Getting ready for senior year!

Hey everyone! Summer is up in 3 weeks and it's back to school. I thought I would let everybody know what I have planned so far for the first semester. Here's a list of classes and some projects that I'm planning on doing.

Computer Animation III&IV - I'm taking these at the same time, III as independent study. I plan on doing more digi-matte work, concentrating on photo-realistic modeling and digital painting.

3D Illustration I - I'm going to be working on miniatures that I plan on shooting and doing some digital compositing work with them. Learning more about traditional use of imaginary sets in film

So that's all for now, I'll be posting more images/comments as I come up with them. It's going to be a great year!!!

New Project - Arch of Constantine

I'm starting a new modeling/digi-matte project based on The Arch of Constantine. Here's a link to an image of it

http://www.padfield.com/italy/Rome_1/images/arch-of-constantine-1.JPG

I've completed the columns for it and here are some images of them. They are based on Corinthian columns. They were modeled entirely in Maya and rendered in Mental Ray. Comments/suggestions welcome.

Mystic Character Zbrush/Maya WIP

Here is a set of renders of the mystic character I've been working on. I still need to paint some more details but it's about 90% done. Comments/suggestions always encouraged.

Low Poly Model of Dark Crystal Mystic

In progress low-poly model of Mystic character. I'm currently detailing in Zbrush...more to come this week.

Another work in progress - Dark Crystal castle

Digi-matte painting in progress. Still need to add foreground objects, more distant mountains and details to castle. Need to also fix composition, crop bottom up and add space on sides, composition is to crowded right now.

Cityscape digi-matte painting 3/4's done

Here's a rendering of a digi-matte painting I'm doing. It was modeled in 3D with textures/lighting/color done in Photoshop. I have detail work to do on it but the base painting is done. The city is my design based on various cities, mostly Hong Kong, Sydney and a few others.

New render

New render of a digi-matte I'm working on. Still needs a lot of work.

more geometry for cityscape 3d matte

New 3d Matte Painting project

Here are some screen caps of a project I'm working on. The first image is the camera angle I'll be using in the final painting. I'm having some kind of weird openGL problem but have just accepted it and it doesn't show up in the final renders.

Dark Crystal Skeksis Castle

Hey everyone! So I have the first version of my Dark Crystal castle model. I have a turntable animation here below are some stills. This is the first iteration and is a work in progess. Any comments welcome

Digital drawing project

Done in Photoshop, inspired by 18th century artist John Martin.

New drawing

Hand sketched then brought into Photoshop and sketched on more.

Mystic character from movie The Dark Crystal

I've started a new large project and have new images to show. I'm going to be recreating several characters and environments from the movie "The Dark Crystal". This movie has had a huge impact on my life and Brian Froud, the illustrator behind the look of the film, is a true master. So, the first character I'm doing is one of the "good" characters in the film called uR ru or Mystic. I'm doing base modeling in Maya and detail work in Zbrush. Below are images from the my WIP of the head. There will be TONS more to come on this project as things progress. Any comments welcome.

Swoop Stars Wars Speeder Bike

Here are some renderings from a model I built in Maya with NURBS. The concept is based off a vehicle from the Star Wars universe. The enviroment is based off a Stars Wars Factory in Ep.1

First Cintiq drawing

Some Oil paintings

Here some oil paintings I did 2nd semester this year. Both are oil on canvas.

Abstract Parametric movements

Done in Cinema 4D

More cinema 4d work

2008 CCAD Student Show Open

I did this years CCAD Student Show Open sequence. It was all shot at CCAD. I did the 3D work in Maya, and compositing in After Effects.

CLICK HERE FOR MOVIE

Cinema 4D Experiments

So it's summertime! Well, at least summer break. During summer break I'm planning on doing some experimentation among other things. Things to look forward to on this blog

- 3D Parametric animation experiments
- Digital matte sketches
- More Maya work.

Here's the first animation showing some work done in Cinema 4D

Expulsion Project Final

Here is the final animation for the Expulsion project. I learned alot doing this project and I think it turned out pretty well. It didn't meet my expectations but I had very high expectations for it. All in all I learned a lot of what to do and not to do working on an image like this. Here are some specs for it.

Software used:

Maya 7
Vue 6
After Effects CS3

Other information:
All pieces were rendered in 3d, nothing was painted. Particles done in Maya and Particle Illusion. Compositing done in After Effects in over 50 layers.

Here is a link to a hi-res Quicktime of the animation.

HI-RES VERSION

Below is a small res version

Any comments are welcome.



Here's the original painting

Electronic Illustration - Concept Art Part 2

Painted in Photoshop, 3d done in Lightwave

foreground plates

here are some more updates, most foreground elements are done. Crunch time, working on the gate and surronding elements....still need to find models for adam and eve. Due in one week!!!!!!!!!

more renders for middle ground

here are a few more renders for the middle ground Eden(right side) parts of the animation....working on more trees/vegetation for the middleground/foreground. Trees take a REALLY long time to render...but pushing on....

Concept painting - electronic illustration

painted in photoshop

more trees and light

tree light testing

doing some testing on backlighting trees for the forest on the right side of the image. Looks pretty good, took some time trying to simulate rim lighting with the sun....it's getting there. Having issues with creating soft shadows with raytracing in Vue, but I think it's coming along....

Music video project for Video I

music video I did for video I class. Done in After Effects with some 3D done in Maya.

all background plates done

So here are the rest of the background mountain plates. The will be much smaller in the final composition.