Full Pale Blue Dot scene

So for a school project we were given a famous speech by Carl Sagan called Pale blue dot. It is a speech about planet earth and each person in my class had a scene to do. Mine was the first one. The opening is done in nuke, the rest is from Maya and aftereffects here we go!

Pale Blue dot

So for today I am posting what I have done so far in my opening scene. We are creating visuals for the Pale Blue Dot, written by Carl Sagan.

I created the scene in Nuke and still have some details to iron out like the flickering clouds. But here is what I currently have!

After effects and transporters!

So here is my first transport effect. I still have a lot to learn in after effects bout you have to start somewhere right! I will have much more working coming out in this program soon since we are in crunch time now!

Neverland map Part 2!

So after taking some time to get the modeling texturing and rendering out here is what I did!

I wanted to go for a toy, cartoony look so I kept the models relatively simple and kept the colors bright and happy. 

The island started off as a Maya model which I later imported into zbrush to give it a more organic look. I was originally planning to use Houdini height field for the map. However I found that because I was going for a cartoon stylized look. I decided to stick with zbrush. 

The colors have also been done in zbrush spot light tool, to get the more textured parts. As for the simpler parts that only have flat color I used Maya colored shaders. 

I had a lot of fun building this little world and would love to improve upon it. Coming from a background as a background painter, I really enjoy creating worlds, makes me feel like a kid playing with Lego all over again!

More of my 3D work can be viewed here

Nerverland map

So for another class assignment I am given the challenge to create a map. I decided to make the Neverland map from Peter Pan. So far I just have the blocky look going. I'm thinking making a transition from both worlds with London to Neverland. I will see if I keep that look or just focus on Neverland.  I created all the element in Maya so far, but I modified the map shape in zbrush. Enjoy!

Pop figure of..Me!

So for another class assignment. We were given the challenge of creating a 3d model of myself. It was a fun challenge and I jumped straight into it.

First thing I did was look up some reference of the Funko Pop figures to match the style. Then I jumped into zbrush. This could also be done in maya, but I am more comfortable with modeling organic objects in Zbrush. Also I love Zbrush!

I started off creating 2 separate spheres for the  head and body. Those are on separate sub-tools.

 For the Lims and fingurs. I sinply masked the areas out and pulled them out using the move tool.

I created separate sub tools for the hair, dress and boots. The dress was created with a mask I drew on the body, then I extracted it under sub-tools.

After painting the colors on in substance painter. I assigned the colors into Maya's Arnold render. Then I did a few renders

Here is my finished outcome. I will put the little me model into an environment in the future. But for now here is the completed render. Enjoy :)

Matte Painting a Mushroom Alien world!

So for a matte painting assignment. I was assigned to create a world that has a sci-fi feel. I decided I wanted to create an alien mushroom planet. Because This is a matte painting and it requires photo manipulation. So I went to Pexels and textures.com to mostly get the images that I required.

Then I went on to work on some simple thumbnails to work out the composition and some perspective. It doesn't have to be perfect at this point, just get the basic look and feel.

Then after putting together images in photoshop and editing the images to match the color and perspective. It was a lot of push and pull getting the composition and images to look just right. I didn't end up following the compositions I drew up in my thumbnails exactly and that's Ok. Its a process. Here is what I have so far.

This is a photo manipulation matte painting so I do not own the right to the photos