I fixed it a little bit

A Test I did

So I was given the photo references and I had a day to model, texture, light and render in a day.
I was told to keep the textures simple.

WIP

some dream I had

based on a dream I had two nights ago. I might finish this later one day.

not finished.

laundry day

Sugar High

 Can you tell I am in Halloween mood? I wanted to keep focusing on low poly models.

Floor Panel

a plane with a single poly and normal map. I am still working on the texture. Will finish it tomorrow.

Tavern Sign

A prop I did to practice using normal maps. Modeled the low poly and high poly versions in 3ds max, Projected the normals from the high poly and then composited some design elements using Crazy Bump and Photoshop.

Experimenting with Normals

This is something I created today just to experiment with normal maps.

The left one is the high poly model approximately a million polygons

The middle one is low poly version with 261 polygons and 249 verts.

The right one is the low poly with normal maps.

Post Graduation...

I am re-texturing some of my objects. 

The countdown has begun

I have my final portfolio review this coming monday at 8:40 am and hopefully nothing will go wrong.

So I started texturing my Zee brush piece today and this is how it looks right now.

Wednesday...

As was suggested, I decided to replace the base with a rock so it looks like this statue was never completed.  I like the story telling aspect it gives. I am just experimenting with the rock right now. I am looking to create an interesting shape.

Monday....

Rainy sunday

Kinda wishing the labs were open 24/7.

A beautiful Saturday and I was working at school.

but at least I am enjoying working in ZBrush.

Upgrade on my ZBrush piece

still working on it of course.

ZBrush Sculpture WIP

This is my zbrush piece that I started in Zbrush with Zsketch first and then brought in 3ds max and added hands and feet. Then brought back into Zbrush and posed and now I am sculpting. I haven't gotten the change to start working on the hands yet and while I was posing the model they kidna lost their shape.

More Reel Progress and Comic Con& Siggraph

Last week was absolutely awesome. I was lucky enough to attend to San Diego Comic Con and Siggraph. I met with amazingly talented people, got to show my reel around and got some feedback. I also got to sit at some very inspiring panels. I feel like last week was a pivotal point in my life and I feel so much more motivated now.

So this is a little progress on my reel I still have close to two months to work on it. Additionally, I am working on a ZBrush sculpture right now that will go in my forest scene. Hopefully soon I will post some renders of it too.

reel_progress

I was trying to get this ready by Siggraph even though I have 2 months to finish working on this I still wanted to be able to show my reel at Siggraph 2010 but, ran into some technical problems and I didn't have the time to render the reel in the right format. but atleast it's up here.

Fixed some issues.

I cleaned up the ghosts from the first scene. It's not haunted now so hence there's not a single flying object anymore like there was in the previous reel.

Some old 2D works of mine

For me before 3D there was 2D, I started drawing and painting before I learned 3D and I still try to paint as much as I can in my free time.  Perhaps that's why I enjoy texturing, because it feels like painting to me.

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                  

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

Portfolio 2 Reel

This is what I handed in for my second portfolio class. I got one more quarter to work on this but yeah this is how my reel looks like so far.

coffehouse update

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some more updates

on stuff I've been working on the first one is the robot based on a concept by Emrah Elmasli, Emrah's website. he environment is based on a concept by Aymeric Kevin Aymeric's blog.

Forest Update

VFX assignments.

First assignment for my 3d vfx class and first time I used pflow.

Alleyway re-rendered

So I decided to unwrap the main building to paint the textures but now I have to do the same to the other buildings too. and still need to render an ambient occlusion pass.

lab renders v.2.0

Some closeup renders of the lab I did for advanced material and lighting.

VFX assignment 1

So for my 3D VFX assignment I am doing a scene very much inspired by the cinematic trailer of Diablo 3. This is the scene so far, I am working on the particle system that's going to go into this scene.

Turkish Coffee House_ finished model

I am done modeling this environment I believe and now I am going to start texturing and lighting. It turned out to be a lot bigger environment than I thought initially.