girlFace

update:



My ups keeps freaking out on me so I'm having trouble working on my PCs today. dag.

different thing

Here's a new painting I started last night, based on a photo:

nother update

Ran out of enthusiasm for this one, mostly a studt anyways...

painting update

t-day painting

I started this as a speed painting but its taken over an hour so now its just a regular study based on a photo. painter 9.

ok, maybe not

oh yeah, i lied about that. One more revision based on comments from the folks at conceptart.org. Fixed her left boob and hand. The finished (for now?) version is available here.

and a close up:

declaration time

OK, I'm declaring this one doen for now. I realize it could still use some work but I'm itching to get back to some 3D modelling now that my Maya book is almost done. I added a slightly larger version to my sketchbook.




Here are some close ups:






I may start doing more speed painting as I want to get faster and I'm a little sick of working these paintings to death.

Laters...

sketches n' such

Some sketches i did while wacthing the tube. not sure if I'll do anything with them but i think they are alright...






A face study I did in painter while trying to fix my mermaid character:




And the mermaid charcter so far, almost done. I may post this on conceptart.org today, see what the reactions are. I anticpate a lot of suggestions for major lighting/color/everything else changes.WWPHD? (what would Puddnhead do?)




One tutorial away from finishing the Maya book, then I'm going to do as much non-Maya stuff as i can for a while! Houdini... Real Flow... Modo...Zbrush...

Lies and Alibis

Went to the premiere of Lies and Alibis on Friday night at the AFI filmfest/Arclight. Great film, very stylish. Wonderful acting and cast. My only criticism is that I would have liked to have seen more of Rebecca Romijn's character. Zoe and I went to the post screening party at the Well afterwards. I got to catch up with Matt Checkowski and Kurt Matilla as well as Geordie, Roy, and Melissa. i worked with all of them on the ESPN gig. Lies and Alibis is very fast paced, great comedy. James Marsden is hysterical, he needs to do more comedy. I think a lot of people will like this film. Lots of great laughs and a great audience reaction.

Saturday night we went to the Red Red Robin show - Michael Hussar - in Pasadena. Great art, big crowd. We didn;t stick around for the punk band but I did get to talk to Kevin Llewellyn a little, as well as Meats Mier and Pam Hogarth. there were some nearly naked cocktail waitresses. all very nice.

Here is an update to my current painting. I redid the face and torso, still working on details. I will do a couple more passes to make her pop out from the background. I struggled with the face for a while and finally had to paint it in a seperate file and paste it in. The rest of the scene kep getting in the way. I like it much more now. I'd like for future paintings to have more of a sense of movement.




Staretd Chapter 8 - the final chapter- of my Maya book. On the home stretch now!

Fishy

Here's my siren design with the top reworked. I don't like the nose on this lady, I'll fix that for the next post. Still trying to get her to pop out from the background. At this size much of the detail is lost of course. Needs more color tweaking too...In other words, it ain't done yet.

Novemberween

big 'ol update:

Just finished a creature development class with Puddnhead at Gnomon. Lots of fun, five week class with only two students. A lot of people missed out. If you ever get the chance to study with the guy take advantage of it. I've learned so much from just watching him work. But of course, NAJY (Not-a-Jedi-Yet). Here's the result of the class. I recieved a thourough critique on this painting, I hope to refine/rework parts before declaring it finished, then maybe I'll be brave enough to post on conceptart.org. I did the middle/bottom after the top so I want to go and rework the top. I feel much more confident in Painter now (finally).

here's the whole image, compression kind of killed the colors:




here's a close up of the middle section which I think is pretty cool(however its a little flat):




here's a sketch I did in the car on the way to san Diego, I'm hoping to turn it into a digital painting when I get a chance:




I'm also working on a 3D model of one of Puddnhead's designs. Here's the model so far, just the mini gun (the easy part):










here's a link to the priginal Puddnhead Cyclops sketch. I hope to model it in modo/zbrush and then actually rig it in Maya. I'm going through "The Art of Rigging" right now, great book!

Speaking of books...I'm one and a half chapters away from completing my book "Maya Visual Effects: The Innovator's Guide". I think it should be good, Geordie Martinez is doing a great job tech editing the thing. preorder it! Lots of interesting techniques. Its really geared towards intermediate Maya users looking to take their skills to "the next level".

Working on and off at Imaginary Forces, i should be there next week. I also have a scientific animation for Digizyme in the works concerning the HIV virus. It may be the hardest animation i've ever done if only because I have almost no visual reference!

And finally, most importantly...New Version of my demo!!!

When I'm done with the book I hope to redesign this site and improve my sketch book area. I did a quick reorganization of the links this morning.

Laters!