It's been a while since I posted anything and its because I was busy all semester working on this:



It doesn't seem like much but it took forever to get the glasses, plates, forks, and table cloth to play nicely. There is still some tearing going on in the table cloth that's due to the high hand whip. But all in all I learned a ton about nCloth. Pretty cool stuff.

I eventually want to make the plates and glasses shatter when they hit the ground.

Painting final

Originally I wanted to do a scene with a little boy atop of city building roof that was contemplating how easy it would be for him to end all his troubles (he's an abused orphan) by taking that final step. But, that was too complicated and depressing to spend a lot of time creating. The inspiration for this came from a Boxcar Racer song - Elevator.

Maybe down the road I'll return to this concept.

But the above piece was way fun to plan, design, and paint.

Crickey

This is far from being done but I had to submit something. Actually, this isn't the final image I submitted. The final image had a background but I wasn't pleased with it. In fact I'm beginning to think that adding anymore will just weaken the emotion and isolation of "Crickey."

Anyway, enjoy.

This was an alternative pose I had for Crickey early on. I really like the narrow depth of field, makes Crickey seem really really small, with his teeny tiny perfectly crafted violin (is that possible?)

Final Teapot

So I decided to post my final teapot that I came up with for Brent's class. After many passes and a serendipitous accident this is the result.

I apologize if the image is a bit grainy. I blame it on Blogger.

**Original background photograph by ConceptFurniture.net***

Future cities on ancient mountains

So ready or not here's my enviroment I did for Sam's class.

Some how it didn't exactly turn out like I saw in my head. I really want to work more on this, because I feel there is so much more potential in this piece.

P.S. Oh by the way, I finished my teapot and I wanted to post it but since I used a commercial photo for my background I'm kinda reluctant because I don't want to get sued. We'll see.

Character Design - Final Paint

This is the final painted character I designed for Sam's Digital Painting class. I originally designed a younger more actiony cowboy (because I was watching a lot of westerns that week) but Sam suggested I do a simpler pose due to the inherit complications of painting a comic book action pose.

While I was trying to figure out how to simplify my design the thought hit me to go more Don Quixote-esque. So as a result he became an old gun fighter that was the best in his day but due to his fading mind he forgets he's not young anymore.

(I realize he has no gun and I completely left out his cane but I plan on working on him some more in the future, if I ever find myself with free time...yeah...on second thought I will be coming back to this...I didn't do him much justice.)

Teapot - 1st pass

Here's my teapot and teacups I'm working on for Brent's Intro to 3-D class. There's still so many problems to work out, but this is what it looks like so far.