Friday, December 16, 2011

The Mountain Mover

My final model for my 3DSMax class. Came out a lot better than I expected (having never done textures before.)

Initial concept art. The more I look at this picture the more I wish I'd spent more time on it.
Ah that's much more like it.
There's something surreal about looking between the concept and the model. Maybe it's just because I haven't done a lot of 3D modeling but I find it fascinating to think that I turned something 2D into something 3D.

I also animated it, though 120 frames isn't a whole lot to work with.

The Great Train Robbery

Final for Photoshop class.

The Great Train Robbery - Process

My final project for my Photoshop class at DigiPen was simply to make whatever, so long as we spent 20+ hours working on it.

Initial idea I had was for some kind of thunder monster battling airships. Wasn't as cool as I thought it was going to be.



After jingling a few ideas around in my head, I decided to go with some kind of Mad Max take on the classic train robberies of the wild west.

Everything's better with an explosion.
Got a suggestion to make it inside a tunnel. At first I wasn't sure how it'd look but once I hit my value comps the idea seemed a lot more enticing.

Wanted to keep one outside for good measure
So enticing that most of my color comps were the tunnel scene. But with a few more suggestions I made some improvements to the outdoor one, suddenly making it look a whole lot cooler.


I ended up picking the outdoor comp to take to a finish, despite how much I liked the tunnel at first.

Work in progress