motion track test

I've been learning a lot of Maya the past few weeks and have really wanted to integrate some 3D into live footage. Here are some screens of one of my first attempts at creating a 3D maya camera from 2D motion tracking in Boujou. The model isn't lit to match the scene, no shadows etc, but that's all on the way. Stay tuned...

rally fighter sighted

saw the rally fighter in the flesh in pasadena, pretty crazy considering it was just a sketch a little under a year and a half ago.

poly attack

one of my first attempts at poly modeling, way different than nurbs, but so far I'm digging maya. plenty more on the way.

*updated new image, still detailing it out and tweaking proportions a bit.

daily dose of carbon

long time no post! I've been taking classes at Gnomon in Hollywood learning Maya, so there will be plenty of cool stuff on the way soon. But in the meantime here's some random stuff. The LFA has been growing on me, especially reading up on all the development, Lexus pulled the video but try googling it, its pretty mesmerizing, especially considering its all for the a-pillar of one car. It kind of reminded me of the fifth element, pretty awesome.

more leftovers

more eleanor

Finished up the GT500 for now. Obviously heavily inspired by the Gone in 60 Seconds movie car. I just threw in a super retro interior that will eventually get a futuristic update as well. Still a few little things I'd change here and there, but I think I'm ready to move on to a new project now.

gt500 mkII progress

I built a quick interior today, pretty retro styling complete with gone in 60 seconds inspired shifter. Sorry for the bad camera transitions, its my first time trying out animating in Showcase.

quick style

photoshop opaque brush.

speed paint

...kind of. spent a few hours over the past couple of days painting up this scene in ps. meant to be a run down hanger overlooking a bay full of warships. technique-wise mainly opaque brush style over the model in the previous post with a few textures thrown in for some of the background. still want to take it a bit further since I usually don't go that far into detailing. the composition could still use some refinement, any comments welcome as I'm always looking to improve the paint skills.

speeder

found this old model file and started reworking it, adding some detail, weapons, etc. i always liked this one a lot.

quad

halo-inspired quad with a massive side mounted missile launcher.

june wip

whipped this little scene out last night, kind of a retro-evolved wwII era inspired heavily by the f4u, only with the cockpit mounted at the very rear of the fuselage to give it a different proportion. more development to come on that. comments welcome on how to improve it. more views to come of the fighter.

eleanor

lack of updates lately.. i know, but the past month was pretty busy and I'm happy to say I'm now a married man!

on another note check out monkeedesign.com. it's a pretty cool industrial design blog that gets updated a lot more than this one does... i'm also nominated for designer of the week there so be sure to vote, i've got some talented competition.

GT500 teaser

MK.I. Still working on some surfacing but thought I'd do a quick preview video. Crits welcome.

3.. 2.. 1..launch

Getting pretty hard to do heavy detailing on my current setup, if anyone has any good suggestions for a good deal on a good workstation that would be sweet.