Vas'Drakken

    This was a painting I did when I had some breathing room to gather reference and just paint for a couple hours straight then go back and re-do several times. From there I scanned it in and started painting in more detail adjusting colors and generally having fun and see where it goes.

I have to add more to this at some point...

     I have some much art from Larry Elmore I will try building one similar to his style of pen and ink dragons. Just because they are the coolest looking ones and maybe create a new logo from it. Edge flow will follow a monitor lizard.

 Neck bend test

 Work flow

 Comment on edge flow to appeal are always welcome, and this is my first time building a dragon.

   I was bored of what I was working on, so for Labor day I decided to have a little fun. I just let what ever I felt like building happen. Though I'm not sure how I got from the functional ankle and shin joint to something in the dunes.

    This is a render from one of demo reel assets - Tudor Close, which looks better as a still image than in motion for some reason. If you click on the link it will take you to a page with full size render at 1280x960, an occlusion pass, wire frame and other shots from the scene. I have had some feed back some cg talk about it being too dark, which is due to only having one directional light in the scene. I know you are supposed to use more but it kept getting too blown out, when I added the secondary bounces.

     I was looking for what to do for my final reel and found a cool picture of a german uboat with so many pieces of random junk in it to build. I felt it would give me a chance to really have fun building all the details.

This was a project I did to enter the Finals Department at Full Sail. The Mill and lower ground were built and textured in Maya 7.5, above the stone wall is the original image. Click on the image for a larger version, occlusion pass, wire frame and a break down of what was done.

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       I did the concept pieces from a different view of the buildings but I figure they look cool so I should put them up here as well.  The black and white was done in 2H on large sketch book paper then scanned in.

      From there I took it into a mix of Paint Shop Pro 9 and Photoshop CS2 and CS3, depending on which brushes were more useful to add in color. I was working on two different color schemes at the same time, a day light and night version, but I prefer the the night version above.

    This is new project I'm working more images will go up here as I get pieces done.