Well...Here It Is...

This is what I turned in to Randolf for the Portfolio Preparation final. Next week I will find out if I passed or not and I will also get to read some anonymous critiques from faculty members at the school. I think I have a good idea what they will say...critique wise. But I don't know if they will think there are too many problems for me to handle or not...they may want me to take prep. again which would totally suck. I don't know...it has improved SOO MUCH! Spending more time on my pieces wouldn't hurt, it would just suck to have to wait longer to graduate. But I need to up my game until I'm totally satisfied with it. I wonder if that EVER happens.
There is still some color lighting I want to incorporate, more objects and storytelling aspects, some tighter editing since I was messing with some new render techniques (damn Adobe Media Encoder!). Little details though, like the towel, certain textures, weird things about the lighting and the sky in certain scenes. The horizon on the in n out one, the sliding on my moving holds, the overexposure on a bunch of the 3d...shit! I know I could do it though. I just need to get focused and go into full on beast mode! But I keep getting distracted haha!

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.

September 4th Workshop

Yeah...I know that September 4th was a while ago. I am moving in a strange slow motion lately while everything is speeding by. Somehow, some stuff is getting done. Anyway...I decided I would use charcoal and conte again because I don't want to lose my chops when it comes to working large with traditional media. I still want to try some other materials but only if they're good! So hopefully someone awesome can recommend something. I crammed a ton of drawings onto the first page. I just drew over the really light, early warm-up poses because they sucked anyway. I think it made for an interesting composition. You should see the next update though, it's even sloppier.

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.

HOW ABOUT THIS FISH?!

http://www.zazzle.com/how_about_this_fish_tshirt-235763155949678300
So in class, Joel Nino yelled this out and it was way funny so I decided to create a shirt real quick as a joke. Baker then suggested I throw it up for sale on Zazzle. He said it's a site where they sell t-shirts with your images on them and you get a small cut. I wonder if anyone will buy it...haha! If someone does, I'm totally going to have to give some of the dough to Joel. The concept is what sells.

New 3D Looney Tunes

Yo. My homie Casey told me about this awesome little short that was posted online recently. 3D Coyote and Roadrunner! I could only find a bit of info...but I can't believe how bad ass every little aspect of this scene is. The timing, the dynamics, the textures, emotions...the spirit of the original is definitely there. Very cool. I told Randolf about it because Casey said I should spread the word at the school. It's funny because I know Randolf only posts or talks about really awesome stuff at school and on his blog, and he posted this animation! Since Randolf is such a huge inspiration to me, I figured I should probably do the same just to document the moment of discovering it and to inspire myself to keep working hard.

Step...Step...

My website totally works! And my reel's on Vimeo! YEAAAAAAAAH!!!! Okay...well, there is still lots to do. Check it.

http://dtanimation.com/index.html

Life Drawing Workshop August 28th 2010

Yo. I finally scanned in and posted my pictures from last Saturday's workshop. It was short pose day, started with some 1's then worked our way up through 2s and 5s to some 8s and a few 12s. The session felt pretty good until the end, where I ended up drawing the same pose three times. I either do that because I really like it or something about it is making me dissatisfied. This time, it was definitely the latter. I also did a couple of re-scans of my blue lady in the moon and some other blue marker ones...apparently it's just tough to get deco blue and deco pink to show up well on the scanner.

We Are Scientists!

Man, I used to have this cd a long time ago and I just bought it recently since something weird happened to it...Cool video! I want to play guitar and break stuff! These guys are just funny dudes too.

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/