Bored in High School

Last week I started substitute teaching and it was a fantastic week. I really enjoy working with the kids. Today was my first time subbing for High School Students. It wasn't just any high school; It was the high school that I graduated from ten years ago.

I went into the job a little nervous about how the students would treat me as their substitute. After all, I was a student once also and I remember what it was like when we had a sub in class. Then I started remember back on my high school days and noticing the difference in the school now from what it was like back then.

To make a long story short. I had a great day at the high school. It was a VERY easy day since I didn't really have to do much. The teacher left the students their work written on the white board and all that I had to do was take role, then explain the work. The rest of the time there was basically baby sitting. While I was just sitting there in class doing nothing, I decided to do a few drawings/doodles. Here are the doodles that I came up with. Enjoy.

Nature's Elements and how they connect us

I was talking with a friend the other day and we were touching the topic of the four elements of nature which are Earth, Air, Fire, Water. And we started connecting it to life and creating a giant circle. Anyway, in our chat I became inspired in how he explained the elements and I wanted to turn that explanation into an illustration of some sort. The drawing above is the result. I will be adding the final colored drawing some time this week, but for now enjoy the rough. The idea is that Fire breaths Air, Air breath water, water breaths earth, and earth creates life which is the heart of the person and where the circle connects back in full. I try to show the circle through morphing each element from flam to fluttering leaves in the wind, to water and vines wrapping around the human form.

Progress Report

So after SIGGRAPH I got inspired to continue playing around with MAYA and I also figure that I should refresh what I know about MAYA, modeling and Rigging. So I started modeling a character from Iron Giant last night. So between a few hours of work last night and a few hours of work this morning this is what I have so far. I'm still tweaking a lot and refining it a bit. But I'm actually having so much fun character modeling. So here's what I have so far. I'll show you the finished product as soon as it's done.

I decided to try to model this Detective character, above, from "The Iron Giant"

Here is what I have so far after about 6 hours of work. I'm still finishing it up and tweaking it, and I'm kind of slow right now since I haven't actually touched MAYA in almost a year. But It all came back to me pretty fast considering. My work flow is starting to get much quicker and I'm happy so far with results. Hopefully the final model will look good. I'll keep you posted once it's finished.

September 10, 2007 (Progress update)

So I haven't really worked on my CG character for a few weeks. But I did get further along with him and I figured that I should post a progress of the model. And here he is. There is still a lot that I have to tweak and fix on him. But you can see that he's coming along. Anyway, enjoy.

SIGGRAPH 2007

So this coming week I'm going to be going to SIGGRAPH 2007 to meet people, network, and hound someone for a job... LOL... I'm kind of nervous about it but I think I'm ready for it. So wish me luck. in the mean time here is a drawing I did about a society of kids who live in tree houses... it's for a concept I may try to develop later on. Enjoy.

Organic Doodle

The drawing above is of a monster grabbing for a butterfly. I did the drawing on paper and the coloring and details with Photoshop CS2. I wanted to give it a magical fantasy feel. Above a drawing that I did while sitting at a book store trying to get inspired. I thought it came out looking pretty cool. It's supposed to represent a connection of Earth, Air, and water. The coloring was done using pen and Prismacolor Marker, and color boosted and finalized on Photoshop CS2.

My Demo Reel

Here is my Demo Reel of the Animations I have done in 2D and 3D. A DVD reel containing the Demo Reel as well as the full length animated films will be sent upon requests. All 3D animation was done using Maya 6.0 or higher. The Demo reel was put together using Adobe After Effects and Adobe Photoshop CS 2. ">

Character Designs