Lapel

Working a bit more on the shoulder/chest area.

start of base

Throwin in some shoulders and upper chest.

Ears

Working on fixing the ears so they have a more real feel. Also working on the lips a bit and eyelids

Keepin it real...

I'm trying to lean this more towards reality.

Happy Halloween

Have a safe Halloween!! Frank was modeled by me. =) He has taken about 2.5 days on and off.

Halloween Creations....

Making frank for a facial animation study. =)

Workin out the kinks

Still refining my look for mental ray.

I'm using an ambient occlusion shader for maya 5. It seems to be creating a reflection.

I'll have to do more searching, but for now, I'm going to start focusing on modeling and getting him animated.

I took a look at some mental ray tutorials. It's starting to come together. I didn't work on the body today though. =\

Blocking in the body

Here is the start of his body. In my original picture, I had him wearing shoes. I'm going to change it to sandles.

I'm also still trying to figure out mental ray. =\ I'll have to hit the tutorials.

Trying to get back

Been busy at work but I'm trying to take some time for my self.

Here is a head update . I modeled the upper lip and reworked the crease in the corners of the mouth to keep it from creasing .

Head update

another update to my model. completed the back and added new stuff to the front

Modeling continued...

Well I am trying to continue on the modeling of Charlie. He is coming along and shaping up nicely. More to follow.

The start of Charlie's head.

Well it's a start. After a long day, I still managed to get this started. I also found an ambient occlusion for maya 5 (yeah, I know I'm still using it. But hopefully I should be upgrading to a newer version soon.)

Any way. Here is the beginning.

beginning the Flower Shop

Here are a couple of sketched I did at about 1:30 am. I gotta get some sleep but wanted to keep the project rolling in some way.

...and the other head

This should have been in the last post but blogger wouldn't fit it. =\

Creative Heads

Here are my head models of Charlie. I think I'm definitely going with the first set of pictures in the peach color. Although I discovered a new head shape that I might give a try as well. Who knows. but it's late (as it always is when I have a chance to post) So hopefully more tomorrow.

Here are some prelim sketches. I'm not going to use the pirate, but my hand just started drawing him. and I liked it so maybe he will show up in another short (or long) some day. =)

The cyclopse was an idea suggested by Floyd (co-worker) after seeing another sketch in my book. I'll post that one tomorrow along with the models of heads that I made in sculpey.

ok well that's all for now. Happy 4th!!

Meet Anna...

Anna is my newest creation in this short. She is going to be the flower shop girl. I chose green as a compliment to Charlie's purple color. What do you think. Perhaps she should be a lighter shade of purple from Charlie.

"Window Shopping"

Well it's been too long since my last post, but I've started on a personal project about a guy in a routine and a girl who works at a flower shop.

Any way here is a sketch of the character.

Shifting gears

I needed to shift gears and work on the eagle shots. I created this relatively low poly model for distant flying shots. It just needs some bones and a good wind. =)

Feather time....

Covering my fine feathered friend.

New Crow project

I am now creating a crow for the movie “The Golem” by Spirit Films. This is the progress so far. Next on to the wings and feathers and a couple more detail pictures.

Starting new dog animation.

New Animation Wake UP!

This is a quick animation that I'm starting. I wanted to add a quadruped to my reel. It's just the blocking stages. I'm trying to go from a sleepy dog to an awake peppy dog.

Model:
"LowDog" version 1.0 by Miguel Gonza¡lez Vine©
:: http://www.lichiman.com/ ::


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