jacks doodles

2007-09-20T13:29:00.000-07:00

The new fur plan is to cover the raccoon with flat planes with alpha fur channels.

2007-09-20T13:28:00.000-07:00

picnic table stuff

2007-09-20T13:10:00.000-07:00

here is the grill with the propane tank that is going to cause the raccoon explosion:)

2007-09-11T17:56:00.000-07:00

fur is the devil

2007-09-07T19:31:00.000-07:00

I added a ramp to the luminence node and added some noise so the horse looks more furry.

2007-09-06T17:23:00.000-07:00

here is the horse with the specular, color, displacement, as well as the surface luminence utility node (with ramp)

2007-08-31T18:06:00.000-07:00

here is the displacement map applied to my horse. next i am going to be adding the color map and hair.

2007-08-25T16:23:00.000-07:00

im loving this program!

2007-08-25T16:22:00.000-07:00

2007-08-24T16:44:00.000-07:00

i am taking a break from fur for a bit because maya is making me angry, so i am working and familiarizing myself with zbrush. zbrush rocks! here is some detail i am going to be putting into the legs. i have a horse anatomy book i am looking at as well as a book with really detailed images.

2007-08-16T19:33:00.000-07:00

I have the baldness map applied and am happy with it. I am still tweaking the length map and painting direction.

2007-08-16T19:31:00.000-07:00

I got the color map applied and painted and am now working with the fur.

2007-08-03T13:03:00.000-07:00

2007-08-03T12:54:00.000-07:00

Here is the unwrapped horse. I need to fix up some of the uvs around the eye area and also around the nose. I tried to bring the obj back into maya but am having issues. The uvs do not show up in the uv texture editor and i am not sure why? Help! I am sure I am just missing a step or something. Hopefully!

2007-08-02T18:27:00.000-07:00

2007-07-28T15:53:00.000-07:00

O gosh.....and now the horse

2007-07-28T15:50:00.000-07:00

2007-07-28T15:47:00.000-07:00

I think that I need to make the head a bit smaller because the checkers are larger than the rest of the body. Also were the arm attaches to the body thier seems to be some weird distortion business going on.

2007-07-28T15:41:00.000-07:00

Here is the uv layout in maya. I arranged the ears around a bit and sewed parts of the feet together.

2007-07-28T14:38:00.000-07:00

This is the uv layout in headus, i am going to move some of the uvs around in maya. (probably around the ear area and also organize the uv shells better.

2007-07-27T17:30:00.000-07:00

I am going to use headus to unwrap the horse as well. So you all know what I will be doing this weekend! It is going to take forever:( But I can't wait to paint it!!!

2007-07-27T17:28:00.000-07:00

The horse is coming along, I made the nose skinnier and am almost to the point where I can start unwrapping.

2007-07-27T17:18:00.000-07:00

I am now working on unwrapping the uvs in headus.

2007-07-27T17:16:00.000-07:00

2007-07-27T17:14:00.000-07:00

I also finished up the eyelids so they are ready for rigging.

2007-07-27T17:05:00.000-07:00

I made the legs longer....

2007-07-18T18:11:00.000-07:00

So....I remodeled my character because the last one was just making me angry. I actually like this character design more than the previous design.

2007-07-18T18:09:00.000-07:00

I fixed the geometry around the eyes and merged vertices around the nose area.

2007-07-18T18:07:00.000-07:00

Low poly...

2007-07-18T18:04:00.000-07:00

High poly raccoon....

2007-07-13T17:17:00.000-07:00

I love the shape of this tree as well as the different shades of green that bleed into each other.

2007-07-13T17:14:00.000-07:00

So I was at Yosemite most of the vacation as most of you know and I got lots of cool texture and plant reference photos for my project. But people couldn't seem to understand why I was taking photos of the ground instead of the beautiful landscape, hehe....but I did get some pretty amazing pics...check them out:)

2007-07-13T17:09:00.000-07:00

Check out this cool tree texture...I still need some long black human hair....can anyone help? Or does somone have a horse that I don't know of?

2007-07-12T16:56:00.000-07:00

So fellow classmates and Andrew:) This is the plan…..

By week 4:

Have raccoon character and horse completely modeled and have the topology ready to be imported into zbrush.

*fix areas around the eyes of the models
*make sure that there are no five sided faces
*make horses nose more narrow
*Clean up vertices around raccoons nose
*Model the nurb planes for the tail of the horse as well as the mane.
*Start to think about how to approach unwrapping uv’s

By week 8:

*Have uv’s unwrapped for both characters
*Have the fur for the raccoon started and almost done
*Continue to create hard surface models for environment as well as building
shading networks for those objects. (Trees/ bump maps, displacement maps)
*Think more about lighting design and how to go about rendering scene in passes
*Think about how to approach grass and ground texture

By week 11:

*Raccoon character fully modeled and textured (with fur)
*Horse model completed and touched up in Zbrush
*Solid environment modeled and textured

2007-07-11T18:36:00.000-07:00

2007-07-11T18:33:00.000-07:00

This is a 3-d model I am currently working on for a portfolio piece.

2007-07-11T14:40:00.000-07:00

This is a concept illustration for my (MFA) thesis project. The animated short will take place in a campground at night.

2007-06-20T17:26:00.000-07:00

Animal illustration (prisma pencil)

2007-06-20T17:25:00.000-07:00

Animal illustration

2007-06-20T17:21:00.000-07:00

2007-06-20T17:18:00.000-07:00

Concept illustration for current project.

2007-06-20T17:14:00.000-07:00

Matte painting for a current project I am working on.

2007-06-20T17:10:00.000-07:00

Matte painting

What...Cats Don't Fish?!

2007-05-02T17:22:00.000-07:00

This was an illustration for a children's book project. (watercolor, prismapencil, and photoshop)

Kissing Horses

2007-05-02T17:18:00.000-07:00

This piece was done in pastel.