And So It Begins

We've started final renders...

Yeah

Hiking

This is the salt lake from antelope island.  I might post more hiking pictures since I haven't had many personal projects recently.  But on the bright side, I now know computer programming (c++ and python)

Stop Motion Animation

Experimental class was fun.

Tim's Tiki

Another storyboarding assignment.  The timing of the movie is a bit off, but I already tried uploading it here as pictures and that was a miserable failure.

CG Hat

This is another project from the shader programming class.  We had to put an object in a photograph and make it so no one could tell it was CG.  Unfortunately I can't find all of the in-between steps so you'll have to trust me that it looked pretty laughable in the beginning.  Getting a polygonal model to look like cloth by hand wasn't easy.  The hat was mostly modeled in Mudbox using a crazy process which took quite a while.  Shading and lighting were in Houdini.

Original Photo 

Mostly Finished Model and Texture

Final

Going to the DMV

This was my 30 second assignment from storyboarding.  I had to cut out a few things even from this simple story to get it down to 30 seconds.  I love playing with words, so this is my take on what could happen if you sign up as an organ donor.

Estefan

I guess it's time to post what I did on Estefan.  It's about the world's best barber who has to deal with a bald customer.

I did lighting and compositing for these two shots and two others.  I also helped work on two additional shots for a total of six.