Animation, finally!

My latest animation project! ...Still in progress. A dialogue assignment, my favourite. I love character animating. =3 I also love this quote from the Office (clip from What's the Scuttlebutt, awesome database of the Office sound clips), from Creed. He says the greatest things, he truly does.

Done with the lip sync, I think; will be cleaning up the rest next week. Oh, also, I used the very popular Max rig, for those that don't know.

Character doodles!

Some thumbnails for my character design class. I still need a couple more but I had to give my hand a break from the drawing. I'm basing this character - or rather, the armor set - off of those seen in the Monster Hunter games. There are a few here that I'm pretty sure I won't be using, but others I quite like. Mostly, I enjoyed getting a chance to be creative with costume design. I hope nothing looks too much like what's in the games...

I SEE YOU

This was done for our eyeball assignment. I created two textures for the iris - one using Photoshop filters, and the other one just painted in Photoshop. Plus the final render from Maya, with some pretty lighting. Wheeeee! This was fun. =)

Heads!

Yay for heads! My base mesh in Maya is pretty bad - but only because I wanted to just keep it simple and do the rest in ZBrush. God I love that program. Here's how it turned out...

Jumpin' into digital

Hai guys! =D

This year, I'm going to update more often. I'm going to update more often. I'm going to update more often...

First week's assignment: a hand! This was really fun. My original Maya hand (grey one) was kind of messed up, so when I transferred it to Zbrush I had lots to work on, especially with that thumb (it still doesn't look right...). But Zbrush is definitely REALLY AWESOME, and because I'm also awesome, I used the RGB matcap. Awesome, no?

I was fiddling with the Maya hand some more this morning, but got a little too caught up in that one index finger that the others got ignored by the time class started. Oops! It was supposed to just be the general form. XD

I am really enjoying the program so far. =3

DEMO REEL APRIL '09

I-...it's finally here!

Yeah, I don't know what to say about this. I wish I'd had some better stuff come gradshow time. I love the Azumanga Daioh music, though. =)

Aroo

A painting I did this week following a reference of my old dog, Caesar. I needed to fill my paintings page of my portfolio with more paintings, so after some fiddling around, I decided on this. It's quite a messy job, but I like it. I've dedicated artwork to my dog before, but this is the first one in colour. =3 I'm quite happy with it.

Caesar will be loved forever. <333