Monticello?

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

Caricatures!

Ryan Woodward

Kelly Loosli

Steve Carell

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...