Old Mining House Model

Here's the old mining house that will be a part of a much bigger scene along with the covered wagon model that I previously posted. I love that little out-house :) Much more work to come!!

Covered Wagon - Environment Props

So this is just the first piece of a huge mining camp environment that I'm building based off of one of my professors original sketches. Gonna be a really involved, time consuming, but FUN project!! It's been awhile since I've done a full blown scene like this. More updates to come!

High Noon

Decided to take some more time to texture and render this guy out into a little scene. I rendered two images.. One occlusion, and one with texture, then blended the two and took them into photoshop for final touches. This could be Toy Story part 13. 

Old Cowboy Model

Found this awesome modeling sheet for a cool little cowboy on the internet. Original design and drawing by Luis Arizago Rico.

Grumpy Old Grandpa Model

I found modeling sheets for this fun little character by an unknown artist. I took it into Maya and made a quick model of him. Really fun piece!

Truck Model

 This is a truck design that my professor uses for his photoshop class.. I decided to go ahead and model it in maya and give it a bit of texture. REALLY fun design and project!

Solaris - Fantasy Book Cover Concept

This is a cover art concept for the book Solaris, a story of scientists that hover above a planet made of water with hopes of establishing communication with life that may inhabit it. What they find is that Solaris communicates through a form of telepathy when they start having visions of dreaded moments from their pasts. - Neat concept.

This is a model built using Maya, and matte painted in Photoshop.

Exposed Brain Alien

I sculpted and painted this guy in Zbrush, then Rendered out passes to be composited in Photoshop for the final images. He was my first project in Zbrush.. Kind of reminds me of the Mars Attacks alien.. Maybe Mars Attacks 2013?? 

Title Animation

So this a little video I made for my friend's band. Not an official promo piece (yet), but none the less, I wanted to post it because it's basically my first rendered animation. Every thing textured, lit, and animated in Maya.

Haunted House Textured & Lit

This has been a really fun project! Building a haunted house is something I've wanted to model for quite some time and figured I'd use my winter break to work on it. I had lunch at Dreamworks Animation a couple weeks ago with one of their lead animators. He really inspired me to push to become a specialist with 3D. Working for Dreamworks is my goal, and I'll do whatever it takes to make that happen!

Haunted House model

Built this haunted house in Maya during winter break. I had a lot of fun working on it, it's always nice to step back and create something purely for fun with no deadlines. I included more renders than usual with this one.. It really looks great from every angle.. I included a couple wire frame screen shots from within Maya also.

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