Quick Watercolor Painteroo

So.....I forgot to post this little painting too....it was a fun and quick little sketcheroo that I did while I was hangin out at the cafe in Barnes N Noble. Nothing too special, but I enjoyed it, so I thought I would post it.

This guy totally looked like his face was one of those fake disguise mask things....with the sunglasses, nose and mustache. Sorry about the terrible picture.....took it with my phone in tungsten lighting......Tried to color correct a bit in photoshop.....but it was to no avail.....but whatever...you get the idea.

win for the Sox

So I went into Boston tonight with my friend, Scott to go to the Red Sox game. On the way to the game, it was pouring rain, and we were going about 25 MPH on Route 95 on the trip in. Bleh.... The weather cleared up, and we got into Boston with some time to spare. Made a quick trip over to the giant Blick store near Fenway, and bought a few pens.

The game started off with a bang, and the Sox scored in the first inning. Following that run, no more were scored. Although the game was not very exciting, I got a few drawings done.....of the outfielder of course, who was standing there bored as a highschooler...

The Red Sox got the "W"..... and we left the park in good spirits. So we walked back into brookline to my car, and found a nice parking ticket sitting on my winshield. Gahh!

Still Life

This still life project was our final assignment for my Computer Animation II class here at Ringling. I am responsible for all Textures and lighting. The models were provided for us. Tell me what you think.

Sit/Stand Animation

Here is my final sit/stand animation as many of you have already seen on facebook. Like the other youtube embedded videos, you will probably have to watch it through youtube so it blogspot does not cut off the edge....Enjoy.

Fixing Renderman Bump and Displacement artifacts

Hey guys, I just threw this tutorial together because a I know that a lot of Sophomores working on the cemetery were having some problems using renderman with their displacement and bump maps....One thing to keep in mind is that the project notes were written before the school started using renderman, so it is possible that certain parts of the notes may not be exactly what renderman wants. I know some people were getting black trace bias outlines, or just holes in your objects.....so take a look, hopefully it will help. Keep in mind it's my first tutorial, so it is prob not perfect, but whatever. Once again.....since it is youtube embedded, the size is a bit off, so you may have to watch it on youtube. Enjoy.

Cemetery Video

Unfortunately the way youtube embeds the video, I was not able to resize it all the way down to make it fit, but if you click on the video, you will be able to watch it directly on youtube in all of its glory......

Some cemetery Stills

So Here are some stills from the cemetery project for my computer animation II class. We were provided the assets to the scene, and we had to completely texture and light the whole scene, in addition to arranging the scene compositionally. I enjoyed working on this project a lot and it was fun to be able to experiment with two different mood settings. I will most likely be following up this post with the video from the cemetery scene.

Figures, figures, figures.

So i finally decided to post some figure work from intermediate figure this past semester. We had to compile a portfolio that consisted of 30 pages of gestures. Here is most of my portfolio that I submitted for class. I think this semester was a big improvement for me in the figure drawing department......and my understanding of form, and space definitely has become more solid. Enjoy!

and more figures.......

Intermediate Figure drawings