Background mountain plate

Alrighty, starting to work on the backgrounds for the Expulsion project. I now have 5 weeks to finish the project so my production schedule goes like this.

Week of March 31: Right side background/middle ground plates
Week of April 7: Left side background/middle ground plates
April 14- 28: All foreground elements and animation
April 28 - May 05: Finishing/compositing. Sometime in there I have to shoot the live action Adam/Eve

So that's the low down folks. Here is an image of a element i finished today. The first image shows you the element in the painting, the second is the element I made. This will be the format from here on.

One final note: Instructors please post comments. Any suggestions at all are helpful!

tree animation

Switching gears from particles to something else. I'm doing some tests on animation of the trees across the bridge. Done using Paint FX. I think the tree needs to have more weight so i'm working around that. I still need to figure out how to have particles be emitted from the tree itself, which I think might have to be done in After Effects.

more volcano particles

volcano cloud light

This is a volume cloud test for the portion of clouds above the volcano in the expulsion images(see previous post).

cloud fluid test

Maya cloud test, fluid example still working out lighting

Day for night conversion

water test

Waterfall test using particle illusion

Cat painting WIP

Painting i'm doing in Painter X. It's in progress!

3D seadragon

here's an image of a Sea Dragon and it's environment. Might animate it someday...

Some more photos

Wrapping Up Fall 2007 Semester

So tomorrow is the last day of fall semester. I'm certainly going to get some much needed sleep over the holiday break, but I'm going to start researching my next Design for Media project. I'm going to be detailing the entire process for this project on this blog so stay tuned.

For those interested the project will involve turning this painting by Thomas Cole, called
"Expulsion from Eden"



into a 3d environment/digital matte painting. It will have animated elements(volcano, wind in trees etc...) and I will be using live-action actors for Adam/Eve. So more to come on that...

A little abstraction:)

New design problem - more photoshop painting

Digital Painting learning - clouds

Doing some learning on painting clouds in PS

More depth of field photos

Digital painting learning

A try at painting rocks in photoshop. Technique based on tutorial at 3dtotal.com

Depth Of Field Color photos

DESIGN FOR MEDIA - FINALS

Here are the four parts of my Design for Media Problem 1 - It's a progression from a black and white graphic image up to realistic. The color charts show the color harmonies involved in each step.

Step 1. Black and White abstract graphic design



Step 2. Complimentary color scheme



Step 3. Monochromatic



Step 4. Analogous color scheme

Photo Motion Project

Film scans from Photo project on Motion....all but the top photo which is just a photo I liked that i took of devin

Across the Universe movie review

So I saw Across The Universe this saturday. It's a movie based on the lyrics of Beatles music, mainly from The White Album and Revolver. The movie was wonderful. Great musical pieces, and having the lyrics be the dialouge in the film was powerful. A lot of the events in the movie are based on real events and people. From Bono playing Ken Kesey to the character Sadie playing a Janice Joplin type. The visual fx were on par and sometimes above expectation. My only beef with the movie is that the didn't do Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds in the film. The used the song in the credits. I'm not sure if they ran out of money or why they did that. But overall I'll give the movie 4 3/4 stars.

philosophy head explosion

so random thoughts. Religion (especially western religion) takes the person away from God. It allows them a shortcut. Instead of using the text to UNDERSTAND God they use it as a personal definition of God. It's like knowing what a chocolate chip cookie taste like, by reading the recipe. The bible is stated as the word of God, but it was written by man. To be continued...

Here's my first concept of Part 3 of Problem 1

Here's my Part 2 of Problem 1

Here's my Part 1 of Problem 1

B&W Film scans for photo I class