lunch time drawing

About two and a half months ago I got a job at a VFX studio in Santa Monica called Method. Its a pretty fun gig, since I started in February, I've been working on a commercial that mixes CG and live action. I've been having a good time but sometimes I get a bit tired from sitting in front of computer all day. I've started taking my lunch breaks outside where I sit and draw. This post was a drawing I did on my lunch break. As it turns out, palm trees are excellent to sit against while drawing. Last week I spent a couple of days drawing a couple of buildings around Method. (I really need a scanner)

Figure Drawing

Some drawings from last night's figure drawing at the Santa Monica YWCA:

Cafe Sketching

Old people are the most interesting to draw because of all the extra hair, wrinkles, and extra boniness:

Figure Drawing

More figure drawing from the Santa Monica YWCA:

Figure Drawing

Figure drawing at the Santa Monica YWCA:

Houdini Snow Tool WIP

Houdini's greatest selling point as a 3D app is its procedural workflow. I wanted to create a tool that could place snow geo on environments without having to model the snow. You could just build out your environment without snow and then use this tool to generate the snow on top of everything. I spent a morning with it and came up with a rough beginning. The basics are in there but it could be refined a bit:

You'll notice that which ever way the torus is rotated the snow stays on top. As is, the snow isn't shaded yet. I know that I could do all of the snow in displacement and I may yet play with that a little more as I work with it.

Pond

A little project that I've been working on:



or you can check it out on vimeo.