Friday, May 6, 2011

Portfolio

Hey everyone. Thanks for checking in. I've got a real treat here for you. Its midterm week in my final quarter at the California Art Institute of San Francisco. I recently completed cutting together a rough cut of what will be my graduating demo reel containing a set of characters I've made for different projects. My reel is focused towards low-spec game models for use in the growing mobile and social games market. So enjoy and feel free to send me and email or leave a comment on what you think or suggestions. Thanks.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Countdown

     So here's another art blog dump from me to the internets. The final countdown to Portfolio and graduation has begun. There are four weeks remaining in this quarter followed by a week "off" and then an 10 week mad dash to the finish line. I've got a long list of characters I want to work on simultaneously and I find myself mostly immobilized by the decision of what to do next or how to go about it while having to maintain work of decent quality for my other classes. My current lineup of classes is 3D Environments, for which I have posted work below, Game Programming, Senior Project 4 and Cultural Anthropology which is frankly bullshit.
     Here's a few things I made for my 3D Environments class:

     This piece here is for my dungeon scene which was the first project and midterm for the class. Creativity failed me in my environment but I knew I wanted to model a basilisk that could be a kind of mid-boss for the environment in this  MMO level of detail. This is just the wireframe, obviously, the texture I added onto it was just a simple tile-able stone-ish texture to make it a statue that was part of the environment. Anyway this guy comes in at just under 7500 Tris.
  
      This RV is a part of my second scene for the same class. It is modeled off of a 1986 Fleetwood Bounder, the same RV that is featured as a rolling meth lab in the popular tv series Breaking Bad. My end game with this project is to recreate a fictitious scene similar to the show where the RV has parked itself far out in the New Mexico desert for an epic meth cooking session.

      This picture is just a quick mockup of what the scene may look like in the final piece. Some side items accompanying the RV are an igloo water cooler, a portable generator, a 72-inch folding table, some gas cans, agave plants and cacti.

     These images here are some sample logos I painted up for our senior project game. This first one is for the red team, the courage wolves of somethings, the rest are for the blue team currently, The Bucketheads.


This painting isn't for anything really. Its a redesign of the character Griff from Disney's Gargoyles. Just something I sketched up while thinking of making a second attempt at a character sculpt.

 Time to get back to work. Adios.