Character Creation for Games @ Gnomon

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 :)

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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

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

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

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... :(