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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Stoopid Buddy Animations

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

This short vid is of a stumbling robot that was textured, lighted, basic rigged, animated and comp’ed by me onto a photographic background.

Robot Chicken CG Hallway

This is a quick breakdown of a shot from the Robot Chicken Season 9 finale episode that I worked on. I did all the comp work, created the CG hallway in Blender and the parody 2D drawings in Photoshop (available on my 2D Work page) as well. No audio on this.

"The Bookworm" Thesis Designs

These are some of the character/environment designs for my thesis short animation, working title "The Bookworm".

"Narwhal Love" 2D Short

This is a short that was hand drawn by me in Flash. It will receive more refinement and eventually color work, but I like the “sketchiness” of it. No audio.

I entirely created this stop-motion short from pre-production through finish. I created all models and miniatures, animation, ect.

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.

A quick experiment in pixilation. Special thanks to my live shoot teammates/actors Joshua Tewell and Robert Greasham!

Opening Titles Motion Graphics / Effects

Motion graphic/visual effect ideas I came up with for a mock/fan-made opening title sequence for a movie version of a popular video game.

Stoopid Buddy Stop-motion Production Puppets

These are just some of the puppets that I have created for Stoopid Buddy Stoodios' various properties. In most cases, the costumes (if applicable) were made by the Costume Department and the sculpts were either pre-existing or made by Digital, unless noted otherwise.