New York Times

So excited that the New York Times article went live!  We've been waiting for it for a good long while.

Here is my involvement in the photo-shoot.

You can see all of my friends who were involved in the shoot in the slideshow available HERE.  I'm number eight, but that's okay because that's Nini's favorite number.  (I was also the last one photographed  ;-)  )

Full Demo Reel

I was going to write some inspiring poem on here for my wife, but I chickened out  ;-)  She's truly an inspiration and a great support.  I'll never know how she does what she does, but I'm more grateful than ever that she chose me and that she is and means so much for me.  I couldn't have gotten this done without her support, inspiration and love.

My family has always been a big help to me.  My mom inspired me to learn to draw because she always drew.  She had a great drawing of Barbara Walters that I liked and I wanted to learn to draw like that.  My dad always fed me critique and saw my potential which fueled a desire to be better.  Sarah has always been one of my best-est friends!  Deborah liked showing me what she drew on any given day.  Ben always told me, "cool."  (I think that's good, right? lol)  Anna is spunky.  I find that cool, too.

God also played a significant role in my progression--the most significant role.  He blessed me with talents and perseverance to develop the like.  Without His help, I'd never amount to anything.  I always get giddy when something turns out nicely, and I can help but throw up my hands in praise and say "thank you."  I depend on Him.  I love Him.

Life is good.

[photographs by Nini Anderson]

New WIP: The ice cream man

This is a character that I started designing in Ryan Woodward's character design class a couple of years ago (yikes!!  It's already been that long!)  Here's a work in progress of what he looks like in 3D so far.  I'm doing the characters in ZBrush because I can hash them out fairly quickly and I'm also trying to learn the program  ;-)

The sculpt is visible above while the original design is below/left and the redesign is below/right.  The nice thing about ZBrush is that it allows me a lot of re-design leeway.  If I don't like how something's working, I can change it.  I like how it's transitioning into 3D.  Sort of a realistic/caricatured style.  It's fun.

Granny Sòng

This sculpt is based off of a character sketch that I did a long while back.  Today, I sculpted her with the basic design in mind and re-designed her from there in ZBrush.  Took me roughly one and a half hours to get to this point.  She's not done, but I'm headed out for now.  Cheers!

A Gentlemanly Sculpt

Getting better with this ZBrush thing.  Took an hour of my evening and totally, thoroughly enjoyed it.  Hope you do, too.

Further progress

getting there . . . Needs texturing.

I'm really happy with how this one is starting to turn out.  Let me know what you think.

On the left is Jenna's original design, and my model progress on the right.  I'll be pounding away at the body and other details tomorrow.

Finally moving forward

Finally got time to work on him!  Just built the hair (going to be tweaking it, but for now, eh …) and did a smile blendshape.  On to the eyebrows and the rest of him.

 Design still by Jenna Hamzawi.  (lol)

ZBrush Man's head

Still working on learning ZBrush.  I'm getting better, and I'm learning a bunch.  I'll be using this guy as a means of learning how to retopologize.  The ears are horrendous, and the neck needs some work, but other than that, it's not too bad.  Let me know what you think.  

Cheers!

New model for The Stairs

I know it's been a while, but I've started working on the The Stairs again.  I'm back in the modeling stages.  Here is progress in a prop for the living room.  I'll likely do the frame tonight as well as some stuff for the kitchen area.  Hope you like it.

Brushing up on the Brush Pen

Just experimenting with the brush pen and hard shadows.