shtufffffffffrom Joe's Class

This silly, Steam-punk inspired dirigible/hot-air balloon was based loosely off of the original Dunkleosteus toy design, found HERE. The balloon part worked really well, the other stuff, not so much...

I created an imaginary friend. I would've loooooved riding to school on the back of a dinosaur. Something kinda like this, but different.

Ezra-icatures

See if you can match up the different assignments: fancy free, silent leader, quiet killer, easily irritated, and vain. Maybe I'll post the photo reference I took if anyone's interested...

EDIT: Here's the photo ref and labels included for easy navigation!

Now in Color! mino update

The texturing phase is done? Diffuse, Specular, and Normal maps applied. Rigging will be coming up next. woo hoo

Monticello?

A tonal study, after the manner of Paul Madonna. For Joe's class. Used pens and Prismacolor markers.

Caricatures!

A caricature assignment on studying faces and whatnot. In order of appearance: Ryan Woodward, Kelly Loosli, and Steve Carell. I'm not sure which is my favorite... and doing BYU Animation faculty was kinda scary, but we'll see if they've got anything to say about it. Enjoy! :D

From Silhouette to Detailed Lines

The "finished" product... riiiiight... Kinda rushed them, but critiques would be welcome!

Wow, this blog has now been in operation for almost ONE WHOLE YEAR!! And according to ClustrMaps, there's been 1,636 hits since 14 Oct 2008 (I betcha about half of those are me checking myself out, but anyways...) Thanks everybody for coming by and helping out!!

woo hoo, 3 in 1!!

Ya, today's been a day. Toy design for Joe's class. This bad boy is roughly based offa the Dunkleosteus from the Devonian period. yaaa....

wow, 2 posts in 1 day!

These silhouettes were an assignment for Ryan's Character Design class. The little guy on the side is the original, and then the succeeding 4 are the same silhouette but with negative space blocked out with a white-out pen. The 4 themes in order are Space Woman, Witch, Butler, Construction Worker. Enjoy!

The Great Bunny Stampede of 1860

So this Fall I'm taking The Great Joe Olsen's class (he's working at Avalanche, too!), "Drawing for Animation." If you've been following for a little bit then you'll know I thoroughly enjoyed this class previously, but I had so much fun that I decided to take it again. Our opening assignment's theme was "Bunny Herders of the Endless Steppe."

another Minotaur update

This Minotaur should be finished modeling, if I have anything to say about it...

Minotaur Update!

I think this head is looking pretty good, but I could be wrong. I would've throw on the Subdiv Scheme, but I was kinda in a rush... k bye!

My pear! In Progress shot

I got the base colors down, played with a simple lighting setup, but have yet to figure out Subsurface Shading as well as Displacement. Hopefully I'll get it all figured out sooner or later. And texture the stem, while I'm at it... oi... Thx for stoppin bye!

A Shape Drawing!

These were my initial scribbles trying to find a cool shape. I found the little one on the bottom, then "refined" it a little bit before jumping into the one you see below.

This semester I'm in Ryan Woodward's Character Design/Concept Development class. This is a shape drawing. cool FUN!

minotaur design

Designs for a 3D class I'm taking right now, learning from the incredible Barry Zundel (from AVALANCHE!!). It's a Minotaur... like the mythological Greek monster. Not like a Tauren from Warcraft... because that would be... cool? nerdy? BOTH???

Pear Color Study!

This is a Pear. Or,

Maybe This is Not a Pear.

This is Not a Pipe.

A Photoshop quickie for a 3D Shading/Texturing class I'm in, learning from the great Seth Holladay (from PIXAR!). I think the colors came out okay, but I'm not sure... Yay for school starting...

PSHHHoto Pshhhaaawp

In an attempt to further showcase my ineptitude at photoshop painting, I believe I have achieved a new level of Crap. Anyways, these were just some value exercises I did today, and I would love some advice/comments. Thanks for stooping BYE!!

My video gamer profile: satisfyingly accurate

Your BrainHex Class is Conqueror.

Your BrainHex Sub-Class is Conqueror-Mastermind.

You like defeating impossibly difficult foes, struggling until you eventually achieve victory, and beating other players as well as solving puzzles and devising strategies.

According to your results, there are few play experiences that you strongly dislike.

Learn more about your classes and exceptions at BrainHex.com.

Your scores for each of the classes in this test were as follows:

Conqueror: 16
Mastermind: 15
Achiever: 13
Socialiser: 11
Daredevil: 10
Seeker: 6
Survivor: 2

Go to BrainHex.com to learn more about this player model, and the neurobiological research behind it.

TF2 WIP Update #2!

So the the spy's about the only legitimate addition, the others are just fleshed out roughs. I'm just enjoyin the good times before school starts... in a week... ack...

Team Fortress Tribute... WIP

I'm making a composition based off of Valve's Team Fortress 2, a classic FPS with some really great character designs. Anyways, here it is so far... with a long road ahead for sure.

The two characters so far are the Blue Scout and the Red Sniper.

My Shoe Project!

Link
Starcraft Terran Marine, Protoss Dark Templar



Batman logo, fatty Maple Leaf

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Sketch Comp to the theme of "Social"

Here it is.

Sketch comp - Serious

I skipped a week, cuz last week's was excessively crappy. This past week's assignment was "Serious." Here it is. Top left was a sketch page of the first idea that came to me when I thought of 'serious.' The two sober-looking folks sitting next to each other other at bottom left are Taylor and Nicole, as the three of us were riding the Trax to a Mae concert at the Avalon. Top right would be the friendly yet serious and imposing bouncer man. Bottom right is Dave, the lead singer/guitarist for Mae during the acoustic set after the main show (he's serious about being awesome). Mae is a pretty sweet band, y'all should check them out:  http://www.whatismae.com/

Gesture Drawing- The First Post

Well... this Spring Term I'm in Ryan Woodward's Gesture drawing class, and we're sketch-booking along the theme of "Romance." I'm putting up this crappy compilation to observe my progress over the course of the term, but feel free to comment as you wish. Thanks for coming by!

My Final for Joe's Class

Daxter the Disgruntled Flying Pig Assists Charlie the Chubby Farmer in the Epic Repulsion of Insectoid Alien Invaders, as Ma and Son Observe from Below!

Final Requirements: 

Git yer ma, an headta the cellar!(theme is open to interpretation)

-cartoonize the human ref above to come up with your character
-must have anthropomorphic side-kick
-must be an appealing cartoon style (not Arthur or Clifford the Big Stupid Dog)

You can all critique me using these criteria. How'd I do? ... Say.... speaking of which, this farmer guy was the subject for a previous assignment on Human Proportions. The assignment was to rebuild the reference's figure just by using his head measurements. Here's what I got:

I had so much fun in this class, mainly because Joe Olsen is AWesome. Anyone and everyone should take his class, Animation-major or otherwise.

A Woe-bot and a Feh-wog

The top one's a Value assignment for Joe's Class, based on a "Working Class Robot" theme. The bottom one's a frog skeletal study for my 2D Rigging assignment. More to come where that came from.

Intro to 3D Animation Final... kinda

So this is my final project, rushed to completion and not yet fully complete. I'll post an updated version sometime soon! Hope you all enjoys!

Some Old Guy

These are a coupla images of what I've been working on lately. You may recognize him as the old bum from a previous storyboarding post... right about HERE. This was while he was in the modeling stage, and so now I've moved on from that to rigging and weight painting and now on to animating.
FUN!

kinda...

A(nother) Storyboarding Assignment

So I'll give you the intro, then introduce each panel really quick and snappy-like. Hope you all Enjoy!

So there's the White Blood Cells (WBC) and they're in a ferocious battle with the evil Virus monsters.

The hero surveys the bloody battleground...

The hero and buddy engage...

They strike the appendage off, but poor buddy doesn't make it...

Mr. Superior Officer says hero needs to go on a "special assignment", in search of an old war vet that knows the Virus monster's secret weakness.

Hero unsure of what to think...

Hero begins treacherous journey through an infested forest...

The Mini-Virus bugs stalk the hero...

And they Ambush the Hero in the Night!

Overwhelmed, the hero frantically reaches for his weapon, but to no avail. Who is the mysterious hooded figure in the background??

As the hero succumbs to unconciousness, he sees a hooded figure wielding a glowing spear, driving away the Virus bugs...

 
The hero recovers and continues on his way, leaving the sinister forest behind him...

He continues amidst the dreary mountain tops...

He disturbs a bacteria-chain creature as he passes by a cave...

He tries to find shelter and hide...

To no avail. He is captured and is confronted by the same hooded figure from the forest!

The hero discovers that this is the olde war vet that he originally set out to find! Old War Vet explains his disillusionment and disgust towards war and fighting. Young Blood (*teehee) gives invigorating and enthusiastic speech about his conviction to end the war and honor his fallen buddies/comrades.... bla blabla blah...

Old War Vet (Ol-wa-ve) stews and ponders and wonders and contemplates Young Blood's (Yo-blo's) conviction and enthusiasm, while sitting next to his Pet Bacteria-Chain Creature (PBCC or PeeBee SeeSee).

OlWaVe agrees to go with YoBlo and shares his special technique with YoBlo...

They travel faster by way of PBCC...

They enter battle, both with glowing Weapons of Mass Dismemberment, and soon all WBC's learn the secret technique, and quickly cleave all Virus monsters to pieces. 

End!

Thanks everyone for coming to check out me stuff! Be sure to leave your comments!

T-Shirt Re-Designed!

I wasn't very happy with the color scheme from the previous design, and so here's the simplified black and white re-dos. Apparently, the snails won a T-shirt design contest, but who knows what will happen next? Stay tuned for upcoming details...

Here's the link for their website: Sole Earth Apparel

Joe's Mad, Mad Midterm

For Joe Olsen's Drawing for Animation midterm, he had us take our old toy design and REdo it, applying all the new knowledge and skills we've learned since then, as well as spicing it up with a new theme. Another aspect of the assignment was documenting our research process, including our "creative" exercises and our "knowledge" based studies. And so here is everything I've got in ALL of its dubious splendor. Oh, and the theme was "Viking Raiders." 

You likey?

2 Points! On the theme of "Enchanted Forest"

Welp, here's the latest. For some reason, it looked cooler in my head than it does here. In case you were wondering, that's a double-decker hot-air balloon bus. If I ever learned how to paint in Photoshop, I'd probably go back in here and make everything all glowy and cool-like. Alas...

A Maya Explosion!

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Well, hello everyone! I posted these to Facebook again because Blogger doesn't take big movie files. The top one was animated using Maya Dynamics, like particle emitters and some manipulated fields. The second was modeled using Polygons and animated with Blend Shapes. How do they look? 

Thank you all for coming here and commenting on the previous posts! You guys are all amazing!

Recent Assignments from Joe's class

Well, these things always come out in reverse order, so starting from the bottom, a design and composition assignment (felt good to do designy stuff again). 

Second is an "Imaginary Friend" themed assignment incorporating design principles (i.e. balance, contrast, continuity, etc). Yup, if I had imaginary friends, they'd be a crew of highly trained assassins, at one with the night and akin to forces of nature. 

Third is a 1 pt perspective exercise based on the theme "The Scene of the Crime". Sorry if the story isn't very readable.. but the story is that a mafia boss and his crew just capped some narcs and threw them into some shark infested waters. 

A T-shirt design!

This was just an idea I wanted to get out, just to see what it would look like... I actually took this photo, then played around with some Photoshop effects. What d'u think? Would you buy this t-shirt?