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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A selection of some of the best work I did for Stoopid Buddy Stoodios on their VFX team for their various shows and spots. Breakdown below. More un-aired samples are available upon request.

"Grandpa" Stop-motion Short: Puppet Production

This is some of the puppet production work I am doing on "Grandpa", my most recent short stop-motion work in progress.

Stoopid Buddy Animations

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

Figure Drawings / Artwork

This contains various figure drawings, quick studies and still artwork that helps show my artistic and animation-related skills.

Selected and screened at The Roseville Animation Festival (2012) and the Los Angeles International Underground Film Festival (2012)! This is a short animation made by myself and two other students at DePaul University. We were going for a "paper cutout" look for the style, but it was actually made in Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects and edited in Premiere. Our team was so small, we all had a hand in pretty much everything at one point or another, but we gave ourselves a little credit for the main tasks. Hope you enjoy it!

Lighting, Texture and Layout: Study Scene

A progression through my work on a Study Scene. This work was done primarily in Autodesk Maya utilizing Mental Ray.

Animatics and Storyboards

This is a collection of my animatics and storyboards of stories I have written, with intent to develop. Royalty-free music from Opuzz and Freesound.org

"Grandpa" Stop Motion Short WIP

This is a short piece of raw video from "Grandpa" followed by some production shots. This project is currently in post.

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

"The Bookworm" Thesis Designs

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