Pond Dude Animatic

woooo-eee I'm all full of updates today! I have started my SESI mentor shot with David Davies from Sony last week. I pitched my story boards and have the ok to move forward with it so I did a quick animatic:



Some concept art for the dude's face:

Figure Drawing

Figure drawings from the Santa Monica YWCA figure drawing session:

Sunset

A little something for someone ;)

Environment

This is for my baby dragon bros:

DogBode and the Adventure of The Missing Slice

Dragon Texture

Its been a while since I posted about the baby dragon project I started back in June. I finished the model and the texture a couple of months ago but the carver on a cliff project took precedence as I rushed to finish it for the pixar td residency deadline. Thats past and sent out and that project is nearing completion. As a part of my time at Side Effects I will be getting a mentor to help me through a quick effects shot in Houdini. I will be meeting my mentor on wednesday, he'll be from SPI so I'm pretty excited. I am planning on using the baby dragon project as my mentor shot. I have several ways of scaling it in order to keep it within scope of a ten week project. This is a viewport render of the texture I painted in Mudbox. Looking at it now I am not very happy with it. I was working with some serious hardware limitations on my box. I am hoping that I'll be able to sculpt and re-paint in 3D coat at SESI.

Figure Drawing

Nick and I went over to the Santa Monica figure drawing at the YWCA. Its been a while since I've gone to figure drawing and it was good to get back into it. I just need a bigger sketchbook that I can still fit in my bag.