Saturday, February 26, 2011

Brad Bird weekend

This weekend I decided to have a tribute to Brad Bird. The mastermind behind my 2 favorite animated films, The Iron Giant and The Incredibles. I watch both of the films over the weekend... Actually I watched The Incredibles twice. Amazing!
So I have decided that it is my new goal in life to work on a production with Brad Bird. His story lines and ideas are simply genius. The 2 movies mentioned before are the 2 main influences in my life that made me want to be an animator.
That being said, here is a quick 15 min sketch I did of the big man himself. Done with opacity markers, something I have never used before, but am glad to experiment with.



Enjoy.

-Redbeard

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

The Greatest American heroes

Finally two of America's greatest super heroes join forces. Obama and Spiderman. I think we are all better people because of this comic.



This was given to me at school today. I'm glad they were thinking of me when they saw this.


Enjoy.

-Redbeard

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Watercolor.

Sunday nights have become my time to play around with water colors. This is one I did a couple of weeks ago. I've never really done anything with water colors before, but I love playing around with this new medium.



- Redbeard

Friday, February 18, 2011

Quick Concept

I haven't really drawn super heroes lately. I did when I was a kid, and basically it was an internal battle with me always over who was better, superman or spider man. So I guess in this case spidey wins... So here is my quick sketch, i always enjoyed a more lengthy skinny spiderman myself.
This could turn into a quick 3d model as well.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Fun with Sculpty

Before we did the Pops model in 3D, we actually made a clay sculpture of the character. I started only with a ball of tinfoil and built it up from there. It was a lot of fun. Behind the sculpture you can see a picture of the concept art provided by the 3DTA.


Update!

Hello! I know I haven't posted anything in quite a while, so here are a few things I have been doing here in Seattle at the 3DTA.

Here are a few Assets designed for an air ship we were working on. These are low poly models each between 500 - 1200 tris each.

This is the masthead for the ship


Steering wheel and Globe compass


This was a fun 2 day speed character design, Jack Pumpkin Head, based of the Marvel graphic novel "Marvelous Land of OZ".


This is a character named Pops from the 3DTA. This was from an assignment to create a low poly game ready model. (modeled in maya, textured in zbrush and photoshop)

Here is a close up of Pops head that I sculpted.

Anyways, This is what I have been up to. Please feel free to give me some critiques, and I am looking to enter the industry soon and would love some feedback on how I can improve my skills.

Enjoy