Here's my final for intro to maya. :) It's based off a concept by Brian Sum

Heres something I did for digital painting. Just a sort of iso view of an environment to sell the idea. Makin keyframes for it later for the final. Gettin better painting wise. I find it more fun now too. :)

So it's pretty busy this term. First term of 3d. Heres a few pics of what I've done so far. These are just from my intro to maya class. I don't have anything in the correct format to upload from my other classes yet. The kitchen was my midterm, and now I'm working on my final, which is the sci-fi hallway. It's modeled after a Mass Effect 2 concept.

Digital painting

This class was a lot of "boring" exercises that took fairly long to do. However I think this class is probably where I improved the most. I learned to look at things differently. Anyway, heres the homework.




Oh god. Sooo... this was our homework for the first week. This was to gauge our skill. No instruction was given prior to this. We were to spend an hour on it. Just had to copy the bottom picture(no overlays). No color picking was allowed through the entire class. Looking at this again, I have to say I'm glad I took this class.

We missed the second week of class so this is basically week 3. Goal was to copy a picture we took ourselves using objects in our house. I learned to not choose circular objects for your second painting. Took much too long and ended up not finishing. Our teacher was looking more for skill building than completeness though so I was ok. Definitely much better than the first week though.

Week 4 we started on value and trying to paint from your head. Bottom one was from pics and in-class.

Week 5 is where I sort of started to get better. We talked about color for a bit in class. Hw was copying more stuff. Doing these a lot more boldly and a lot faster. The goal was to get the values down without blending. Kinda ignored that on the peppers.

The assignment this week was to get more into color. Teacher said not to get into detail as it would take waaaay too long. He was right. Even with no detail it took a long time to try and match all the subtle colors. I found that everything has color in it. Nothing is gray or black or white.

This week we had to come up with something and paint it out from our heads. Again I had trouble with this. Composition is pretty bland and the colors are very saturated. I got hung up on small things.

We were more focused on composition for this assignment. I like the one with the fish the most.

This week was about edges and how to use them. The mountain painting was something I did in class while discussing outside lighting. Might make it into something later. I like it.

For our final we did one final still life that we photographed ourselves. Didn't do anything fancy for the assignment because we ran out of time. We were already in the first week of break for makeup classes and had 3 days to do this. There are some small problems, but if the photo reference wasn't there, I don't think you'd be able to tell it wasn't a photo right away. Yay :)

Next up I think is Creature Design.

Environment Design

So here are some projects I've done over the term for environment design. I'm going to post a class a day for a while. Next up will be digital painting. This term was a lot more work than the rest. O:

These are value studies from week 1. Meant to just get us warmed up. The shots are from Star Trek, Hero, and Blade Runner.

These are more value studies for the second week. Did them in order to decide what to paint for our first larger piece. I chose the left middle on the bottom page.

For the Third week, we had to make a line drawing based on our thumbnail to clean it up.

We then had to bring value back in. It also had to work without the lines.

Here's my first finished environment painting! Couldn't dwell on it too long though, so our homework was also to come up with comps for our next painting. 

These are color comps of a few of the value studies that I liked. Chose the bottom left on the top page for the final one. The third pic is an attempt at photobashing. It's not really my thing. I prefer straight painting. 

The top one is my rough of the painting. Bottom one is my teachers 5 min paintover. The color change wasn't on purpose, there was a loose adjustment layer that he didn't have time to find.

Here is the finished version! My favorite painting this term for this class. :)

For this assignment we had a bunch of assignments. One was to finish the painting above^ Then we had to make very quick orthos of that painting. Then we had to rough out our next painting. Ill explain whats happening in the next painting later. It's kind of a long explaination. Bottom one is my teachers paintover.

Heres the finished version. Basically what happened is the Earths magnetic field flipped. This caused terrain all around the world to go haywire. During the transition of the magnetic field the earth lost its shield against the suns radiation. Animals started mutating from exposure. I decided to make it classic 50s mutation. Giant. So humans introduced a gas into the air to serve as a temporary barrier for the radiation while they waited for the poles to realign. Long story done... It was fun but I couldn't put the amount of time I wanted to in order to make it look how I wanted.

Next up is digital painting! I'll try and get it up tomorrow. It's a lot of files to convert.

New term  has just begun!

Term is coming to an end

Hey, these are a few of my finals that I have done in the last 4 weeks. Slowly gettin better eh? The building is for history of design. And the two other things are for product design. The sharp thing was a group project. The goggles are all me :)

just some value/lighting studies for color theory for my final. a comic for character design, and a hw assignment for character design