Leg

I started the leg today during the extra lab shift I picked up.

Gross!

This is incredibly challenging, but I really love it. Even if I'm doing everything wrong right now and I have to start over I've still had fun today just diving right into the organic modeling. I completely forgot that Miles left the blue book here and I probably could have started this better had I been looking at it.







Anyways, I get super close to the monitor when I'm really into something so my brain's a bit fried right now. O.o

Off to plan out my Photography final! Whoooooosh!

Playing With Proportion

I've been trying to draw the side view for my character for a little while now and I decided I should try playing with more extreme proportions before I start settling into his design permanently. This is what I got from using the warp tool for a few minutes, didn't add anything drawing wise.


Meh, idk.

Edit: Refined him a bit more.

Getting There

So this guy's body started coming together today, still needs some adjustments, and the head is a placeholder until I can think of something better. The first image will be used on the image plane and the second one was a ten second gesture sketch I did while I was trying to figure out what his proportions/body type would be. I also drew an organic squid-like arm instead of the blade, but I like the idea of organic mixed with inorganic better.



References: The Thing from Fantastic Four, Bigfoot art, and Cody's Fatman model!

I'm becoming attached to him :P any name ideas?

P.S. I can't draw feet O.o

Obsessive Weekly: Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

I've actually been obsessing over Rembrandt's etchings and drawings for a while now, but only just decided to post something about him. Now, I'm sure everyone has heard of Rembrandt and his awesome power with a paint brush, but the first things I saw from Rembrandt were his etchings/drawings. We went over a few of Rembrandt's paintings today in my Art History class which is what inspired me to do this post.

Here are my favorite etchings, drawings, and paintings of his:





This last image seriously blows my mind, I wish I could post the slide that Greer showed us, the colors were much more vibrant. Apparently, this painting is what made him interested in Art History, and I can see why!

Photography Assignment 3

Environment? Done? Wha?!

Here are the final renders of the interrogation room. Oh man, lighting is so much fun! I just had to say that, haha. So the whole "concept" surrounding this project was supposed to be a contrast between the light of freedom and the dank surroundings of the interrogation room itself. So, the stairway is lighted with yellow (a sunlight effect, I guess) and I wanted a little bit of light from the broken bulb and decided to make that a red-ish color. I still want to make the Oval Office portion of this at some point, I knew I'd only be getting one room done for the actual assignment.









Stairwell UV Map:



Ceiling UV Map:



Oh and, I didn't mention this in the last post, for some reason I really liked the idea of making the blood stains Roschach inkblots. I thought it might add to the psychological terror that might go on here, if anyone would notice, haha. I also kind of made an inkblot on the stairwell, you can see it on the UV map.

Anyways, that's all for now, I'm still in class but I think I might devote the rest of my time to creating an image plane rather than do anything in Maya.

The Room Continues

So I'm basically done with all the textures except for the stairwell (note the pink :P). I'm going to adjust the others more tomorrow in class and add the lighting; hopefully Miles will forgive me for showing him the finished project so late. :(

Class Sketch

I've sketched this dude before, I'm thinking about using him for my 3D model. It might be too complicated, but who knows, I'm still deciding.

:-/

Super Duper Pre-Good Concept Art

Here a couple more (BAD!) sketches I did for my environment. The purple junk is supposed to be some sort of corruption that's spreading across the planet and the second one is just an experiment with how a small river/stream area might look. The other one is just some sketching I did of how the corruption could travel, I was trying to make it look like a hand or something. :-/

Obsessive Weekly: Battlestar Galactica

It's 4:30 AM, I just finished playing a lot of WoW, and now I'm writing a blog post about my love for Battlestar Galactica. I truly live in the realm of geeks, nerds, and gamers. And, I am happy to carry these titles. :P Anyways, on with the Obsessive Weekly-ness!!

My boyfriend and I have recently become completely entangled in the web of awesome that is Battlestar Galactica. I'm talking about the re-imagined series, mind you, not the original series from the late '70s. Great acting, and even better writing, have kept us watching for three seasons now. Unfortunately, the show was canceled after it's fourth season so we don't have much left to watch.

Anywho, whenever I start to really enjoy a TV show or movie, I almost always find myself scouring Google pages to find some concept art for the show/movie. I actually wasn't expecting to find any concept art for Battlestar Galactica, but there it was! On this website I've never heard of.

These are some concept pieces for space ships for the fourth season:

A Cylon Comm. Array:

These pictures were actually among a large gallery of concept art from different sci-fi shows and movies. Check out the full article here.

Oh, and just in case anyone who reads this likes Battlestar, check this awesomesauce out:

I would've voted for him! :P

Interrogation Room Progress

Alright, so since I saved over/lost quite a few of my files it's taking me a bit longer to finish the environment assignment for 3D modeling. :[

The progress shots are just of the table, light bulb, and folding chair. I'm still going to adjust the textures for all three of them quite a bit.

Yeah I decided to break the light bulb because interrogation rooms are intimidating, and there's nothing more intimidating than a broken... light bulb... O.o

Anywho, thanks to Cody for helping me out so much yesterday! Pretty sure the UV map for my folding chair would have exploded without the help. :P

Aw crap I forgot to write my Obsessive Weekly post at the beginning of my lab shift! I'll do it later, it's about Battlestar Galactica!! *nerdgasm*

Obsessive Weekly: Shinerai on dA

So I definitely forgot to do an Obsessive Weekly post last week, but that's ok because I found a really super cool artist this week!

He is Shinerai of deviantART, I stumbled upon his gallery when I was looking for some dragon reference images. What I enjoy most about his work is his amazing use of color with his creatures. I found myself staring at one of the character reference sheets he made for at least thirty minutes, they're so beautiful and well thought out.

Here are two reference sheets he made for original characters and a digital drawing:

I do not own these images, they belong to Shinerai!

Six Hours Later

So today I made all of the UV Maps for the interrogation room. I'm kinda freaked out that it took me six hours, is it supposed to take that long? :-/ Then again this is only my third time making UV Maps, but meh, at least I got it done right?

I'm a bit worried about the maps I made though, I'm not sure if I mapped them out correctly.

But anyways I'm going to post them, even though they're blank, just so I can tell myself that I actually did something today. :P

Table:



Chair:



Hanging Light:



Staircase:



Stairwell:



Room: