Paintings for Christmas

During the break I painted some pictures for Christmas gifts. The first one is for my wife Sara's Grandparents. Her Grandma likes Dragons so I thought I would make an attempt to paint them. The second one is for my mom. I painted this one for her newly remodeled kitchen. She wants to make a birdhouse themed kitchen so that is were I got the idea from.

 This dragon one was done in Oil paint on a 18x24 size canvas.

This birdhouse one was done in oil on a 16x20 size canvas.

Pottery Class

This year I had a pottery class that was very fun. For the last half of the semester we had to come up with new three new projects. My first one was themed, "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" and the second one was a "series of three." and the last was about "gravity."

These photos are about the chicken.

The next set of three are a more practical assignment of three noodle containers for the counter tops. The black one is for lasagna, the red one is for spaghetti, and the yellow and red one is for shell noodles.

This last one is the gravity one. I decided to make a fountain. Its not finished yet. I cant wait to get it all finished and running.

-Special thanks to Ali Lockwood for photography and Willis Coston for helping with the fountain framework.-

Ford Bronco

This is my final project for my class in 3D texture and my other class 3D lighting. I decided to do the Ford Bronco that is currently in my driveway. The environment is created in VUE a program made by e-onsoftware. The truck is modeled in Autodesk Maya. It is still in the works and I will add more info as soon as I am completely finished.

These are two test renders to make sure things are coming together right. 

 This one is a test render in Vue. For some reason mayas materials are not importing into vue. I will have to figure it out.

 More to come...

These next three are the final images. First one is the ambient occlusion, second one is the wireframe, and third one is the texture render in a studio lighting scene.

This next one is a render in Vue. The render is at a lower setting so it doesn't look as good as I like. I ended up applying vue materials onto the bronco.