T-Rex Project Final Captures

These are the final captures I took and I also have a couple turntable movies that I may upload but here you are! I think this tutorial and whole process has been a great experience for me and I feel like I have a much better understanding of Mudbox now that I am finished with it.

Mudbox dinosaur

So recently I've decided to go back to doing the Mudbox dinosaur tutorials from digital tutors to go back and make sure I have the basics down, so that is what I'm working on. I'll upload some pictures and such soon

Muscular anatomy

              Lately I've been working in Mudbox on the anatomy of a human skull and muscles. Here is a model of a head and muscles that I modeled on top of a pre-made skull file that Mr.Cornell gave me.

Shapeways Project

This is the project I ended up doing for Shapeways. I decided the way I wanted to go was in creating a cool sculpture. I was originally just going to do a vine like pedestal for the yin yang but throughout the project it took a little bit of its own direction and I ended up doing more of a half mechanical, half vine-like/ nature pedestal in order to try and incorporate the idea of balance into the sculpture.

Shapeways Mind Map

This was the mind map that I did for Shapeways and that project. The wording may seem vague in some boxes but I mainly just try to use phrases or words that will jog my memory of what I was thinking about.

Starting Mudbox

So now that I've been trying to work on proportions and faces I am moving into using Mudbox to make a skull that appears anatomically correct in as many ways as I am able to portray. At the same time I am using the tablet for the first time to model. The picture above is how far I got in one sitting looking at a few reference images and I am not unhappy with what I have accomplished. But now I need to really get some stuff done in class, especially now that I have work most days after school so the time and energy I have is going to be cut pretty drastically.

Outside Project

This is just something I really enjoy drawing in my free time. I like the style and just the overall drawing style. Where I originally got the idea was from Japanese style tattoos that I really liked and tried to mimic the style and drawings.

Snake

In this drawing(which I have only begun) I am going to attempt to take the skills I have learned over time and from my face drawings and apply it to something very unrelated and see how well these skills apply to it as well as just trying to get some variety in my drawings. I do get bored only drawing faces you know!

Another face

I again tried to apply the skills I had to create a completely different face from a different angle, and with a little more character. There is definitely still room for improvement in many areas such as the lips( ignoring the non-anatomical/ face additions such as the hat and monocle) but with every drawing a further understanding is built and stressed for accuracy.

Further training in faces

I looked online for a tutorial in eye drawing to bring out more realism in my art, and after I had created the eye I used what I learned and applied it to the knowledge I had before and drew the rest of the face. I feel like I quickly progressed with the help of better pencils, a shader, a looking for an outside source of skills I did not contain.

First attempts at face drawing

This is a look at how some of my face drawings this year began. In my eyes I show only basic skill and understanding of  proportions and facial features.

Diggerbot finished for now

I Finalized my modeling and texturing for this project

Sketchbook Pro

Today we were working with and checking out the functions that sketchbook pro has. I actually enjoy using this program but I'm pretty bad with the tablet

Conceptual Art cont.

I don't think anybody can argue the relationship between these two pieces. The basic and more simplistic answer to the "meaning" of these pieces, I think at least, can be described simply with: It all comes down to what you see in the mirror. If you are always so worried about yourself and your appearance more than your personal surroundings or even your emotional surroundings in life you may need to rethink the qualities that you genuinely value.

In actuality the point of the art is for the person visualizing it to infer their own meaning and doesn't have a positive or negative affect on anybody else's thoughts of the artwork

Conceptual Art cont.

This art piece conveys a message that I interpret to be the artist trying to expose the fact of life that one's childhood gets trapped early on by the harsh realism of life, and with that their creativity and imagination.

This is another piece that I feel like the same message can apply. Kids are only kids until reality intervenes and they have to grow up and deal with legitimate problems and issues within their ever-expanding world.

Conceptual Art

I feel like the meaning that the artist is trying to convey is that pumping too much of anything into a dream can inadvertently destroy it, causing more pain than the happiness that it initially conveyed within the person.

This piece to me sends the message that you don't always want to see what is coming in life, so instead of trying to be overly aware of your surroundings all the time, just keep your chin down and see where life takes you.

First day 2013-2014

        This year I want to work harder not only in this class but all around in school. Last year was fun, as well as a learning experience as far as content and my abilities go, so this year I want to push my skills farther and try not only to incorporate more advanced Maya techniques, but also to use other skills I haven't really used in the past. I am also going to try and work on the creativity of my projects and try to have projects that tell a story for whoever is viewing it. There are so many opportunities this year and I want to be involved in as many as I can whether it be creation of video games, SkillsUSA, or independent projects.

-Creativity
-Modeling
-Technique
-Time Management
-Texturing
-Rendering
-Lighting
-Ability to envelope deeper meaning or a story into pieces]
-I need to work on my portfolio
-Refining past work if time allows
-Be better than Alex Chavez or Mr.Cornell....okay, maybe just Chavez

Thunderchief 4.. I think?

 I've been working on my Thunderchief more and this is as far as I have gotten.. I've had to redo the cockpit a few times but altogether I think that it is coming out very nicely

Thunderchief 3

Today I kept trucking along on my Thunderchief jet

Thunderchief 2

Today I worked on my plane more and got A LOT done and it is looking freaking awesome..

Thunderchief

Today I have been working on my Thunderchief plane. I started the wing today and have the basic shape and I worked on the back fin last class, so far I'm liking this project and how my plane is coming altogether.

Cyclops robot

Today I forgot all of my files so I just worked on this.

Molecular Maya renders

These are my 5 renders each for 2 molecules