Trying to take more sketching breaks

Hi!

Here are a couple of sculptures I made. It's fun to change it up from sculpting in maya all the time.

Thanks for looking!

Snail Man

NUHHHHHHGLGLGLGLGLHHHHH......

That is all.

Hi.

I'm still alive.

And the auto-rigging tool is coming along nicely.

Finals are over! On to the next project!

Here's my dialogue animation and my reel from the 487e character animation class. There's still a lot of polishing I'd like to do in the graph editor, as well as actually animating the second character. But hey! It works for now. The dialogue on my reel has a different camera angle than the original-- I had to change the over the shoulder camera angle for the sake of the assignment. But I still like the over the shoulder shot better :P

Also, I finally posted up an animation demo reel on my website!
http://www.gceart.com/AnimReel.html
Check it out!

Sketchbook Update

Here are some sketches from my tiny pocket sketchbook.

I tend to carry it everywhere in my back pocket as a backup sketchbook.

It's mostly filled with doodles of wild people in their natural habitats, rigging and MEL scripting notes, personal notes, grocery lists, and drawings inspired by other artists.

It recently fell out of my pocket and was ran over by a car. But nothing a little duct tape and string can't fix. Some say it adds character!

In other recent news, I'm one of them fancy dot com kids now! I got my website up and running thanks to the help of my friend, Kenneth Hung. I'm still working on adding finished reels to it. Check out the spankin' new links at the top of the page!

A strategy highly suggested for people (like myself) who are constantly caught without a pen.

It even survived the car!

And here are a couple drawings not from my tiny sketchbook.

They're actually quite large, and a pain in the butt to scan.

Skeletal and muscular structure studies done for a life drawing class, taught by Joe Forkan.

Sharks.... With Lasers...

So I've been getting serious about writing this auto-rigging tool and it's slowly taking over my life (or current lack thereof). It's turning out pretty sweet-- I've definitely learned a lot and have gotten way better at MEL and C++. My goal right now is to have something cool to show before CTNx next week. Stoked!

This weekend I had to change up the pace and focus on a video game that a few friends of mine and I are creating. It's being submitted for the Microsoft Imagine Cup competition... but really I just want to make a video game regardless.

Here's a rig I built and animated this weekend for the game. The model was a quick collaboration between Jonathan and I. He modelled the shark, and I added the mechanical stuff. But all the credit for the badass texturing goes to him.