New Semester, New Portrait

Here's my first portrait painting of the second semester. This is actually the same model, Ivy, as one of my previous paintings (although before she was clothed). Pretty happy with this one, although the lighting in my apartment makes it impossible to photograph anything well.

3-Jointed Character

This weeks assignment was to animate a forward-kinematic 3-jointed character expressing anger. I kind of got caught up in the interaction between the characters, so I lost the anger part a bit, but I'm happy with the outcome overall.  I wish I'd had more time to figure out how to switch cameras or compose the scene a little better.

First Basic Animation

This week's CGI assignment was to animate a 120+ frame sequence of a hammer, a ball, and a feather in some sort of interaction. One of the three must have a sense of character or motivation. I kept running into things I didn't know how to do in the program, but on the other hand I was constantly surprised by how much you can accomplished with very limited knowledge.

first maya creation

Behold my first creation from my CGI class this semester: a poorly made cave! The assignment was to create an environment that told a story about a character without showing the subject him/herself. In the first image I hadn't figured out how to set the dropoff for lights, so the back part of the cave is still illuminated. whoops!