Merry Facial Rigging

Another rig from a class, this video is focused on the face rigging. The model is used with permission from merryproject.com.

Basic Humanoid Rig

This is a rig from a class. The model is copyrighted Gearbox Software and 2K Games.

Traveler

This is my project for a lighting and rendering class, using Maya and Mental Ray.

The Process

Thumbnails

The first part of the assignment was 10 different compositions. There ended up being an underlying theme in all of my thumbnails about travel and mystery.

First pass at thumbnails, using key descriptive words.

Thumbnails – Pass 2

Second pass at thumbnails, focusing more on value and mood.

Color Comps

Color compositions.

3D Progress

I used paint FX for the trees and foliage, and a color ramp for the fog. The textures were done in substance painter. The wood and cement texture is from cgtextures.com.

Fog colorized

I changed the color of the foliage and the colors in the fog. More tweaks to the foliage and trees.

Almost finished. Textures were incomplete and foliage still had some tweaking left.

Finished Image

 

Finished render

 

Assassin Elf

This is a work in progress character that I made for a class on Zbrush.

Physics Simulation

The goal was to simulate physics using three methods. I chose: 1) Simulation (created in Maya) baked to joints. 2) Real time physics done with Unreal, and 3) Alembic/geo-caching from Maya).

I also created a version of the pillar using Unreal’s fracture option for the destructible mesh object to test as many pillars as I could simulating in one scene.