Sleepy is me

Awesome - I'm really excited because the silhouette of the character is starting to read like the concept sketches that I started with. I also changed the pose a bit so that it looks a bit more natural which I think helped the overall appeal, and may help the character look natural when I rig it later. well. if I rig it.

Kind of a random comment, but Grandpa, if you are reading this, can you email me your email? I tried to send you an email the other day, but it came back. I'm just not sure how else to reach you.

Time to pack! Home I go!

wow.... that's a couple of long days - here is the model so far - I just attached the head for kicks - the neck isn't positioned properly at all and the meshes aren't even sewn together. I just wanted to see them side by side.

Also - it is officially time for me to do some cleaning, and powerpacking so that I can catch the bus tomorrow... I... really hope they let me take my guitar with me... I don't know what I would do without it.

Unless I decide not to sleep for the 2 hours or so that I have to sleep - this will be my last post for a couple of weeks as I am heading home. I should still be drawing though - so hopefully I will have some new layouts by the time I get back.

oooh - and by the way - check out how all of the squares flow on the model... I'm so proud.. soo.. soo proud that it is working! The pecs flow into the deltoids and then follow down the back into the trapezius, which then circles around and flows around a plane on the bum and back up the other side. There's some other smaller stuff -but that is the main attraction as far as I'm concerned, as I planned it, and executed it completely on my own without any kind of tutorial help *while I was doing it. I still spent hours, and hours studying tutorials beforehand until I *think I got the jist of it. adios!

En Guarde!

heeey!

been a while since I posted, but i've been working diligently every day. here is a HUGE update on the work that I have been doing on the Character Design for Maya. He now has a name - Darek. a personality too - but I'm tired and lazy, and it's going to be a long night - so I'll just post something nice to look at. by the way - just like 5 minutes after doing this, I adjusted the chin, and it looks like 10 million times better. I hate myself for jumping the gun.

Maya Modelling

Alright so I've set up this really sweet world that I don't want to talk about too much until I set up more so that I save the surprise for later. In any case - it's being built around a character that I am designing for my portfolio - and here are some of the more successful sketches. wow I am tired.

American McGee - here I come

alright so another update although there is still much night left to go. or rather a whole new day... I guess at 6am it's pretty much morning. or at least early enough for me to associate it with not wanting to wake up. Fortunately for me, I am still awake.

Anyways - I finished the second layout that I started last night, and as a warm-up, I tossed out another potential character Design for the 3D modelling project that I'm undertaking. I'm going to keep working on that as the night goes on - but I'm so proud of this layout that I wanted to post it. plus techincally I haven't been posting daily unless I post this today - so there is some motivation there too.

And wow - my dream would be for the likes of American McGee, Ken Wong, or Norman Felchle to pop onto my blog and critique this. it's still technically night so I can dream. I might submit it as fanart on the American McGee forum.... maybe it would get noticed? who knows - if not then at least it's a new audience of people, and a new source of ideas.

Yesterday's work

this isn't everything, but I seriously have to get to work so these are the two major portfolio assignments that I was working on last night. I'm very happy with both so far!

... Knees and Toes... or feet, rather

alright - so two nights of sketching in a row - two nights of prioritizing learning to conciousness in class - but I really do believe that this is helping me a lot. Also, it means that I get to put a delightfully blue streak across the date today which means two days that I have drawn for myself in a row. How long can I continue this hot streak? (ungh - and how much time can I spend uploading this stuff to like 3 different sites in the hopes of getting feedback).

Will