this is a glow bug grenade that i am going to model in maya for the next project - the idea is to make the body semi-translucent so that you can see the glowing liquid inside: using a grenade shell as the texture of the body will be pretty cool i think

i put some glow on them and put them in a neat little layout

i added a simple photoshop filter for kicks to the original composition



if you are going to have a grenade bug... you have to make it explode!

i'm still messing around with the wacom tablet

for our first assignment we had to design and create a teapot using maya - i am rather pleased with what i came up with considering we had 5 weeks to do it and never having touched maya before...

this is a different composition that i used for the first critique it looked cool, but a little too artsy and not enough emphasis on the teapot itself

i took a drawing from class and colored it up a little - i've still got a little way to go with the wacom tablet... i've got further to go with learning to paint.

vamp

i have been pretty busy with classes, but about a month ago i got myself i wacom table - this is the first attempt at coloring in a doodle from my sketchbook

october scans

here are some sketches that i liked from this month's sketchbook

may 2007 sketches

i posted a bunch... keen observation. no? i filled up a few sketch books but didn't get around to scanning them till may: therefore they are classified as may sketches... keen observation. no?

jan 2007 sketches

sketches from jan.2007

dec.2006 sketches

these are some sketches from december 2006

ryan's girls

ryan had his girls come into class to pose - they were livin' it up

ninja (is greater than sign) samurai

SNEAK ATTACK!

rose storyboard

this was another storyboard that i was working on about 3 girls who want to know the origins of their names - i fancy the idea of using a lower opacity within the frame to show things that happened in the past

olives storyboard

for a storyboard project i used the joke about two olives that trying to escape from being eaten...

but one of them goes flying off the edge of the table that they are on and falls really far towards the ground...

and the olive that didn't fall off the table looks down and yells to his buddy to see if he's alright...

and the olive that fell responds, "olive."

so these are just a few of the drawings that i whipped up for the storyboard - i like the idea of having the faces of the characters interacting on the sides of the frames: i basically only do it when there is some sort of dramatic dialogue in which the audience would like to see the reactions of the characters

concept mother

this is a concept piece that i did for a movie that we are working on - i put it on a textured background to give it more of a finished feel