Cannon Exercise

We had to do an exercise in preparation for our animation assignment, where a cannon was to shoot 5 things; a balloon, a plank of wood, some jelly, a piece of paper and just a regular old cannonball. This is my attempt; I haven't finished doing the paper or cannonball shoot yet though, this is what I have so far.

Plasticine and Claymation

Today we got to play with plasticine all day. I made a creepy thing, didn't animate it though. Made a little animation at the start of the class where two clay blobs murder another clay blob.

The Dude

WIP on a portrait of The Dude (Jeff Bridges) from The Big Lebowski. I'm trying my hand at drawing a face that already exists, since making up my own face is easy, as I can modify it however I like. Drawing a portrait is harder, and I could've probably picked an easier face to do than Jeff Bridges' face, but oh well. Still a lot of work to do on it, just roughing out the shapes and colours.

Trickster

Did a digital version of Trickster using my tablet. Turned out a lot better than the traditional one. Thank god.

Character Assignment - Wireframe Renders

Part of the assessment was to submit wireframe renders, one of the overall model, and 3 examples of topology features.

Character Assignment - Turntable

Rendered turntable of my Viking on his little platform. The shadows are a little strong but I can adjust that before I put it in my portfolio.

Character Assignment - Finished!

I finished my Viking model yesterday, was too lazy to post it straight away though. Here is the final render of my Viking model.

Character Assignment - Update

Very close to finishing. I've posed my model and done a basic base for him in Zbrush, made a quick axe too, just to get it all together. This is currently a work in progress on the final render of him. I still need to texture the axe and the base, and give him a background, but the pose and lighting are final.

The Queen

Some renders of the model. One of the bust, and one set up to look sort of like a wallpaper.

The Queen

Finished off The Queen. Used Adobe After Effects to make a little turntable of the bust. Turned out pretty well I reckon.

Working On Something Big...

Started this model on Friday afternoon. Had the Zbrush model finished by the time I went to bed on Friday night. Saturday afternoon/night, brought it into Maya and started the low poly model. Tonight; finished the low poly, unwrapped, baked the normal map and started texturing, getting the base colours down, and figuring out specular maps for it as well. Going to use Marmoset Toolbag to get the best result, because I figure this is going to be a portfolio piece. Pretty proud of it, if I might say so.

I call her The Queen. I'm thinking of doing a King too, maybe.
Colour scheme is likely going to change a lot too.

Jiro

I had this idea to draw this dopey looking half man/half crab person, standing in a lake with water lilies and stuff. I had to look online for some non-generic Asian sounding name, and I found Jiro (means 'second born son').

Deep Sea Mermoose

Just another random thing I drew.

Character Assignment - Update

More work on my viking. More textures added, as well as controllers, which haven't been given constraints yet. Still a lot of work to do...

Character Assignment - Update

Just another update on my character assignment; pretty much finished applying the normal maps to the body and legs, next I need to finish of texturing it. I've also rigged the model, but you can't see that in the render.

Sushi Goat

A goat eating Sushi. Thanks to Erika (my sister) for giving me the words 'goat' and 'sushi' to combine in one image.

Got A Tablet

Got a tablet for my birthday. First piece of digital art I've done with it. Not great, but yeah. Definitely going to work on more digital art.