Thankgiving Greetings

Here is an Update on my rocket project, this screenshot is towards the end of his jump animation, which will be posted in a follow up post soon.

So today I had thanksgiving dinner with The Decker family, and it was a delicious home cooked meal that really hit the spot.

We went on a bike ride today through a wooded nature preserve, and there was a nice vista on the lake.

Simple Poly W.I.P. another update

Here is a little update on my simple poly project. I am currently animating a jump from one sphere (Earth) to a second (Moon). It proved to be frustrating at first, but once I got my workflow down, it got a lot easier to understand how to pose the character out. I still have quite a bit of animation, and texturing to do, but I am excited for the outcome of this project.

Simple Poly W.I.P. Update

Got a decent amount of bump mapping, specular, and diffuse done on this rocket. Here is a quick snapshot I took of it. I think the metal feel is definitely starting to come out... still have to work on the wings, and do a lot of tweaking.

Simple Poly W.I.P.

This is the project we are working on for computer animation. We are basically supposed to do an object with legs, and as you can see I chose a rocket ship. It still has a long way to go, and we are going to use it for assorted animation exercises including a walk, jump, and a weight shift.

The picture you are seeing is before any bump, specular, or diffuse maps. I will update with some more pictures of process soon.

So, for Computer animation class, the penguin project required us to recreate the linux penguin stress toy, as seen below. The whole idea of the project was to introduce polygon modeling, as well as simple texturing, lighting, bump mapping, etc. this is what mine turned out like. I am pretty happy with it.

Keep in mind, I found that picture on the internet. The penguins we had, were a lot more vibrant, so thats why the feet are more towards yellow as opposed to orange flavored.

Ball bounce

This was created in my Computer animation class This is actually older than most of the stuff I just posted, but I forgot to put it up.

So here goes the biggest post in I think forever. It is all stuff that I have done in the past 6 months, or year.

This group below are figures from FEWS. They are done in black pen, and some have accents in Copic marker. It was really nice to finally do some figure drawing for the first time in a while. I had not drawn full figure since first semester last year, which was about 11 months ago! Can't wait to get into that intermediate figure class that I am taking next semester. I am really excited about that class.

This painting was a quick micron, and watercolor that I did a few weeks ago. This scene is down at Indian beach near Ringling. It was really just to try out my new portable watercolor set that I made. It is made out of two altoids containers spliced together with baked sculpey inside that creates places to put paint. It folds up to a modest pocket sized metal tin container, and can be activated with a Niji water-brush. So much fun to use!

This digital painting was created for concept Developement class. It is the layout for a short animatic that we are doing. My animatic is about a tired hiker, and a hungry bear.

These two piece were painted last year for observational color class.

Sketch that I did in my sketchbook a few days ago.

This figure below was drawn last spring. Over spring break, I did Glenn Vilppu's figure drawing "Heads, hands and feet" workshop. If anyone wants to get better at figure, this guy is the teacher to learn from. He is such a cool guy, and is an incredible teacher. Just his presence is really amazing.

This drawing is Caran D'ache crayons on paper. It was also drawn in observational color.

Also done during the Vilppu studio.

So it has basically been a year or so since i last posted! I really feel out of date here on my blog, so I decided I would post some stuff. hopefully you like it.