The worst thing I have ever made. Zbrush & me, a match made in hell.

From this day on I will learn this program and never make something this atrocious ever again

A dinnerdate with VRay: Materials and Rendering Class. 

models provided

A cherry place to live life as a 3D person.

models provided

A watch that I will not afford on a artist's salary

model provided

the folk tales were true. But I survived. 

~~off home for the "winter" vacations~~

Final Assignment for MattePainting, which was just free reign, no restrictions. 

A decent amount of photobashing, rehashed the oil rigs from Year#1 PreProd, and this was my first run in with Photoshop's oilPaint filter, which is the best thing on the planet. 

Despite a crazy short deadline and having no resources, this is like... one of my favourite things I've ever made.



Maybe I should repaint this in a few years because I like Aidenne. 

Final Character value paint and sculpt of Nila. Building her in 3D would be fun. maybe next semester... C:

Recently I haven't taken many trips to the Digital World, so I made myself a D3 in Props class so I could go there and see my friend Wormmon.

Camera Matching. This was so, so much harder than I thought it would be.

A scene I did for the Lord of the Rings films, but they cut it from the movie because it was my first play in ZBrush an my topology was awful,

Free for all assignment for MattePainting. I really hated how it came out but the crunch is real right now. 

more deadlines incoming.

animation class

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A handful of body Mechanics exercises.

Lights and rendering, Caustics and Water. I will admit that none of the caustics worked the way they should have, and so most of this is just photoshop

boats & mermaids(nami) provided

This time with a legit lighting assignment! A spooky Mausoleum.

models provided

Bathroom models provided by instructor; materials and lights were mine. Not so happy with this but it goes in the blog anyways~

Ms Frizzle and her class of intrepid explorers go off without Arnold to the pinkest part of the galaxy.

Nila Character things. So glam with her Shutter Shades.

 A turnaround for CharacterDesign

 

Photomontage for MattePainting of Nila making out with a Jellyfish. 

Progress shots for VirtualWorlds; building Auckland's Sky Tower. It's an awkward shape so I never made a final render.

mental ray test

dragon & gem models provided

 the old Montreal 3D School Special: The Fire Hydrant.

Our lights and rendering class typically involves me spending 5 hours messing something up in 3DSMax, and then resigning to photoshop and just fixing everything in post prod. God Bless you Adobe. 

Car model provided. Backgrounds from google search

3D Interior. I hated this one. But I'm getting a much better grasp of the software.

POSITIVE WAY TO ROUND OUT THE POST.

Character Design: a fish girl (surprise!!) whose name is Nila

Nila Head concepts. My instructor picked the one that looks the least like a fish haha.

Central Otago photostudy for MattePainting

They weren't kidding when that said this semester was work. 

we're being encouraged to think about potential concepts for our Final Student Films. 

If I do a film about bats and things, it will take place here in it-doesn't-resemble-avatar-in-any-way-shape-or-form-land.

watch as I actually just do this for my final film.

Ol' west Gold Prospectors

 Mayans!

Magical Girls 

 We've got a super fun class called Character Design and even though I'm not A+ character designer, it's an excuse to go crazy with colours. 

Matte Painting: life study of Keychain.

Mami

Virtual Worlds: 3D environment + some google maps thrown in too...

Animation: back to basics with a good old pit of death

ft Bill the Bowling Ball and Bonnie the Bouncy Ball 

there's an old folk tale that says Semester Three is the killer semester.

Insert coin: Year#2 hashtag unlocked.