Intro to 3D Animation: Key Frame Animation

This is my first project for Intro to 3D animation. I'm pretty happy with it, but I think I'll be going back to finish the end. I also think I'll be slowing it down a bit.

 

Here's a low poly samurai character I modeled last night. I still have to make it look like he's wearing more armor. My goal is to have it rigged and textured before school starts up again.

 

So this is a work in progress with a long way to go, but I've found this Christmas-break project to be a great learning opportunity. I'm very happy with how the hammer and sickle are coming out, but I may just add a little few tweaks. I mainly need to focus on finishing the broad strokes on the coat's arms, and the gas mask. 

 

This is the drawing that I'm basing this model off of. I've made some slight changes--mainly to the positioning of the sickle-head on the neck (or lack thereof). The head was just too far forward in the drawing. I may set up a second model to see how it looks with the forward-placed head later.

Just some reference images I'm loosely following.

A fun, yet stressful project

This is my latest project. It was a commissioned Illustration. The client wanted me to tell the story of a mythical creature. This creature was so beautiful that it was worshipped by the native people who in turn fed the race so much that they just got too fat to move and eventually died.

You've served me well...

There comes a time in an artist's life when he finally does work that pencil down to an unworkable nib, or that pen to a dry, desolate carcass. That time has come for this artist and his pencil.

Sure she's still got some good lines in her, but soon she'll go the way of all the Earth and find herself in my trash. All that will remain of her are these pictures. Let it be known that she was good to me and I to her. That is all

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Final Project in Maya class - THE EPIC INSECT!

Here's the image I referenced the nest from

Here's  the final render

Here's the Occlusion pass (I just thought it looked cool, so I thought I'd add it)

I wanted to have a mix of rhino beetle and wasp... I'm not entirely happy with how it came out, but I learned a ton from this project.