oh yeah - more friday sketches

I forgot about these- this is some stuff that I did in Bruno's class. the guy with the lute is my music teacher. and no - he doesn't dress like that - but he's still pretty awesome.

Keep on truckin'

I'm going to have a colossal post coming up once I get some batteries for my scanner as friday was a really, really good drawing day. I am continually amazed with nupastels, and I want to try painting something with them - as they are just that awesome. in any case, here is a 3D model that I have been working on for the group film. it's not quite done yet - I still need the side mirror, and door handle on one side, and there will be a muffler/axis underneath the car... or at least I think so - it doesn't appear that it will add much to the actual design that you will see, but then I might as well make this really nice so that I can stick it in a portfolio or something. Yuriy's original design, by the way.

Twiddling thumbs

Well - tonight was one of those strange nights where I had time to do stuff - and then did it, but did a poor job, and wasted that time. I wanted to paint - I practiced painting, did a poor job, and decided instead to cleanup the layout that I was trying to paint in hopes of trying it again another day. In any case , this is the fruit of my night... for better or worse. hopefully it will look nicer in painted form. Unfortunately it did not look so similar to other things that I draw all the time when I started it. mainly - I want to be able to draw moss, trees, sand, grass, and rock properly... but it looks like it is still in the works. well - on the brighter side - let's hope I can fix it up a bit another day when I paint it.

Aaaalmost there!

Soooo despite starting on friday, this project is taking much longer, and is much more ambitious than I thought it would be, but I have learned so much along the way that even if it doesn't work it was totally worth it. plus I'd at least be able to custom-scale the object to my character's head if I wanted to play the game with it, but I'm running into problems now on making it universal for everyone. but so as not to completely bore you to death, here is the bandana in the game- normal map, and texture included. *sigh of relief* I want this project to be done so I can start on a new one :D.

The modding trials round 3

alright so all my other attempts at modeling have been crowned with a glorious disaster, but we'll see how this one fares. here is the bandana that I made as a test to see if I can import it into the game. I'll start small this time, then build up. and this time I know it's possible to get it into the engine.

1hr 38 min worht of reasons why Kevin Lanning is my new hero

Alright - so I picked up an AMAZING book on 3D modeling - not so much because it broke down HOW they did it, but because it showed the low poly meshes of a few of the models in gears of war. WOW. first of all, I lost hte ability to speak in words after seeing how they solved stuff, and just how amazing their work is, and then after hours of studying how they use bevels to create edgeloops (making it very, very easy - totally second nature) I was able to literally poop out this model. the last model didn't have anywhere near as much detail as this one, as nice edge loops - nor was it anywhere near as fast to make.

I'm now very confident that I can make realistic-ish 3D models, and I want to do a few deformation tests on this to see what it looks like, and my next project will be a realistic face. possibly a celebrity. I'm feeling old Ben Kenobi right now, actually. then after that I'll play in Zbrush for a bit, and hit some UV mapping tutorials. This summer is going to be the greatest summer EVER!

oh and if anyone wants to see my demo reel:

http://animation.sheridanc.on.ca/portfolio/Internship/class_list

check out mine, and anyone else in our 3rd year program! Adios guys!

The Imperial March

okay - so I'm not actually listening to any music.. .but the Empire Strikes Back Menu music is the imperial march, it has been going on for the last hour on repeat as I keep telling myself - just one more step before I can turn it off. and now I have. What an awesome movie.

Anyways, so here is the model the quick colour sketch, and the colours the model is supposed to be, and the render. wow. once this works, it's going to be beautiful... Mike Watters- you are a god of maya.