tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6640397800286425742024-03-13T07:52:31.184-07:00Clever GerlSnippets of life from a crossbreed of animator and (paleo)biology hobbyist.Natalia M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13974847311258820448noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664039780028642574.post-7409538061261759662014-05-28T12:05:00.002-07:002014-05-28T12:05:38.526-07:00<div style="text-align: center;">
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Natalia M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13974847311258820448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664039780028642574.post-77062082375308759922012-11-17T09:14:00.001-08:002013-02-24T19:43:54.669-08:00Arenanet Internship 2013 EntryThe year came around again and the Arenanet internship 'contest'
started up again. I picked a different monster this time... and man I
had a lot of fun. While sculpting and enjoying yourself is a learning
experience in itself... I feel like I learn a lot more when more than my own goals are in mind- matching to an existing concept that isn't my own just carries a lot of weight and a different sort of attention to detail- I felt the same way when working at Fisher-Price and matching to products.<br />
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Anyway, here's this year's entry! No matter what happens... it's much better than last years- I'm happy to have learned so much.<br />
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I finished my gig at Fisher Price in January... and decided to take a sort of working sabbatical! I'm now teaching English in South Korea and loving it! I'm having a great time with a temporary job change, and teaching full time rather than part time- an experience I had every summer at OSU-ACCAD for several years has been quite the experience. I'm going on six months into my excursion to the East now, and who knows what the future still has in store for me! I rather enjoy it here and I'd like to stick around...<br />
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Unfortunately I do not have a scanner, but once I find access, I hope to post some sketches from my travels in these last 6 months... including jumping around different regions of Korea, I also have been to Taipei, Kyoto, and Tokyo!<br />
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Anyway, back to business... One of the super secret projects I worked on
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on... Imaginext Battle Arena! It was a super fast project... but I have
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work on it... modeled the set (though I can't take all the credit...I
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some weapons, did some 2D and 3D animation on it as well! WHEW that went
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These concepts are for a short teaser trailer made by the Viz Lab for the new Imaginext playset- Battle Arena! Imagining the playset and figures in more... theatrical and dramatic circumstances was a lot of fun! Here's a link to the actual product: http://www.target.com/p/fisher-price-imaginext-battle-arena/-/A-14050572</div>
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Some weapon designs. This was before the character figures were finalized, so we had no idea what the weapons were supposed to look like. Roman's weapons stayed they same but our viking character's hammer was replaced with something a little closer to product and these were discarded. Still got to model it though! <br />
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Earrrrrrly concept for Axemin the viking!<br />
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Closer to the final concepts of Axemin and Roman.<br />
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I think we had only about a month on this project... it was an incredibly short time but our small team made so much content in that span...<br />
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In the meantime I've been doing a lot of drawing and job searching. Waiting to hear back after interviews is the worst!<br /><br />Here's a quick zBrush sculpt I did to flex those sculpting muscles! I tried to jump back into zBrush and do some complex things, so I had to step back and go simple. I just felt too clumsy fumbling with the tools. Had a lot of fun relaxing and putting down my other projects (such as the wolf) to sit and LEARN, rather than force myself to make a 'portfolio piece'. The key is to relax, who knew!<br />
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This is a new character I've been working on. At he moment there's no plans for his 3D debut past fun zbrush sketches, but he is involved in a little project I'm working on. More can be seen on my new tumblr: http://dinoflamingo.tumlr.com<br />
<span id="goog_1731964959"></span><span id="goog_1731964960"></span>Natalia M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13974847311258820448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664039780028642574.post-85120773057391058352012-01-26T16:12:00.000-08:002012-01-26T16:37:34.026-08:00Wolf UpdateGoing has been slow but it's going! I hope to finish the low res version of him soon.<br />
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I did more drawings for facial, but I don't have a scanner here! Ah the trials of living minimal. <br />
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Stepping back from it I'm seeing now that I need to sharpen a lot of edges. He's a little to squishy now. The drawing was full of jagged edges accentuating the swoop of his back, so I really want to play on straights vs curves.<br />
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I'm getting to a point where I'm happy with edgeflow. Needs a little more tweaking here and there, but it's a lot better than before!<br />
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I'm not to ohappy with those hands. I think I might pitch them out and make completely new ones!<br />
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Next to add will also be teeth. Give him a big toothy smile.Natalia M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13974847311258820448noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664039780028642574.post-49375836560929743572012-01-18T11:17:00.000-08:002012-01-24T08:59:46.258-08:00Girl and the Fox nominated for an Annie!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This update is a little late in the game, but it looks like a film I worked on at
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I was one of the lead animators for Baru, the fox in the film- and I have to
say that this film is what made me 100% certain that this is what I wanted to
do with my life. It was a lot of hard work, but I don’t think I knew that enjoyed
working- animating- this much until I worked with this amazing crew. Thanks Tyler
J. Kupferer for letting me be a part of this incredible film! I met so many amazing people as part of the crew, and I will never forget the experience.<br />
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Back in September, I tried out for the ArenaNet Internship... I learned a lot from these art tests actually... I hope they do this every year! I'm definitely down.<br />
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The poly count came with a pretty loose guideline, so I milked the high count for what it was worth. 7220 tris.</div>
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Posed him a little too in zBrush! It's a little hard as I'm still working on 3.5 and I don't have those great tools in 4.<br />
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And of course the maps- Diffuse, normal, and specular.<br />
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Trying to form a different sort of workflow- I made an armature with zSpheres in zBrush and pulled at the shapes until I had the sort of form I wanted. zbrush makes it a lot easier to shake forms the way you want, but it's much harder to clean geometry, so I took the low-res geometry from that lowest subdiv level on the zSphere armature and I'm working out the details and edgeflow. You can see I havn't reached the hands and feet, and there's a lot of unneeded loops on that arm- we'll get it clean and ship it back to zBrush when the form needs to be manipulated any more, or make a nice pass for hi-res modeling and normal/bump/displacement maps.Natalia M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13974847311258820448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664039780028642574.post-801893349162636332011-11-13T09:35:00.001-08:002011-11-13T09:52:21.960-08:00Been a while!What a crazy summer and fall!<br />
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After graduating at SCAD, I was whisked away to help out with the <a href="http://accad.osu.edu/womenandtech/" target="_blank">ACCAD Women and Tech mentoring program</a> again! This year was a little different though... we invited 2 groups- one returning group to make a game with both Maya and Unity, and another to do our normal program, creating an animation (in Maya) on an important topic!<br />
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As usual, the girls pulled through excellently- the Game program was new, and we had some trouble with unity, but fortunately we had Alan to help us out... Couldn't have done it without him and the other mentors!<br />
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Then, midway through the program, I heard from Fisher-Price about a temp animation job in their Viz lab! Long story short, I got the job and have been working at Fisher-Price, East Aurora since August!<br />
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I took this photo after they put these out around Memorial Day, giant toy parade!<br />
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Not sure what I'm allowed to talk about or not, so I'll just finish by saying- I'll tell ya when the toys are released!<br />
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Been working on a few personal as well as professional projects, I'll be updating those soon. Mostly modeling work, but I've been doing some character animation too! Won't be updating animation for a little bit till the NDAs run out and I finish some private work!Natalia M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13974847311258820448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664039780028642574.post-51818785073105649432010-11-01T18:34:00.000-07:002012-01-31T21:51:27.670-08:00More Senior FilmA lot of work has been done on the senior film. <a href="http://rexanomaly.blogspot.com/">Check it out!</a><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534760237579452290" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/TM9rHJXhP4I/AAAAAAAAAeY/NySEyr7slT8/s320/test16.jpeg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 240px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/24777485">Out of Time - SCAD Cut</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user6669059">Natalia Mercado</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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And here it is! More than a year of work! Plenty of small aspects need a little work but overall I am happy!Natalia M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13974847311258820448noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664039780028642574.post-3450147508515919702010-08-04T14:15:00.001-07:002010-08-04T14:21:01.091-07:00Thompson's Gazelle HeadTaking a break from school work to work on... interior design?!<br /><br />Well, more like sculpture, but I'm working on cardboard sculptures like this to be sold at <a href="http://bloomsburyloft.blogspot.com/">Bloomsbury Loft</a> when they are up running again. To be featured at their next time at the Country Living show here in Columbus OH. He will be on sale, but fear not, the shield will be cleaned up as well as everything trimmed to perfection.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/TFnZnsl7GRI/AAAAAAAAAZg/D2_LALImpYM/s1600/01.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 274px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/TFnZnsl7GRI/AAAAAAAAAZg/D2_LALImpYM/s320/01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501667695818119442" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/TFnZhnQKucI/AAAAAAAAAZY/DJjh99iYukc/s1600/02.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 255px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/TFnZhnQKucI/AAAAAAAAAZY/DJjh99iYukc/s320/02.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501667591305476546" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/TFnZcTcrS2I/AAAAAAAAAZQ/cHtW3N6OSMg/s1600/03.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 286px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/TFnZcTcrS2I/AAAAAAAAAZQ/cHtW3N6OSMg/s320/03.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501667500089887586" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/TFnZXDSRu-I/AAAAAAAAAZI/fEi_MS1S8gg/s1600/04.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 258px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/TFnZXDSRu-I/AAAAAAAAAZI/fEi_MS1S8gg/s320/04.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501667409851956194" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/TFnZR-LZmDI/AAAAAAAAAZA/ofURWqQIrR0/s1600/05.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 299px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/TFnZR-LZmDI/AAAAAAAAAZA/ofURWqQIrR0/s320/05.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501667322581588018" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/TFnZNOeb4XI/AAAAAAAAAY4/oicH26cBdQE/s1600/06.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 290px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/TFnZNOeb4XI/AAAAAAAAAY4/oicH26cBdQE/s320/06.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501667241057050994" border="0" /></a>Natalia M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13974847311258820448noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664039780028642574.post-69028628364932379842010-07-12T20:07:00.000-07:002011-04-20T14:37:08.295-07:00Time Traveler Model - Senior Film production is under way!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/TDvZQg5cFRI/AAAAAAAAAYw/PO7DOAhhDL8/s1600/time_01.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/TDvZQg5cFRI/AAAAAAAAAYw/PO7DOAhhDL8/s320/time_01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493223048240436498" border="0" /></a><br />I'm not taking summer classes... but I still need to get ahead! Here is a render of the hires model (without texturing, of course.)<br /><br />There are more images of the same model <a href="http://rexanomaly.blogspot.com/2010/07/time-traveller-model-1.html">over here.</a><br /><br />Wireframe soon to come, as well as the dinosaur- who is halfway modeled!Natalia M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13974847311258820448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664039780028642574.post-23676511062073216312010-04-23T12:40:00.000-07:002010-04-23T12:43:50.460-07:00Senior Film!Well, it's the beginning of the end. Time to start work on the Senior Film. It's preproduction up until September, and updates will go on yet another blog!<br /><br />I'll post some more final stuff up here, but the rest of the content will go <a href="http://steampunktimeparadox.blogspot.com/">over here.</a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/S9H4TLONagI/AAAAAAAAAUw/inaID7SgF_E/s1600/traveler05.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 239px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/S9H4TLONagI/AAAAAAAAAUw/inaID7SgF_E/s320/traveler05.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463420831290714626" border="0" /></a>But I feel the need to put an image up, so here's some character sketching...Natalia M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13974847311258820448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664039780028642574.post-39630949745613513052010-03-31T11:34:00.000-07:002010-03-31T11:40:40.209-07:00Nanny Ogg FinalFinal aside from sanding and a coat of grey, of course. She's the only one that's been baked, aside from another one that may get up soon...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/S7OWPg3SdpI/AAAAAAAAATc/KdDbIDkG4Vo/s1600/nannyturn+copy.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 45px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/S7OWPg3SdpI/AAAAAAAAATc/KdDbIDkG4Vo/s320/nannyturn+copy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5454868766939838098" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/S7OW-r2yCUI/AAAAAAAAATk/Cm_CTagQ4EU/s1600/DSCF0125.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/S7OW-r2yCUI/AAAAAAAAATk/Cm_CTagQ4EU/s320/DSCF0125.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5454869577344354626" border="0" /></a>Natalia M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13974847311258820448noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664039780028642574.post-63155492040486767722010-03-12T18:24:00.001-08:002010-03-12T18:27:49.267-08:00War Horse TurnaroundPossibly my favorite maquette 've done ever.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/S5r3j37NXhI/AAAAAAAAAS8/FS3D2dRg1W8/s1600-h/DSCF9960.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 285px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/S5r3j37NXhI/AAAAAAAAAS8/FS3D2dRg1W8/s320/DSCF9960.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447938894937808402" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/S5r3gv2nJpI/AAAAAAAAAS0/MhdxE3Ih3s8/s1600-h/DSCF9951.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/S5r3gv2nJpI/AAAAAAAAAS0/MhdxE3Ih3s8/s320/DSCF9951.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447938841231435410" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/S5r3aubpI4I/AAAAAAAAASs/W2cF0u4F_fM/s1600-h/DSCF9956.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 262px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/S5r3aubpI4I/AAAAAAAAASs/W2cF0u4F_fM/s320/DSCF9956.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447938737770668930" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/S5r3oovT9RI/AAAAAAAAATE/qYHqPJpeaT0/s1600-h/horseturn+copy.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 47px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/S5r3oovT9RI/AAAAAAAAATE/qYHqPJpeaT0/s320/horseturn+copy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447938976760722706" border="0" /></a>He's going to get a knight pretty soon. Have to start work on that soon!<br /><br />Click images to enlarge.Natalia M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13974847311258820448noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664039780028642574.post-83815322253982321592010-03-12T17:33:00.000-08:002010-03-12T17:36:53.800-08:00Greebo Final<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/S5rr_5Ox4OI/AAAAAAAAASc/-uZjCgEIb8M/s1600-h/IMG_3660.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 271px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/S5rr_5Ox4OI/AAAAAAAAASc/-uZjCgEIb8M/s320/IMG_3660.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447926182185132258" border="0" /></a><br />Update time. Finals are done so more to come!<br /><br />Here is the Greebo final.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/S5rsFMoonZI/AAAAAAAAASk/5xyTgOud37A/s1600-h/greeboturncopy.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 50px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/S5rsFMoonZI/AAAAAAAAASk/5xyTgOud37A/s320/greeboturncopy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447926273293196690" border="0" /></a>Click images to enlarge.Natalia M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13974847311258820448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664039780028642574.post-28795093069882056882010-01-14T14:57:00.000-08:002010-01-14T15:13:59.413-08:00Greebo Maquette Pre-Production...?Going to do a bust maquette of Greebo from Discworld...<br /><br />I had a lot of trouble coming up with the character. I whipped out a lot of really awful drawings that hopefully shall never grace the internet.... I just wasn't feeling it. So I decided to sculpt instead. I did a small cat head in plasticine, just trying to figure out the general shape...and then i played with it a bit to get some of the character in.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/S0-jsoUc5vI/AAAAAAAAAR8/uIbrjs9dKSs/s1600-h/greebobozetti.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 98px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/S0-jsoUc5vI/AAAAAAAAAR8/uIbrjs9dKSs/s320/greebobozetti.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426736063137507058" border="0" /></a><br />But that wasn't anywhere near what I wanted. I turned to sketching in zBrush for a faster result.<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fa-9xS_rR50&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fa-9xS_rR50&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br />Woah! I figured out how to take video! This BLEW MY MIND.<br /><br />Then I drew a more finished looking turnaround from that for the sculpey maquette.<br /><br />And critique happened, so I made some changes...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/S0-kTUrJmMI/AAAAAAAAASE/KEDuWATuUgw/s1600-h/comparison.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 241px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/S0-kTUrJmMI/AAAAAAAAASE/KEDuWATuUgw/s320/comparison.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426736727878899906" border="0" /></a><br />The new is on the left, the original on the right.<br /><br />A little closer. He's less leonine and more like a cat now... but still close to demonspawn. Or at least that's the aim. Now to redraw the turnaround...Natalia M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13974847311258820448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664039780028642574.post-6300479663648635122009-11-21T18:36:00.000-08:002009-11-21T18:41:29.057-08:00Pneumatic ClaySo I spent the day watching zBrush tutorials and being generally overwhelmed and intimidated. After quite a few hours of that, I spent the rest of the day playing.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/SwikHAEOJuI/AAAAAAAAARw/gv2bWkW_Cig/s1600/PlutoBustzBrush.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 286px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/SwikHAEOJuI/AAAAAAAAARw/gv2bWkW_Cig/s320/PlutoBustzBrush.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406751792842024674" border="0" /></a><br />I'm getting the gist of combining alphas and brushes... but are they kind of cheap? Like Photoshop lens flare? Better look at more professional work and figure out what's good and what's out.<br /><br />Haven't done much with asymmetry with this guy yet. Let's see if time is better spent on other things.Natalia M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13974847311258820448noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664039780028642574.post-71501826789863342302009-11-07T17:08:00.000-08:002009-11-07T17:25:09.894-08:00Need To get something up here.Need to get something up that isn't a youTube of Jurassic Park.<br /><br />A bit of classwork for my Constructive Animal Anatomy for Creature Design class. (What a mouthful.) This class is heaven for me, I've learned so much. Well, I'll have a full post on the finished project (after finals, phew) but for now, here's a really bad presentation of the head turnaround.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/SvYazo9TSPI/AAAAAAAAARo/CIe80grREDU/s1600-h/protodraconisheadturn.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 42px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/SvYazo9TSPI/AAAAAAAAARo/CIe80grREDU/s320/protodraconisheadturn.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401534277547673842" border="0" /></a>(click to enlarge)<br /><br />It's a pretty complex class, and my first ever sequential one, so i decided to go much less stylized. Want to make this guy believable.<br /><br />Anyway, for the head, I mainly used turtle skulls for construction, and then added a little of a spiny tail lizard for teeth action (to mix in with that beak). Also, instead of the flat tileish scales turtles have, more overlapping scales like the lepidosaurs (spiny tail lizard and mosasaurus) Ah again, I'll have a whole thing on it later.Natalia M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13974847311258820448noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664039780028642574.post-6593062138012048122009-11-06T17:04:00.000-08:002009-11-06T17:11:00.496-08:00Because... we're being... hunted.Right, so I finally stopped procrastinating and got a blog for that whole 'art student's shameless self promotion' schpeal. A real one mind, the one for the trip doesn't count.<br /><br />Well, I've been a bit of a dinosaur hobbyist from the very beginning, (well, I suppose moreso biology and archaeobiology) so it seems that a Jurassic Park reference is in order.<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ShUgQCI1P_I&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ShUgQCI1P_I&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br />She is a clever girl.<br /><br />Hope everyone will like it as I build... next is the logo... can anyone guess what it will be?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/SvTIuX2bx9I/AAAAAAAAARg/fgQM6msKp4g/s1600-h/raptorroughcharactersheet.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 241px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_r_g0VjsaisE/SvTIuX2bx9I/AAAAAAAAARg/fgQM6msKp4g/s320/raptorroughcharactersheet.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401162552125933522" border="0" /></a>Natalia M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13974847311258820448noreply@blogger.com2