finally...

done re-rigging Alex Valdes' soldier model in Maya (he rigged it in 3DS Max)

now i can finally animate. pffft! i'm so behind.

cape-nesity

felt like drawin some cloth and... that came out

y-eah...

schmetchies

a character from a story that went nowhere... at least for now
(i was bored so i dropped him on some paper texture i found)

a caricature of one of my teachers

the end...

is here.
(oh and that's my myspace in the background if you were wondering)


Borders was hella packed!!! 400+ deep of smelly and sticky kids and kids at heart.

they had a place where they could play quidditch:

unfortunately, i forgot my camera in the car and when i came back, they were gone. across from there (where you see lots of people) were cotton candies and a place where you can make your own wands and such.

ooh and Dumbledore made an appearance. the only dude worth taking a photo of in there. kids jaws dropped and fanboys/fangirls squealed with glee when they walked up the stairs and saw him right in front of them. i didn't ask him to pose for me cuz... i found him creepy.

other than him, there was a mini-Harry Potter (he was in that crowd to the right of Dumbledore where they were giving away prizes to people who answer Potter trivia correctly), a fat Snape, a couple of Dementors and a super stinky Sorting Hat. jeez that dude stank!!!

and that was pretty much it!

songs about jane

*gasp*

what's this? an update?! no way!!!
BELIEVE IT!

let's start off with this:

my take on devoshun

i reckon i did ok.


and here's a preview of one of the skits that'll be in my animation demo reel:

y-eah... lighting's not finalized yet. it should be far more dramatic when i'm done with it.


and while we're on animation, Victor Navone, a Pixar animator, has done one of the clearest tutorials i have ever read on Spline Editors. it's called Splinophilia (it's a 2 parter). go check it out when ya can and learn something.

and to end this entry, how about a barrage of animations from none other than the amazing folks at Gobelins eh? yup! they just released the latest student works for the Annecy festival. check 'em out here.

The Black Destroyer!!!

COMING SOON TO A THEATER NEAR YOU!!!

haahahah! somebody (i have a feeling i know who) posted on my last entry asking for "something new" so there ya go! that's just the title card for the short me and Da King is working on for our Astronomy class. it is going to kick soooooo much ass. that is, if i get off my lazy ass and actually do some work HAH!

how about something a little different eh?

or at least something that i haven't done since high school:




i reckon it came out pretty swell but yeah... there's your reason why i stuck with drawing characters instead of letters haaahahah! that M is really buggin me. i'mma fix it later when i color it.

paz!

(by the way, King's going to kill me when he sees this. i did that instead of the work we're supposed to be doing for our astronomy class HAAHAHAHAHAH!!! SORRY DUDE!)

boredom = this

meet my transgendered lappytop:

and the babies together:

*aww*

for my Mexican brethren...

EL CHAPULIN COLORADO!!!

one rig down!!!

so this is what's been keeping me busy lately:




he's DJ Jones. one of the characters i made for my demo reel. i'm gon' make 3-4 rigs in all. i'm pretty proud of him. fastest rig i've ever done. he doesn't have blendshapes for his head yet though.

here are some close ups:

dead-o

you talkin to me?

oh and i also made this coupla days ago:



it's that little doggie thing that eats up everything in FLCL. nothin special. just did it for fun. came out pretty decent methinks. i'mma rig 'im one day.

coolest... duck... ever...

Gizmo Duck!!!
don't front like you didn't want your own Gizmo Duck
or even better, BE Gizmo Duck

whaaa?!!

this is Pudge
he's pudgy
he's based off-a me




and this is me in astronomy class
i swear that teacher isn't speaking in english
more like icky formulas and numbers

hail to the king

BOOOOM!!!




i just meant to sketch a bust of Ash but then i started doodling his body while bored in class. then after that, i thought why not take it all the way? so i cleaned it up and colored it in Flash. worrrd.

oodly boogly

doodles i did while i was bored in astronomy class



i'm posting this cuz somebody told me to post more drawings instead of just blabbing

sweeet!

i passed all my classes!!! oh god, i am soooo relieved! i was stressing out like crazy. Janzen, my teacher for adv lighting class, whom i was sooo sure would fail me because i ran out of time texturing and lighting my other scene properly and rendering both scenes' videos in Final Gather (it basically makes shit look better since it realistically bounces light around. it also takes a looooong rendering time), actually gave me an A! i'm not sure if it was a mistake but whatever, i'll fuckin take it!!! HAAHAHAHAH!


*edit: decided to put up pics of my shizz from Adv Lighting class up even though i'm not exactly that proud of 'em. so yay! you actually get more art from me other than the Potato video below :P


here's a quick and dirty Software Render of my Scene 2 although with some ok textures:




and here's a Final Gather Render of my Scene 1 although with crappy slapped on textures:




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ya might be thinkin, "greeeeat. another blog with no fuckin art. lazy piece of shit!" ah! but you would be oh so wrong. kinda. cuz i AM going to show ya some shite but then it's not exactly new. it's about a week old by now. *shrug* just fuckin try and enjoy it will ya? here's the link while youtube is still processing it. when it's done, i'll post the actual video in here.

POTATO MADNESS!!!
(you can Right Click and Save if it's loading slow for ya)


i'll be reworking the majority of it to tighten shit up.

paz sneezies!