Christmas Card 2012

My christmas card for the season, painted in photoshop.

Amelia Earhart's Electra

Other model I am working on for my new demo is Amelia Earhart's plane the Electra. Here is blockin from Maya and a reference.

Perusing my sketchbook after my vacation

I was in Kelowna last weekend for a family reunion. Took the time to do some 3D work and draw in my sketch book. This first image I drew of the lake when a sail boat came by:

Somewhat rusty for some reason. But it felt good to flex the pencil muscle. Also flipping through my sketch book I came across some old pieces.

As for the 3D work I did on vacation, I've been working on this character. Kind of like an Indiana Jones but a girl. My friend Jill actually, so I call her Indiana Jill. I started playing around with Maya hair to get her curls. Having some success, at least at a starting point. (Yes I know the hair is crashing through the hat, one problem at a time :))

The Reference

Photoshop fun

Yesterday I was having a little fun while hallucinating from cold medication. Attempting to create a logo for this company. They wanted something to convey luxury and prestige. Images like Aztec feathers and coins were examples they gave. So I found a fantastic image of a woman wearing Aztec feathers and I played around with some filters in photoshop to get it imprinted on a coin. The final result being in the bottom right of the following image. The coin image on the top right I used to attach the figure image to and for the rim impressions.

The final logo I created was something like this

Wish me luck in the contest!

Bluenose Blockin

Had a huge week this week with the new job and other life matters. Forgot to put my blockin up on my blog. So here it is so far. I'm working on doing a blockin of the boat interior too, which will come later.

More to come!

Next big project: The Bluenose

As I've said in previous posts, I've been working on new models for a new modeling demo. Already done the pontiac parisienne. But now my big challenge has been chosen. I wanted to do some sort of navel vessel like a sailing ship or vessel. Then I thought why not go for the long mile and do a challenging object and a Canadian historical vessel. The Bluenose. Just spent the last hour or so searching for reference images and found some great high res images. I should be able to get a block in started and maybe finished this week. I am quite excited to start this project!

1958 Pontiac Parisienne

My friend Mai, from art school, and I have decided to do a little competition to motivate each other to build new models for our portfolios. Over the last two weeks we worked on building a car. If you don't finish you have to buy the other person coffee. Here's my car thus far. Still got some work to do, but most of the detail is there.