Updated a (short) reel with new work. View it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8M0e051yp0
2019 Reel Update
artwork
Project: Guts
Hot Drums wallpaper
Wallpaper, Maya + Mental Ray. (Download the full-sized 1920 x 1080 wallpaper here [1.4mb PNG])
Work in progress: Glen Alum Mine, WV
Using the National Map Viewer, I brought USGS data from the Glen Alum Mine in West Virginia into Maya. This elevation data was measured after the mountain was stripped – you can see the flat areas. In the next step, I’ll be adding a coal texture to the footprint of the mine.
On the technical side of things, I’m having trouble getting my writetoColor buffers to save out as expected. It’s starting to seem like it could be a bug in Maya 2015 – the Master Beauty pass renders out fine, so that means the contribution map is right. I think I can workaround the problem with render layers: since my misss_fast_skin is split into diffuse, specular, front, mid, and back channels, I can use material overrides.
Despite
Exploration has consequences, but we do it anyway.
Modeled in Maya, rendered with Mental Ray, color correction in Photoshop.
rb
Extruded letterforms from Century Gothic with materials and lighting inspired by photographs of Brutalist architecture. Modeled in Maya, rendered in Mental Ray, with color correction in Photoshop.
Loft
An urban loft interior, modeled in Maya, rendered in Mental Ray, with color correction in Photoshop.
Larva
A digital painting of a beetle larva. Painted in Photoshop.
Axe Study
This is a digital painting of a stone axe head. You can see a short process video here.