steadycam test

well.. i had a good amount of freelance stuff so had to stop my surreal futuristic environment.... and then.... once freelance was done i had a lot of new classes to teach so Ive been mostly creating content for those classes. Here is a simple exercise made with a steady-cam for the iPhone..its a pretty cool gadget :D

here is the test ill be using for class. sorry you-tube makes it loose quality.. ill probably need to upload an HD720 video to see if the quality improves..

surreal/scifi futuristic metropolis

Hello again.. not very savvy on how this blog stuff works so i don't know if i should keep editing the previous post or just making new ones... but ohh well...

Well.. its been a while since the last activity... mainly because Ive been learning about "linear workflow" and how to implement a linear workflow in mental ray.. I think i'm finally getting it. its just a little hard to let go of old tricks and techniques and implement new and i guess improved techniques........(I'm sure that teaching this is going to be a world in its own hehe..) but anyways... here are some progress stills of the project.


this was an early lighting and color scheme test for the city



this one is a wip of the first texturing/shading pass.


and then i stopped since i needed an interior for a class.. sooo i decided to add an interior so here are some screen-caps of the development of such.




lastly.. although still in the works. "since i am not sure yet if i want to marry this two project together... here is a comp test of both exterior and interior.



i am still not very sure about the results so i am going to be fleshing out the interior first and then. I'll come back to the exterior but Im not sure yet if i am going to be treating them as one big project or just two separate projects... we'll see what happens :P.

thanks and i hope you you like where this is going :)

surreal/scifi futuristic metropolis

long time no updates... here is a screencap of a small project i took on for myself. It is a 3d version of this incredible concept art i found online... i remember seeing it a while back and i was awestruck by it.. time passed and i forgot about that concept..... then... recently, I had to create content for a new class i am teaching for the MFA at DMAC... so i thought it would be cool to create this surreal cityscape for the bg of the project...... as i was doing research on references and inspiration i came across the same concept art i had seen a while back. and again.. i was awestruck.. sooo.. i decided to tackle it....
ive been working on this for like 3 weeks now.. ( off and on at night) the modeling of the BG is almost complete... the base textures and base lighting is done but it needs to go through a refinement... anyways.. here is a maya screencap without textures...

will post back in once there is significant progress :D

Bye...

white castle

this is the R&D for a shoot for white castle... i shot my GF using a little helmet i designed to get solid object tracking..


this was the final project... they decided not to use the little hemet.. so we had to do manual 3d rotoscoping.

the meeting place. VFX

this are some shots of a project i worked on a while back...








this is a polayblast of the 3d structure

DLT class render

ok... keeping up with trying to keep this blog alive.. here is what we discussed yesterday in DLT ( Digital Lighting and Texturing)

3d modeling workshop class 2

well i am learning how to use my blog... been a while since i posted.. i need to get more used to posting stuff

just finished a class for zbrush basics...
here is what we taled about.