Holly V. from Hyper Crush

Arthur sketch.

2hr sketch of my son while he was asleep.

A robot

Speed paint over lunch - 30 min.

Classy alien sketch

Spitpaint - Fire Worm

30 min.

Female study 2

Female study

45min to an hour.

Spitpaint - Six winged creature

From the daily speed paint facebook group.
This one only lasted about 15 minutes.

Spitpaint - 'Modern Fashion'

Spitpaint - 'Burning black lord'

Burning black lord for the daily spit paint.

Spitpaint - 'Inside the Mech'

Daily spitpaint - Inside the Mech

Spitpaint - Executioner

Thumbs

Playing around with an idea. Sky serpant.

Face study

done in about 2hrs.
Both are the same face and I didn't like the first one at all so I did something I never do - redid it right away.

Spitpaint - Water Elemental

todays daily speed paint. 30 min. 

Speed Paint

I joined a group on Facebook a few weeks ago and started submitting there to get more practice in.
The idea of the group is a speed paint in exactly 30 minutes (or less) with subjects they provide.

Good way to get the brain going and very awesome practice.

Here is one from today for 'The Forge'

Sketch

Colors

Practicing blending and skin tone.

Sketch

Sketch

'Faceless'

Warm up

Speedies

Lzzy Hale of Halestorm - 20 min speedy

Another speed paint for the night.

Female speedy

30 min sketch before sleep.

Passage to the North - Matte painting WIP

A work in progress. The image part of the matte is pretty much finalized (a few tweaks here and there as I go). Jumping ahead to the CG models of the towers.

Back in a simpler time - final

Finally able to put this away for the time being. I can work on it forever, adding more and tweaking little things but I'm not going too. I'll revisit it later this year when I need to render a bit for my demo reel. 

Here is the final render with a bit of post done to it.

Here are a few images as I went along. If you want to see WIP renders, check out my older blog posts.

I began by blocking out what I wanted and where I wanted it. The camera position was pretty much in place right from the get go. The scale of the room did change later on.

Modelling begins and things were moved around.

More modelling and details being pumped out.

Most of the bulk objects are modelled and detailed and the lights are then placed in.

It's a small classroom (12 kids max) but I think it works. Texturing starts. Custom name plates were textured for each spot.

Smaller details are modelled and textured as I go until it was finally finished.

Back in a simpler time - WIP progress

More update.

Biggest things remaining are the books throughout the room. Then a few little tweaks and fixes and should be able to finally shelf this.

Back in a simpler time - wip

Was able to put in a few more hrs into this scene tonight.
- cork boards
- drawings
- far dresser

Still need to look into those windows (fix transparency / reflections)

Back in a simpler time - more work

A bit more done.
Biggest change/additions:
- Pencil holders changed up.
- Windows have latches.

Sk8t Girl - Finished

Going through a bunch of old WIP files and finally got around to finishing this.

Back in a simpler time - starting to texture

Finally getting around to slowly texturing the room.

Epic Pet Video

Bought myself a GoPro on the weekend and put this together with the test footage.

Side note : yes I know it's all washed out and looks like crap.  won't make the same mistake again!

Back in a simpler time - more lighting

No textures.
6 area lights combined with surface lighting for each light model.

Back in a simpler time - Very (very) early Lighting tests

Nothing special today. Spent about an hour cleaning up the scene and getting my feet wet with some lighting / render testing. 

Back in a simpler time - WIP

Slowly came back to this kindergarten room from over a month ago. Started off as a simple speedy and now I find myself coming back to it every night. I'm thinking I'll be able to start cleaning up the scene file and then laying out UVs to texture on the weekend.

Goal for this year is to do more 3d, draw more and once I get a hold of my GoPro, film more.

GoPro Hero3 tests

Ran some tests with the GoPro Hero3. First time I've used one myself so it was pretty cool finally getting a hands on experience with it. Here are the details on each clip:

1. Time lapse - 1fps / 5 sec
2. Pro tune - 60fps
3. 4k - 15fps
4. 120fps @ 720 (scaled to 200% in AE)

Pillars of Earth matte painting

Happy 2013! Went out to my Aunt and Uncles acreage for a family gathering and Greek food goodness today and snapped this photo real quick with my phone. There were a few other shots I wanted to grab but I was already driving away and wasn't able to stop.

Kept it simple and to the point.  Might revisit it down the road to fill the emptiness on frame left, but we'll see.