3D Animation - Lights

Quentin

I gotta work on his nose some more. Also have to work on Julia's cheeks. She's not quite there yet.

Dark Shadows Portraits

Barnabas and Dr. Julia Hoffman.
Hopefully this picture will expand with all the other characters from the show.

More Dark Shadows

I don't understand why these look like crap once I post them. If you click on them, they show up how they're supposed to. Maybe it has to do something with transparencies or something.

Anyways, been working on a better face for Barnabas. I think this one captures more of his wierdness. He kinda has a droopy face, and I think the last one I did was a little too young looking. Also trying to work on the look of the title for the package.

Again with the texture...

Brokeback Textured

turns into

Just a test to see if I could export to photoshop and texture it. Seems to work pretty well.

Texture?

Let me try again...

Experiment with texture.

So I started off in Illustrator and made some vector shapes, then brought them to photoshop and textured one of them. I think the end result is quite nice. I'm curious to see how much farther I can go with it.

Hmm, it seems to have saved the image weirdly, let me see if I can figure out what went wrong.

DVD Project - Dark Shadows

So the DVD project that I'm working on right now is a boxed set for the television series for Dark Shadows. Basically I can go any way I want with it. I can add whatever material I think a boxed set for Dark Shadows should have in it, and use whatever format I think would be appropriate.

I've decided to go more for an illustrated look inspired by a board game that I saw done for the series. The graphics will be like a pop-up book when you open the box, creating a layered effect that has the house in the background, the sitting room in the mid-ground, and the characters in the foreground. I won't illustrate every character, just the really interesting main characters.

Oh, another cool thing is that when you open the box, the really spooky main theme song will play. I just have to figure out a way to make that work.

I'll post more stuff as I get to it.

Rough Sketch

So this is 3 layers of the pop-up. Collinswood in the background, the sitting room in the midground, and Barnabas in the foreground.

Collinswood

Collinswood, home of Barnabas Collins. It's going to be the back image of a pop-out for the DVD set I'm working on.

3D Animation - More lighting

3D Animation - Lighting Test

3D Animation - Mushroom Blend

Videogame Design

Everyone knows I take my videogames very seriously. I recently got an XBox 360 and I'm sorta regretting it after seeing the video for this game. It's for the PS3, and honestly I hate Sony. They totally screwed up Star Wars Galaxies, but I digress. They're coming out with 2 games that look cool. LittleBigPlanet (the video below) and Home. LittleBigPlanet is so cute and interactive and fun looking. It'd be really awesome to be able to work for someone developing a game like this.