woOo! lookie what i found!

I was just doing some cleaning up on my little portable hard-drive and I stumbled across some old photography class assignment stuff that I never posted. So I guess this should tide me over until the new semester starts up, lol. Thanks for coming around and I hope that you all have the very HAPPIEST of holidays!

Bruce Lee vs. Zombies!

My final for Joe Olson's class, horribly late... The theme was "Imminent Defeat"... So here's the story of how Bruce Lee really died... the same way we're all going to die... Zombies. Used Prismacolor markers and Staedtler pigment liners.

3D Minotaur in Action!!

Designed, Modeled, Textured, Rigged, and Animated over the course of a semester. Used Maya, and Photoshop. Supposedly he's chasing a butterfly, but either the butterfly can be seen only by mythical creatures, or is purely a product of an over-active imagination, we will never be sure...

Vimeo is good.

Character Design Final

Snow Balla

Hamstrosity

Hockey Zombie

PLOT SYNOPSIS:

A spunky, Canadian, elementary-school age girl assumes the role of a super-hero when a mysteriously evil team of super-powered, zombie, snowman hockey players begins terrorizing her small, south Albertan town by turning the local populace into mindless, snowman zombies. The only way for the self-christened “Snow Balla” to save her friends and neighbors from the curse of the zombies is to throw “love”-infused snowballs at their frozen hearts (which immobilizes them), and then she must shout “I want to be your friend” (which shatters the enchantment). She is accompanied by a trusty hamster, that when given a special sugar-frosted food pellet transforms into a gigantic, yeti-like monstrosity capable of smashing down walls and immobilizing zombies with earth-shaking roars.

Not just any old pear...

A 3D Pear from Ezra Lau on Vimeo.

okay, maybe i lied. Lit and modeled in Maya, textured using procedural shaders in Slim.

Animation Shtuff

Phil Does Back to the Future from Ezra Lau on Vimeo.


Rafiki Does Gladiator from Ezra Lau on Vimeo.

A bunch of junk from this past semester. I hope my grades don't suck.

Aww cuuuute... a baby turtle crawling amidst eggs

A sample of my work in Maya with Slim procedural textures and shaders. What do you think?

Original image found HERE, Copyright Benjamin Wambergu, All Rights Reserved, Used By Permission.

Emulation:

The endeavor to equal or to excel another in qualities or actions; an assiduous striving to equal or excel another. The first one's an attempt at Joe Madureira. The second is going for Adam Ford's style.

More 'o the Same...

Bruce Lee was the Man. Found the images from Google's Image Search. My pens and markers are dying... must be the end of the semester coming up... Happy December 1st to everyone!!

Exaggeration:

Enlargements or distortions of elements in a work of art. Had some fun with this one.

perspective: the way in which objects appear to the eye based on their spatial attributes

So there's the "official" definition... but i still have my doubts. 2pt perspective theme: "Caravan of Awesomeness in the Dessert." 3pt perspective theme: "A Place of Evil." You'll wanna full-size those bad boys.

Whoa, did you know that there's a new updated Post Editor for Blogger??

turtle-turtle-turtle-turtle hamster hamster... haawwwwwwwwwk

stuff fo mah ker'ter d'sign class. Badgers.

Heroes and Villains

Non-Stereotypical Heroes and Villains

Snow Balla - Heroine

The Evil Flying Squirrel - Villain

The Dock Worker - Hero

Cloaked Cowl - Female Villain

Stereotypical Heroes and Villains

Lightning - Heroine

Gladiator (Gladly-Mutilates... bad things only, tho) - Hero

Deadly Leather - Female Villain

Dr. Brain Steam - Villain

cool FUN! but difficult...

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...

UPDATE: 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.