Some Designs

Lately I have been doing some fun designs to put on products on a site called zazzle. Here are some of my favorite designs. I used a combination of Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator

EPT Logos

I recently decided I wanted to use Adobe Illustrator more and had an idea for a logo using the elephant I drew and came up with these.

Daylies Drawing

Another Elephant

Lazy Wolf

So I was asked to add one eye open, tail, and some feet and this is what I came up with. Not sure how I feel about the feet so I tried a couple things but we will see what the boss thinks.

Daylies Drawing

Piggy 

Daylies Drawing

My personal favorite so far. Reference from The Art of Animal Drawing by Ken Hultgren.

Layers

 Shading

 Final

 I have had tea on the brain today and thought my elephant would make a good tea cup design.

Cadillac

Worked on it for about 40 min today to try to finish back of car. Trunk does not look quite right to me so I will have to mess with that.

Daylies Drawing

A hand I tried to draw using the Bridgmans's Drawing From Life book as reference.

Daylies Drawing

I recently got a bamboo pad and have decided I am going to try to draw something on it every couple of days to improve my drawing abilities.

Here is a couple drawings I did the last couple of days. I used the "The Art of Animal Drawing" by Ken Hultgren as a reference.

1959 Cadillac Deville Cabriolet

My next model project 

Here is what  I have so far. I decided to start with the back of the car.

Logo

Here is a logo I am working on for a friend's upcoming new business.

I am still working on some things they asked me to change and will post them as I complete them.

DemoReel_May2011

Saleen

Bawls Energy Drink Turn Around

Newest Heart Turntable

Forest Whitaker Fish

Forest Whitaker as a Pilot fish.

WB Frog Turn Around

Bawls Energy Drink

A piece I did for portfolio I wanted to do a photo fun realistic glass bottle. I used a displacement map for the bump and used a dielectric material plugged into a anisotropic material.

Car Model

So I just needed to change the sample level to 2 and I tweaked a few other things.

My Car

I am still trying to work out some issues with resolution and HDRI lighting.

Car Model

Here is a car that I am currently modeling and will texture and light when finished.

Turn around of heart

Heart

Here is the latest heart. I modeled it in Maya then took it into Zbrush to create a displacement map and create the UVs. I did the texture in Photoshop. Next i went back to Maya and put a sub surface scatter on it and threw my lights in and did a turn table. Last i rendered in mental ray and took it into After Affects for compositing.

Heart

A work in progress heart that I am doing for fun.

3/15/2011 Demo Reel

my latest house render

The latest house render with a key,shadow and occlusion pass and some color correction done in photo shop by David Gibb.

Jacks Hosue

So this render is nothing to special cause it is just a key light pass but it gives you and idea of the direction it is going next i will combine it with an occlusion pass. 3/9/2011

Jack Open Shot

Here is the latest render it is getting really close.

My Logo

Here is a logo i made to use for a website my brother in law is making for me.

I did all the textures and a special thanks to Dustin Stubbs who did the assume displacement map.

Jack Well Set

The latest render

 Still need to fix some things.

Jack Well Set

Here is the latest render, we went back to fur for the grass because paint effects can not have shadows cast on them. I also converted the paint effect plants to polys.

Inside Jacks House

 

I did not realize i never post this render. this is one of my favorites from the inside of the house.

Jack Set

The latest render still not there but getting closer. It has 36 layers including the matte painting done by Rob Guest.

Working on Rendering/Compositing

As you can see these renders have flaws. I decided to post them to show my work progress as i work to make them better.  I am trying to figure out the best way to composite my layers.

These first layer was done in metal ray with a key pass, shadow pass, ambient color pass, ambient occlusion pass.

This layer was done in maya software because it is Maya paint effects.

This last image is just the ambient occlusion pass from above

Plow

Here is a plow for Good Boy Jack. Model done by Dustin Stubbs. I did the textures.

Jack Set

One of the latest renders trying out some different trees. The trees were done by Rob Guest.

More Fur

Here is the latest work with Maya fur for grass the flowers were done with Maya Paint effects

Maya Fur work

Still working with Maya fur to see how it would work for grass in Good Boy Jack. Its a work in progress but here is one of the latest renders. I also did the textures for the well.

Teddy

I did the Maya Fur tutorial to better understand how the fur tool works. I am going to experiment with it to create grass for Good Boy Jack.