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Hello all,
I am currently upgrading my website. Stop by & check it out if you will. I'll be adding more work from school on it and eventually my demo reel.

The final submitted. This is my first stab at the mental ray subsurface scattering fast skin shader- not entirely successful but definitely the start of a journey of perfecting the skill. There are a million little things I could make better but I hope this can be appreciated in the state that it's come to. Maybe I could re-render this in the future when I have a better grasp on the shader. But despite any of that, I hope you've enjoyed this, whoever you are.

WIP (Work in Progress) - Lighting 2 Final

This is very rough lighting & texturing (and some modeling) for my lighting final. It is based off of a drawing by 19th century medical illustrator Richard Quain -- in his book The anatomy of the arteries of the human body, with its applications to pathology and operative surgery


My 3D rendition. (Maya & ZBrush)


The original drawing (found on this amazing website hosted by the National Library of Medicine).
Update of final progress to come. Come back soon.

Reel

Short reel I decided to put together.

pardon the pixelation... :(

Hello!

Here are some images I haven't added to this blog-- I just want to share them


Lighting 2- exercise with glass- reflection & refractions


Visual structure Mermaid story title page


Strange creature design in Production Design with John Mahoney


Space Clown (again)- Production Design with John Mahoney - we had to take an existing image and make it funky. I did not see the name of this artist-- sorry I can't credit him/her. But yes, this female is not entirely original.


Visual structure Mermaid story - one of the environments of the story


Drawing for Sculpture 1 sculpture - with John Brown


Almost completed sculpture for Sculpture 1


Detail of head plus generic head for Sculpture 2 (also with John Brown)

Cupid Seller, 1763, Joseph-Marie Vien, 3D Interior

Cupid Seller, 1763, Joseph-Marie Vien, 3D Interior from Y. C. Chao on Vimeo.

My Lighting final at Gnomon, Spring 2009. Maya, Photoshop, After Effects.
Original painting by Joseph-Marie Vien.

Caustics, Photons, Global Illumination

My lighting hw for today. This is a detail of my lighting final scene (so the model is not complete).