A sculpture of Genie from Semester 2.

It was fun to get back to my sculpting roots.  If only it had been real clay and not chavant. Once I get it back from the display case I'll take some better photos with better lighting.

Lizard/Snake for VFX project

Here are some images in Mudbox of a spiny lizard head and snake body for my VFX project that I'm working on

Animation segment from short film "Don't be an Ass" http://youtu.be/R_Xr0NpUvBs

This is a segment for my short film that I am animating while my partner in crime Marie Sanginesi is doing the lighting, texturing, and rendering.  It's basically a walk cycle that I'll be using for a few different scenes.  There's a bit of a surprise at the end.  So far I'm pretty happy with the walk cycle, but he seems a bit more crippled than just old so i may do some more tweaking. http://youtu.be/R_Xr0NpUvBshttp://youtu.be/R_Xr0NpUvBs

You can see more of Marie's texturing and lighting work here - http://marie-ms.tumblr.com/http://marie-ms.tumblr.com/

"The Baker"

I was asked to do the modelling for a student project that will be featured at TAFFI 2013.  Pretty cool.  Here is the main character "The Baker"

Image projection and light matching in Maya

  

The goal was to project an image into Maya and then match the ground perspective, place in objects and then light them.  

Lighting and Rendering in Maya - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3zS42YB2R8

So no shadows on this so it looks a little silly, but shadows were not a requirement for this assignment.  The image was projected onto topology that I match modelled in Maya and then a simple camera move was used to create some parallax. The guitar was added and lighting was used to match it to the scene. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3zS42YB2R8

Maya Dynamics - Soft Bodies and Particles - Semester 3 work http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9jfv6BuHKg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9jfv6BuHKghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9jfv6BuHKg

So this assignment for my semester 3 dynamics class was to use particles (raindrops) and softbodies (footsteps). The walk cycle was from semester 2 and now seems rather jerky to me. Animation was not the point of this exercise anyways.

Dynamics in Maya - Rigid Bodies - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXdSB59R1gg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXdSB59R1gg

Dynamics Rigid Bodies project.  After not watching this for about a month I can see that the box is still a bit too slow even though I sped it up SO much.  Funny how after a while of watching something over and over again in Maya will make it seem ok.

Semester 1 Broadcast assignment - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln2MWVv44oc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln2MWVv44oc

I realized that I forgot to post my biggest project from semester 1.  So this is about 7 months old.  I agree with my teachers - the lighting is horrible.  Wish I could go back in time on that one. But I think the rest of it still stands up. I'd also do some sub surface scatter for the tomato shader.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln2MWVv44oc