Quiet night tonight... no baseball and my woman is studying....

I'm still bummed the that dodgers lost last night but on the bright side my freelance project is going pretty good and on time. I'm finishing up the 2nd scene and I have a few more to go, I'm rendering this particular scene which has 3 parts to it. Basically its a guy walking out of his house and into his car and driving away. Its basic mocap animation and camera tricks to cut down on the animation process. I will post more later tonight. I have to render this thing at 1920x1080 and I need all the processing power I can get!

I got some freelance work...

So I'm doing a freelance job for my best friend Carlos. He's out in AZ so hopefully all goes well communication wise. Its a few little animations for a power point project for his work, it shouldn't take that long but I want to do a good job on it because I dont want him to look bad so I will be working on that full time for the next couple of weeks. I'll try to post some work in progress stills and animations if I can while I progress.

I also got Dodger tickets for Friday's afternoon game! That means I will be missing work to watch the game. I'm talking my cousin Ernie along because I promised him I would try to score some tickets.. and I did, sooooo we are going. Should be a great game, hopefully by the time its Friday we are up by 1 game and ready to go 2-0 by Late Friday afternoon.

Anyway, I'm also getting my latest project 'Before the storm' published in a future issue of 3d Artist magazine. If you haven't seen that magazine yet you need to go out and buy a issue, they are a little pricey but well worth it if your a 3d nerd like me. I've been the magazine before(issue#2) in the work in progress section. Check it out if you have time and some extra bucks to spend on the magazine. I will keep everyone informed when the issue comes.

Thats all for tonight.... peace.

Waiting for game 2 at work, and yes I will be watching it on our flat screen tv!

So i modeled a few more things for the 'cockpit' area, messed with the lighting and finally might start texturing today.

He's starting to look funny to me know hahah all alone under the seeeeaaaa!

Dodgers win game 1 and I have updates!

So the Dodgers beat the Cardinals 5-2, and that makes me a happy person! A lot of people were talking shit and saying the Dodgers would get swept.... that's not going to happen now! Lakers won as well, but seeing how it was a exhibition game nobody gave a fuck except me and the people at the Honda center where the game took place, I guess the 'real' fans show up at finals time in June not early October..... can you smell the sarcasm in the air....
Anyway, I threw in the character I did this afternoon and re did the lighting on the whole scene. I still don't know what to do with the rest of the scene but I guess I can fix that after I finish texturing the sub.


I think I over did the glow but I like it and I will tone it down for the final render.

Quiet day today....

I decided to work on my character for the sub project. He's really nothing special, just something to fill the hull of the sub, i didn't model arms or the pants because I didn't need it. More progress later tonight. I don't know if I should put the eye patch or not... I'll think about it.

Here are the concepts:


and here's the render:

Tuesday suck...

Managed to get a little bit done tonight. Trying to figure out a paint scheme for the submarine and whether or not to put another prop buried in the sand.... I did in fact try to come up with a way to show this piece. Hench the video... I'll work more on this tomorrow, i need to come up with a character because the character in the sub is from another scene of mine and he will be replaced.
Enjoy!

LINK TO MOVIE

Another work in progress... never a finished project....

So I had this thing modeled a while back, another concept from Jake Parker, I love his 2d style so I try to re-enact it in 3d. I still have to texture the thing but you get the idea, i did some super heavy post work on it because I like the way it looks and its my blog so fuck it. I probably wont put so much post work on it for the final, but I wanted to have some fun with it. I think I might add another prop emerging from the sand, maybe a stone head or something of that nature. Worked a little on my toon street scene but still to little to show, but I will probably post more work later tonight. I'm off to watch Seinfeld and then catch some sleep..... I need to bike in the morning....

New work coming in....

So word around the work area is we might be getting a new project coming in soon and it's going to be big.... amusement park big.

The weekend brings work and a little bit of colder weather.

So I finally decided on what my next big scene will be. I will be modeling a toon style little city complete with cars and junk. I kept trying to find something interesting to work on but I kept going back to other artist's concepts and thinking to myself that hey I can make up my own concepts and designs so that's what motivated me. I'm going for pixar/dreamworks/old school disney on this one so be on the look out for some crazy shapes and really stylized architecture and cars.


Here is rough layout of the hardscape.
and some landscape tests. Just testing out non realistic trees at the moment, got these awesome leaf textures from total textures.


Here are some other renders that I managed to get done this week:
A truck for another scene that I'm working on.


A wagon concept from Jake Parker modeled by me. I dont know how far I will get on this one but hopefully I could some textures on it by next week.