September 11th Workshop

Yo! Here is a ton of stuff I've been doing lately. I have been working on this 3d effects advertisement piece for a class. Randolf suggested I tie in some type of watery Vegas theme club so I was thinking either Rain or Wet Republic or something. So I vectorized the logo with Illustrator and brought it into Maya after I did all this ocean and cloud magic that I do. There is just a sample render for now and I know that the symbol is backwards but whatever I still got some time.

I also did a Bob Marley painting and a Basil Gogos master copy in my sketchbook for fun. Didn't spend too long on them but I think they look cool. Then there are some charcoal drawings from September 11th. I thought the workshop went pretty damn well. It was like medium/long poses and I was just being loose but still thinking a bit about the lessons I have learned. What I really wanted was to just incorporate what I like to see in other people's life drawings. Rhythms and curves, but hard lines and edges can still serve a purpose in my opinion. For design and contrast at least. But I had a show that night too so it put me in a strange mood.

Somebody took a very dark video and I didn't notice because I was four beers in and had my glasses off hahaha! We are a Weezer cover band and we are called I'm Your Daddy. Here is us playing Troublemaker at Money Plays.

RIDE THE LIGHTNING!

SO yo. Here is what my lightning is looking like now. I still have some problems. Such as baking the scene so my final comp looks dope, and getting the light from a flash to appear near the struck location on a ground plane. Oh well, Baker still helped me make some good progress but then he just kind of left me to go solo. Something about the lighting on the clouds was messing me up but Baker noticed a mistake I made then I started to understand what the hell I was supposed to do. But now I have some more questions to ask him unless I can figure it out by myself. Hopefully this ends up really sick and I can put it in my reel. So far I have used scripting and dynamic fluid effects. Getting the clouds to roll was sort of weird too...I think I messed with the Texture Time attribute or something. But I had to script the Lightning End attribute to turn bolts on and off and move some invisible spheres around to randomize it. It's pretty dope. Complex, yet simple at the same time.

Samiches

Yo. In my Adv. 3d Animation class I got an assignment to script some randomized lightning. Well after I taught myself how to do lightning I actually pulled it off. I don't have a video render yet though but I decided to add clouds and try to get a nice mental ray picture. I also did some more work on the In-N-Out piece and I think it's just about done! Don't forget to check out my website and tell me what you think now that it's up and running. I still need to set up my reel on Vimeo and get the legit professional info up on there.
http://dtanimation.com/

Catching Up

Yo! Here is a compressed music-less version of my 3dfx final. Just a can kick, it was fun trying to figure out the dynamics though. The lighting could be better but Rocky hinted that I should just create a new project on my own time that shows off what I've learned and takes it to another level for my demo reel. Carin's birthday was on the 27th so I painted this picture of her cat on a little canvas. I think the canvas is like 5x7 or something, but the whole thing is gouache and I was inspired by that weird dude that Rick showed me, Josh George. Anyway, I've got lots of work to do! Paintings to finish, animations to complete, pictures to take and drawings to scan. You know how it is, I hope.