Pictures!

enviromenting

The assignment was to take a photo (one that taken by yourself) and turn it into a medieval/fantasy scene.

Kent Station from the roof of the parking garage.

Original underdrawing

Mostly 'finished'. I wanted to keep this piece as simple as possible, looking  more at designing the shapes, value and composition rather than worrying about rendering.

"Done" ..... I really need to figure out how to do color correction on my monitors. Each one of the three is slightly different than the other. The textures as I am looking at them now are way harsher than if I look at this image on my main screen. Weird. Time to figure out  a good way to fix that.

Mind the gap Final

This is the final version. Crappy lighting and everything.... I need to play around with mental ray in Maya some more. I did quite a few test renders and thought I had everything working well. Oh well, live and learn.

All in all I am pretty pleased with how this turned out. My second [real] animation in 3d. Certainly not perfect, but quite a leap from the first. Next thing to tackle in my animation is to get the character to loosen up a bit. Mechanically I am feeling confident. Technique-wise I am much more confident (building poses in 3d is not like drawing out a pose-test in 2d. It requires a more deft touch at times). Acting still needs great improvement, but that's part of the process. SO! Get some more life into the character!

Also, I am thinking I need to gussy up this blog. It's pretty bland. If I am going to continue updating like I have it needs to be more "me."

It's Character Driven

Stupid fun assignment in my character design class sent me here: http://itscharacterdriven.blogspot.com/ .

Beautiful
Stoned
Mystic
May or may not be an alien

Pencil test

This is the current state of my animation for sophomore projects. I am working with a partner on this who is animating a separate character. Unfortunately we have not recently shot the two together. More updates as this goes through it's phases to completion.



And this is the background painting I did for it. The final animation will be vectorized in toon boom and then colored. The original drawing for the painting was mine as well.

My partner did her own painting and they both turned out good enough that we don't know who's we want to use yet.... we'll have to duke it out I guess.