Lighting, Texture and Layout: Study Scene

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 my work on a Study Scene. The models were not sculpted by me but were obtained with permission from Turbosquid, with only minor clean-up done by myself. However, I did do all the shaders, lights, textures, ect. If you would like to read some of my thoughts on the process, please visit my blog!

The final, full image of the Study Scene.

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Figure Drawings / Artwork

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

"The Bookworm" Thesis Character Models

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

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: Pre-production

This is some of the pre-production/development work I did on "Grandpa", my most recent short stop-motion work in progress.

"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.

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.

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.

"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.

"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.

"The Bookworm" Thesis Designs

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