Lighting Piece

Here's a lighting piece I did as part of a workshop... it's all hand placed lights. No Global Illumination or Final Gather, just a bunch of lights based on the direct lighting, areas of bounce and fill.

african baller

So I had this idea for a basketball player in africa and did a bunch of sketches... these are the ones I liked the most.

Up - Karl Sculpt

Hey,

I've been working on this for a while now... just been jumping back and forth between a few things and I was waiting to really refine this before posting it. The only problem is I might not ever get around to actually finishing it, so I decided to just put it up! His fingers, feet and the base still need a bunch of work and there are a bunch of textural details that I haven't gotten in yet. The face is the most refined part...

As many people know, I'm a huge fan of Pixar and an even bigger fan of Up... so this was a really cool little project for me to do! He still needs his glasses, so I'll probably do that as a seperate piece out of plastic.

messing around

hey... here's a little something I sketched as a character I've wanted to create for a while...

New IK Posing Tool

Hey,

So I haven't posted much since we've been pretty crazy at working trying to wrap up on Uncharted 2...I just finished up this tool recently that I thought I'd share.

It might be a little confusing from the video, but basically you always have the FK controls selected and you're always keying them. So in essence you're never actually in IK. This just lets you pose and FK arm with an IK tool/context.

Let me know if you got any questions....

color script 01

Hey,

So after being super-inspired by some of the lighting in UP and the simplicity of their color scripts, I embarked on creating the first color script for my short. It was fun playing around with light in such a simplistic manner and it really helped set the tone for what I want to achieve in CG. I'm really learning that its the idea that matters in concept, not the details. It can be super simple, but if it conveys all the appropriate information it serves its purpose.

I know this is not much, but thought I'd post it anyway.

younger kid model from short

Hey... here is a quick snippet of the CG model for the younger kid. It's pretty crazy to see it go from drawing, to clay sculpt, to CG model.... it'll be even cooler once I actually get him rigged and moving around.