Works of the past, present and future

I finally uploaded videos on my Vimeo account. I have my schoolwork, demo reels and personal projects up. I plan to post works in progress as well.

Secret Garden

So after watching all the FXphd Nuke classes, I wanted to finish up a few shots I got from the course. I decided to finish this garden shot since it required paint fixes, 3D tracking, and rotoscoping.

Alice in 3D

Since I'm studying stereoscopic conversion right now, I did a quick test with painting depth maps to create a stereoscopic image. So bust out those Red/Cyan glasses to see it!

Software used: Texnai StPaint, Photoshop
Credits and original image

Tea Sweetener

This is for a photo manipulation contest at EGL_comm_art. I thought this would be a great opportunity to exercise my photo manipulation and compositing skills. It took about 8 hours to finish; about two of those hours were done searching for images (I had other ideas and got sidetracked).
These are the original images used in the final piece:

High Tea set by  SalsolaStock. Tea cup stack from Valeriana Solaris. Girl photo from Miss Hermes.

The following shows my progress:


Final piece with accompanying icon:

Hitgirl: from start to finish

Final:



DONE! now just playing with the final image with background and text.

Summer so far in Yoshi Island

Finally got Yoshi Island to look pretty sweet. I took a break from my internship to allow the computer to render out a spiffy camera shot of the island. Got about three seconds...too bad. And I'm still fidgeting with the light and render settings so there's no flicker in the tree leaves. No matter what I do it's always there. I try to look up what causes it and most agree that the solution is boosting up the quality and using a HUGE render farm. The problem is I have time to deal with.
Well this is what I got:

So, what have I been doing while away from the computer? Touring the Bay Area with my Dutch "sister" and COMIC CON!!! I also walked the walk at my graduation! and Comic Con! Went to a free Flogging Molly concert in downtown San Jose! and.....did I mention Comic Con? I got to see DJ Lance Rock with Plex and Brobee from "Yo Gabba Gabba!", MC Lars and the Aquabats in concert! I danced, screamed, sang, moshed, and skanked like there was no tomorrow. I got trampled on once while trying to pick up my new Aquabats shirt I dropped while moshing to a Yo Gabba Gabba song. It was crazy! I was able to take a pic and get an autograph from DJ Lance Rock and the human Brobee on my "There's a party in my tummy" shirt! It would be so fun working on that show. Saw a few panels; some really good(Watchmen, Wolverine- Hugh Jackman came in as a surprise after another panel and had the audience go crazy when he personally thanked the cretor of Wolverine who was sitting in the audience), and some I could care less about (The Day the Earth Stood Still and Max Payne). Alot more Comic Con exclusives being sold. Had to wait in line to get a ticket to wait in another line for Hasbro Toys. Lines for freebies got ridiculousulous. Had to play a scavenger hunt for getting a Batman and Joker Lego. Sign up, take surveys, play a video game, etc. for freebies. And of course the occasional chaotic crowds when they just hand out or throw the freebies. Nerds killing nerds....sad....but fun! Definitely going next year. Pre-registered at the con to avoid procrastinating until 4-day passes are sold out again. There's too much to share and pictures are worth a thousand words. So click for pics.

Yoshi Island

So, I've been learning to use Vue 6, which is a pretty cool program. I'm thinking of using it to make a better looking background to one of my old renders from my Texture and Lighting 2 class. Anyways, I was just playing around with it and one noise option for the procedural terrain made mountains that reminded me of the backgrounds in the Yoshi games and probably in the Mario games.

Above, is my first render. I thought the trees were too big. I wanted it to feel like a bigger island. And it seems a bit too bright.

This is a render of the other side of the mountain, which is why it's darker. Just edited the material/texture a little bit. I really like using Vue cause it's node-based and it takes me back to the days of Maya's Hypershade and Shake. Changed the trees to evergreen/fir, but it's still too big. It's hard to tell the scale of the trees when different types aren't consistent. And I'll put back the palm trees on the edges of the island. These are just high-quality test renders.
Well, there's a free Personal Learning edition of Vue on their site. Check it out here!

Panda Mime

These are some drawlings of Panda Mime!! I actually had this idea since my animation 2 class while my teacher was talking about doing pantomime and I heard panda mime. So that's the story of Panda Mime.

Anyways, I'm on spring break now! I had no plans to do anything except rendering my bar scene. I think I have to re-render though, since something unsightly is revealed in the moving shot. Other than that, I updated my website, which has a page just for clips. The demo reel now has music. I'm still going to make a links page. I think that's it!
Enjoy!