ICON :The Catalogue arrives

So you can see the image from the catalogue in color here: AKIMBO My how times flies. I recently received my catalogue copy of the video themed commission I was part of, "Icon, Villain, Antihero". It looks pretty snazzy. I love the glossy text finish on matte cover. And the nifty 'ntsc' like style of odd and even fields of what...

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The evolution/derivation of computer graphic perfection

Will Wright, Genius I actually had written this in the previous post to further explain my thoughts on 3d glitches and mistakes but decided to give it it's own post: Anyway here's a photo of me with Will Wright, the Creator of massively successful and innovative games such as Sim City, The Sims, and Spore. I had a chance to hear his...

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Glitchface!

You know sometimes mistakes bring great surprises. There's one thing about motion graphics that I just am disappointed to not see in the field yet (well not entirely true: see the genius that is :David O'Reilly)I was cleaning the mesh of a blendshape that was attached to a original bind pose, and since the the cleaned mesh had...

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Da Edison Twins!

No just a quick sketch i saw online of Thomas Edison the perfecter of the light bulb! (not creator, someone else did, i don`t know who) and practicing my crosshatching.You definitely have to work in steps, and plan out highlights to shadows, because each layer of cross hatch you add should be uniform and consistent across your image, as...

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Wild west!

Busy working on a project for Bryan Belanger-Diaz, a 3d western of sorts, (with a twist)! It's always like that ain't it? I fixed the 3d model a bit and made his face a lil broader, his previous design seemed a bit gangly and more of a goon than a protagonist.But yeah, the drawing is much more toonish than the project, but i decided to give...

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Traces of Joy: We have a new teammate!

Karate enthusiast, VFX extraordinare, Enter the Jennings: Shaun Jennings. He is just as masterful in the Martial Arts as he is in the Computer Arts.We're finally in the stages of discussing our ideas with Shaun and how we can realize them technically in our film. He's extremely detail oriented and joined in our project as a volunteer. ...

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