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!

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

I'm baack!

Couldn't have asked for a better summer! Back to school this weekend and hopefully back to posting more on here and on my thesis blog.

summer!

So summer plans- got into the Technical Undergraduate Program internship at Pixar! So will be in California for the summer and working on thesis prep during my free time.. As well as enjoying Cali of course.

And here's a quick test I did using TV Paint- I'm trying to familiarize myself with it. A lot of beautiful films were made using this program so I wanted to explore.. I used the watercolor brushes for these. (You can't really see the textures of the brushes I used thanks to the horrible upload quality..)

new figure drawings!

I updated my Life Drawings page with some figure drawings from this quarter:

Check them out here

Some of them were done with the opposite of the dominant hand and turned out better than the others!

It's the end of the quarter and I'm busy with tiny little things I need to finish up before leaving RIT. Will update later!!

dialogue_school of rock

First spline pass for our last animation assignment - dialogue. I also blocked out the jaw movement and mouth corners (ins and outs) for the lip synching.

monologue progress

WIP so far for my monologue. I started blocking out the lips. I haven't messed with the teeth and tongue yet. Just the jaws and the lip corner ins and outs. This is only my second time lip-synching in 3D and I know it's not perfect yet. So any feedback would be appreciated. I guess it doesn't help that Blogger unsynched the sound for me though =/

Dissonance Rochester Premiere

Dissonance officially premieres to the people of Rochester this April 30 at the SoFA Emerging Filmmakers Series, a segment of the 360|365 Film Festival.

Humble, but it's a start!