Halo Commercial

Hey all.  Hope everyones well. Just wanted to post my latest work.  Its a live action commercial for the new Halo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO376G4tbGM&feature=player_embedded

I worked on the shots with the kid on the beach,  the ghost rider shot,  there's a shot with a grenade and a few others. 

Talk soon

lata

Finished UDK Material

A material I been working on in conjunction of a tutorial I had watched. This material allows me to procedural paint water, wet area and lower the vertices to give uneven pavement/sink holes where water can collect. (Yes, I do know there is a seam because I had put 2.5 for UV scale instead of 3, which is already corrected)

New Project

A glimpse on what I am going to be doing for my next environment. This is using Vertex Painting within UDK. Still a work in progress for the material.

:-)

Paint over!

Did a quick paint over color scheme,  but will probably go with a blue instead of white so its less 2-tone/monotone like.

First pass AO/Normal

Update on my spaceship:

Low poly modeling

I guess I'll post something on here. This is the low poly model of the ship I have been working on.

Undead Rogue

This is what I did for my Character Creation for Games class at Gnomon. It was based off of WoW concept art by rabbiteyes. I spent so much time on the face, but it still doesn't look like the concept. She should look more Asian? Grrr. There's also strange artifacts in the Marmoset renders on her pants and back that I couldn't get rid of. Anyone know how? I thought about continuing to work on it and make the weapons and redo some of the mapping, but newp. Onward! To something new. Yeessss.... yes indeed.

Post your work!

I think more people should utilize this blog and post some work... :-)

WIP...Something I've been working on the past week or so. Don't know how hardcore I will get into it.
Update (7/22/12):

Dubstep Droids

I dont get it. But I like it

http://vimeo.com/44878206

R-Type: Hard surface modeling

Before working on the Ferrari and my current environment this is what I had been working on and will get back to it. It is going to be a high poly model only using different techniques in creating different parts. Still a lot of things to model on it and making sure that all the big chunks of metal are broken down to several pieces.

Baby Shower Invitation

This is the invitation art for my wife's baby shower.  A drawing of me changing my future kid's first diaper.  I imagined a NASTY one!!!  My wife did the ink and color in Ps.  I rarely draw anymore, and I should. . .  Stupid computers.

Environment based off of Tekkonkinkreet

Here is what I decided to work on, its going very very slow...

Hey guys.  You're all into Maya so I thought I'd post something I did in Maya when I was studying animation.  Just a little test to learn some rigging and animate with it.  This is all keyframes, no dynamics or scripts and I think it looks pretty good considering I had no idea what the hell I was doing.
EDIT: I accidentally a word.

progress....sorta

so i guess I'll post some images of my latest project since some people seem to be curious on how it's going. I still have some work to do but it's coming along.

Source of Inspiration

I would love to say that I worked on this but yeah, anyway here's a game trailer to whet your appetite, a source of inspiration, let the trailer speak for itself:

Vehicle Contest Entry: Fantasy Air Ship

Friday night, filled with the possibility of getting down, and what do I do? Try not to disturb the cat while it hugs my arm and falls asleep. Then I fall asleep. At 9. I wake up hours later to an ominous text from an unknown number saying that someone I love needs me. So I sling my Jack Bauer man purse over my shoulder and head to CTU.

SooOOo, you probably should have skipped that first paragraph. I'm having a hard time deciding which vehicle to do for the contest. I figured I'd just do some fantasy ship, so I stole a few images from the internet. I think I'll do the first one and just make up stuff in the back. If anyone else wants to do a concept vehicle, there's a lot of great artwork at www.cghub.com. Mayyybee I'll make some blueprints. At least the side view.

Are people still interested? HMMM? Where's the Batman/Back To the Future/Ghostbuster car? I'll make updates to the contest rules and try and figure out a way to make the contest entries on a separate page from the main blog.

Abandoned Gas Station

Abandon Gas Station.WIP

Da na na na na nuhh!! Batman!!

I know this isnt in the spirit of "personal work", but I just worked 30 straight days on this fricken thing so Im showing it dammit!!   I worked on the 4 Batman shots in the cinematic. 


http://www.gamespot.com/injustice-gods-among-us/videos/injustice-gods-among-us-announcement-trailer-6379451/?tag=Topslot;InjusticeGodsAmongUs;TrailerFirstLookAtT

Quick update to Ferrari

RENDER, RENDER, RENDERS

I am calling this project done for now. I might do another render with a different angle but here are 3 renders. One of them is a re-render of my last post with a few tweaks here and there.

Ferrari 599 GTO

Here is a studio render of the Ferrari 599 GTO

GIRL WITH HAIR UP

Here's a drawing I did some time ago.

Contest Entry: Lexus LFA

Can't guarantee that I will finish this since I have so much free time, but this will be the car I'm hoping to finish.

Lexus LFA

Contest Entry: Ferrari 126 C2

This is the vehicle I will be doing for the contest but might change it mid way if I find out I can't finish it in time.

Levels Below Commercial

A drawing I did on May 1st at Dr. Sketchy's LA.

Hard Surface Vehicle Contest

Soooo... who wants to do a hard surface vehicle contest? It seems like a lot of people are already interested. It can be a car, helicopter, ship, plane, etc. Your entry doesn't necessarily have to be an existing car, but you must have blueprints. To enter, just post what vehicle you're planning on modeling; try not to choose a vehicle that someone has already posted. Include the make, model, year (or a brief description if it isn't an existing vehicle), and at least one picture. The final will include a wireframe and some beauty shots. The aim will be mainly towards high poly production level vehicles, but if you feel like creating an asset for games, then we can probably create another category.

Post a lot of WIP's! Tutorials or anything helpful would be awesome too. Don't be greedy! If anyone knows a better way to organize things so that the contest is separate from other entries, please let me know.

Also, if you don't like the blog title, post comments here to give me suggestions on a name! If no one suggests anything I'll change it to Nutty Dust Magic. So comment.

This Is For You Paul.

WIP. This is the car im working on at home its a 2011 328i BMW.

BATMAN!

Just for you Mike B.

Levels Below

A render for I did for my friends art and writing magazines website.

Animation Competition

http://www.11secondclub.com/

I'm sure you guys have heard of this before but Animation Mentor has an animation competition that runs monthly for 11 seconds of animation to a sound clip that can either be done in 2d or 3d.

I've entered before and there are some D-holes that are rude but overall you get some good feedback, and if you win, you get a professional critique that's really in depth....well supposedly...but i hear mostly the AM kids win it.  But people don't win unless it's really good so at the very least it could be a good way to motivate yourself to get some work done?

Maybe even work together if someone is better at modeling than animating and share the result with each other.

If we all entered this, we could just have our own competition based on where our own ranks ended up too, and just use them for a data sample on who likes what, so the results are more objective.

In The Bird Cage

*Update of my Cockatoo Girl WIP with color, i think i like her without the headband idea better.

*Update of my Cockatoo Girl WIP

A concept sketch i doodled out the other day.  I based the bird girl off a cockatoo.  Hopefully she still looks like one when it's finished.

Here You Go Lauren

I started to model a 2011 328i BMW and here is the rim for that car.

Simple Fire

So before I can set that bear on fire I decided to start with just a general fire look and go from there

Old and Abandon Project

This is an old project I had started about a year ago that I never finish. Shots taken within UDK

Junk

juss dik'n around in UDK makin shapez and shizz, Tring to learn a new technique