Steam train WIP

Due to a bucket-load of reasons/excuses, this steam train has to remain as a WIP for the time being. LoL. Simply have to squeeze in some time to finish it up.

A hairy experience.

Testing out fast skin shader in mental ray.



Mental Ray Maya hair render. Skin has sub surface scattering material.



Maya hair version 2



...and how the hair looks when rendered in Maya software and composited in After Effects.

The cloudy background is just a tad overused by now, Will try to search for some alternative way of incorporating background into the images.

A bit of painting

Been a loooong while since the last digital painting. Trying to get a feel of 2D again. Digital painting is fun :)

Samurai Jet Vs Ninja Chopper!

A take on the visualization of samurai fighting ninja, except in the form of robots, complete with propeller blade shuriken and lightsabre!

Compositing a shot for newbies.

Not much of compositing other than tweaking the colors in this.

This sh*t is rigged!

Far from an awesome rigging reel, but still proud of it being one of my firsts.
Not full rigs as there's a time constraint for the project, therefore only gave the bones what they needed for the animation as per required by storyboard.

Samurai Jet rig is up for download for free at Creative Crash

Still issues needing to be fixed though, as soon as I am able to squeeze in some time lol.

This is where it all begins...

Thus, the long, arduous journey into the land of CG begins. Will our hero triumph? Will he fall into the depths of the Valley Uncanny? Stay tooned.

Ready set go!

Messing around with material animation.

PLUG and play!

Anybody wanna try to pull this plug? :P

Domo Arigato, Mister roboto.

You're wonderin who i am!

If only Maya were a girl...

She wouldn't be as hot.



Close up render of face... cheated just a wee bit on photoshop...



Ambient Occlusion render.



The final-ish look... will work on better render when I have the time to do more testing.

CATatonic

Wallpaper:
I was a fan of the old school He-man as well.
Base mesh done in Maya, and then details sculpted in Zbrush. Not particularly happy with the look of that piece of "ice" that the cat is supposed to be trapped in.

Haunted Mansion

A low poly environment model. Had to do this, being a horror fan and all.


Wireframe:



Render tests:





Final-ish render:

The good the bad and the ugly, medieval style! (ok, not really...)

Mysterious scantily-clad elves are so not the focus to this picture...

Medieval Fantasy

One of my favorite genres definitely!

Willy the one-eyed monster

Willy the cyclops - character design.

BIO:
Willy and his team of cyclops are actually secret unlockable characters in the game of Monster Rugby.

Originally a baseball group, they don't play by the rules of rugby, and instead, uses props and tactics of baseball. They are a special breed of one-eyed monsters with tiny hands and feet in comparison to their body proportions thus making them top-heavy and kind of clumsy. To compensate for his small hands, Willy uses a Baseball glove to help him catch the rugby balls, while his team mates use an assortment of baseball gears such as the base ball bat, and even shield.

Toy car in the warehouse

Color is off, lighting is off, nevertheless, still proud of my first ever composited shot!

Such is life.

Life drawing to me is capturing the form, volume and of rhythm of the human figure. I hope to learn more if this in the future, if I have the chance.

Animatics Vs Me

Characters Ryu from Street Fighter by Capcom and Wolverine by Marvel.

Music by me, wait, what music? (Yes the background music that I hum to myself)

Dee Wall jump!!

Model by Manuel Sierra
Rig by Vitor Hugo

Chiaroscuro

Playing with light and shadows.

The Volkswagon Beetle.

No, it can't transform... yet.

My first go at hardsurface modeling. Pretty fun.












The Volkswagon Beetle Wallpaper!

Burnt smell of rubber and lead.

Slowly getting the hang of it...

Illustrating mood

It's an epic tale of a relationship between a man, a dog, and a tree, now a major motion picture, almost.

Run, Onion, run!

Those legs just won't stop!

"Onion boy" rigged by Gary Wee.

Mini-character-bible Part 2

Well, that's it! Thank you for viewing!