A Heartfelt Apology

I'm so sorry.

I'm terrible at updating blogs and I thought I would do better when I first made this. I will not relent though, and hope to improve my current mindset.

In these past few weeks I've been locked down because of a jaw surgery, but tomorrow I'm heading back to school for the Zbrush-bonanza. We're going to learn Zbrush for our trailer project and it's something I plan to get really good at.

That being said, so far every time I've picked it up I'm in the habit of procrastinating with 2D instead.

Speaking of which, I've been doing 30 minute paintings this past week for our wonderful years http://robertochallenge.tumblr.com/. It started after we had a teacher and concept artist named Roberto Castro doing an evening of live painting. He said it would be good practice, and that I feel has been true so far. I'm enjoying it a lot.


If I get the chance, I will post x-rays of my skull next. I'm part cyborg now, you know.



Todays theme on Roberto's Challenge: Plan B.

Update Pending #2

Before I head back to school again!
(recovering from surgery, which means I should have plenty of time to update my blog, right?)

Update Pending

Before Second Year.

What about second showreel?

I am texturing. By friday, we will have a fully rendered clip fit for the second semester showreel. Tomorrow I will render some more stuff. Yes.

It's great being back in school. While less time for personal stuff, we've done little but actual drawing, painting and rendering in photoshop since we started. Just the way I like it.

Having survived first a week of storyboarding, followed by the second Design Course with Lawrence Marvit, I can safely say that I enjoy myself greatly, even with the long hours.

This week we're doing still life rendering, focusing on light and how it works.

When not painting, I should best get my semester reflection paper done soon... you know, sometime. Also, I promise, that when I have had the time to fix up certain things on my design assignments, I will be sure to post them here. Maybe one in colour on facebook, for the main purpose of generating likes. People, I find, likes colour.

Meanwhile, here's my first actual still life done in photoshop.

Oh, and by the way, I absolutely hate working on the school computers because of their lack of calibrated monitors. It ruins your stuff when you look at them on a normal one.

Yes, it's an avocado with warts. I purposely made it ugly because it annoyed me greatly. I have the power.

P4450 - Fruits of Labour

Learning Maya has been an experience. Blood, sweat and tears followed by the satisfaction of a finished result.

woe.

Harold started out as an old man that wasn't a superhero, but just believed he was. Much to my dismay, I came to the realization that my audience didn't get his idea, so I gave him a superpower and made him less deluded.

Harold is capable of controlling his mustache with his mind.

pose sheet

character concept

concept killershot

ambient occlusion render

final shot

Sketchbreak

Hi.


We're nearing the end of Project 4550. More on that in a week or two.

Felt I needed a break from all the dimensions, so here's an about half an hour of something otherelsewhere than dear Maya.

I'll post it when it's done. It will probably be so during the Christmas holidays.


Maybe.