combination of 2 projects WIP

website has new animation !!

there is a new animation in my gallery on my website. The animation will soon be cut into my demo reel, but I just updated the site. New demo reel will be cut soon!!

Liofish rig

This is A Lionfish that I modeled in Maya 

Time to rig!

 On the Lionfish I modeled I removed the fins because they are going to be Ncloth

This is the controller placement.

The large controller that is horizontal controls the main wag of the tail.

That is also linked to the bones in the upper and lower fins so they rotate together.

Each controller on the tail has a "tail" attribute so there can be follow through action.

The model is red because I am using the SSS shader.

The fins are also reattached as Ncloth because  other than the tail the poisonous 

spines the lion fish has do not move and the fins that are attached are quick cloth-like

This is the tail in action

Next steps are tweaking the Ncloth fields, and working on a caustic underwater lighting

title card update

This project was more or less practice in basic compostiting it was fun and quick

new efforts

I would like to keep updating this blog and in order to keep new content coming up I will be posting things I am working on this quarter. I hope to get back in to my weekly theme posts but I will do that when I can.


this is where my heavy gear model was before i really started to texture it.




This is where is it now

3d thursday 8.18

For this 3d thursday I am working on a title card with my name to get back into after effects. I rendered out my name in 3d in Maya which will be on the title card. I am not sure if I am going to to use it but I may need a render either way here is just a few shots of that 

Web design wed 8/17 (late)

last week I worked on my website some more and was able to figure out the rollover problem with my gallery. Also I added a title below my name as well as links. So far my home page is my gallery page so they both don't go anywhere. I will however have my home page contain my reel once its up. I also need a contact page link.

what I wanted for my rollover for the gallery was brackets on the outside. The problem with that is the size of the image is different. The answer is to have a 1% opacity pixel on the image without the backet's that makes the original image the same size as the rollover keeping them in the same place so it doesn't shift when you rollover.

below the home button is rolled over as well at the gallery image