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Morph Test

2011-11-13T06:48:00.001-08:00

Put together a sample animation of what can be done with Morph Targets in 3DS Max.

Fortress of Solitude Work

2011-10-25T21:43:00.000-07:00

http://www.pixeldog4ever.com/Galleries/Fortress2/

Above is a link to some of the work I did in the Fortress of Solitude.

The bulk of my finished work was in the split party section. I worked with design on the layout. I would show them a layout in-game, we'd play it and I would revise it based on feedback. Outside of the main shell the components were made by other SOE artists. What I did was take the 12 or so different pieces and world build and light the scene. At the start of the gallery is a step by step showing the different components being layered in.

Spooktacular Kiosk Key Art

2011-10-24T18:02:00.000-07:00

I made an alternate graphic for the Skeet’s Repair Vending Machine to coincide with SOE’s Spooktacular Event. The Vending Machine model and texture is by Ryan Rude.

Jakezilla Test Render

2011-10-04T20:42:00.000-07:00

He's skinned and ready to play.

Yes I have been doing something

2011-10-01T13:10:00.000-07:00

but most of it is work related and I can't show it yet

In the meantime here's an old standby

The Alien!

My SOE Art Test

2011-08-25T20:22:00.000-07:00

No matter how much experience you have, if there isn't a killer portfolio behind your resume you will be doing an art test. I stumbled across an old gif showing my Sony art test.

Click on the link below to see the process I went through to create my job winning building.

http://www.pixeldog4ever.com/Galleries/SOEMetro01_WIP.gif

New School Year New Alphabet

2011-08-24T20:09:00.000-07:00

JakeZilla Mapped

2011-08-17T21:28:00.000-07:00

Finished up the textures for the JakeZilla. There's some areas I could refine, but you never know.

astro girl paintover

2011-08-11T06:39:00.000-07:00

I took a render of the girl model into brushes and painted over what I wanted the space suit to look like. I had the rough concept from before. I'll be starting painting the texture after I block out some shapes with viewport canvas.

Modeling 3 Final Project Unmapped Example

2011-07-21T23:11:00.000-07:00

These two images are more representative of what I'm looking for in the Summer 2011 Character Modeling Class

Example Project

2011-07-13T21:47:00.000-07:00

This is a demo piece I put together for Modeling 3/ Character Modeling to give an idea of what I'd like to see for the final.

Spring 2011 Modeling 3 Demo, Elephant Blacksmith

2011-06-19T20:09:00.000-07:00

Each quarter I teach Modeling 3, or Character Modeling as it's called now, I end up creating a model along with my class. Initially they start off as my demos. I clean it up outside of class as the quarter moves on. This quarter I had them all work off a theme, Elephant Blackmith. I asked for a creature, and an occupation. It turned out pretty cool. I'm looking forward to fixing this guy's flaws, and finishing off the texturing.

Happy Father's Day

2011-06-19T19:43:00.000-07:00

My family got me a stylus for my ipod touch . I hadn't considered getting one before. I tried it out and threw together this little animation using the Animation Creator App. It could use a bit more anticipation before he takes off on the second leap, but I did it in under 15 minutes what do you expect. I'll be comin' back to this one though.

More Brushes Roughs

2011-06-17T21:25:00.000-07:00

Yep, I cheated on Robocop and fixed the gun hand in Photoshop. You gotta do what you gotta do.

batman animation

2011-06-14T04:51:00.000-07:00

Rilla test 2

2011-06-14T04:47:00.000-07:00

gorilla test render

2011-06-13T07:01:00.000-07:00

More Building Models and Texture WIP

2011-03-29T20:49:00.000-07:00

Just continuing to touch up some older pieces, and examples for school.

Craftsman Style Bungalow

2011-03-21T21:02:00.000-07:00

I used to live in this craftsman style bungalow from the twenties. It didn’t have quite as much sag in the roof or windows as I put into this model. This digital version was something I made on my own. Later, I dropped this into Unreal when I was working at Midway on an unproduced Zombie game.

DCUniverse Work - Part 4 - The JLA Watchtower

2011-03-15T22:29:00.001-07:00

The JLA Watchtower was the first level in production where I was the Interior Environment Lead. The bulk of my contribution was world building and lighting. I created assets as they were needed, like the curved structures next to the hologram below.

DCUniverse Work - Part 3 - Player Safehouses

2011-03-15T22:16:00.000-07:00

I did a lot of hands on world building and lighting with the player safehouses. More so the Hero Police Stations then the villains.

Once Design locked down the location of The Flash in the Little Bohemia Police Station I built out the space around him to give it a more exciting look. I added a lot of computers, and cables from the ceiling. I also added places for the cables to terminate on the walls to help ground them in the scene.

I applied a similar treatment when we decided to add holograms to the levels.

The doorway on the bottom right has a chain link metal frame inside it. I built that piece to bring the scale of the room down to the players size.

In corridors I added dummy doors to nowhere, that helped sell the Police Station location

Working to address scale again I worked with the other artists to add railings and decorative elements to bring the level to life, and add a nice layer of visual noise.

DCUniverse Work - Part 2 - Digitizer Pod

2011-03-15T22:09:00.001-07:00

I modeled the digitizer pod from the tutorial level. Unfortunately my duties as Iinterim Environment Lead kept me from finishing the texture. Ryan Rude took over for me, and did an amazing job with the texture. Jason Bretz did the material work for the body in the pod.

I was able to finish the texture for the hoses though. It's a little thing, but it looks a lot cooler then the standard ribbed hose you see through the rest of the game.

DCUniverse Work - Part 1 - Cape Carmine Lighthouse

2011-03-15T22:03:00.000-07:00

One map I did the bulk of the work on was the Cape Carmine Lighthouse.

As always I received a block out from Design,

Mike Pedro Painted up a fantastic painting for me to work off of,

I world built the map using existing assets

I then lit the level to match the concept.

For game play reasons the level looks different in the final game.

Jake Zilla Process

2011-03-14T08:35:00.001-07:00

My son drew this neat dinosaur.

I really loved the shape and proportions so when we were drawing together I toyed with the shape a bit.

Later I worked up this study in Brushes on my ipod touch.

I started with the body...

moved onto the head...

now I've started painting the texture in Brushes on the ipod.

I've updated the texture further. Also I've included a shaded wireframe version.

Mask Process Images

2011-03-14T08:23:00.000-07:00

I started off with a rough concept...

modeled out the mesh in Max...

then took the UV layout into the brushes app on my ipod and started painting the texture

I'm bouncing between a couple of different projects right now. Their being used as examples for my classes at the Art Institute.

misc posts

2011-02-28T21:59:00.000-08:00

I'm painting this texture map in brushes on the ipod touch

2 Brushes Paintings and a Newsprint Crayon Pic

2011-02-23T19:03:00.000-08:00

Gamera Value Pass

2011-01-31T05:53:00.000-08:00

By Special Request, Gamera 2011

2011-01-30T18:47:00.000-08:00

More Brushes Work

2011-01-09T18:06:00.000-08:00

Cap in Color

2010-12-28T18:31:00.001-08:00

What happened?

2010-12-27T20:29:00.001-08:00

The last quarter of school I taught three classes, so I had little free time. I also replaced my dead ipod with an ipod touch. With the ipod touch I started experimenting with brushes.

Halloween 2010

2010-10-25T20:33:00.000-07:00

the breakout and chase is on

2010-10-05T21:05:00.000-07:00

Powerminer story continues

2010-09-30T20:32:00.001-07:00

dynamite explosion

2010-09-27T06:31:00.000-07:00

Even More Powerminers

2010-09-26T18:26:00.000-07:00

More Powerminers

2010-09-14T21:45:00.000-07:00

G for Gaurds and a new direction

2010-09-12T20:18:00.000-07:00

We're going to make a book. This is the first page.

D for Dewback and Bumblebee colored

2010-09-06T18:57:00.000-07:00

To help with recognition on this one I colored it real quick before putting it in the lunch bag.

F for Fett

2010-09-05T15:11:00.000-07:00

Vowels I and U

2010-09-02T21:33:00.000-07:00

Cyborg Bat Jacob

2010-08-31T07:03:00.001-07:00

Vowels the second week of first grade

2010-08-31T07:00:00.000-07:00

They're studying vowels this week in First Grade. I drew up A & E. I is tonight

C for Commander Cody and Commando Droids

2010-08-26T06:15:00.000-07:00

B for Bane and T for Trandoshan

2010-08-24T23:17:00.000-07:00

A for Aurra Sing

2010-08-22T20:53:00.000-07:00

A new school year means a new set of lunch time alphabet drawings.

Y for Robo Yeti

2010-06-09T23:56:00.000-07:00

DC Revised G

2010-06-05T23:00:00.000-07:00

Y for The Zmir & Z for The Zillow Beast

2010-06-02T21:49:00.000-07:00

Woo, Monster X and Zedus or W, X Y and Z

2010-05-29T21:50:00.000-07:00

V for Varan

2010-05-18T22:46:00.000-07:00

U for Ultraman

2010-05-16T19:36:00.000-07:00

Marvel Wrap up Z for Zola

2010-05-13T20:27:00.000-07:00

T for Titanosaurus

2010-05-11T21:54:00.000-07:00

S is for Space Godzilla

2010-05-09T21:15:00.001-07:00

R for Rodan

2010-05-05T21:30:00.000-07:00

MEGAGUIRUS QUEEN of THE MEGANULON

2010-05-04T21:26:00.000-07:00

N for Negadon

2010-05-02T19:28:00.000-07:00

P for Planet X

2010-04-29T22:53:00.000-07:00

M for Mothra

2010-04-27T21:24:00.000-07:00

L for Larva Mothra & Batra

2010-04-26T23:20:00.001-07:00

O for Orga

2010-04-25T11:29:00.000-07:00

K for Kiryu

2010-04-22T18:59:00.000-07:00

I for Invasion of Monster Zero

2010-04-18T20:43:00.000-07:00

J for Jet Jaguar

2010-04-16T05:20:00.001-07:00

F for Fairies

2010-04-14T22:00:00.000-07:00

G & H

2010-04-11T23:05:00.000-07:00

The big G himself, and...

also known as The Smog Monster, Hedorah:

E for Ebirah

2010-04-08T22:34:00.000-07:00

D for Destroyah

2010-04-06T23:08:00.001-07:00

C for King Caesar

2010-03-31T21:56:00.000-07:00

B for Biollante

2010-03-30T20:39:00.001-07:00

A for Anguirus

2010-03-29T21:16:00.000-07:00

Spinning up the Godzilla Alphabet

U for Union Jack

2010-03-21T19:17:00.000-07:00

Marvel P & Q

2010-03-16T22:42:00.000-07:00

Whitestone Wildcat Fun Run Design

2010-03-14T16:53:00.000-07:00

W for Whiplash

2010-03-10T21:47:00.001-08:00

L for Loki

2010-03-09T21:29:00.000-08:00

S for Spider-Man & X for Professor X

2010-03-07T19:57:00.000-08:00

B for Black Widow, and a Halloween Left Over

2010-03-02T21:57:00.001-08:00

Flower/Plant Assignment

2010-03-01T22:40:00.001-08:00

I mentioned the final project would be a flower in a room. It doesn't have to be a flower, it can be any sort of plant. I put this together tonight to give an idea of what I was thinking. I also wanted to show a direction you could go for your rooms. The room needs to have 2 windows. I went cartoony with this example. You could go realistic with your project. You could go medieval, or futuristic even.

Bolywog

2010-02-26T05:17:00.000-08:00

King Ghidora

2010-02-24T21:08:00.001-08:00

V for Venom

2010-02-22T23:44:00.000-08:00

R for Rhino, and Deadpool meets the Orange Lantern

2010-02-21T21:12:00.000-08:00

K for Kazar

2010-02-16T20:25:00.000-08:00

A for Ant Man

2010-02-15T23:14:00.000-08:00

J & I in the Marvel alphabet

2010-02-14T18:47:00.000-08:00

N for Nightcrawler

2010-02-11T21:04:00.000-08:00

T for Toad

2010-02-11T05:43:00.000-08:00

F for the Fantastic Four

2010-01-28T07:17:00.001-08:00

When my son saw this one he was shocked that I had drawn our family. He pointed out me, his mother, his sister and himself.

quick update

2010-01-28T07:01:00.000-08:00

M for Magneto

2010-01-12T19:56:00.000-08:00

Modeling 1 Week 1 Snowman Demo

2010-01-10T17:13:00.000-08:00

Modeling 1 Week 1 Demo Example in case there's trouble logging on to a machine at work.

H for Hulk

2010-01-07T20:14:00.000-08:00

G for Green Goblin

2010-01-05T17:58:00.001-08:00

Commitments, ugh

2010-01-04T19:16:00.000-08:00

Seems like every time I start to draw on a regular basis something comes up to get me to stop. Granted I didn't get anything done over the Christmas break, but I am going to keep drawing on a regular basis.

Too that end I have started the Marvel Alphabet. I'll be doing them out of order. Whichever letter I get a better idea for first is the one I'll be drawing then.

Mr Narwal

2009-12-17T19:53:00.000-08:00

Now that the Star Wars Alphabet is done, I'm taking a break to draw some Christmas pictures for the kids. Then after the holidays, it's onto the Marvel Alphabet.

W, X Y and Z

2009-12-16T21:19:00.000-08:00

I finally wrapped up my son's Clone Wars Lunch project.

W is for Wookie and Wampa

X is for X-Wing Pilot (and X-Wings)

Y is for Yoda and Younglings

Z is for Zuckuss

V for Ventress

2009-12-10T21:57:00.000-08:00