Sketchy Ideas

More Animation

2011-04-08T16:11:00.001-04:00

Here is an animation of a faceless, armless guy observing and interacting with a glass of an unknown substance.

And a test shot from my 69 charger in the Desert project

Got Animated

2011-04-01T18:02:00.000-04:00

Here are a couple animation exercises from my classes at CDIA

And a dragon's head I sculpted and painted in Z-brush based of my previous digital dragon sketches a few years back. http://martinsketchyideas.blogspot.com/2008/08/digital-dragon-sketches.html

And a Storyboard of what I have planned for my car and desert...

2011-03-09T23:06:00.000-05:00

And on to the environment...

2011-03-09T22:56:00.000-05:00

So here are some pics of the environment I'm working on for my 69 charger.
First an Aerial Shot of my desert landscape.

A shot of the roadway.

A shot of the shack and some modeled vegetation

A turn-table of my car...

2011-03-05T15:12:00.002-05:00

The 69 Charger so far...

2011-02-26T20:48:00.001-05:00

More pics of how my 69 charger is coming along.

A W.I.P. 69 Charger

2011-02-17T22:42:00.001-05:00

Here is a few shots from the next project at CDIA. Industrial Modeling of a 69 dodge charger.

A 3D Nintendo DS

2011-02-10T22:37:00.005-05:00

So here are 3 shots of a DS I modelled in maya this past week. Wireframe, Occulsion, and Full renders.

My first 3D Model

2011-02-03T22:36:00.000-05:00

A candy box and counter I modeled quickly this week as part of an assignment in polygon modeling and basic texturing.

PolyFaces

2011-02-03T22:26:00.011-05:00

Some Poly-faced blocks that are inter-changable. And below, a video of a turn about around them.

Flash Ball Bounce vs 3D Ball Bounce

2011-02-02T22:34:00.001-05:00

Here are two videos of ball bounces I had to do for an assignment

Some 3D models

2011-01-27T21:49:00.005-05:00

A character sketch from class

Been Far too long...

2011-01-25T08:53:00.000-05:00

I'm getting back into the swing of things as I start a certificate program for 3D Animation at Boston University's Center for Digital Imaging Arts. It is an accelerated program to hammer in 3D animation techniques and pipe-lining in only 9 months.

They are starting me out with some review of photoshop, illustrator and flash before jumping into maya.

Here is the first thing they had me make. A pair of drawings meant to look like woodcut prints using the brush tool and lasso tool.

Lasso to the left, brush to the right.

Children's Book Sketches

2010-02-14T19:18:00.001-05:00

I first was asked to do some concept ideas for a children's book about a plum tree.
Unfortunately the author didn't think my ideas were what they were looking for.

And I was asked to do a sketch of an older black woman to be the grandmother in another story.

Sketches

2009-06-30T17:40:00.001-04:00

Sketch Dump

2009-06-22T22:13:00.000-04:00

Here is a couple recent pages from my sketchbook. I have far too much time at my new part time job and decided to just draw at least a page each time I'm there. And don't worry, the bosses are totally cool with it.

Children's Book Illustrations

2009-05-18T18:54:00.001-04:00

Here are several illustrations I did for a children's book project.
The story was about the perfect pet for any kid.
Let me know which one you like the best and what you think I could have done better in the ones that aren't so great.

Bus Ride Doodles

2008-09-23T09:54:00.000-04:00

Here are some sketches I made on the ride to and from Ottawa this past week.

The raccoon was here...

2008-09-02T20:07:00.001-04:00

I made this little guy in flash today, just before my wacom pen crapped the bed on me.

I came up with the idea of trying to make this guy after watching three raccoons open my grill, and all get stuck under the cover as they tongue cleaned the hamburger grease off the grating.

Digital Dragon Sketches

2008-08-16T18:35:00.000-04:00

So here are some quick sketches I did in photoshop and flash in my free time.

Guys I know...

2008-06-18T00:14:00.000-04:00

Just some sketches I quickly drew of people I know from memory.
More to come...

2008-06-12T22:20:00.000-04:00

So here are some pages of my sketchbook from this past week.

First is some practice sketches for the Hunter from "Boxenwolfe." I plan on redo the entire animation so it works better as a story.

Here are two character sketch ideas for another animation I'm thinking of starting soon.

And a puppy 'cuz I was bored.

So its come to this...

2008-06-09T22:14:00.000-04:00

Well I'm starting this blog to share my sketches and ideas for animations in development. Kinda an easier way than trying to figure out how to set everything up on my portfolio website, which is in desperate need of a re-working. Once I'm done scanning things I'll start posting them.