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A re-imagining of Banjo Chicken as a table-top gaming figurine. Just imagine how scary Jurassic Park would have been if the raptors played banjos...

Like Ursaw Major and Ursaw Minor, Comrade Bearsaw also made the transition to 3D, but with a few improvements along the way.

I wanted to make a render of just the two Ursaws. I also learned how to get smooth depth of field and ambient occlusion renders without them being all grainy in the process. Hopefully I can use this in getting the other scene to render faster.

This is the first of a pair of still-life images I had to make for an intermediate 3D class at school. The only requirements were that there be about 12 objects, made in Maya and Mudbox, arraigned differently for two images. This was our project for the entire semester. The second image isn't currently finished to a point I'm happy with. I've been having a certain rendering issue that I still need to deal with (something caused rendering time to jump from 1-2 hours to 24+ hours...), but I ran out of time before I had to leave for the break.

The vinyl toys have made another comeback, and the third one has received a much-needed revision and has become Comrade Bearzooka.

This was an exercise in design I chose to do outside of class. I guess the prompt was to create a fairy-tale character, and I decided to go with Coyote from Native American lore. My aim was to imitate the Tlingit art style and try to define a 3-dimensional form with it.

The application deadline for the BYU Animation program is finally passed, so now I can go back to do other things, like writing an 8-page group paper for History of Animation, getting ready for finals which start at the end of next week, reading things for class, and drawing goofy-looking weasels who live in holes while people talk at me, apparently.

I've also added a Google Friend Connect widget to the main blog page, so people can follow my blog through that thing. I'll move it to the right side bar thing later, as I don't have time to mess with the templates right now.

A short animated skip cycle to get used to using a tablet again.

Those Soviet scientists are at it again!

Another piece from Drawing for Animation. For the midterm, we were to take the vinyl toy design we created, and add another element to it. Our class chose "soviet."

We had a "vinyl toy" project for the Drawing for Animation class that I took last semester. We were to pick a theme for a vinyl toy and design one over the week. The theme we chose was "disturbed circus."

So here is my disturbed circus vinyl toy design (right to left), Ursaw Major and Ursaw Minor.

This was the final project for the Drawing for Animation class I took this semester. We were supposed to use the character derived from a fashion photograph from the previous project, give them a non-human sidekick, pit them in a fight with an ice-monster, and tune it for an audience of 12-to-14-year-olds. Therefore, the result is the Happy Scooter Guy and his hyrax-sidekick are fleeing from the villainous Ice Cream Man, who requires a bio-suit made out of a refrigerator to survive in his current environment.

Unfortunately, since I seem to be permanently locked out of my laptop thanks to some kind of BIOS "feature" Toshiba felt was necessary, this is the only project from that class that I can currently post. The others, including the one with an explanation to the origin of the Happy Scooter Guy, will have to wait until next year to be posted.

So with that, I think this is it for this year.

The first assignment for the Drawing for Animation class I am taking. The theme was "treecrabs of the lonely forest."

I had to turn in my sketchbook today, so I made sure to scan in some of the things I've drawn last month. I think I went to the Hogle Zoo three times last month, and those sketches turned out more interesting than the rest.

The Hogle Zoo has a great variety of animals to draw, possibly greater than the three zoos that I've been to recently in northern California combined. The Sacramento Zoo, however, still wins at having the most billions of lemurs.

This guy, however, freaks me out. See those teeth? Those sharp and pointy teeth? He sits up on this rock looking down on everyone who passes his domicile, his beady little eyes watching with the utmost disdain, patiently waiting for his chance to strike. The plaque on the wall claimed that this guy's closest relative is the elephant. This is a horrible case of misinformation, as it doesn't take a scientist to tell you that this guy's closest relative is Dracula. If there wasn't a half-inch pane of glass separating him from us, he'd surely be leaping neck-to-neck as he feeds upon the blood of the living. His name? The Hyrax. A name surely derived by the sound his victims make as he sinks his teeth into their necks.

The game graphics project is down to the last two items.

A Christmas gift for my father: a caricature of his cat, Buzz.

Another Illustration class project.

Coyote, the trickster, is plotting to steal some fire from the fire spirits and give it to the humans. To do so, coyote needs to convince a few other animals to help him out.

A Christmas present for my other sister.