Lighting, Texture and Layout: Natural History

This is a collection of current work in the lighting, texture and layout areas, separated for convenience. This work was done primarily in Autodesk Maya utilizing Mental Ray, unless otherwise noted.

A progression through stages to a final museum piece. Once again I did not create any of the models - they were obtained with permission for non-commercial use from 3DRender. However, I did do all the shaders, lights, textures, ect. For my thoughts as I worked, see my blog!

The finished Natural History museum set.

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Character Puppet Fabrication at Stoopid Buddy

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3D Dynamics Experiments

This is a very short, loose collection of things done in Maya 3D Dynamics. The character model and animation in the first clothing shot were provided by The Spine and is courtesy of the NFBC. The basic truck, island and head model in the hair shot were obtained from TurboSquid.

"The Bookworm" Thesis Character Models

The character models for "The Bookworm". These are pretty much created directly from the character designs.

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Stoopid Buddy Animations

This is a collection of the stop-motion animations I did while learning from Stoopid Buddy Stoodios.

Unreal Virtual Production Short

This is my Unreal Virtual Production Fellowship short. Completed in five short weeks, the Fellowship took me from a complete Unreal novice with almost no experience in the engine to completing a short film!

Character Animation with Dialogue

These pieces represent some of my character work with lip sync/dialogue. They were created with the Generi model/rig by Andrew Silke.

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