Hello

New Art Blog!

2010-10-16T20:50:00.000-07:00

I started a new blog!
http://chemori.blogspot.com/
ed. 1/25/11 - And yet another one!
http://lindahoury.blogspot.com

New & different work there, anything & everything art (plus crafts too!).
And started an Etsy store!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/chemori

Hope you can go check it out!

Enjoy!

L

Proverbs

2010-09-08T13:20:00.000-07:00

Hello,
Long time no blog. There's a huge gap since this date and my last post.. Reason being, I graduated from Gnomon, got married in May and moved! Busy busy. But now, things have settled down and I am job searching in Reno, Nevada.
Here is something I did recently in my spare time. I don't usually (or, I never usually) do cartoon/comics but did it as a favor for a friend of mine at church for her class. These characters are based off of part of the book of Proverbs (click for larger view):

PS, I might be switching to another blog since my name has changed! I'll provide that link in a future post. Thank you for keeping up with my work, readers of my blog. You are a big encouragement :)

WIP: Alex Alvarez Class - Project 3

2010-03-01T18:49:00.000-08:00

Rogue, "Don't Need Wings" by salamandros (concept found on Deviant Art)
Still need to fix/add a bunch of stuff that's missing. The ab part is a big boo boo. I thought i fixed it but I guess I didn't. :/

Update 3.26.10:

I put this in the Best of Term folder. One of my first submissions ever. Don't know if I'll win anything.

"Floating Girl" Textured & Rendered

2010-02-11T12:30:00.000-08:00

Floating Girl again. Finished so far.. I might tweak a few more hundred things.. But I need to move on to my next project for now!!

Alex Alvarez's Class!

2010-02-03T09:42:00.000-08:00

Concept art: The Floating Girl by Tobias Kwan
First full body character - WIP.. :/ Second project of the term @ Gnomon

Character Creation for Games @ Gnomon

2010-01-28T23:20:00.001-08:00

HellO!
I just started classes again and am in Rich Diamant (Lead Character Artist Naughty Dog)'s Character Creation for Games class. We started a class blog- everyone posts stuff. Look for mine there! (Click on the subject link)

Enjoy :)

--
edit: woops. A friend of mine told me it was invite only. I'll just post what i posted there here:
WIP - Marion Cotillard model head model (our first assignment) so far:

Update: 2-7-10
I didn't want to post this above the latest post so here it is, my fixtures to Marion Cotillard model. I don't think I have the likeness anymore... and I think I missed a few things Rich said and sorry Rich, for not adding a clavicle or upper shoulders..

Thanks for viewing :)

Some current WIP

2010-01-04T10:34:00.001-08:00

WIP (work-in-progress): A pregnant woman modeled after the sculpture (see previous entries). I had-- maybe still have an obsession with modeling pregnant women.
This is a personal project I started. A 3D rendition of Bougereau's painting Springtime (1873). I ideally, I'd like to do all the cupids around her, but for now, I'm focusing on the anatomy of the pose. The face is not even there yet, I know. Here is the original painting:

Here is another but only a head study, this is actress Justine Waddell, She's pretty beautiful. I believe she is in some British movies and I love her costumes especially in [David Fincher & Spike Jonze present director] Tarsem Singh's The Fall (2006). Gorgeous movie.

I love doing faces and heads. I need to work on those ears. I'm going to add some hair to her when I get the chance and retopologize.. and UV and texture and light AND render. But for now, I'm just modeling. I got some more stuff on my external harddrive that I don't have at the moment. I can upload them sometime next week. I need to produce some clean models though. People like clean models.

WIP: Environment for Games Final - Lighting Tests

2009-12-02T15:20:00.001-08:00

Hellow!
What I've been working on at Gnomon. I'm in an Environment for Games course with Kevin Griffith (Blizzard) and this is what I have so far for my final. These are just some lighting tests. My textures aren't done yet. I need to fix some seams that don't match up plus other things..

ps, this environment is inspired by Red Rock Canyon State Park, CA. I did both my Digital Sets & Environment for Games final (Exterior, DigSets/Interior, Env 4 Games). We went to Red Rock for our first field trip in Digital Sets.

website

2009-10-28T12:47:00.000-07:00

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.

2009-09-24T17:22:00.000-07:00

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

2009-08-23T13:44:00.000-07:00

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

2009-08-21T10:25:00.000-07:00

Short reel I decided to put together.

pardon the pixelation... :(

Hello!

2009-08-19T12:08:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-08T22:54:00.000-07:00

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

2009-05-25T09:42:00.001-07:00

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

ZBrush

2009-05-21T12:16:00.001-07:00

One of my first ZBrush models - polypaint textured

Vimeo

2009-05-16T12:16:00.001-07:00

Some of my animations from CIA are now posted on Vimeo. Visit me!

Engine

2009-05-07T13:23:00.001-07:00

textured & lit (not modeled)

Hello hello

2009-02-17T13:14:00.001-08:00

Hello again all.
Back again from a long siesta. We finished the second term and I failed to post some of my completed projects so here they are. This term (3rd) is becoming more exciting for me since I've been developing an interest for what I want to focus on. Also a bit busy with more complex assignments as well as acquiring an internship at Pixologic. Fun stouffers!

F-16 Texture final

In other news, my website is back up! I'd like to update it sometime but that I will add to my to-do list. Take a visit if you'd like! Enjoy!

L

My Vespa

2008-12-03T16:57:00.001-08:00

fixtures on the way

My F-16, Thus far

2008-11-22T15:13:00.000-08:00

My F-16. Stopping point. Apologies for any inaccuracies but I have to start UVing & texturing now.

Glass

2008-11-17T18:45:00.000-08:00

Glass with mental ray & caustics, Maya

F-16 update

2008-11-12T09:55:00.000-08:00

Marshmallow Mountain

2008-11-10T15:44:00.001-08:00

Toon shader! Maya (and text in After Effects) And here's yet another animation (it looks way cool when you watch it looped back & forth!):

YEAH! My Island!!

2008-11-04T17:06:00.000-08:00

Alright, here's the animation. Not the best quality but I hope it will do.

F-16 Falcon

2008-11-01T16:10:00.001-07:00

My F-16 Falcons so far, Poly modeling, Maya

Hangar

2008-11-01T11:50:00.000-07:00

Textured given model, Maya & Photoshop

Cosmic Space Clown

2008-10-31T15:41:00.000-07:00

I did this for my Production Design class. I never knew I could make something like this.

Sink

2008-10-31T00:19:00.000-07:00

NURBS

Delivehicle

2008-10-29T15:36:00.001-07:00

Modeled with NURBS HEHE, Maya
(I put a dinky fireball reflection in the windshield)

Healthy old man

2008-10-25T14:05:00.001-07:00

Now, here is the healthy old man.

Sick old man

2008-10-25T12:25:00.000-07:00

Off with my overcoat, off with my gloves, I need no overcoat, I'm burnin' with love!
- Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

My sick old man texture. Photoshop & Maya. (Special thanks to my friend for helping me with the lighting & some of the texturing)
Now.. off to finish my healthy old man texture..

Textured Beetles

2008-10-20T12:17:00.001-07:00

Texturemapping 2, textured given model in Maya

Old man

2008-10-19T15:38:00.001-07:00

So far, texturemapped on a given model, with Maya & Photoshop

Hi Everyone,

2008-10-18T17:22:00.000-07:00

And welcome. I've decided that I want to post some of my schoolwork up online and since I don't have Dreamweaver (and can't add it to my website), I'm going to post them here. I hope this page could be a vehicle to update you on work that I'm creating. Comments are welcome.

Hairdryer, made with NURBS in Maya. I'm not done yet-- need to add some fillets and have had some trouble in some parts so it's not fully complete yet. I don't know why people hate NURBS but I love them. They give you such a smooth surface.

Dice - poly model, Maya

An eSpresso maker - modeled with polygons in Maya.