missing pieces

shipwreck

2010-01-07T21:10:00.000-08:00

My digital sets and bodypaint final. I really wanted to do so much more with it. I had high hopes for it. I originally wanted a camera move. Animating the fish and kelp along with the water and some debris. An underwater scene is much more difficult than anticipated. There was a lot more I had to think about as I kept working. The type of lighting.. how far down, the debris, the amount of time the ship was under water determines how much corrosion, etc etc. I did all the modeling.. even the plants and fish. Emil was nice enough to let me use his awesome ship model and Tom helped out wiht the comping. Alot of the scene really came together in comp.

warrior girl

2010-01-07T18:41:00.000-08:00

Another drawing that came from John's class. I took this 20 min drawing and touched it up a bit in photoshop. I liked it.. so I worked on it a bit more afterwards, but not too much, I still wanted to keep the essence of my gesture drawing in there.

gestures

2010-01-07T18:08:00.000-08:00

Here are some gestures drawings from John Mahoney's class. His class always inspires me to keep my hand in it. We become so wrapped up into staring at the computer all day that we forget there are living, breathing, moving things out there.

10 min drawings - done with not moving pen off paper until the shading.

5 min gestures - not moving pen off paper.

1 min gestures

Bale Rant

2010-01-07T17:52:00.000-08:00

Oh yea kids.. the infamous christian bale rant. Its just down right emotional and great for character animation. Bruce gave us this 40 -45 second clip of him just goin to town. We had to choose 5-7 seconds of the clip and animate it.

A few cuss words in this one.. just a word or two.. nothing you haven't heard before.

madmax

2010-01-07T17:45:00.001-08:00

MadMax is an animation I had to do in 2.5 days for the Shane Acker proj. I dropped everything in the 10th week right before finals were due to accomplish this. I wanted to do something difficult and push myself to complete a decent animation. A lot of things are missing from this animation, given the time constraints, I had no choice but to leave some stuff out and just get to the nitty gritty of it all. And make it short!! I think I did great for me.. just not good enough to get on the project. It's all good, things happen for reasons.. usually good ones.

tandem

2010-01-07T17:37:00.000-08:00

My first attempt at a tandem animation. Two characters interacting with one another. This was, at the time, the most difficult thing I had accomplished in character animation. I had high hopes for it. I made several mistakes and learned a great deal doing this one animation. At this point I realized I knew nothing about animation.. I have only scratched the surface. Its gonna be a long tough road.. but one that will be fun and inspiring at the same time.

shack

2010-01-07T17:09:00.000-08:00

Someone asked me what is up with the creepy scenes you are doing for your lighting classes? It's a matter of dramatic lighting I said.

Shack was something I worked on for both my lighting 2 and dynamics class. I put a lot of time and effort into this project. I modeled, textured and lit everything. In the beginning I had a terrible time with it. I was biting off more than I could chew and revamped it in the 6th week. Whats new right? While I was in the process of working on it, I realized I had to light two different scenes for this to come together. When I imported the lighting set from the shack to the grass it was way blown out.. I had to do a totally different light set for the grass than the shack to make it work. It works ok.. somethings I could have done better in comp if I knew how at the time. The main thing I am not happy with are the leaves flyin around. That was my dynamics final. I did not spend enough time on it and it shows. For the most part I am happy with the way it turned out. It could be tweeked here and there of course.

I worked very hard on it. I thank Jeremy again for pointing me in the right direction with the lighting and Charlie for helping me comp it.

sculptey

2010-01-07T17:01:00.000-08:00

I took the head from my poly 2 final and brought it into ZBrush, added some texture and waaaa la. I think it turned out ok. I like the eye area best, I think that part is successful.. the other sections need more work. I wish I had more time to do zbrush work. I really just loved that program. Once I got over the ass backwards ways of maneuvering around within the program.

creepy swings

2009-06-25T10:12:00.000-07:00

yea so.. I like creepy scenes. What can I say. Jeremy was the one who gave me this idea. So I cant credit myself to being all that creepy. :(

This is my final project for my Lighting 1 class. Again there is much room for improvement. I really like this project actually. I have decided to bring it into Lighting 2 and use it for my final there as well so I can keep working on it. I want to continue to define the lighting. Make it look real as possible. Add some branches, dead grass and rocks/stones on the ground. Make the transition of the dirt and trees better, more leaves possibly.. with some animation of them blowing a bit as if it's a little windy (which will totally add to the creepiness). Make the fog a little varagated and dispersed with the light coming thru on the top of the trees too to show the shadows of leaves on the ground. etc. The possibilities are endless. I'm excited to get started again. Any suggestions would be great.

Thanks Jer for the help. I learned a great deal about the different types of lighting thru doing this project.. (most of all patience with the rendering times.. ugh)

(if the video appears too dark to see on your computer you can see it by looking at the screen at an angle form the side.. It's really dark on my monitor at home but at the monitors at the school it's perfect. I think it is just different monitor calibration set ups)

Our assignment called for subtle animation as well.

Modeled, textured, lighting all done in maya and by ME!

Character Anim .. MOOMBOX

2009-06-25T09:54:00.000-07:00

This is the path I have decided to go down again. When I first came to Gnomon and had some assignments to model I was thinking I would go down that path. But after I got a little taste of animation and character animation it was as if a light bulb went off.. this is exactly what I am meant to do. I'm only beginning to scratch the surface and I have sooo much more to learn. I think this is a good start. I thank Tom for helping me out and teaching me so many things about animation. I entered this in the BOT (best of term) contest.. we shall see. There are some good entries. Wish me luck.

For our final project we could do 1 of 2 things or our own thing. You could do a person waiting at a bus stop or a person with a box.. this was my idea for the box.

madusa

2009-06-25T09:14:00.000-07:00

As a kid I was always intrigued by the woman who had snakes in her hair. Not sure why.. maybe it's because I had terrible bed head when I woke up (still do at times). Maybe I wanted to turn a few kids into stone who would call me names cuz I was small or had a nice sized scar down my chest. Either way.. when I had the chance to sculpt anything I wanted for my final project in ZBrush. I picked Madusa... it was only a matter of time.

There was so much more I wanted to sculpt on this but had to turn it in. No time left. I may keep working on her because I think its a decent start. But still needs A LOT of work. I thank Dillon for helping me out alot on this one.. I had no idea where to even begin with it. So pointing me in the right direction right off the bat was crucial. :) (those of you who know me well know how I am with directions)

Here is the concept piece I found on deviant art site.. I really love it.. even tho my sculpt doesn't look too close to it.. it is what I based everything off of. It was so much harder than I ever imagined to make something look exactly like the concept piece. I do not know the name of the artist.

2D concept peice

my ZBrush sculpture

consumed

2009-03-03T08:46:00.000-08:00

I did this pencil sketch. its kind of how I'm feeling these days. ha.

I like it tho.. I think I may render it out in photoshop soon. You may see it again.

2009-02-27T13:40:00.000-08:00

The second character I am developing for visual structure. I want to make them a little more artistic and not so typical looking. Not sure how to go about it at the moment tho. :( I think its a decent start tho. I have soo much respect for story developers. There is so much to think about and so many things to take into consideration with story and character development and to tie it all together.

Vis Structure

2009-02-26T16:53:00.001-08:00

A character I am developing for my story in Visual Structure.

The story in a nutshell is a kung fu style movie .. one that perhaps Quentin Tarantino would direct. The story involves use of particular colors and is set in the future on the planet 9. Kind of an old world mixed with the new world. Here sits Mel, the main character, reluctant to learn the ways of a true warrior.

Texture

2009-02-26T16:46:00.000-08:00

I was given this model to texture for my 2D for 3D texture class. We had to make our own textures and apply it to the model. This was our final exam last term.

Sam

2009-02-26T16:25:00.000-08:00

I had an internal critique today.. while composing all my work together I came across one of my first assignments. We had to model and texture a bug. I chose a jumping spider. His name is Sam.

poly 2

2008-12-17T21:20:00.000-08:00

Here is my polygon modeling 2 final project. I think he turned out pretty good. Not bad for my second character model. I learned alot doing this one. I think the next one will go smoother and hopefully be much much better. :)

The last image is something I put together to make people understand how I felt about nurbs modeling. A Poly (character) vs Nurbs (helicopter) battle. Can you guess which one is winning???

(I modeled both the charater and the chopper.. it was just two different techniques in the way you model things)

sifi giraffe

2008-12-17T20:39:00.000-08:00

This assignment was from my Production Design class. We had to take an animal and give it robot like qualities. I'm not sure if I accomplished what I set out to do in the first place. It is totally not complete .. but it is on its way. I picked a giraffe.. I think because they are tall and I'm not.

Pencil

Photoshop rendering.. work in progress.

Mel & Colli

2008-12-17T19:42:00.000-08:00

I've always liked clowns for some reason. I think because sometimes I feel like one. With big red shoes that you trip over yourself with and a funny nose. When I got this assignment in my production design class I really sank my teeth into it.

Mel & Colli. She travels from planet to planet battling evil and the demons within herself. Along the way she picks a few good things up. Like Colli, who hangs from her hobo stick. Mel looks desperately ahead with much uncertainty of what the future holds. Still with just a sliver of hope for something bigger, something better. Giving up is not an option. The same journey that has beaten her down... is what has made her strong.

Here is the project from a pencil drawing to several attempts at completion. I'm still thinking she needs a different environment.

pencil drawing

First attempt at adding some color in photoshop .. I wanted to keep the colors of a clown and keep it subtle. that soon changed.

I then printed her out started coloring in a background and was like woah.. put down the pencils. So thats what I did.

Decided to go a different route with the advice of my production des. teach. Printed out again and added some color then scanned her back in. Cutting parts of the crazy background up and flipping it. So this is where I am at now. My final image.

2008-10-31T23:19:00.000-07:00

Welcome to my world!!!