Just a little Christmas greeting I whipped up for you. Made in Flash.
Friday, December 25, 2009
Friday, September 18, 2009
Up North Summer 2009!
I'm going to be posting images from my trip up north with my family. There's a lot I want to show you, so keep checking the blog as I update!
Look at that clear Lake Huron water!
GAL rigging
The main character of GAL was originally one piece, as you can see with earlier posts. When I got to the weight mapping stage, however, I ran into some problems. Pictured below is a black hole sucking up all the geometry.
The team decided we should just use a rigid body character to minimize the pain caused by weight mapping. So, I cut up the geometry of the character and sewed in some end caps. There's still some soft body rigging, but as you can see below, the major limbs are separate pieces.
Notice the odd bones attached where the femur connects to the hip? Those are there to help deform the character's cloth garment.
Below is the same image as above, but with the bones hidden. The curves are all the controls I made for animating. I prefer forward kinematics for the arms and inverse kinematics for the legs.
That's probably the last you'll see of GAL for awhile. Our team members, including myself, are all attending school right now. I actually plan on remodeling the main character so that I can get better flow and paint the weight maps properly. I've watched a few tutorials and I think I can minimize weight mapping pains for the future. This was the first character I ever seriously had to weight map.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
A New Year!
It's been two weeks since the start of my junior year at CCS. I've gotten a better taste of my classes, and things are going to start moving fast! I'm a little scared, but mostly excited for the year to come. I welcome you to my world!
-Shawn
Monday, August 10, 2009
GaL Items first step!
Left to right: walking stick, sharpened stick, femur, large femur, healing salve, gold, banana, bone dagger, stone knife, stone hammer
Gods and Legends Main Char further done
Further along the way with the main character for Gods and Legends.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Gods and Legends Main Char
The first stages of creating the main character that will inevitably be turned into sprites for a game I'm working on. These are just a few screen shots.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Light Painting!
This is a cool picture I took about two years ago when I first got my camera. It makes a sweet desktop.
Halloween Pumpkins
This is a photo I took of the pumpkins I carved at CCS freshman year for Halloween. Unfortunately, this is the only picture I could get because my batteries died right after this picture. We weren't allowed to use candles to illuminate the insides of the jackolanterns so I took my light box and covered it with a yellow bag from the school store and the result was what you see. Heehee.
Ultimate Frisbee
This a sweet pic taken of me by Dave freshman year. Our styles in composition are complete opposites. I like to use more classical, full figure, or portrait compositions. He likes use more contemporary, zoomed in, cropped compositions. But who cares?! This pic is awesome!
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Ron Standing
This is a drawing of Ron I did. I was under a time restraint and was also sick at the time.
Class: Drawing II
Instructor: Elena Arnautova
Through the Wall!
This was my first full palette drawing. It was hard.
Class: Drawing II
Instructor: Elena Arnautova
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Sarah never sat still...
...Now she's immortalized in a drawing.
Class: Drawing II
Instructor: Elena Arnautova
"Chubby model make better drawing."
The Nose Knows
It's a nose eat nose world out there...So get ta chewin'!
Class: Drawing II
Instructor: Elena Arnautova
Broken Skelly
No, it's not actually broken, but it was in pieces...Actually, come to think of it, I think Elena did drop it...
Class: Drawing II
Instructor: Elena Arnautova
Friday, July 24, 2009
Perspectivish Design
Hmm, I don't remember the assignment, but I do remember staying up all night to finish it. I think it turned out pretty cool. It looks much better in real life.
Class: Design I
Instructor: Dennis Jones
Thingy?
The assignment was to create a gradated design inspired by a found texture. This happened to be inspired by the cable bunched up in the front of our dorm room.
Class: Design I
Instructor: Dennis Jones
Light Sphere
A design assignment where we were to try to make a shape look like it was glowing from the inside out using 10 different shades.
Class: Design I
Instructor: Dennis Jones
Thursday, July 23, 2009
I've Lost My Marbles!
The assignment was to make marbles from still images. This was the result.
Class: Digital Fundamentals
Instructor: Holly Helterholf
Anime Travis
This a beefy rendition of Travis if he were anime.
Class: Digital Fundamentals
Instructor: Holly Helterholf
A Shawn in the Mail
Hehe. That's me in the mail, and Dave putting some in.
Class: Digital Fundamentals
Instructor: Holly Helterholf
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Skelly Study
Last Drawing I did first semester, freshman year.
Class: Drawing I
Instructor: Elena Arnautova
Skelly Torso
Just a skelly torso study. Done a while back.
Class: Drawing I
Instructor: Elena Arnautova
Friday, July 17, 2009
Still Life
This was one of the first drawings I did at CCS. It's done in charcoal. My instructor was Elena Arnautova. The class was Drawing I.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
One Summer's Night
I made this video in Fall 2008 in 2D Digital Animation under Scott Northrup. I experimented a lot with the various tools that After Effects has to offer in this one. Over all, I think it turned out pretty well. There are still some spots that I wish I could go back and polish up, but I'd rather just leave it as is. Keep moving forward! Enjoy!
Just throw a blanket over it.
I made this movie Freshman year in Intro to Digital Cinema taught by Scott Northrup. It was made in under 4 hours... :)
P.s. That's how Eric really is. Hehe.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Intermediate 3D Final
This was the final project I did in Intermediate 3D. My partner was Erin Greener. I'm hoping to get all my stuff from all my classes up soon, even the foundation stuff from last year. I just had to get this one up right away though because I was so excited to finish it! All I can say is: 3D is hard, but I love it!
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Monday, March 2, 2009
How Lightbulbs are Made
A video I made in After Effects for 2D digital animation. Enjoy!
Here's the Youtube link just in case: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oUL6oVcMbw
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Save the Wolves PSA
A video I made for 2D digital animation using After Effects. We drew topics from a hat and had to make a PSA on them. Enjoy!
Here's the Youtube link just in case: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQY7lioyVml
Draw, Animate, Rescue Princess!
This is a video I made for the paper cutout assignment in Experimental Animation. Enjoy!
Here's the Youtube version just in case: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3xfvxt5-fw
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Friday, January 23, 2009
The "Badguy"
This is the "badguy" I designed for environments and characters.
The first picture is a quick sketch done in on paper then scanned in and modded in Photoshop and the second is the final piece done in exclusively in Photoshop.
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