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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A progression through stages to a final museum piece. This work was done primarily in Autodesk Maya utilizing Mental Ray.

3D Dynamics Experiments

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Stoopid Buddy Animations

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

"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.

More Stop-Motion and 2D Animation Tests

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Animation Parody Drawings for Robot Chicken CG Hallway

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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.

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 Puppet Fabrication at Stoopid Buddy

I spent my summer studying both stop motion animation and character fabrication with Stoopid Buddy Stoodios in Burbank, CA!

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.