Final! Awesome job, everybody. I'm so proud of us.

https://vimeo.com/41537973 Final! Awesome job, everybody. I'm so proud of us.

digital figure sculpting in zbrush

http://www.pixologic.com/zclassroom/artistinaction/scotteaton/sculpting/

harry potter deathly hallows animation

cool lighting and character design.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN1_h_eGitE

lighting references...maybe?

character design

as I try to progress with my character design, I feel an ever-increasing need for a male model. I have a posable art figure but....he doesn't exactly possess a human muscular system. suggestions? maybe the life drawing classes are hiring a male currently?

intensity and color

I introduced warmer colors as it becomes apparent that the statue is actually alive...and red as the audience's empathy for this trapped person is evoked

Storyboard

skin weight painting

Found a "shortcut" to weight painting...press CONTROL and then paint; it removes the influence from areas where you don't want it.

I'm now at the point where Heather was during class Thursday, with crazy vectors pointing everywhere. Any tips?

a resurrection story

A frozen human figure is trapped in stone, and exists in an ethereal and simple world. It is as if the figure were between two mirrors facing each other, with smaller figures just like it fading into the background. It is an art piece, or so we think, and we move more closely in to admire the figure closest to the foreground. As we close in, we see that it is a person struggling to break free from the stone that entraps it. Its neck muscles strain and stretch, its arm and legs tense and seize. The repeating figures do the same.

The endeavor seems to be all but a lost cause, but then the stone faults. Crumbled pieces of marble lay at the figure's feet, and it steps out of the space it was trapped in. The figures ascend through and to another plane, literally lifting themselves up through a floor, defying the laws of physics. Triumphantly, they turn their gazes upward to something unseen.

reference images

Michelangelo's "Prisoners"
Matisse figure abstractions/stylization
inspiration for closing scene, Signorelli's "Resurrection of the Flesh"