Alien Crash Site

Here's my final project for advanced 3D modeling. The assignment was to make an organic environment, and I decided to add the crashed alien ship. The trees in the background are simply image planes with .png images applied to save on geometry. All of the trees are textured using custom made shaders with displacement and bump maps applied. Rendered using Image Based Lighting, and touched up a bit in photoshop. 

Dragons Lair ThemePark Attraction

The assignment was to create an original theme park attraction. The roller coaster is all one solid continuous track, and came before the rest of the attraction. Everything except the people and flames modeled, textured and lit in Maya. Overall, a really fun and involved project! 

Alien Battle Crab ALL DONE!!

Whew! Man I've wanted to make this guy for quite a while. I always get bummed out when I finish a model, so to hang on to the project for a bit longer, I decided to put him into a scene. This is the rated R version, there's another with no body parts or blood, but that's no fun :) The bloody limbs were my excuse to put some gore into the scene while referencing human scale. I'm still rendering another straight on close-up shot of his face with some depth of field. Still having trouble letting this project just be finished haha. 

CX2800 Renegade

 This was a really fun project to work on, and a great way to start the semester. My renders were looking so 'car add-ish' so I figured I would build off of that. Why Honda? Cause I drive a Honda.

New Semester!

So the new semester has begun.. first project, future-esc motorcycle. here's the model so far!

Carl Model

My first original character modeled in Maya. Carl was a lot of fun to work on... just need to rig him now.. ugh what a headache 

My first face model

my first attempt at modeling a human face. dove into some uv texturing also. had a really good time with this one!

Walt, Jesse and the "Crystal Ship"

had some more fun with this one. finished!

Tribute to my two favorite shows

Always been a huge fan of southpark, and currently obsessed with Breaking Bad. Here's Walter White/Heisenberg, SP style.. a lot of fun. made using Illustrator.. I'm going to take him into Maya and rig him next

Mr. Anderson

this guy is based off of my old accounting teacher.. he would always wear these cute little tennis shoes.. it's weird, this looks exactly like him haha.. i see an office crew coming together!

Some Character Designs

A couple characters just for fun.. VooDude... haha just now came up with that name.. and Carl. I might want to make an entire office crew based on Carl... asshole boss, kiss ass salesman, accountant, nerdy IT guy etc.. could be fun..

Haunted Attic

Another post-semester project. Everyone loves a creepy attic with a scary face in the mirror haha. lots of textures and bumpmaps in this one. I added some noise to the light fog in this one.. really adds to the creepyness i think. The face i painted in photoshop then put into the scene, everything else created in maya.

Underground Weapons Supplier

So the semester ended and I needed some stuff to keep me busy.. I made this underground weapon supplier.. something that you'd see in grand theft auto, or left for dead. had a lot of fun with lighting in this one.. the fog effect on the light makes this one i think...

New Resume + My Desk

So i made a resume that doesn't totally suck like my last one haha... i had to model my desk and it's contents. re-creating my work space was pretty fun actually.. the page of notes is from a picture that i took from my own notebook, the screen is a screenshot from my maya workflow, and my iphone even has my background on it.

Space Station / Loading Dock

Finished up this spaceship loading dock. I started with the loading dock, then modeled the spaceships, took some time for lighting, then put it into photoshop to create the background. This is my semester final project so I put a lot of pieces from all of my other semester projects into this one. I had a really great semester, definitely excited to bust out some more projects in the summer months before starting school back up in august!

Mars Rover Illustration

Rendered out a new scene and had some fun with it!

Mars Rover

So I just finished up my front and back renders of this mars rover I've been working on. I started with the wheels, and worked my way up. Once the outside was finished, I started modeling the interior cockpit. The little one that drops out of the back of the vehicle is a little two-person vehicle with grabbers for exploring places where the massive rover can't go. Did some post texturing work in photoshop to make this one feel like it's on Mars. Fun Project!

 

Table and Wine still life

Getting more into lighting and texturing... 

Trash-BOT

This is a really fun little bot i created for cleaning up trash. The whole concept is that he's this little primitive robot who is built for cleaning up trash and vacuuming the ground but he's not happy doing that kind of work. He constantly grumbles to people to not litter and clean up their own mess, but why would anyone do that when theres this perfectly good trash cleaning robot to do the work for them? Anyhow, that's my little concept for this little guy.

Alien Battle Robot

Here's my alien battle robot! A lot of fun to make.. he was my first "character" so to speak. I might make a toy version just for fun...

Flying Bathtub completed

Here are my final renders of me flying bathtub.. first time working with nurbs primitives.. as it progressed, it took on kind of a spider-ish vibe.. i decided to try the red and black (black widdow), then that made it look like a 50s hotrod with the chrome and the engine.. so i added the necessary engine pipes and such to feed that theme.. overall, i'm thrilled with how it came out!

Flying Bathtub

Model I'm working on for this flying bathtub project. Still a work in progress but coming along nicely I think. I can't wait to get in there and texture this beast!

Final shots of Atro City

This has been such a fun project I don't know if I can just stop. Still going to add more details down in the main port so I can get a really nice perspective shot maybe from inside a boat or something to show the true scale of this thing... more scenes to some!

Futuristic city "Atro-City"

First advanced modeling project of the new semester. This piece isn't done yet, just thought i'd post a progress photo or two

3D art 8/11 - 12/11

 These are a bunch of projects from my 3D modeling class last semester.