Lighting Reel 2011

Current lighting reel! I'll add my thesis shots as and when I complete them.

Acting for Animation

Blocking progress for my acting for animation final assignment:

And heeree is a very flattering video of me acting. I'm not very good at being angry usually so this was a bit challenging. I was feeling pretty weird... emotionally...by the end of the day after doing a billion takes of this!!

oldies.

Old piece of animation I dug up from last year's school files.

I have a problem with making things too pose-to-pose.

Lighting Class Updates

Final composite project. Each CG lighting student had to pair up with a photography student, come up with a concept, go on a photoshoot and then composite a CG object into the photo. If anything, I learned a lot about studio-lighting itself from this project, more than I did about lighting in Maya.

Updates!

Thesis character turnaround:

Snippets of work from my Summer internship at Pixar Animation Studios:

Compositing!

This is for my lighting class. We had to do an exercise by pairing up with a photo student in our school and going on a photoshoot. We then had to bring the photo into Maya and place a simple CG object into the scene, lighting it to match the photograph.

Primitive Still Life

I finally got into a lighting class and I love it!!

Here's our first assignment- we were told to light a still life using primitive shapes, a white lambert shader, spot & ambient lights, and direct illumination with Maya Software. I decided to find a painting use it to influence how my still life looked. Here it is!

Reference:

And then I decided to do another render with some white blinn and phong shaders just to add some specular highlights.