Monday, September 24, 2012

Demo Reel
This is my updated demo reel.  I worked on the projects posted below and added the updates from previous weeks.  I also had to sync the old audio with the updated projects.
Hillbilly Church
Worked on the lighting this week and did some adjustment to the camera.  The audio is in the demo reel posted above.
Old Cash Register
Work on the background bookstore, creating a counter top, and the details of the buttons.  The audio is in the demo reel posted above.
Alien (formally Swampman)
Worked on the getting rid of the black spots on the skin and adding the background fog.  The audio is in the demo reel posted above.

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

This week - Pretty Man

Pretty Man
The work I did this week is shown in the above link is of a pretty man character.  The character was designed and created by another artist.  I animated, created the background, and added some sound clips.  The audio is from the TV show Firefly.  This week I worked on tweaking the animation, added some background noise, and adjusted the lighting a little bit.  I am still having trouble with his right arm and it looks better than what is was but it is still not quite right.

Monday, September 10, 2012

Sawmill Simulation
The above link is of my new video of my sawmill simulation.  This week's progress included adding and/changing again some particles to make the wood chips, changed the smoke, changed the background textures, and cleaned up the pulley bands.

These images below are the before images from the old video.


Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Improvements this week

This is the progress on my swamp-man character.  This week I made videos of the improvements I made.  I am disappointed the particles did not turnout, but the texture on the skin is smooth and has no hard lines like those that I did before.
Swamp-Man character
I worked a lot to improve the lighting by adding candles and trying to create the natural light of the sun coming through the windows.

Monday, August 20, 2012


I worked on my faun character this week but was having troubles with the file, so I decided to work on my sawmill simulation.  It still needs more work, but I altered some of the textures, added particles, and shadows.

Monday, August 13, 2012

Portfolio Pieces


The images shown above are the pieces I plan to have in my digital portfolio.  I plan to focus my time improving the Faun and the Hillbilly Preacher.  I also want to spend a little time tweaking the Sawmill.  In the next four weeks, I plan to working on the modeling of Faun and Hillbilly Preacher.  The biggest modeling issues are in the head.  I plan in the last three weeks is fix the UV textures on the Hillbilly Preacher and add UV textures to the Faun.  I am determined to do all of this because I did not know a lot of what I was doing when I last worked on those models and know I can do a much better job, and I want to pursue character modeling.

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Resume



Industry Analysis







The above images are of my Industry Analysis paper and the focus of this paper is to demonstrate the type of character animation jobs I am currently pursuing.  Within this paper are some current job postings from various websites.  

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Currently working on putting up my portfolio and demo reel.  Good stuff coming soon.