five densities of organic hatching brush with a bit of angle/roundness jitter and a dual brush to spice them up a little.



You don't want to see what I've been raging over, which is Houdini feathers. :| There is currently a very bad-looking plane-covered egg in my files.