Monday, December 29, 2008

Tales from the Ark








































These are stills from a DVD movie called Tales from the Ark "Honk If You're Special". I was allowed to intern for Fusion Communications in Davenport, Iowa and helped in this project for three months with various jobs including modeling, character rigging, and scene compositing. In the scene involving the characters in flight, I used Discreet Combustion to add cloud effects behind the characters and animated them for the illusion of flight as well as putting together a backdrop using Adobe Photoshop. For the musical number I worked on Maya to render occlusion layers for shadows and rendering various layers and used Discreet Combustion to place blur/focus effects onto the scenes.

Nerf intro animation





























These are animation stills from a short mock intro piece designed to advertise Nerf. In this project I used Autodesk Maya and Adobe Photoshop to add textures to the models and apply lights into the scene. Using Maya and Adobe Premier I applied dust effects and special light reflection effects. This project earned a silver Addy Award for student animation.

Chef Animation Images





















These are stills from an animation featuring a chef and a run away chicken. In this short animation I modeled, rigged, and animated the chef character using Autodesk Maya

Troll Action Figure Design


















































In this project I worked to design action figures and their packaging by reworking the Trolls toy line.

Monday, December 8, 2008

Joker




















Joker

This is a drawing done completely in illustrator of the Joker's face from the film "The Dark Knight".





















Custom Magazine Covers

These are two custom made magazine covers created by me for real world magazines.