Shave and a Haircut Experiment with TK_Puppet Shaders

Here's something I've been working on for a long time. I worked on the shave aspect. Model by Jamin Lackie,texture and lighting by Leo Krajden. I wanted to try a different method this time, so TK_puppet shaders made by Ledin Pavel was used. It gives really great results and quick render times. The ones below rendered in 4-5 minutes; its really great. It's rendered with mental ray and must be comped with the other layer as raytracing cant be used. Another downside is that you have to use a lot of lights for the hair to look properly and catch light correctly. Other than that, AMAZING.

UFO over Santa Clarita goes viral

I was just told the other day that the project I worked on with other students for Gnomon Studios went viral. It was featured on wired magazine:

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/02/ufo-video-fake-tsirbas/

It was great seeing that students work could get recognized like that. Although the hands I modeled and textured was too underexposed to be seen in the shot, I suppose its still great to know that I was able to achieve such realism with texturing. Here are the hands:

Demo Reel Class - Project 4 Orc

I used this project for both my demo reel class as well as my shave and a haircut. Shave definitely was difficult, and hard to master. It was also hard to translate the loose drawing of the armor, but I tried my best to capture the dips and flow of the metal. 

Concept by George Guo

Demo Reel Class - Project 3 Finished

Concept by JiaoJieFeng

Update for previous character for games project

This is just an update for the maps I made for my character:

Diffuse

Normals

Spec

Emissives

Demo Reel Class - Project 2

I wanted to try doing a bust of a character this time. This concept is by Sakimichan. I have a lot of changes I still need to make, but overall, I enjoyed doing this piece and the way it turned out. I guess my biggest challenge was to match the zbrush camera to the maya camera.

Concept by Sakimichan

Demo Reel Class - Project 1

 The concept on the bottom is the "Forest Gulper" by Wayne Barlowe. I experienced some difficulties with lighting and creating the forest floor environment. But overall, for having two weeks, the creature sculpting was fun and I also enjoyed the texturing of the creature. 

Environment Creation for Games

Updated Composite of the Amazon

Newer Render! My mattes are working properly now.

Digital Sets

Beach Ruins Video

Character for Games

Girl With Gun Turntable

Needs a little more work on spec maps, emissions, and smoke

Amazon Scout Character Model

Amazon Scout Turntable

Amazon AO + Wireframe Turntable