Illustration Project Round 6

This week, I smoothed out the simple fish animation I made for our scene.

Illustration Project Round 5

For this week, I updated the animation for the fish in our 2D project.

I also created a few simple flamingo animations.

Illustration Project Round 4

For this round, I was tasked with animating the fish in our pond. These are the work in progress shots I was able to do with a proxy fish model and simple rig.

Illustration Project Round 3

For this round, our art director assigned me the task of reshaping the mannequin we have to fit the body type of the Crowned Hog more.

I was also tasked to pose him out in the scene, where he lies dead on the steps after being impaled by a sword.

Illustration Project Round 2

For this round, we decided to designate 2D to certain members while others worked on creating a proxy 3D environment. I assisted with making some of the proxies. I created a proxy lily pad:

A proxy for elevator doors:

A proxy for a column:

And a proxy for the outer buildings:

Concepts Round 1 - Silhouettes & Thumbnails

This week, I was assigned to work with a wonderful group on an illustration idea featuring Carnacki and Fantomah. So far, an additional character for this includes the Crowned Hog, who is a villain. We were assigned to do thumbnails for our characters, and this week we chose to focus on the Crowned Hog so we could flesh him out. These are the thumbnails I created:

Bringing It All Together - Illustration 2nd Pass

As a conclusion to our two week assignment in creating an illustration based off of a story, with our own twist, this is the final result for my piece on The Cask of Amontillado.

Bringing It All Together - Illustration 1st Pass

This week, I had to make a first pass at an illustration for the story I chose, "The Cask of Amontillado", with my own twist.

Bake Maps and Digital Painting for a Prop

This week, I was able to digitally paint my cannon from the past week.

This is before painting it in Substance Painter:

This was the final result after painting it:

Story Choice

The story I chose to recreate is Edgar Allan Poe's The Cask of Amontillado.

Basic Lighting

This week, I had to take a picture of an object I had and create three point lighting, then recreate it as a painting. I chose my Garnet figurine from Steven Universe. This was the original image:

This is the end result:

UV and Digital Sculpting for a Prop

This week, I UV'ed last week's cannon.

After doing so, I created a high poly version of the cannon.

I then converted to smooth mesh.

Finally, I took the cannon into ZBrush and sculpted a few more accents, then exported it as a .obj file.

Perspective

This week, we had to take an original piece by John Berkey and replicate it in 3D, then make a 2D drawing from the 3D to study perspective. This was the image I chose:

I then imported the image plane into Maya, and made a simplified 3D version of the spaceship.

I then took this image into photoshop, and used the lighting and 3D shapes to create my 2D piece.

The perspective is two-point.

Modeling a Cannon

This week's assignment involved modeling a proxy cannon. I began by referencing a UE4 mannequin and importing image planes to establish scale.

I then used a cylinder primitive to line up to the image and extruded as necessary.

I then used the "create polygon" tool to create the base of the cannon as well as the accents.

I added some extra features and created a hole for where the cannon balls would be loaded, as well as cleaned up the mesh.

I exported the cannon as an FBX file and imported it into UE4.

Then did a wireframe render of my final product.

Composition

For this week's assignment I had to recreate a piece by Drew Struzan to understand its composition. I decided to recreate his poster of The Thing.

This was the result. The composition of this piece is radial.

Final LEGO Assignment

For the final week of the Lego project, I made an LOD of my Lego grass piece. This is the high poly version.

This is the low poly version.

I also assisted my team in assembling the river for the scene file.

Values

This week I used the work of Frank Frazetta to practice painting values. I chose this drawing to do my assignment.

This was the result of my assignment.

Unique Lego Piece

This week, I was placed into a team to collaborate on a modeling assignment. I was placed on the nature team and was assigned to create a unique Lego piece, so I chose the grass Lego piece.

I first started by importing a Lego mannequin for scaling purposes, and began to build my way up.

I then beveled the sides, and added the three prongs along the sides that would give it the look of grass.

Once I was done, I took out the mannequin reference and ran mesh clean-up so it would be ready to place into Unreal Engine 4.

Silhouettes

This week, I looked through the art of Brian Froud. To do this assignment, I had to find a piece by him that had an interesting silhouette that I could alter and create new silhouette thumbnails for. This was the image and creature I decided to go with.

After drawing over the image to get its silhouette, I created eight variations to it.

Basic Lighting and Materials

An assignment in which I was able to download different asset packs and create my own scene in Unreal Engine 4. I decided to go with an outdoor seen that was very natural, and created a serene garden.

Moving Objects Assignment

For this assignment, I was tasked to do a simple animation to show that we could move and key objects in Maya. I decided I wanted to try to use a ball rig and a chair rig, and I wanted to give the ball a bit of character.

For this assignment, I had to construct a level entirely out of cubes that I myself textured. I decided to create a lava level.

First, I started with three textures: I made a floor with lava leaking through the cracks to use as accents, a regular stone floor, and a lava texture.

I then made sure the UVs lined up properly with my texture.

Then I made sure it looked how I wanted it to on my cube in Maya.

I then arranged the cubes in Maya to test out how a repeating pattern would look.

I put my cube and my textures into Unreal, and made sure everything was connected properly.

After arranging my cubes and adding a splash of effects, this was my final product.